Cookie Policy

This notice, which is intended for all persons browsing the site www.hsd.it (hereinafter “the site”), is issued pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (herinafter “GDPR”) and in accordance with Article 122 of Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003 (herinafter “Privacy Code”) and with the provision of the Italian Data Protection Authority on this matter, i.e. that of 8 May 2014: “Identification of the simplified procedures for the provision of information and the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies” and supplemented by the “Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools” of 10 June 2021 (herinafter “the Provision”).
For further information, please refer to the privacy policy.

1. What cookies are
Cookies (or markers) are small text files created by the web server on the user's device when the latter accesses a particular site, and their purpose is to store and transport information.
These markers are sent by the web server to the user's device (usually to the browser) and stored so that this device can be recognised on each subsequent visit. Indeed, at each subsequent visit, the cookies are re-sent by the user's device to the website.

First-party and third-party cookies
Cookies can not only be installed by the manager of the website visited by the user (first party cookies), however, but also by a different website that installs cookies via the first (third party cookies), and is capable of recognising these. This occurs because the visited website can host elements (images, maps, sounds, specific links to pages of other domains, etc.) that lie on different servers from the one on which it is hosted.
Pursuant to the indications of the Provision, for cookies installed by third parties, the obligation to provide information - and, where applicable, request consent - lies with the third party; the site owner, in its capacity as technical intermediary between the third parties and the users of the site, must include the updated links to the third party notices and consent forms in the extended cookie notice.

Technical, analytical and profiling cookies
Depending on their purpose, the cookies can be divided into technical cookies and profiling cookies.
Technical cookies are cookies used only to “send a communication on a digital communication network or, to the extent strictly necessary, to the supplier of a service who has been explicitly asked by the subscriber or user to provide the aforementioned service” (see Article 122, paragraph 1 of Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003, herinafter "Privacy Code").
These cookies are usually used to allow efficient navigation between pages, to store user preferences and information on specific user configurations, and to perform user authentications and so on.
Technical cookies can be divided into browsing cookies, used to record data useful for normal browsing and use of the website on the user's computer (e.g. allowing the preferred page size in a list to be remembered) and functional cookies, which allow the website to remember the choices made by the user to optimise functionality (e.g. functional cookies allow the website to remember a user's specific settings, such as country selection and, if set, permanent access status). Some of these cookies (known as essential or strictly necessary cookies) enable functions without which it would be impossible to carry out certain operations. Pursuant to the aforementioned Article 122, paragraph 1 of the Privacy Code, user consent is not required for the use of technical cookies; however, there is an obligation to inform these users of the presence of such cookies.
Pursuant to the Provision, so-called analytical cookies are treated the same as technical cookies - and, therefore, user consent is not required for their installation - if:
i) they are created and used directly by the first party website operator (without, therefore, the intervention of third parties) for the purpose of optimising the website to collect aggregate information on the number of users and how they visit the website, as well as
ii) if they are created and made available by third parties, where:
a. they are used by the first party site for purely statistical purposes, if suitable minimisation measures are adopted in order to reduce their power to be used for identification purposes (e.g. by masking appropriate portions of the IP address), and used solely for the production of aggregate statistics and in relation - as a rule - to a single site or single mobile application, so as not to allow the tracking of the individual's browsing habits as they use different applications or visit different websites;
b. the third parties, who provide the web measurement service to the site, do not combine, enrich or cross-reference the data - even where this information has been minimised as above - with other information available to these third parties (e.g. customer files or statistics regarding visits to other sites), or transmit the data to other third parties.

Profiling cookies, meanwhile, are used to track the user's browsing habits, analyse user behaviour for marketing purposes and create user profiles based on their tastes, habits, choices, etc. in order to send targeted advertising messages with reference to the user's interests and in line with the preferences expressed by the latter when browsing online.
These cookies can be installed on the user terminal only if the latter has expressly provided their consent.

Persistent and session cookies
Based on their duration, cookies can be classed as persistent cookies, which are stored until their expiry on the user's device, unless the latter removes them, and session cookies, which are not persistently memorised on the user's device, and disappear when the browser is closed.

Cookies used by HSD
Technical cookies
The company uses cookies for specific and limited purposes; more specifically, to facilitate navigation for the user, and for internal purposes relating to security, system administration and statistical analyses regarding user preferences.
These are“technical cookies”, as specified in the table below.
Cookie name First or third party Description Duration
ASPSESSIONID First part   Session
_WEBSOLUTE_DEBUG_MODE First part   Session
ASP.NET_SessionId First part   Session
_afk-d4a88359-ee3d-40d4-bb16-98a31c1079b7 First part   Session


This type of cookie cannot be disabled, and, as indicated above, the installation of these cookies does not require the prior consent of users, pursuant to Article 122 of the Privacy Code.

Anonymised analytical cookies
The company also uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. which enables the most-viewed pages by visitors to the site to be identified, as well as revealing how long they stayed on the website and the geographical area from which they are accessing it. For more details and information, visit the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397.
Analytics cookies, when appropriately anonymised (by masking significant parts of the IP address), allow aggregate information to be collected on the number of users and how they visit the website, without being able to identify the individual user. For more details and information, visit the following link: https://support.google.com/analytics/?hl=it#topic=3544906
The user can selectively disable the action of Google Analytics by installing the appropriate add-on provided by Google on their browser (that is, by downloading a specific browser plug-in which is available at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).
The analytical cookies used by HSD are specified in the table below:
Cookie name First or third party Description Duration
__utma First part Google Analytics cookies for measuring the number of visitors 2 years
__utmb First part Google Analytics cookies for calculating the duration of the visit to the site 30 minutes
__utmc First part Google Analytics cookies for calculating the duration of the visit to the site Session
__utmt First part Google Analytics cookies to limit requests 10 minutes
__utmz First part Google Analytics cookies to gather information on the origin of the visit. 6 months
_IPFingerprint     2 years
This type of cookie cannot be disabled, and, as indicated above, the installation of these cookies does not require the prior consent of users, pursuant to Article 122 of the Privacy Code.

2. Browser settings
Users can also express their cookie preferences through their browser settings. Even in cases where the web browser used by the user is set to automatically accept cookies, the latter can change the default configuration via the settings menu, and can delete and/or remove all or some cookies, preventing cookies from being sent altogether or limiting this to certain sites. Disabling, blocking or deleting cookies may prevent certain areas of the site from being used optimally, or may block access to certain functionalities of the site, as well as affecting the function of third-party services. The links to the cookie management guides for the main browsers are provided below:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Edge
- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari

For browsers other than those listed above, see the relevant guide for details on how to manage cookies.

3. Connecting to social media network services
There are links to YouTube on the site via social media plug-ins that do not automatically install profiling cookies. The collection and use of information by the controllers/ owners of these services is governed by their respective privacy policies; if you require more information, please refer to these.




 
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