1 INTRODUCTION
Our website uses cookies. One of the reasons we use cookies is to personalize the content, analyze how you use our website and to assess the success of our content. We do this to ground our decisions about improvements to the website and to get a good understanding of what type of content you like to read.

2 WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Internet Cookies (known as “browser cookies” or “HTTP cookies” or just “cookies”) are small number and letter files placed on your computer, smartphone or other equipment you use when you access the internet and visit our website. Cookies allow us to make an user’s experience more efficient, without identifying you specifically. Nonetheless, we do not gather your personal data. Cookies will remain “passive”, meaning they do not contain software, viruses or spyware and they won’t access the information stored on your hard drive.

3 WHY WE USE COOKIES?
We use cookies to gather anonymous data of user behavior on our website in order to provide a better user experience and tailored content. Thus, using cookies allows us to memorize some of the settings made by you when accessing the page, e.g. posting comments on the Knowledge Section. We may also use the data gathered through cookies to improve the targeting of our advertising.

4 HOW CAN YOU STOP COOKIES?
While visiting our website, you will be briefly informed about the cookies and ways to manage them. You will also be informed that by continuing to use the website you are agreeing to the use of cookies. You can choose to disable the cookies without any consequences to the website’s functionality. However, without this information it will be harder to make improvements and customize our content to your interests.
If you wish to opt out the use of cookies all of the major browsers offer useful tips and guidance. You can learn more by visiting:

You should know that by blocking cookies may sometimes reduce the functionality of the website or prevent access, depending on the selected browser options. Unless you chose to refuse our cookies, the system will issue non-strictly necessary cookies when you continue to browse our website.

5 WHAT COOKIES WE USE?

5.1 Performance Cookies
By these cookies we memorize your preferences, so you don’t need to make new settings on each visit.

5.2 Analyze cookies
These cookies inform us whether you have been before on our website and are used only for statistic purposes.

5.3 Session Cookies
These cookies are essential for the website to function and will be set regardless of whether you allow other cookies. These cookies are not stored on your computer and will be deleted when you close your web browser.

5.4 Geotargeting cookies
These cookies are used by a software which establishes the country from where you access our website.

5.5 Functionality Cookies
The functionality cookies that we use allow us to monitor patterns of traffic on our website, accurately measure the success of our content.

6 MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES
To learn more about cookies, including how to manage them and how they affect your online activities, you ca access www.yourchoicesonline.eu or www.allaboutcookies.org where you can discover how to control cookies at www.aboutcookies.org.uk/managing-cookies or how to delete cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/clear-cookies-installed.html.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, you can visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. New technologies such as Mozilla’s Do Not Track (www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/dnt/) allow you to tell websites not to track you.