Pluribus One | Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy is related to the website www.pluribus-one.it (hereinafter the “Site”) managed and operated by PLURIBUS ONE S.R.L., located at Via Bellini n. 9, 09128 – Cagliari.

Definition of “cookie”
Cookies are short fragments of text (letters and/or numbers) that allow the web server to store information on the client (the browser, e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera…) to be reused during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even after days (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, based on the user’s preferences, by the individual browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Similar technologies, such as web beacons, transparent GIFs, and all forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, can be used to collect information about user behavior and service usage.

A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from the user’s hard drive or transmit computer viruses or acquire email addresses. Each cookie is unique to the user’s web browser. Some functions of cookies can be delegated to other technologies. The term 'cookies' refers to cookies and all similar technologies.

Based on the characteristics and use of cookies, various types of cookies can be distinguished:
- Strictly necessary technical cookies. These are essential for the proper functioning of a website and are used to manage various services related to websites (such as login or access to reserved functions on sites). The duration of cookies is strictly limited to the work session or they may use a longer duration to remember the visitor’s choices. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect the user’s experience and navigation of the website.
- Analysis (analytics) and performance cookies. These are cookies used to collect and analyze traffic and use of the website anonymously. These cookies, while not identifying the user, allow, for example, to detect if the same user returns at different times. They also allow monitoring the system and improving its performance and usability. Disabling these cookies can be done without any loss of functionality and will be detailed later.
- Profiling cookies (not operational on this Site). These are permanent cookies used to identify (anonymously and non-anonymously) the user’s preferences and improve their browsing experience. For more information on these cookies not used by the Website, please visit the dedicated section on www.garanteprivacy.it/cookie.

Purpose of processing and purposes of session technical cookies
The cookies used on the Site are exclusively aimed at performing computer authentication or session monitoring and storing specific technical information regarding users who access the data controller's servers that manage the Site. In this perspective, some operations on the Site could not be performed without the use of cookies, which in such cases are technically necessary. For example, access to any reserved areas of the Site and the activities that can be carried out there would be much more complex and less secure without cookies that allow the user to be identified and maintain their identification within the session.

Technical cookies can also be used without the user’s consent. Among other things, the same European body that brings together all the Privacy Authorities of the various Member States (the so-called "Article 29 Working Party") clarified in Opinion 4/2012 (WP194) entitled “Exemption from consent for the use of cookies” that these are cookies for which it is not necessary to acquire the user’s prior and informed consent:
- Cookies with data compiled by the user (session identifier), lasting a session or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in some cases.
- Authentication cookies, used for authenticated services, lasting a session.
- User-centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, with a limited persistent duration.
- Session cookies for media players, such as “flash” cookies, lasting a session.
- Session cookies for load balancing, lasting a session.
- Persistent cookies for user interface customization, lasting a session (or slightly more).
- Cookies for sharing content through third-party social plugins, for members of a social network who have logged in.

The data controller therefore informs that only technical cookies (as listed above) necessary for navigating the Site are operational on the Site since they enable essential functions such as authentication, validation, session management, and fraud prevention, and allow, for example, to identify whether the user has regularly accessed the areas of the site that require prior authentication or the validation of the user and the management of sessions related to the various services and applications or the storage of data for secure access or control and fraud prevention functions.

For maximum transparency, here is a list of a series of technical cookies and specific cases of operation on the Site:
- Cookies used to statistically analyze access/visits to the site (so-called “analytics” cookies) that pursue exclusively statistical purposes (and not profiling or marketing) and collect information in aggregated form without the possibility of tracing the identification of the individual user. In these cases, since the current regulations require that for analytics cookies, clear and adequate information is provided to the interested party on the simple ways to oppose (opt-out) their installation (including any anonymization mechanisms of the cookies themselves), we specify that it is possible to disable the analytics cookies as follows: open your browser, select the settings menu, click on internet options, open the privacy tab and choose the desired cookie blocking level. If you want to delete the cookies already saved in memory, just open the security tab and delete the history by checking the “delete cookies” box.

Third-party cookies
When visiting a website, cookies may be received from sites managed by other organizations (“third parties”) that may reside in Italy or abroad.

An example present on most websites is the inclusion of YouTube videos, Google APIs, use of Google Maps, and the use of “social plugins” for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn. These are parts of the visited page generated directly by the aforementioned sites and integrated into the host site’s page. The most common use of social plugins is to share content on social networks to enhance the visitor’s user experience.

The presence of these plugins involves the transmission of cookies to and from all sites managed by third parties. The management of the information collected by “third parties” is governed by their respective privacy policies.

As clarified by the General Measure of the Privacy Guarantor on cookies of May 8, 2014, analytics cookies are assimilated to technical cookies when used directly by the site manager to collect information, in aggregated form, on the number of users and how they visit the site: these are exactly the functionalities and purposes of processing on this Site.

You can still opt-out through the banner where applicable or by visiting the website [Google Analytics Opt-Out](http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en), executing the opt-out. Furthermore, it is possible to deny consent and block third-party cookies through browser plugins by searching on Google for “block and delete third-party cookies,” which will provide many guides differing by operating system and browser used.

To ensure greater transparency and convenience, the following are the web addresses of the various information and cookie management methods, specifying that the data controller has no responsibility for the operation on this Site of third-party cookies:
- Google Information: On data use at [Google Cookies](http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/) and full information at http://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
- Google (configuration): The guide on the general opt-out for Google services (Maps, YouTube…) is available at http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=it.
- Facebook Information: https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/ and https://it-it.facebook.com/about/privacy/cookies.
- Facebook (configuration): Log in to your account, go to the privacy section. Or follow the various guides available on the web, for example, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-third-party-cookies.
- Twitter/X Information: https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170514.
-Twitter/X (configuration): https://twitter.com/settings/security and https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170519-uso-dei-cookie-e-di-altre-tecnologie-simili-da-parte-di-twitter.
- LinkedIn Information: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy.
- LinkedIn (configuration): https://www.linkedin.com/settings/.

The Site uses the Google Analytics service but includes interventions to anonymize IPs with the tools provided by Google. See the Google Cookie Policy for Google Analytics at the following link http://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage and learn more about how Google – a third party – uses its users' data at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

‍Responsibility for the operation of third-party cookies
As stated by the General Measure of the Privacy Guarantor on cookies of May 8, 2014: "There are multiple reasons why it is not possible to impose the obligation on the publisher to provide information and acquire consent for the installation of cookies within their site, including those installed by third parties. First, the publisher should always have the tools and the economic-legal capacity to take on the obligations of third parties and should therefore also be able to verify from time to time the correspondence between what is declared by third parties and the purposes they actually pursue with the use of cookies. This is made very difficult by the fact that the publisher often does not know directly all the third parties that install cookies through their site, and therefore not even the logic underlying the related processing.

Moreover, it is often the case that subjects playing the role of concessionaires intervene between the publisher and third parties, making it very complex for the publisher to control the activities of all the subjects involved. Third-party cookies could also be modified over time by third-party suppliers, and it would be impractical to ask publishers to keep track of these subsequent changes."

As indicated by the Privacy Guarantor, this Site has no control over third-party cookies when using third-party services (YouTube, Google Maps, “social buttons”) for which third parties are solely responsible. Furthermore, the user can delete and block the operation of cookies at any time by using browser plugins and changing the settings as indicated in the various manuals contained in the browsers.

Obligatory or optional consent for the operation of cookies that do not pursue marketing purposes
It is not mandatory to obtain consent for the operation of only technical or third-party or analytics cookies assimilated to technical cookies. Their deactivation and/or refusal to operate will result in the inability to properly navigate the Site and/or the inability to use the services, pages, features, or content available therein.