What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to the User's device (PC, smartphone, tablet...) when they visit a website. At each subsequent visit, the cookies are sent back to the website that originated them (first-party cookies) or to another site that recognizes them (third-party cookies). Cookies allow a website to recognize a User's device. They have various purposes such as, for example, allowing you to navigate efficiently between pages, remembering your favorite sites and, in general, improving the browsing experience. They also help to ensure that the advertising content displayed online is more targeted to the user and in line with his interests (targeting cookies or profiling cookies). Cookies may have a limited duration of a single browsing session and, in this case, they are automatically deactivated when the browser is closed; or they may have a predetermined expiry, and in this case they will remain stored and active on the user's device until that expiry, continuing to collect information during different browsing sessions on the browser. There are also other information collection technologies with similar purposes to those of cookies and stored on the user's device (such as pixels). In this information the term cookie is used with reference to cookies, as described above, and with reference to any other collection technology, with the aim of providing the User with a guide to understand what cookies and other similar technologies are, such as and why they are used, what rights are recognized to Users and what choices they can make regarding their use.
Cookies and similar technologies – definitions
Cookies: small text files (generally made up of letters and numbers) that the websites (so-called "first party") visited by the User or different websites or web servers (so-called "third parties") place and store within the browser used by the User for browsing on any terminal device capable of storing information.
Other Technologies: technologies that store data in the browser or device used by the User using locally shared objects or local storage, e.g. flash cookies, HTML 5 cookies and other web application software methods. These technologies work in all browsers. In some cases, the use of local storage cannot be fully managed by browsers, but requires management through specific tools.
Categories of cookies
Cookies can be distinguished based on their purpose, duration and the owner of the cookie.
-Cookies distinguished by purpose are those cookies that can be installed on the User's device to:
1) ensure the functioning of the site and services, as well as to guarantee the User can take advantage of their functions, so-called. technical cookies;
2) allow the performance of the site and the services offered by the Best Crop to be improved, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of a service offered through the Site, so-called. analytical cookies;
3) allow the Consortium or third parties to direct targeted advertising or in line with the User's interests, subject to consent, so-called. profiling cookies.
-Cookies that are distinguished based on their duration are those cookies that can remain in the device's browser for the duration of a session (i.e. until you close the browser used for browsing the Site or interrupt the use of a Service) and are called session cookies. Or, they can remain stored in your device's browser for long periods and may contain a unique identification code and are called permanent cookies.
-Cookies can also be distinguished based on the entity that owns the cookie (first-party cookies and third-party cookies).
Cookies may be the property of the site and service manager and, therefore, are installed by the latter in the browser of the User's device, so-called first party cookies. It may happen that a Site contains cookies, coming from other sites, owned by third parties, contained in various elements hosted on the site itself (for example, advertising banners, images, videos, sounds...) and in this case these are so-called. third-party cookies.
Cookies used by this website
The visit to the Best Crop website involves the use of cookies to improve the user experience. The site uses: technical navigation cookies, analytical cookies and profiling cookies for marketing purposes.
The user can, at any time, manage their preferences or refuse the installation of cookies.
The User can manage their cookie preferences at any time in our cookie center
There are browsing cookies, the ones that help you navigate and do not track or profile but only remember what you have done on the site and when you go back to it, it loads into memory what you have already seen or done.
There are also analytical cookies related to Matomo, an Italian platform.
Retention times of personal data collected via cookies
The information and data collected through cookies will be stored for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which each cookie was installed.
To access specific information relating to the storage of information acquired through the use of first-party and third-party cookies, and manage their preferences, the User can access the
cookie center > at any time.
User rights and management of cookie preferences
The User is granted the rights provided for by Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (so-called GDPR), including the right of access, opposition, cancellation, as well as to modify their choices on the use of cookies at any time, through the cookie center. For further information and details on the User's rights and how to exercise their rights, the User can consult the complete Privacy Policy >
Disabling cookies from your browser
The User, in addition to disabling cookies via the cookie center, can configure their browser to limit the number of cookies accepted, block all cookies or delete them, from the browser settings in the following ways:
1) Microsoft Internet Explorer
By clicking on the tools icon in the top right corner and selecting internet options. A pop-up window will be shown, select privacy. In this section the User can change the cookie settings.
2) Google Chrome
By clicking on the wrench icon in the top right corner and select settings. Next, select show advanced settings. In this section the User can change the cookie settings.
3) Mozilla Firefox
From the drop-down menu in the top left corner, select options. In the pop-up window, select privacy and in the section you will be able to change your cookie preferences.
4) Safaris
From the drop-down settings menu in the top right corner, select preferences. Then select security and in this section the User can adjust the cookie settings.
Data Controller and contact information
The Data Controller is the Italbiotec Consortium (C.F./VAT number 02429600121), with registered office in Milan in Piazza della Trivulziana 4/A, in the person of its legal representative pro tem; pec: consorzio@pec.italbiotec.it. The User may send, at any time, requests for information or clarifications to the aforementioned address or via the additional methods indicated in the
Privacy Policy >
