1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that the user's visited websites send to their terminal (usually the browser), where they are stored to be later transmitted to the same sites during the user's next visit. While navigating a website, the user may also receive cookies from different sites or web servers (so-called "third-party cookies"). This occurs because the visited website may contain elements such as images, maps, sounds, specific links to web pages from other domains residing on servers different from the one where the requested page is located. In other words, these are cookies set by a website different from the one currently being visited.

Cookies are used for computer authentication, session monitoring, and storing specific information about users accessing the server. They are generally present in the browser of each user in a large number.

Some operations could not be carried out without the use of cookies, which are technically necessary in some cases. For example, accessing online banking and activities that can be performed on one's online bank account (viewing account statements, transfers, bill payments, etc.) would be much more complex and less secure without cookies that identify the user and maintain their identification within the session.

Cookies can remain in the system for long periods and may also contain a unique identification code. This allows the sites using them to track the user's navigation within the site itself for statistical or advertising purposes, creating a personalized profile of the user based on the pages they have visited and showing targeted advertisements (so-called Behavioral Advertising).

Cookies can be permanent (persistent cookies) if they remain on the computer until the user deletes them, or temporary (session cookies) if they are disabled when the browser is closed. Cookies can also be first-party cookies if set by the visited site, or third-party cookies if inserted by a site different from the one visited.

Following the innovations introduced by Directive 2009/136/EC on Privacy and Electronic Communications, transposed by Legislative Decree 28/5/2012, no. 69, it is now illegal to use cookies to collect information about users without having obtained their prior consent.

2. How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to improve the functionality of our site, allow users to navigate easily between pages, remember their preferences, and ensure an optimal browsing experience. Some of them are necessary for navigating this website.

We are looking for ways to improve the usability of our website, and for this purpose, it is important to understand how users use the website.

Cookies also help provide users with a better and richer experience. For example, if they find something interesting, they may want to share it on Facebook or Twitter, and cookies facilitate this operation.

Instead of a very long list, we classify the cookies used based on their type of use: Essential, Statistical, Functional, and Tracking.

3. Cookies and their functions

The cookies used on our sites can be categorized as follows (see the cookie guide prepared by the ICC, International Chamber of Commerce):

a. **Essential:**

These cookies are essential to allow you to navigate the site and use all the features, such as accessing reserved areas of the site. Their removal would compromise not only the user's experience on this website but also the ability to perform certain operations. Without these absolutely necessary cookies, we would not be able to provide some services or functions, and navigation on the site would not be as smooth and easy as it should be.

According to the EU Directive, essential cookies can be used even without consent; however, we want to provide users with all the available information.

b. **Statistical:**

Statistical cookies collect information about the user's use of the website, such as which pages are visited most frequently and any errors that may be encountered. These cookies do not store identifiable data of individual visitors, only aggregated and anonymously. These cookies are absolutely anonymous and are used only to help us improve the functioning of the website and understand the interests of users.

We use these cookies for:

- Statistical purposes, to understand how our sites are used

- Measure the distribution of our advertising campaigns

These cookies can be permanent or temporary, first or third party. In essence, these cookies collect anonymous information about the pages visited and the advertising messages displayed.

c. **Functional:**

Functional cookies are used to provide services or remember settings to improve the visitor's experience on the site.

These cookies allow the site to remember visitor choices (such as username, language, or country of access) and provide more personalized features. Functional cookies can also be used to provide services requested by the user, such as access to a video or posting a comment on a blog. The information used by these cookies is anonymous, and user navigation on other sites cannot be traced.

We use these cookies to:

- Remember if a particular service has already been provided to the user

- Improve the overall experience on the site by remembering user preferences.

These cookies can be permanent or temporary, first or third party. In essence, these cookies remember individual choices made by users to improve their browsing experience.

d. **Tracking:**

Tracking cookies are linked to services provided by third parties, such as "Like" and "Share" buttons, "+1" and advertising effectiveness tracking. These services are provided by third parties in exchange for recognizing that the website has been visited by the user.

We use Tracking cookies to connect to social networks like Facebook, which can later use information about the user's visit to send targeted advertising from other websites.

We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic levels and help us provide a better service.

e. **Advertising:**

These cookies are used to limit the display of an advertising announcement to the user and to monitor the distribution of advertising campaigns.

Advertising cookies are used to manage advertising on the site.

Advertising cookies are placed by third parties, such as advertisers and their agents, and can be permanent or temporary. In practice, these are cookies related to advertising services provided by third parties on our site.

f. **Other third-party cookies:**

On some pages of our site, there may be content from services such as YouTube or Facebook. We do not control the cookies used by these services, so we invite the user to access the website of these third parties for relevant information.

4. Cookie management and deactivation

You can refuse to accept cookies from this site at any time simply by selecting, in your browser, the settings that allow you to reject them.

The procedure varies slightly depending on the type of browser used. For detailed instructions, click on the link for your browser:

- [Internet Explorer](link to instructions)

- [Firefox](link to instructions)

- [Google Chrome](link to instructions)

- [Opera](link to instructions)

- [Safari](link to instructions)

- [Safari iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch)](link to instructions)

You can refuse Flash Cookies using Adobe Flash management tools [http://www.adobe.com/security/flashplayer](http://www.adobe.com/security/flashplayer).

If the browser used is not among those proposed, select the "Help" function on your web browser for information on how to proceed. By using the site without rejecting cookies and similar online technologies, users consent to the use of such technologies by us for the collection and processing of information.

5. User notification and obtaining consent

When you first visit this site, a notice is displayed at the bottom of the screen to inform you that we use the cookies described in this policy. The banner asks the user if they want more information and contains a link to open the corresponding page. If you decide to ignore the notification and continue to use the website, we will store a cookie on the user's computer to record that choice, and subsequent website navigation will be considered consent to the use of cookies used on that website. The notification banner will not be displayed again on future visits to the website, but users have the option to remove cookies at any time through browser settings.

If you decide to partially or completely remove cookies, it is important to remember that the use of the website may be affected by the removal of cookies, and if the computer on which cookies are disabled is shared, this removal will affect all users using that computer.

6. Where to find more information about cookies

Data Protection Authority:

Privacy Guarantor - link #01

Building and Renovation srl is not responsible for the content of third-party external websites that may or may not set cookies.