Cookie policy

Use of cookies

eca-consulting.com uses cookies to make its services simple and effective for users visiting its pages.

Users visiting the Website will see minimal amounts of information placed in the devices they use, whether they are computers or mobile devices, as small text files called “cookies”, and then saved in the directories used by the User’s web browser.

There exist different kinds of cookies, some to make the use of the website more effective, some to enable specific functions.

Analysing them thoroughly, our cookies allow to:

  • save the preferences entered
  • avoid to enter the same pieces of information many times during the surfing, such as user name and password
  • analyse the use of services and contents provided by eca-consulting.com in order to optimize the surfing experience and the services offered

Types of cookies used

Below a description is given of the types of cookies used by eca-consulting.com depending on the intended purpose.

Technical cookies

This type of cookies allows the proper functioning of some sections of the Website. They are of two categories, persistent and session:

  • persistent cookies: once the browser is closed, they are not destroyed but they are stored until a pre-set expiry date
  • session cookies: they are deleted every time the browser is closed

 

These cookies, sent by our domain, are necessary to view the Website correctly and therefore, in relation to the technical services offered, they will always be used and sent, unless the user modifies the settings in his/her browser (thus spoiling the view of the website pages).

 

Analytical cookies

Cookies of this category are used to collect information on the use of the website. Eca will use such information for anonymous statistical analysis in order to improve the use of the Website and make contents more interesting and consistent with the users’ desires. This type of cookies collects data in anonymous way on the users’ activities and on how they landed on the Website. Analytical cookies are sent by the same Website or by third party domains.

 

 

Analysis cookies of third-party services

These cookies are used to collect information in an anonymous form on the use of the Website by users, such as: visited web pages, time spent on each page, traffic origin, geographical origin, age, sex and interests, for marketing campaigns purposes.

These cookies are sent by external third-party domains.

 

Cookies to integrate third-party products and software functions

This type of cookies integrates functions developed by third parties in the Website pages, such as icons or the preferences expressed in social networks, with the aim to share the website contents or to use third-party software services (such as software to create maps and other software offering additional services). These cookies are sent by third-party domains and by partner websites offering their functions among the Website pages.

 

Profiling cookies

Profiling cookies are necessary to outline users’ profiles so as to send advertising messages in line with the preferences they expressed in the Website pages.

eca-consulting.com does not use profiling cookies.

Pursuant to the legislation in force, eca-consulting.com is not obliged to request the consent for technical and analytics cookies, as they are necessary to provide the required services.

For all the other types of cookies, the consent may be expressed by the user by means of one or more of the following ways:

  • Specific setting up of the browser used or of the related IT programs used to browse the pages composing the Website
  • Change of the settings in the use of third-party services

Both these solutions may prevent the user from using or viewing some parts of the Website

 

Third-party Websites and services

The Website may contain links to other Websites having their own privacy policy, which may be different from the one adopted by eca-consulting.com. Therefore, eca-consulting.com shall not be held liable for such Websites.

 

Cookies used

Below is a list of the technical and analytics cookies used by this Website:

  • __utma – persistent – user’s visit time – necessary for the third-party service Google Webmaster and Analytics. It lasts 2 years
  • __utmb – persistent – user’s bounce rate (approximate value) – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics. It lasts 30 minutes
  • __utmz – persistent – user origin – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics. It lasts 6 months
  • _dc – session – used to limit the remarketing requests (until now not present on eca-consulting.com); necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics. It lasts 10 minutes
  • PHPSESSID – session – necessary for WordPress to identify a user’s single session.
  • _ga – persistent – used to distinguish users – necessary for the third-party service Google Analytics. It lasts 2 years

 

Third party cookies:

  • Facebook:
    • act – session
    • c_user – persistent
    • csm – persistent
    • datr – persistent
    • fr – persistent
    • i_user – session
    • lu – persistent
    • p – session
    • presence – session
    • s – persistent
    • x-src – persistent
    • xs – persistent
    • datr – persistent
    • lu – persistent
  • Google +
    • AID – persistent
    • APISID – persistent
    • HSID – persistent
    • NID – persistent
    • OGP – persistent
    • OGPC – persistent
    • PREF – persistent
    • SAPISID – persistent
    • SID – persistent
    • SSID – persistent
    • TAID – persistent
    • OTZ – persistent
    • PREF – persistent
    • ACCOUNT_CHOOSER – persistent
    • GAPS – persistent
    • LSID – persistent
    • LSOSID – persistent
    • RMME – persistent
  • Twitter
    • __utma – persistent
    • __utmv – persistent
    • __utmz – persistent
    • auth_token – persistent
    • guest_id – persistent
    • pid – persistent
    • remember_checked – persistent
    • remember_checked_on – persistent
    • secure_session – persistent
    • twll – persistent
    • dnt – persistent
    • eu_cn – persistent
    • external_referer – persistent

 


How to disable cookies through the browser setting up.

Chrome

  1. Run the Chrome Browser
  2. Click on the Chrome menu in the browser’s toolbar next to the bar for the URL
  3. Select Settings
  4. Click Show Advanced Settings
  5. In the “Privacy” section, click on the “Content settings” button
  6. In the “Cookie” section, you can modify the following settings related to cookies:
  • Enabling to save data locally
  • Modifying local data only until the browser is closed
  • Preventing websites from setting up cookies
  • Blocking third-party cookies and websites data
  • Managing exceptions for some Internet websites
  • Removing one or all cookies

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Run the Mozilla Firefox Browser
  2. Click on the Mozilla Firefox menu in the browser’s toolbar next to the bar for the URL
  3. Select Options
  4. Select the Privacy panel
  5. Click Show Advanced Settings
  6. In the “Privacy” section, click on the “Content settings” button
  7. In the “Tracking” section, you can modify the following settings related to cookies:
  • Requesting websites not to carry out any tracking
  • Communicating to websites your availability to be tracked
  • Not communicating any preference as to the tracking of your personal data
  1. From the “Browsing history” you can:
  • Enabling “Use customized settings”, choose to accept third-party cookies (always, from most visited websites or never) and to store them for a given time period (until their expiry, until you close Firefox or ask every time)
  • Remove the single cookies stored

 

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.

Internet Explorer

  1. Run the Internet Explorer Browser
  2. Click the Tools button and choose Internet Options
  3. Click the Privacy tab and in the settings section, modify the slider depending on the action you wish to do with cookies:
  • Block all cookies
  • Allow all cookies
  • Select the websites from which to receive cookies: move the pointer to an intermediate position, so as not to block or allow all cookies, then click Sites and in the Site Address box, enter a web site and then click Block or Allow

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.

 

Safari 6

  1. Run the Safari Browser
  2. Click Safari, select Preferences and click Privacy
  3. In the Block Cookies section, indicate how Safari has to accept cookies from web sites
  4. To view which sites stored the cookies, click Details

 

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.

 

Safari iOS (mobile devices)

  1. Run the Safari iOS Browser
  2. Click on Settings and then Safari
  3. Touch Block Cookies and choose among the various options: “Never”, “Third-party and advertisers” or “Always”
  4. To delete all the cookies stored in Safari, touch Settings, then Safari and finally Delete Cookies and data.

 

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.

Opera

  1. Run the Opera Browser
  2. Click Preferences, then Advanced and finally Cookie
  3. Select one of the following options:
  • Accept all cookies
  • Accept cookies only from the visited site: third-party cookies and cookies sent by a different domain from the one being visited will be refused
  • Never accept cookies: all the cookies will never be saved

 

For more information, visit the dedicated webpage.


How to disable third party cookies


This page can be viewed, through the link in the footer, in all the Site pages, pursuant to article 122 paragraph 2 of Legislative decree 196/2003 and following the simplification of the privacy policy and of the policy for the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies, published on the Official Journal n. 126 of 3rd June 2014 and on the related register of the actions taken n. 229 of 8th May 2014.