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What are cookies?

Cookies are small that are stored in your computer when you visit a website.

These are used to personalize the exploration of users and collect automatic information on access and use of the site.

When the website is reliable, as in the case of our portal, cookies help to improve and speed up its navigation, as well as facilitate your next visit, making the site more useful for your needs.

This is the sequence of setting (or creating) a cookie:

When you visit a website for the first time, it asks you to accept a cookie for a specific domain. If you accept, the cookie is saved on your computer.

Every time a resource of that domain is viewed, the browser sends the cookie.

Is it possible to block cookies?

Yes you can block or allow cookies on all websites or choose the sites for which they are allowed.

Is it appropriate to block all cookies?

Not necessarily. Blocking all cookies can actually help protect privacy, but limit the features available on some websites. It is therefore advisable to choose the websites for which to allow cookies. You can then initially block all cookies and then allow those needed for sites that you trust.

What are temporary cookies?

 Temporary cookies (or session cookies) are removed from the computer when the browser is closed. They are used to store temporary information, such as items in the cart.

What are permanent cookies?

Persistent cookies (or saved cookies) remain stored on the computer even after closing the Navigation Browser. They are used to store information, such as the login name and password, so as to prevent the user having to re-enter them each time they visit a specific site. Persistent cookies can remain on the computer for days, months or even years.

What are the cookies of the websites displayed?

The cookies of the websites displayed derive from the website displayed and may be permanent or temporary. They can be used to store information that will be reused when you next visit the site.

What are third-party cookies?

Third-party cookies derive from ads from other sites, such as pop-ups or advertising banners, on the website displayed. They can be used to record the use of the website for marketing purposes.

Below are the procedures to enable or disable, delete or block cookies on the main browsers

Google Chrome

1. Activation or deactivation of cookies
2. Click on the Chrome menu icon.
3. Select Settings.
4. At the bottom of the page, click Show advanced settings.
5. In the “Privacy” section, click on Content settings.
6. Enable or disable cookies:
7. To enable cookies, select Allow data to be saved locally (recommended).
8. To disable cookies, select Prevent sites from setting data.
9. Click Finish to save.

If you prefer not to record a record of your visits and downloads in Google Chrome, you can browse the web in incognito mode.

Opening an incognito window

An incognito window looks different from a normal window. The upper part of an incognito window is gray or blue, depending on the computer or device.

To open an incognito window, proceed as follows:

1. Exit the incognito mode
2. To exit incognito mode, you can:
3. Click on the X icon in the corner of the window.
4. Use the keyboard shortcut Alt + F4 (Windows and Linux) or? -Maiuscole-W (Mac).
5. Close the last tab in a window; the window is also automatically closed.

How does it work

The browsing history is not recorded. The web pages displayed and the files downloaded in incognito mode are not recorded in the browsing and download histories.

Cookies are deleted. All new cookies are deleted after closing all incognito browsing windows.You can easily switch between incognito and normal browsing modes. You can open incognito windows and normal windows at the same time and switch from one mode to another.

Extensions are deactivated. Extensions are automatically deactivated in incognito windows.

This is because Google Chrome does not control how your personal data is managed by extensions. If you want an extension to be displayed in incognito windows, select the “Allow incognito mode” checkbox for the extension.

Data that is stored: Chrome stores Favorites and general settings updates.

Chrome remembers any changes made to Favorites or general settings in incognito mode.

Websites could keep a record of your visit.Incognito is only intended to prevent Google Chrome from storing information about the websites you have visited.

On the websites you visit, records of your visit may remain stored. Furthermore, all files saved on your computer or on your mobile devices are kept.

Internet Explorer

 

To delete cookies, perform the following procedure:

1. To open Internet Explorer, click on the Start button.
2. In the search box type Internet Explorer and then in the results list click on Internet Explorer.
3. Click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options.
4. Click the General tab, and then in Browsing History, click Delete.
5. Select the Cookies check box, and then click Delete if it is not already selected.
6. Select or clear check boxes for any other options you want to delete.
7. To keep cookies for saved favorites, select the Keep data on favorite websites checkbox.

Opera

Cookie preferences

Preferences> Advanced> Cookies. These settings allow you to configure the management of cookies in Opera. The default setting is to accept all cookies

Accept cookies

All cookies are accepted

Accept cookies only from the site you visit:

Third-party cookies, sent from a domain other than the one you are visiting, are rejected.

Never accept cookies

All cookies are rejected, Delete new cookies when leaving Opera

Some websites need cookies to work properly. In this case, if you want to prevent cookies being sent between one session and another, activate the “Delete new cookies when exiting Opera” option.

Ask before accepting a cookie

To decide from time to time what to do with the cookies received, select “Ask before accepting a cookie”. In this way, with each new cookie, the cookie dialog will be displayed containing information on the cookie’s origin and its attributes.

Cookie management

The cookie manager allows you to examine and modify cookies saved in Opera. The “Manage Cookies …” button opens a window containing a list of folders, each identified by a domain. After using the quick search field to locate a domain, open the relevant folder to view all the cookies connected to it.

The cookie dialog box

The cookie dialog box is displayed whenever a website offers a cookie, but only if the “Ask me before accepting a cookie” option is activated in Preferences> Advanced> Cookies. The dialog box displays the origin of the cookie and its attributes and allows you to choose whether to accept or reject it.

Force removal when leaving Opera

Check the box “Force removal from Opera” to request that the cookie be removed at the end of the session regardless of its expiration date.

Remember the choice for all cookies for this domain

To accept or reject all cookies set for the same domain, check the box “Remember the choice for all cookies for this domain”. In this way, at the next offer of a cookie for the same domain, the dialog box will no longer be shown.

Cookie details

Click on “Cookie Details” to view all the attributes. 

Safari

To set cookie blocking

tap Block cookies and choose “Never”, “Third-party advertisers” or “Always”. Cookies are information on websites that are stored on the device to allow sites to remind the user of the next visit and so that the web page can be customized based on the information obtained.

Important: some pages may only work if you accept cookies.

To enable or disable JavaScript

Click on Advanced and activate or deactivate the corresponding option. JavaScript allows web programmers to control page elements. For example, a page that uses JavaScript may display the current date and time or open a link in a new pop-up window.

To remove information from the device

To delete your history from Safari, tap Settings> Safari> Clear history.

To delete all cookies from Safari, tap Settings> Safari> Delete cookies and data.

To delete other information stored by Safari, tap Advanced> Website data> Remove all website data

Firefox

To check or change your settings:

1. Click on the menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Under History settings: select use custom settings.
4. To enable cookies, check the item Accept cookies from sites; to deactivate remove the mark from the item.
5. If you are having problems with cookies, also make sure that the option Accept third-party cookies is not set to Never.
6. Choose how long cookies can be stored:
7. Keep them until they expire: the cookies will be removed when they reach the expiration date (date set by the site that sends the cookies).
8. Keep them until Firefox is closed: cookies stored on your computer will be removed when Firefox is closed.
9. Keep them until you ask each time: displays a warning whenever a website tries to set a cookie and asks the user if he wants this cookie to be saved.
10. Click OK to close the options window.

Delete cookies for a specific site 

1. Click on the menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Under History settings: select use custom settings.
4. Click on the Show Cookies … item. The Cookies window will be displayed.
5. In the Search field, type the name of the site whose cookies you want to remove. A list will appear showing the cookies related to the search carried out.
6. In the list, select the cookies to remove and click on the Remove cookies button.
7. To select all the cookies in the list, select the first cookie and press the Shift + End keys.
8. Click the Close button to close the Cookies window.
9. Click OK to close the options window.

Delete all cookies

1. Click on the menu button, select History and then clear recent history.
2. From the drop-down menu Time interval to delete: select all.
3. Click the arrow next to Details to view the list of items to be deleted.
4. Select Cookies and make sure that the other items you want to keep are not selected.
5. Click Clear Now to delete cookies, then close the Clear All History window.

Block cookies from a specific site

1. Visit the site to which you want to inhibit the ability to set cookies.
2. Right-click on the page with the mouse cursor and select Information on the page.
3. In the Page Info window, select the Permissions panel.
4. At the Set Cookies line, remove the flag from Use Defaults. Select the Lock option.
5. Close the Page Information window.
6. Remove all cookies that the website has already set in Firefox.

View the list of blocked websites

1. Click on the menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Under History settings: select use custom settings.
4. Next to the entry Accept cookies from sites, click on the Exceptions button.

Block cookies from all sites

1. Click on the menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Under History settings select the option use custom settings.
4. Remove the check mark from Accept cookies from sites.
5. Click OK to close the options window.

Disable third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are cookies set by a website other than the one you are currently visiting. For example, the cnn.com site may contain a Facebook “Like” button. That button will set a cookie that can be read by Facebook. This could be considered as a third-party cookie.

Some advertisers use these types of cookies to track user visits on all the sites on which they offer their services. If a user believes that this traceability can be a source of concern and interference in their privacy, in Firefox it is possible to disable third-party cookies.

Note:

The deactivation of third-party cookies can prevent in some cases the tracking by advertisers but not in all.

Some websites (such as Microsoft’s Hotmail, MSN and Windows Live Mail mailboxes) use third-party cookies for purposes that are not necessarily related to privacy and disabling them may interfere with the proper functioning of those sites .

The third-party cookie settings are available in the Firefox Options panel of the Privacy panel:

1. Click on the menu button and select Options.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Under History settings: select use custom settings.
4. Set the option Accept third-party cookies on never.

Note: if browsing with this type of setting you realize that it is not possible to correctly display some of the favorite websites, an intermediate solution is to set the option Accept third-party cookies on the sites visited. This setting allows you to accept third-party cookies from previously visited websites.