What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your device (PC, smartphone, tablet, etc.) when you visit a website. On each subsequent visit, cookies are sent to the website that generated them (first-party cookies) or to another site that recognizes them (third-party cookies). Cookies allow a website to recognize a user's device. They serve various purposes, such as allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your favorite sites, and generally improving your browsing experience. They also help to ensure that the advertising content shown online is more targeted to you and in line with your interests (marketing cookies or profiling cookies). Cookies can have a limited duration of a single browsing session and, in this case, are automatically deactivated when the browser is closed; or they may have a predetermined expiration and, in this case, they will remain stored and active on the user's device until they expire, continuing to collect information during the different browsing sessions on the browser. There are also other information collection technologies with similar purposes to cookies that are stored on your device (such as pixels). In this information, the term cookies is used to refer to cookies, as described above, and to any other collection technologies, with the aim of providing you with guidance on understanding what cookies and other similar technologies are, how and why they are used, what rights you have, and what choices you can make regarding their use.

Cookies and similar technologies – definitions 

Cookies: small text files (generally composed of letters and numbers) that the websites ("first party") visited by the user or various websites or web servers ("third parties") insert and store within the browser used by the user for navigation on any terminal device capable of storing information.

Other technologies: Technologies that store data in your browser or device using locally shared objects or local storage, such as HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods. These technologies work in all browsers. In some cases, the use of local storage cannot be fully managed by browsers, but requires management through specific tools.

Cookie categories
Cookies can be distinguished according to their purpose, duration and the holder of the cookie.

-Cookies distinguished by purpose are those that can be installed on the user's device:

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to guarantee the operation of the site and services, as well as to ensure that the user can use their functions: technical cookies;
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to improve the performance of the site and the services offered by it, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of a service offered through the site: analytical cookies;
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to allow the Italbiotec Consortium or third parties to target advertising or in line with the user's interests, with the consent of the data subject: profiling cookies.

-Cookies that are distinguished according to their duration are those that can remain in the browser of the device for the duration of a session (until you close the browser used to browse the site or stop using a service) and are called "session cookies". Or, they can remain stored in your device's browser for long periods and contain a unique identification code, they are called "permanent cookies".

-Cookies can also be distinguished according to the cookie holder (first-party cookies and third-party cookies).

Cookies may be owned by the site and the service provider and, consequently, are installed by the latter in the browser of the user's device: first-party cookies. It may happen that a site contains cookies, from other sites, owned by third parties, contained in various elements hosted directly on the site (for example, advertising banners, images, videos, sounds...) and, in this case, they are called third-party cookies.

Cookies used by this website
Visiting the Italbiotec Consortium website involves the use of cookies to improve the user experience. The site uses: technical navigation cookies and analytical cookies (eventual: marketing or profiling cookies).
The user can, at any time, manage their preferences or refuse the installation of cookies.
Technical cookies are installed automatically and do not require the user's consent. Analytical and profiling cookies are installed exclusively with prior consent, which can be freely given, denied or revoked at any time.

Failure to consent to the installation of analytical cookies and profiling cookies does not affect navigation or the operation of the site.

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time in our cookie center by clicking on the widget on the right side of the screen.