Cookie Policy
YOUSICILIA.IT is a blog by Tamaco S.r.l. (hereinafter referred to as “the Holder” and/or the ‘Data Controller”) and it follows all the directives and strategies, imposed by the latter.
The Data Controller provides all the information (see below) on the operation of the cookies within the present website, including under the Provision of the Data Protection Authority “Simplified Arrangement for Providing Information and Obtaining Consent Regarding Cookies”, 8 May 2014 and subsequent amendments made by the UE Regulation n. 679/2016.
The following informative notice only applies to the present website managed by TAMACO S.r.l. for YouSicilia.it and not to third-party websites that might be browsed by the users/readers when following links.
Definition of cookies
A cookie is a small text file sent to the browser and stored on the users’ device when they visit a website such as https://yousicilia.it. Cookies allow efficient operation of the website and improve its performance, provide the website’s owner with information for statistical and advertising purposes, mainly in order to personalise the users’ browsing experience, by remembering their preferences. The website uses different types of cookies first-party cookies (created and managed by TAMACO S.r.l. for YouSicilia.it) and third-party cookies (created and managed by third parties according to their own privacy policy, thus not under control of TAMACO S.r.l).
We list below the first-party cookies used by the website:
Technical cookies: they improve the website operation; these cookies collect information about the website usage, for instance, which pages are visited most. They do not collect users’ identifying information, but only aggregated and anonymous information. They are solely used in order to improve the website’s performance.
Cookies Analytics: They assess how many users access the website and their usage modalities. This information is collected in aggregate form.
Profiling cookies: Thanks to these cookies, the users are shown the commercial offers most likely to meet their tastes. These cookies can also limit the number of times that a certain promotion campaign is shown or used in order to evaluate the efficacy of an advertising. These cookies collect information about the users’ browsing habits so that they are shown those promotions more likely to meet their tastes.
Disabling cookies
Cookies are connected to the browser in use and can be disabled directly from the browser, thus rejecting/revoking the consent to the use of cookies. It has to be noted that disabling cookies might prevent the proper use of some of the website’s functionalities.
The guidelines for disabling cookies can be found at the following webpages
Mozilla Firefox – Microsoft Internet Explorer – Microsoft Edge – Google Chrome – Opera – Apple Safari
Third-party cookie and display of content from external platforms
The present website acts as an intermediary for third-party cookies, used in order to provide further services and functionalists to the users and improve the website’s usage, such as social media buttons or videos. This Website has no control on third-party cookies, which are managed by third parties. This implies that the information on the use of such cookies and their purpose and also the modalities for their disabling are provided by the third parties.
In particular, when navigating the present website, the users can detect cookies by the following third parties:
– Google Analytics: It is an analysis tool by Goggle, which thanks to performance cookies collects anonymous browsing data (IPs shortened at the last octet) and exclusively aggregate with the purpose to assess the readers’ usage of the website, compile reports about the website’s activity and provide other information, including the number of visitors and the visited pages. Google can also transfer this information to third parties when so provided by law or when third parties process this information on behalf of Google. Google will not relate the IP address to any other data held by Google. The data transmitted to Google are held in the Google’s server in the United States.
On the basis of an agreement with Google, that is responsible of data processing, the latter undertakes to process the data according to the Data Processor’s requests given through the software settings. On the basis of such settings, advertising and sharing options are disabled.
Further information about Google Analytics can be found at the website Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites.
– Youtube: This is a platform owned by Google that allows video sharing and that uses cookies in order to collect information about the users and their browsing devices. The videos in the website do not convey cookies when the page is accessed, since the “advanced privacy (no cookie)“ option is activated. According to this option, Youtube doesn’t store the users’ information unless they voluntarily reproduce the videos.
cookie: test_cookie .doubleclick.net is not a permanent cookie, but it is used to verify if the users’ browsers support cookies.
For further information about the use of data and their processing by Google, we suggest to read the related information that can be found in the special page created by Google and in the page about the Modalities of usage of data by Google when its partners’ websites or apps are used.
Plugin Social Media
The present site also contains social media plugins and/or buttons, in order to allow a user-friendly sharing of contents on social networks. In order to safeguard the users’ privacy, these plugins are programmed so not to set any cookies when accessing the page. If it is required by the social networks, cookies might be set when the user voluntarily makes use of the plugin. Please note that if the user is browsing while logged into the social network, then the user has already consented to the use of cookies conveyed through this site at the time of registration to the social network.
The use and collection of information gathered by means of the plugins are ruled by the respective social media’s privacy policies, which the user must refer to
– Facebook – (link cookies policy)
– Instagram – (link informativa cookie)
– Twitter – (link cookies policy)
– LinkedI – (link cookies policy)
– Pinterest – (link cookies policy)
– Google+ – (link cookies policy).
With reference to the cookies created by third parties, the user can manage their own settings and revoke their consent, by using the tools described in the privacy policy of the third party or by contacting the latter.
Without prejudice to what above stated, the user can also use the information provided by EDAA (UE), Network Advertising Initiative (USA) and Digital Advertising Alliance (USA), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Thanks to this services, the users can manage their tracking preferences of most of the advertising tools. Therefore the Data Protector advises the users to employ such resources in addition to the information here provided.
Data transfer to non-UE countries.
The present website might share some of the collected data with services located outside the European Union. In particular with Google, Facebook and Microsoft (LinkedIn) by means of social plugins and Google Analytics services. the transfer is authorised on the basis of specific decisions of the European Union and of the Garante per la tutela dei dati personali (the Italian Data Protection Authority) with particular regard to the decision 1250/2016 (Privacy Shield – here the informativa page of the Italian Data Protection Authority) for which no further consent is required. The above mentioned companies guarantee their acceptance of the Privacy Shield.
Modifications
The Data controller reserves the right to modify or to simply update, partially or totally, the content of the present document, also due to changes to the applicable laws. Therefore, the Data controller invites the readers to regularly visit this section in order to be aware of the most recent updated version of the privacy policy and stay informed about the data collection and their use by TAMACO S.r.l. for YouSicily.it.
The necessary cookies contribute to make the website user-friendly, by enabling basic functions, such as page browsing and access to the website’s protected areas. The website can’t work properly without these cookies.
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Name |
Supplier |
Purpose |
Deadline |
Type |
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CookieConsent |
It stores the users’ consensus status for the current domain | 1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
Static cookies help the website’s owner to assess how the visitors interact with the websites, by collecting and transferring information in anonymous form.
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Name |
Supplier |
Purpose |
Deadline |
Type |
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_ga |
It records a unique ID used to generate static data on how the visitor uses the website.
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2 years |
HTTP Cookie |
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_gat |
Google Analytics uses it in order to limit the frequency of requests. |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
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_gid |
It records a unique ID used to generate static data on how visitors use the website. |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
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collect |
It is used to send data to Google Analytics about the user’s device and behaviour. It keeps tracks of the user on devices and marketing channels. |
Session |
Pixel Tracker |
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vuid |
It collects data on the users’ visits to the website, for instance what pages they have consulted. |
2 years |
HTTP Cookie |
Marketing cookies are used in order to monitor visitors in the websites. This allows display of the ads which are relevant and interesting for each visitor, and therefore of most value to the editors and third-party advertisers.
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Name |
Supplier |
Purpose |
Deadline |
Type |
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IDE |
Google DoubleClick uses it in order to record and create reports on users actions in the website after viewing and clicking on one of the ads. This allows the efficacy of the ads to be measured and targeted to users. |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
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test_cookie |
It is used to check whether the user’s browser supports cookies. |
1 day |
HTTP Cookie |
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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
It tries to estimate the users’ connection speed in the pages with embedded Youtube videos. |
179 days |
HTTP Cookie |
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YSC |
It records a unique ID to keep statistics of the YouTube videos seen by the users. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
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yt-remote-cast-installed |
It stores the user’s video-players, by using the embedded YouTube video. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
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yt-remote-connected-devices |
It stores the user’s video-players, by using the embedded YouTube video. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
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yt-remote-device-id |
It stores the user’s video-players, by using the embedded YouTube video. |
Persistent |
HTML Local Storage |
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yt-remote-fast-check-period |
It stores the user’s video-players, by using the embedded YouTube video. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
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yt-remote-session-app |
It stores the user’s video-players, by using the embedded YouTube video. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
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yt-remote-session-name |
It stores the user’s video-players, by using the embedded YouTube video. |
Session |
HTML Local Storage |
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For information about data collection and processing, please refer to the Privacy policy.