Data privacy and cookies

Cookies are small text files containing information from your visit to the website.

Cookies facilitate and simplify the interaction between the user and the website. They allow the website to remember the individual’s preferences and activity, thereby saving time and contributing to more efficient and user-friendly browsing.

First among the many reasons to use cookies is their ability to store information on the individual website (language selection, number of hits, font size, etc.). In addition to this, they also facilitate the implementation of web services (registration, content of shopping carts, e-news subscriptions, video viewing, etc.) and the collection of information on web users’ habits (number of visits, content interesting to users, etc.). All of these help us to improve user experience as well as estimate the efficiency of the website design.

None of the cookies used on our websites collect information that would reveal your personal identity.

For transparency’s sake, we have made a list of all of the cookies that we use and their purposes. Please keep in mind that by further use of this website you are agreeing with the use of the listed cookies.

Cookies help us display the content, contact forms, shopping carts and other essential elements of website.

These cookies are only valid during the session.

An example of the cookies: ASP.NET_SessionId

Google use cookies, for example, to remember your saved search preferences, to make the ads you see more relevant , to count how many visitors visit a page, to help you sign up for our services and to protect your data.

Google Analytics is a service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about a website's traffic and traffic sources and measures conversions and sales. The gathered information are not personally identifiable.

Those cookies have a validity of 2 years.

An example of the cookies: _ga, __utma, __utmb,__utmc, __utmz, and __utmv.

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode.

This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.

Those cookies have a validity of 10 years.

An example of the cookies: Visitor_info1_Live, Use_Hitbox, SID, LOGIN_INFO, use_hotbox, PREF, SSID, HSID, watched_video_id_list, __utma, __utmz, demographics, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE

Google maps associated cookies are used to display a user-friendly map and location designations.

Those cookies have a validity of 10 years.

An example of the cookies: SID, SAPISID, APISID, SSID, HSID, NID, PREF

We use Issuu, an online publishing tool to preview interactive catalogues.

Those cookies have a validity of 5 years.

An example of the cookies: mc

We use cookies to personalise your interaction with Facebook social network.

Those cookies have a validity of 5 years.

An example of the cookies: act, locale, lu, datr, csm

We use cookies to personalise your interaction with Twitter social network.

Those cookies have a validity of 5 years.

An example of the cookies: k, guest_id, auth_token_session, secure_session, twll, twitter_sess

Cookies personalize the experience of sharing and interaction with social networks and record the number of shares, likes and comments.

Those cookies have a validity of 10 years.

An example of the cookies: _atuvc, _utmz, _utmc, _utmb, _utma, _utvc, siteaud

Cookies will not be used to collect information relating to your personal identity. If you wish to, you can change the settings on the use of cookies in your computer’s or mobile device’s browser.

Most modern browsers allow you to either accept or refuse all cookies, accept or refuse particular types of cookies or receive a warning when a website wants to store a cookie of your device. In addition, you can also delete the cookies that the browser has already stored on your device.

Keep in mind that in the event you disable cookies, website functionalities may be impaired, and the message on the use of cookies will appear every time you visit, which will in the long term affect your user experience.

The changing of cookie settings is different in every browser. You can find detailed information by clicking “Help”, visiting www.aboutcookies.org, which gives details on the changing of cookie settings in all modern browsers, or contact us by email.

For more information on cookies, check the Information Commissioner’s Guidelines.