Using cookies: the Consorzio Turistico della provincia di Varese website uses cookies to render its services as efficient and user-friendly as possible. When visiting the Site, a small amount of information is installed on the User's device, in small files called "cookies" saved in the directory of the Web Browser used on the device. There are different types of cookies, but the main purpose of a cookie is to ensure the Site operates more efficiently and to enable certain functions.
Cookies are used to improve global navigation for Users. In particular:
- They make browsing from one page to another on the Site much smoother.
- They save the user name and the indicated preferences.
- They prevent the need for users to enter their personal data (such as User’s name and password) several times while on the Site.
- They measure the use of the services by Users to optimize their browsing experience and the services themselves.
- They present targeted advertising information based on the interests and behavior of Users while browsing the Site.
There are many types of cookies. The list below provides information on the types of cookies that may be used on the Site and a description of their actual purpose.
The Site uses:
Technical cookies
Cookies of this type are needed for the proper functioning of certain areas of the Site. This category of cookies includes persistent cookies and session cookies. If these cookies are not available, the Site or some areas of the same may not function correctly. Therefore, they are always used, regardless of the preferences set by the User. These cookies are always sent from our domain.
Analytic cookies
Cookies of this type are used to collect information on User’s behavior on the Site. The Data Controller uses this information for statistical analysis, to improve and simplify the use of the Site, as well as to monitor correct functioning of the same. These cookies collect information on the activity of Users on the Site, how they landed on the Site and the pages they visited in an anonymous form. The cookies in this category are sent by the Site itself or third party domains.
Third party tracking cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use the Site, which are the keywords used to find the Site, which are the visited Sites and the visitor traffic origins for the marketing campaigns. The Data Controller can use such information to fill in forms and improve the Site. These cookies collect information anonymously and are sent by the Site itself or by third party site domains.
Cookies used to integrate third party functions
Cookies of this type are used to integrate third party functions on the Site (for example, feedback forms or social network icons that allow visitors to share the Site contents). Cookies in this category can be sent by site domains of partners or by those providing the functions available on the Site.
Third party websites
The Site contains links to other Sites having their own privacy policy. Such policy may be different from that adopted by the Data Controller, who has therefore no responsibility for Third party Sites. Please refer to the information published on the corresponding third-party websites for this matter, (e.g. https://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/privacy/ for the information sheet and https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it, for deactivation).
However, deactivation could prevent you from using all site functions in some cases. On the contrary, accepting the use of cookies as described above and continuing to browse, the user provides free, unconditional consent to the handling of personal information by Consorzio Turistico della provincia di Varese and third parties using the modes and for the purposes described above.
Lastly, if the user reaches the website after clicking on a banner on another site, he/she must know that the advertising network provider, appointed as an external data processor, has allocated the cookies required for detecting the throughput and the total of any purchases made. Responsibility for managing these cookies lies with the advertising network provider, for which information can be consulted on its own website. The site does not in any case use cookies for profiling customers.
