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COOKIES
To make this site work properly, we sometimes install small data files called "cookies" on your device. Most large websites do the same.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small text file that websites save on your computer or mobile device while you visit them. Thanks to cookies, the site remembers your actions and preferences (e.g. login, language, font size, and other display settings) so that you don't have to re-enter them when you return to the site or browse from one page to another.
How do we use cookies?
On some pages we use cookies to remember:
display preferences, e.g. contrast settings or font sizes
if you have already answered a pop-up survey about the usefulness of the content found, to avoid showing it to you again
if you have authorized the use of cookies on the site.
In addition, some videos embedded in our pages use a cookie to anonymously process statistics on how you arrived on the page and which videos you watched.
It is not necessary to enable cookies for the site to function, but doing so improves navigation. You can delete or block cookies, but in this case some site features may not work properly.
The information regarding cookies is not used to identify users and browsing data always remains under our control. These cookies are used exclusively for the purposes described here.
Do we use other cookies?
Some pages or certain sub-sites may also use cookies other than those already described. In this case, the relevant information will be provided on a specific page. You may be asked to authorize the installation of these cookies.
Usage category Example
Preferences
These cookies allow our websites to store information that changes the behavior or appearance of the sites themselves, such as your preferred language or the geographic area you are in. By storing the geographic area, for example, a website might be able to offer you local weather forecasts or local traffic news. Cookies can also help you change the text size, font type, and other customizable parts of web pages.
The loss of information stored in a preferences cookie may make the website experience less functional but should not compromise its operation.
Most Google users have a preferences cookie called "PREF" in their browsers. A browser sends this cookie with requests to Google sites. The PREF cookie may store your preferences and other information, in particular your preferred language (for example, Italian), the number of search results you want to display per page (for example, 10 or 20), and your preference for enabling Google's SafeSearch filter.
Security
We use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent the fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
For example, we use cookies called "SID" and "HSID" containing digitally signed and encrypted records for a user's Google account ID and their most recent login date. The combination of these two cookies allows us to block many types of attacks, such as attempts to steal the contents of forms you complete on web pages.
Processes
Process cookies contribute to the functioning of websites and to providing the services that visitors expect to find there, such as the ability to navigate between pages or access protected areas of the site. Without these cookies, the site cannot function properly.
For example, we use a cookie called "lbcs" that allows Google Docs to open many documents in a single browser. Blocking this cookie could compromise the proper functioning of Google Docs.
Advertising
We use cookies to make advertising more engaging for users and more useful for publishers and advertisers. Some common uses of cookies include selecting ads based on what is relevant to a user, improving campaign performance reports, and preventing the display of ads that the user has already seen.
Google uses cookies, such as PREF, NID, and SID cookies, to help personalize ads on Google properties, such as Google Search. For example, we use them to store your most recent searches, your previous interactions with an advertiser's ads or search results, and your visits to an advertiser's website. This allows us to show you personalized ads on Google.
We also use cookies for the advertising we display across the Web. Our main cookie for advertising on non-Google sites is called "id" and is stored in the browser under the doubleclick.net domain. We also use others with names such as _drt_, FLC, and exchange_uid.
Sometimes, a cookie may be set on the domain of the site you are visiting. In the case of our DoubleClick product, a cookie called "__gads" may be set on the domain of the site you are visiting.
Other Google properties, such as YouTube, may also use DoubleClick cookies to show more relevant ads. Learn more about ads and YouTube.
Google also uses conversion cookies whose main purpose is to allow advertisers to determine how many people who click on their ads end up purchasing their products. These cookies allow Google and the advertiser to establish that you clicked on the ad and then visited the advertiser's site. Conversion cookies are not used by Google for interest-based ad targeting and persist for a limited period of time. These cookies are generally set in the googleadservices.com or google.com/ads domain. Conversion cookie data may also be used in association with your Google account to link conversion events across the various devices you use. Only anonymous conversion data collected through these cookies is shared with advertisers.
Some of the other cookies may also be used to measure conversion events. For example, DoubleClick and Google Analytics cookies may also be used for this purpose and set on the domain you are visiting.
Session status
Websites often collect information about how users interact with them. This may include the pages most frequently visited by users and whether users receive error messages from certain pages. We use these "session state cookies" to improve our services and our users' browsing experience. Blocking or deleting these cookies will not make the website unusable.These cookies may also be used to measure the effectiveness of PPC (Pay Per Click) advertising and affiliate advertising.
For example, we use a cookie called "recently_watched_video_id_list" to allow YouTube to record the videos most recently watched from a particular browser.
Analytics
Google Analytics is an analysis tool from Google that helps website and app owners understand how visitors interact with their content. It can use a set of cookies to collect information and generate website usage statistics without personally identifying individual visitors to Google.
In addition to generating reports on website usage statistics, the Google Analytics pixel tag can be used, together with some of the advertising cookies described above, to allow us to show more relevant results on Google properties (such as Google Search) and across the Web.
Read more information about Analytics cookies and privacy.