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Cookies are small text files sent to the user computer or mobile device recorded there by the websites visited to be sent back at the next visit. Thanks to cookies, the website remembers the user actions and preferences (such as login data, chosen language, font size, other display settings, etc.) so that not to enter them again at the next visit or when browsing from one page to another. Therefore, cookies are used to execute the computing authentication, the session monitoring and the information storage of the activities carried out by the users entering a website. They can also contain a unique identification allowing the tracking of the user browsing throughout the site for statistical or advertising purposes. While browsing a website, the user can also receive cookies of websites or servers other than those visited (the so-called "third-party” cookies) on his/her computer or mobile device. Some actions cannot be executed without cookies since, in some cases, they are necessary for the technical operation of the website.

Cookies are of different kinds according to their features and functions and can remain on a user computer or mobile device for different length of time,  the so-called session cookies are automatically deleted when the browser is closed; whilst the so-called persistent cookies remain on the user devices up to the fixed expiration.

In Italy, the law in force governing the use of cookies not always requires an express consent of the user. Specifically, the so-called “technical cookies” do not require the user consent since they are needed only to transmit a communication over an electronic communication network, or only to provide a service explicitly requested by the user. In other words, they are crucial for the website operation or needed to perform the tasks required by the user.

Among the technical cookies not requiring an express consent for their use that were identified by the Italian Data Protection Authority (General Provision: “Simplified Arrangements to Provide Information and Obtain Consent Regarding Cookies - 8 May 2014") there are:

• the “analytics cookies” if directly used by the website manager to collect aggregate information on the number of visitors and the pattern of visits to the website; 
• the browsing  or session cookies (to authenticate the user, to purchase items, etc.);
• the functional cookies allowing the user to browse according to certain pre-determined criteria (such as: language, selected products to be purchased) thus improving the quality of the service provided.

On the contrary the so-called profiling cookies, which are aimed at creating user profiles and are used to send ads messages in line with the preferences shown by the user during browsing, require a prior consent of the user.
This website uses all the mentioned-above cookies to improve the user experience and the contents offered, as well as to realize how the visitors browse the website.

The website auxologico.com uses:

• Technical cookies, i.e. browsing or session cookies and those strictly required for the website functionality or to allow visitors to take advantage of the contents and services requested.
• Analytics cookies that allow to realize how the website is used by the users. No pieces of information able to identity the user or his/her personal data are collected by these cookies. The information shall be processed in aggregate and anonymous form. 
• Third party cookies, i.e. cookie of external websites or servers, used for such third party purposes.
   

Specifically, the cookies present in the website auxologico.com are the following:

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More information on the different kinds of cookies, their mode of operation and features are available on the website www.allaboutcookies.org.