Cookie Policy

IDS – Ingegneria dei Sistemi S.p.A. uses cookies to keep our sites reliable, secure and personalised. When you accept cookies, this helps make the site better by remembering your preferences, customising content or ads, and enhancing your experience of our premium news, insight and analysis.

This Cookie Policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to this policy and are published by IDS – Ingegneria dei Sistemi S.p.A. (“Sites”).

This policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we use personal information.

If you have any queries about the way we use your personal information or cookies, please contact privacy@idscorporation.com.

If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions in this policy.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which a website may place on your computer or device when you visit a site. The cookie will help the website, or another website, to recognise your device the next time you visit. Web beacons, pixels or other similar files can also do the same thing. We use the term “cookies” in this policy to refer to all files that collect information in this way.

Cookies serve many functions. For example, they can help us to remember your username and preferences, analyse how well our Sites are performing, or allow us to recommend content we believe will be most relevant to you.

The majority of websites use cookies to collect and retain personal information about their visitors. Most cookies collect general information, such as how visitors arrive at and use our Sites, the device they are using, their internet protocol address (IP address), what pages they are viewing and their approximate location (for example, we would be able to recognise that you are visiting our Sites from Pisa).

Purpose of cookies

We group our cookies into the below categories.

Operating our Sites

Some cookies are essential for the operation of our Sites. This includes cookies for the following purposes:

• Access – we use these cookies to eventually identify subscribers and ensure access to subscription only pages.
• Performance – we use these cookies to monitor Site performance. This allows us to provide a high quality experience by quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, we might use performance cookies to track error messages, and to determine improvements to our Sites.
• Functionality – we use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, we use functionality cookies to provide you with enhanced services, such as allowing you to watch a video online or comment on a blog.
• Analytics – we use cookies to help us understand our audience and the success of advertising campaigns. For example, we count articles views to present ‘Most Read’ content. We also use analytics cookies to keep track of how many advertising impressions have been served for a campaign and to manage the frequency at which you see the same adverts.
• Fraud prevention – we use cookies to monitor and prevent suspicious activity and fraudulent traffic

Third party cookies on our Sites

We also use third party cookies on our Sites that fall into the categories above (“third party cookies”) for the following reasons:

• to help us monitor traffic on our Sites
• to identify fraudulent or non-human traffic;
• to assist with market research;
• to improve Site functionality;
• to monitor compliance with our terms and conditions and copyright policy.

These third party cookies are used within programmatic for measurement and attribution, and management of frequency.