cookies policy ugovita.com
1) What are cookies?
Cookies are text files that the websites you visit send to your browser; they are stored and then sent back to the website the next time you visit it.
2) What are cookies used for?
Cookies can be used to track sessions, to authenticate a user so that they can access a website without having to enter their username and password every time, and to store their preferences.
3) What are technical cookies?
So-called ‘technical’ cookies are used to facilitate navigation and to make it easier for users to access and use the website. Technical cookies are essential, for example, for accessing Google or Facebook without having to log in for every session. They are also essential for highly sensitive transactions such as online banking or payments by credit card or via other systems.
4) Are Analytics cookies technical cookies?
In other words, are the cookies that are placed in the browser and transmitted via Google Analytics, the Blogger Statistics service or similar services considered technical cookies? The Data Protection Authority has stated that these cookies can only be considered technical if “used for the purpose of optimising the website directly by the website owner, who may collect information in aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the site. Under these conditions, the same rules regarding information and consent apply to analytics cookies as those laid down for technical cookies.”
5) What are profiling cookies?
These are cookies used to track your browsing activity in order to create profiles of your tastes, preferences, interests and even your search queries. You have no doubt come across advertising banners for a product you searched for online just a short while earlier. The reason for this lies precisely in the profiling of your interests, and the servers, directed accordingly by the cookies, have shown you the adverts deemed most relevant.
6) Is the user’s consent required for cookies to be installed on their device?
No consent is required for the installation of technical cookies, whilst profiling cookies may only be installed on the user’s device once the user has given their consent and has been provided with simplified information.
7) How can webmasters request consent?
The Data Protection Authority has ruled that, when a user accesses a website, a banner must appear containing a brief notice, a request for consent and a link to a more detailed policy – such as the one visible on this page – explaining what profiling cookies are and how they are used on the website in question.
8) How should the banner be designed?
The banner must be designed to obscure part of the page’s content and to state that the website uses profiling cookies, including those from third parties. The banner must only be able to be removed by an active action on the part of the user, such as a click.
9) What information must the banner contain?
The banner must contain the brief privacy notice, the link to the full privacy notice and the button to give consent to the use of profiling cookies.
10) How should consent to the use of cookies be documented?
A technical cookie may be used to record the user’s consent, so that they do not have to give their consent again on a subsequent visit to the website.
11) Can consent to the use of cookies only be obtained via the banner?
No. Other systems may be used provided that the chosen system meets the same requirements. The banner is not required for websites that use only technical cookies.
12) What should be included on the more detailed information page?
The characteristics of cookies installed by third parties must also be explained. Users must also be informed of how to browse the website without their preferences being tracked, including the option to browse incognito and to delete individual cookies.
13) Who is required to inform the Data Protection Authority that they use profiling cookies?
The website owner is responsible for this. If the website uses only third-party profiling cookies, there is no need to notify the Data Protection Authority, but the owner is required to specify which third-party cookies are used and to provide links to the relevant privacy policies.
14) When will this legislation come into force?
The Data Protection Authority has given companies one year to bring their practices into line, with the deadline set for 2 June 2015.
COOKIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE
Log files: Like many other websites, this one also uses log files, which record the history of operations as they are carried out. The information contained in the log files includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date, time, entry and exit pages, and the number of clicks. This is done to analyse trends, administer the website, monitor user movement within the site and collect demographic data, IP addresses and other information. Such data cannot be traced back to the user’s identity in any way.
Cookies: www.ugovita.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences and the pages they have visited, and to personalise the content of the website based on the type of browser used and other information sent by that browser.
Facebook cookies: This website may have some Facebook plugins enabled which may track readers’ behaviour. For further information on this, please refer to Facebook’s Privacy Policy page.
The website www.ugovita.com and its administrator have no control over the cookies used by third parties; therefore, for further information on this subject, we recommend consulting the privacy policies of these third parties, as well as the options for disabling the collection of this information. The administrator of this website cannot, therefore, control the activities of advertisers on this blog. However, you can disable cookies directly from your browser. The website www.ugovita.com does not use its own profiling cookies; those present are controlled exclusively by third parties such as Google, Facebook or Twitter.
USE OF GOOGLE ANALYTICS ON THIS WEBSITE
As mentioned, analytics cookies are considered technical cookies if they are used solely for optimisation purposes and if users’ IP addresses are kept anonymous. We would like to inform you that this website uses the free Google Analytics service. Please note that the data is used solely to identify the most visited pages, the number of visitors, and aggregated data on visits by operating system, browser, etc. These parameters are stored on Google’s servers, which governs their privacy in accordance with these guidelines.
Users can disable Google Analytics whilst browsing by using the add-on available for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari.
ANONYMOUS BROWSING
It is possible to browse the website without using technical and profiling cookies by using what is known as ‘incognito mode’, which is available on all major browsers.