WHAT IS A COOKIE?
SDABocconi.it (hereafter, also, the “Website”) uses “cookies”.
A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your device (i.e. your mobile phone or computer) when you visit the website to help the website to provide you with a better user experience by storing certain information. For example, some cookies allow the Website to recognize your browser, while other cookies can keep a track of your preferences or store other information. These cookies collect and store information about your browsing on our website, to help us remember you when you return to pay us a visit.
Your browser may allow you to set the management of cookies, for example, to refuse to accept any cookie or to ask you to decide if you want to accept every single cookie. However, you should consider that some parts of the Website may not function as expected or not function at all without cookies.
WHAT ARE COOKIES USED FOR?
We use the following types of cookies.
- Strictly necessary cookies: they are essential for the proper functioning of our website and they allow you primarily to access protected areas such as mySDABocconi.
- Analytics or performance cookies: they collect anonymous information on your way of using the website and its performances. They concern, for example, the most consulted pages, the queries made in our search engine, etc. The data collected are used only to improve the functioning of our website.
- Functional cookies: they memorize the choices you have made to improve and customize your experience on our website. They are used, for example, to recognize you when you return to our website and to memorize the choices you have made.
- Advertising cookies: they collect information on your browsing habits to offer you advertising in line with your interests. They register your visit on our website, the pages you have consulted, the links you have followed and even any browsing away from our website. They are used both to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and to test the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. Usually, they are entered by third parties with our consent. Any refusal to accept this type of cookie has no impact on use of our website or the Internet in general.
- Google Analytics: this Website uses the cookies of Google, Inc., with the aim of producing statistical analyses relating to the browsing habits of users on the Website; therefore, Google could position cookies on your device.
- Google Maps: this Website uses Google Maps cookies to provide visitors with useful directions to reach us. We integrate the Google Maps tools into our website based upon the fact that Google respects its privacy policy and service conditions.
There are, in addition, two types of cookies used by the Website, “tracking cookies” and “session cookies”.
Session cookies normally expire when you close your browser, while persistent cookies remain on your device even after you have closed the browser and can be used again when you next access the Website.
COOKIES PURPOSES
The Website uses cookies for the following purposes:
- to make possible, simple and to optimize the functioning of the website;
- to simplify access to the Website and use of the same by the user and to make that use more fluid;
- to monitor and analyze the performances, functioning and effectiveness of the Website, in order to improve and optimize it;
- for profiling activities;
- for marketing;
- for the identification and prevention of fraud.
CHOOSE HOW TO USE COOKIES
The majority of browsers accept cookies automatically.
Almost all Internet browsers have tools to manage cookies. Therefore, various tools, plug-ins or mechanisms are available to block, activate, deactivate and delete cookies. However, in some cases, their deactivation or removal may imply the impossibility of using the Website or seeing the consent contained in it.
If you prefer to restrict, block or delete cookies on this website, you can do so by modifying your browser parameters. We remind you that any change of parameters may modify your browsing on the Internet and your conditions of access to our services which require the use of cookies. Although every browser's parameters are different, the configuration of cookies is usually carried out from the "Settings" or "Options" menus. For further information on the configuration of cookies on your browser, consult the "Help" menu. To find out more about cookies and their management, click on "Help" in your browser menu.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY ON COOKIES
We may modify this cookies policy at any time. If we make significant changes to the cookies policy, we will inform you by way of publication on the Website.
It is important that you read the updated cookies policy.