What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while the user is browsing that website. Every time the user loads the website, the browser sends the cookie back to the server to notify the website of the user's previous activity. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember useful information (such as items in a shopping cart) or to record the user's browsing activity (including clicking particular buttons, logging in or recording which pages were visited by the user as far back as months or years ago).
The cookies used do not contain any personal information about users.
Some cookies are allocated to your PC only for the duration of your visit to a website, and these are called session based cookies. These automatically expire when you close down your browser. Another type of cookie would remain on your PC for a period of time. These are known as "persistent" cookies.
Cookies can be installed by the site you're visiting (first-party cookies) or may be installed by other websites (third-party cookies).
How does our website use cookies?
Technical cookies
Our website uses first-party, session based and persistent cookies to allow a safe and efficient browsing and use of the site. These cookies are used to store the choices you make (language preference, country or other online settings) and to provide customized or optimized features you selected.
Analytics cookies
This site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information in anonymous, aggregate statistics on the use of the Site by users (number of visitors, page views, time spent on site etc ...). Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google or try to connect an IP address with the identity of a user.
For further information please read:
Google's privacy policy.
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AddThis
AddThis offers users simple tools to share articles or pages of our website through social platforms.
We have no control on the use of data by AddThis and / or third parties.
Remember that AddThis may refer to various providers of social platforms, each of which has its own policy regarding confidentiality. AddThis is a permanent cookie.
For more information, please visit the following pages:
AddThis's Privacy Policy
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Google Maps
Google Maps provides interactive maps that allow you to include customizable interactive maps within our own web pages.
We use Google Maps to show the location of our company.
For these services, Google may install cookies on your computer.
Google's privacy policy.
Vimeo
Vimeo allows you to integrate a video on the site and share it; we use it to enrich your experience with video content accessible from any device.
For this service Vimeo may install cookies on your computer.
Vimeo Cookie Policy
Note: Disabling all or part of the technical cookies may impair the use of the functionality of the site reserved for registered users. On the contrary, if you completely disable cookies this won't impact the website usability.
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