Cookies

This information notice is an extension of the information on the use of cookies and other technical identifiers provided to the data subject via the simplified information notice on the banner shown when accessing this website.
This page is addressed to users consulting the website accessible electronically at the following address: www.ainfinity.com (the ‘Site’)
The Data Controller is Ainfinity with registered office in Via Lugaro, 15 – 10126 Turin – Italy (hereinafter referred to as “Company” “Data Controller”)
The Data Protection Officer (‘DPO’) can be reached at the following address: DPO@ainfinity.com

1.    Definitions, characteristics and enforcement

Cookies are small text files that the sites you visit send and store on your terminal device (computer or mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets), to be transmitted back to the same sites the next time you visit.
 
It is precisely thanks to cookies that a site remembers the user’s actions and preferences (such as, for example, login data, chosen language, font size, other display settings, etc.) so that they do not have to be indicated again when the user returns to that site or navigates from one page to another of it. Cookies, therefore, are used to perform computer authentication, monitor sessions, facilitate the fruition of contents and store information concerning the activities of users accessing a site, and may also contain a unique identification code that makes it possible to keep track of the user’s navigation within the site itself for statistical or advertising purposes.
 
1. Classification of Cookies

In the course of browsing a site, in addition to cookies stored directly by the site you are visiting (so-called “first-party cookies“), you may also receive on your computer cookies from sites or web servers other than the one you are visiting (so-called “third-party cookies“).
 
Certain operations could not be carried out without the use of cookies, which are therefore in certain cases technically necessary for the operation of the site itself.
 
There are various types of cookies, depending on their characteristics and functions, and these may remain on the user’s computer for different periods of time: so-called “session cookies” or also referred to as “browsing cookies“, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed; so-called “persistent cookies“, which remain on the user’s equipment until a predetermined expiry date.
 
There are also cookies, so-called ‘analytics cookies’ or ‘statistics’, used for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of an information society service provided, for the design of a website or to help measure its ‘traffic’, i.e. the number of visitors, also possibly broken down by geographical area, time of connection or other characteristics.
 
Under current Italian law, the use of cookies does not always require the express consent of the user. In particular, so-called “technical cookies“, i.e. those used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communication network, or to the extent strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user, do not require such consent. In other words, these are cookies that are indispensable for the operation of the site or necessary to perform activities requested by the user, without which certain operations could not be performed or would be more complex and/or less secure.
 
Among technical cookies, which do not require express consent for their use, the Italian Data Protection Authority (cf. Cookies and Other Tracking Tools Guidelines of 10 June 2021 and subsequent clarifications, hereinafter only ‘Guidelines‘) also includes:
 
•    analytics cookies where their use precludes the possibility of directly identifying the data subject (so-called ‘single out‘), thus preventing the use of analytics cookies that may be direct and unique identifiers. Moreover, their structure must provide for the possibility of referring them not to one but to several devices, so as to create reasonable uncertainty as to the computer identity of the subject receiving it (usually by masking portions of the IP address within the cookie itself as indicated in the Guidelines). Lastly, in order to be identified as technical, analytics cookies must be limited to the production of aggregate statistics only and that they are used in relation to a single site/mobile application, so as not to allow tracking of a person’s browsing using different applications or browsing different websites;
 
•    navigation or session cookies;
 
For so-called “profiling cookies“, on the other hand, i.e. those aimed at creating profiles of the user and used to modulate the provision of the service in a personalised manner beyond what is strictly necessary for the provision of the service or to send targeted advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user when surfing the web and/or to analyse and monitor the behaviour of visitors, the user’s prior consent is required.
 
2. Types of cookies used by the Site

The Data Controller has classified the cookies in use according to their type as follows.
Since third-party cookie suppliers are also obliged to comply with the relevant legislation, we refer you to the links to the web pages of the third-party sites, where you can find the cookie consent forms and their relevant notices.