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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
Name
Type
Use
Expiry Date
More Info
_ga Statistics To understand user experience with our website 2 years Google Analytics Terms
_gat Statistics To understand user experience with our website 1 day See link above
_gid Statistics To understand user experience with our website 1 day See link above

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.

Name
Type
Use
Expiry Date
More Info
GPS Analytics Tracing on GPS 1 day Google Policy & Youtube Policy
IDE Analytics Tracing advertising campaign 1 year Google Policy & Youtube Policy
NID Analytics To provide custom advertising 6 months See link above
PREF Analytics To understand user’s video experience 8 months See link above
rc::a Analytics To discern human from robots Persistent See link above
rc::b Analytics To discern human from robots Session See link above
rc::c Analytics To discern human from robots Session See link above
test_cookie Functionality To verify whether the browser supports cookies or not Session See link above
Visitor_Info1_Live Analytics To estimate band speed on website pages with integrated videos 179 days See link above
YSC Analytics report on user’s video experience Session See link above
yt-remote-cast-installed Functionality Remember user’s video settings Session See link above
Yt-remote-connected-devices Functionality Remember user’s video Session See link above
yt-remote-device-id Functionality Remember user’s video Session See link above
yt-remote-fast-check-period Functionality Remember user’s video Session See link above
yt-remote-session-app Functionality Remember user’s video Session See link above
yt-remote-session-name Functionality Remember user’s video Session See link above
Name
Type
Use
Expiry Date
More Info
Facebook Social Network cookie To share comments/page/article/bookmarks/video on Facebook and easily login n.d. Facebook Connect e
Facebook Social Plugin
LinkedIn Social Network cookie To share comments/page/article/bookmarks/video on LinkedIn and easily login n.d. LinkedIn Policy
Twitter Social Network cookie To share comments/page/article/bookmarks/video on Twitter and easily login n.d. Twitter Policy
Pinterest Social Network cookie To share comments/page/article/bookmarks/video on Pinterest and easily login n.d. Pinterest Policy
Youtube Social Network cookie To share comments/page/article/bookmarks/video on Youtube and easily login n.d. YouTube More Info e
Youtube Policy

How to manage cookies

If you wish to manage your cookies, please follow the instructions for your browser. Please remember that if you choose to disable cookies, certain sections of our Sites may not work properly.

For more information about cookies and how to manage them, please visit:

www.allaboutcookies.org

More information

Further information about our data processing can be found in our Privacy Policy.

If you have any queries regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@idscorporation.com.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

This policy is effective from 24/06/2019.

Any changes we may make to this cookie policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.

 

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