Cookie Policy

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

Cookies are small text files that the sites you visit send to your terminal, where they are stored so that they can be sent back to those same sites on your next visit. Similar technologies, such as the browser’s local storage and session storage, allow information to be stored on the device without using cookies: the applicable rules are the same and this notice covers them together.

Cookies are classified as first-party, installed by the site operator, and third-party, installed by other parties. By purpose, they are classified as technical cookies, analytics cookies and profiling or marketing cookies.

2. Technologies used by this website

This website sets no first-party cookies. User preferences are stored in the browser’s local storage, which is not transmitted to the server with every request:

Both are technical tools, necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user, and do not require consent under article 122 of the Italian Privacy Code.

3. Technical and necessary cookies

These are the tools essential to the operation and security of the website: they enable browsing, the storage of the preferences expressed and protection against abusive use of the forms. They are always active and cannot be disabled from the preferences panel, since without them the website cannot function correctly. They can nevertheless be removed from the browser settings, as described in article 7.

4. Analytics cookies

These are used to collect aggregate information on how visitors use the website — most visited pages, navigation paths, any errors — in order to measure its performance and improve its content.

This category is disabled by default and is enabled only following express consent given through the banner or the preferences panel. Without consent, no measurement tool is installed and no statistical data attributable to the user is collected.

5. Marketing and profiling cookies

These are used to build profiles of the user’s interests and to offer relevant content and advertising campaigns, including on third-party sites, and to measure their performance.

This category is likewise disabled by default and requires express, specific consent. Without consent, no advertising tool is installed and no profiling activity is carried out.

6. Managing consent

On your first visit a banner is displayed allowing you to accept all tools, reject them all, or select individual categories. Rejecting is as immediate as accepting and entails no limitation on access to the content.

Your choice is stored in local storage and may be withdrawn or changed at any time through the panel accessible from the link in the footer or the button at the bottom of this page. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

Should this notice be substantially updated, the banner is displayed again so that preferences can be expressed anew.

7. Managing cookies from browser settings

Regardless of the preferences expressed on this website, you can configure your browser to block or remove cookies and site data. Instructions are available in each browser’s documentation, under the privacy and security sections of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Edge.

Please note that indiscriminately blocking all cookies and site data may prevent this and other websites from working correctly, including the storage of the preferences you have expressed.

8. Controller and contacts

The data controller is Puntanet S.r.l., registered office at Viale Odorico da Pordenone 33 — 95128 Catania (CT), VAT no. IT05479560871. To exercise your rights or for information about cookies you may write to mail@puntanet.eu or to puntanet.srl@pec.it.

9. Updates

This Cookie Policy may be updated at any time to reflect regulatory changes or the introduction of new tools. The date of last update is shown at the top of the document; please check it periodically.