COOKIE POLICY
COMPREHENSIVE NOTICE ON THE USE OF COOKIES
Stretto di Messina SpA, (“Stretto di Messina SpA” or “We“) undertakes to offer you the best possible service and not to betray the trust you have placed in us. In this regard, we are committed to protecting your data when you use one of our services and have adopted sound principles within the Group to ensure protection of your data.
Therefore, we would like to give you some detailed information on how we use and store cookies from our website and/or our mobile application (hereinafter, the “Website” and/or the “Application“) on your device. This policy will also explain what cookies are, and help you understand how to manage or delete them.
1) What are cookies?
Cookies are small text, image or software files that are placed and stored on your computer, your smartphone or any other device you use to browse the internet, when accessing our website and/or when using our application. The term “cookie” is used in a broad sense in this policy and may also refer to alternative technologies used to store data on a device (such as Flash cookies, fingerprints, invisible pixels, HTML5 local storage, tokens, etc.), depending on the device used. In this cookie policy, the word “device” refers to computers, smartphones, tablets and any other device used to access the internet.
Cookies perform a number of useful functions, including:
- Authenticating and identifying you on our website and/or application, in order to provide you with the services you have requested;
- Improving the security of the website and/or the application, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and protecting user data from being accessed by unauthorised parties;
- Remembering the data you have provided us with (e.g. automatically filling in forms with data you have previously provided us with so that you can be granted access more quickly);
- Keeping track of preferences and settings when using our website and/or application (e.g. language, time zone, etc.);
- Monitoring use of our website and/or application, in order to improve them;
- Improving your user experience by adapting and personalising content on the website and/or the application, in accordance with your interests.
2) What kind of cookies do we use?
2.1. Strictly necessary cookies (mandatory)
These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website or application and cannot be disabled by our systems. They are usually only activated when actions are performed in response to a service request, such as setting privacy preferences, logging in or filling out forms.
Disabling these cookies will reduce the performance of the website and/or application, and may render its services and functionality unavailable.
This category also includes cookies that help us comply with our legal obligations, including ensuring a secure online environment (e.g. detecting repeated failed login attempts to prevent unauthorised persons from accessing your account).
More information about storage times and the cookies available on this website/application can be found the end of this document.
2.2. Functional cookies (subject to your consent)
These cookies store your personal preferences. They collect data about your choices and preferences and allow us to personalise our website and/or application by remembering your chosen parameters. They are used to make your web experience as intuitive as possible.
If you decide not to activate these cookies, you may be unable to set your preferences and will have to reset them each time you access our website or use the application.
More information on the storage periods and cookies available on this website/application can be found at the end of this document.
2.3. Performance cookies (subject to your consent)
In order to tailor our website or application to the needs of our visitors, we use these cookies to keep track of the number of visitors and pages viewed, activity on the website and how often visitors return. These cookies enable compilation of traffic analysis statistics. This analysis enables the content of the website to be developed and implemented in order to improve the user experience.
If you decide not to activate these cookies, we will be unable to analyse your behaviour on the website or application, and as a result we may be unable to personalise the content for you.
More information on the storage times and cookies available on this website/application can be found at the end of this document.
2.4. Targeting, advertising and tracking cookies (subject to your consent)
These cookies can be activated on our website by our advertising partners. Companies can use them to create a profile of your interests, and to offer you targeted advertising on other websites. They only require browser and device identification to function.
We may also share these data with third parties via the use of third-party cookies. Third parties use these data for online advertising purposes, including measuring the effectiveness of an advertising campaign, frequency limitation (i.e. limiting the number of times an advertisement is displayed), affiliate marketing, “false click” detection, market research, product improvement, bug detection and any other purpose. They are also used to limit the number of times you are offered an ad. See below for more information on third party providers.
We may also use tracking cookies or device fingerprinting techniques to link your account on the website and/or application with one or more specific devices.
Please note that preventing installation of these cookies on your computer will not remove all ads from the websites you visit. Refusal to accept these cookies will only prevent personalisation of these advertisements based on your areas of interest, as they are deleted from your browsing history.
More information on storage times and cookies can be found at the end of this document.
2.5. Social media and streaming content cookies (subject to your consent)
These cookies are set by social media services that are added to a website to enable site visitors to share content via links. They can track browser usage on websites in order to create a profile of a visitor’s interests. This may affect the content and messages displayed on other websites.
Our website and/or application may also include streaming content hosted by a third-party online content provider (e.g. YouTube or Vimeo).
Please note that accepting these cookies may result in additional cookies being stored on your device by these third-party providers, over whom we have no control, and with regard to which the third-party provider acts as the data controller. Further information on third-party providers can be found below.
3) How can you manage cookies?
You can give your explicit consent to the use of certain categories of cookies as set out in this cookie policy by ticking the optional boxes in our cookie preference management tool.
Please note that we do not need your consent to use strictly necessary cookies, which are essential for the functioning of the relevant website and/or application.
Therefore, the “strictly necessary cookies” option is already selected in our cookie preference tool, and is not an optional feature.
We would also like to point out that if you do not consent to the use of certain cookies (e.g. preference cookies), we may be unable to optimise your experience on the website and/or application, and some parts of it may not work optimally as a result.
If you change your mind about the cookie preferences you have chosen, you can withdraw your consent or update your preferences at any time by accessing the cookie preference management tool.
- Who places cookies on your device (e.g. Stretto di Messina SpA or third-party providers)?
When selecting the cookies you want to enable on your device, please note that the cookies used on our website and/or application may come from us or from third parties (the latter are generally related to analytics features or social media platform additions).
In practice, this means that when you allow third-party cookies to be placed on your device, those third parties may have access to certain information about you (such as your browsing statistics when you allow third-party analytics cookies).
Cookies may be placed by us on your devices. However, they may also be placed directly by third parties when you use our website and/or application, so that such third parties may:
– provide us with services (such as Google Analytics) that enable us to optimise our website and/or application; or
– allow you to access third-party content.
If you want more information about these third-party cookies, you should check the websites of these third parties and their privacy policies to obtain more details about their cookies and how to manage them.
Facebook cookie policy
Twitter cookie policy
LinkedIn cookie policy
Google cookie policy and Google Analytics cookie policy
5) What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
Pursuant to the applicable regulations, you are entitled to the following rights:
- Access: You may obtain information related to the processing of your personal data, and a copy of such personal data.
- Rectification: If you believe that your data is inaccurate or incomplete, you may request that such data be amended accordingly.
- Deletion: You may request deletion of your personal data, to the extent permitted by law.
- Restriction: You may obtain restriction of the processing of your personal data.
- Objection: You may object to the processing of your personal data, on grounds relating to your particular situation. You have the absolute right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling in connection with such direct marketing.
- Withdrawal of consent: If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw it at any time, in accordance with the procedures set out in section 3 of this cookie policy.
- Data portability: In cases provided for by law, you have the right to obtain the return of the data you have provided to us and, if technically feasible, to have them transferred to a third party.
If you wish to exercise the rights listed above, you can send an email to: info@strettodimessina.it, or send a letter to: Stretto di Messina SpA, Via Marsala 27, 00185 Rome (RM). Please enclose a scan/copy of your proof of identity for identification purposes.
Pursuant to current legislation, in addition to the above rights, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority via this website: www.garanteprivacy.it.
6) How can you contact us?
If you have any questions about our use of your personal data as set out in this cookie policy, please send a letter to this address: Stretto di Messina SpA, Via Marsala 27, 00185 Rome RM, or contact us via email at: info@strettodimessina.it, and your request will be dealt with.
We would also like to inform you that the Data Protection Officer (DPO) can be reached at: info@strettodimessina.it.