Cookie Policy

This page outlines the cookie policy in use in this website along with details of cookies used by the website. This information may change over time and the latest version can be found at this page.

• What are cookies
• Types of cookies
• Cookies used by this website
• Manage cookies
• Matomo opt-out

What are cookies

Most websites you visit use cookies. Cookies are small text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Further information about what cookies are can be found on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

Types of cookies

The Italian Data Protection Authority broadly divides cookies into different categories depending on their use and on who sends (sets) the cookie.

1. Technical cookies

Technical cookies are cookies necessary for website navigation or to provide the services offered by the website. They are not used for ulterior purposes.

To quote the Italian Data Protection Authority,

Technical cookies are those used exclusively with a view to "carrying out the transmission of a communication on an electronic communications network, or insofar as this is strictly necessary to the provider of an information society service that has been explicitly requested by the contracting party or user to provide the said service."

2. Profiling cookies

Profiling cookies are cookies used to track user navigation and create a profile of their habits which can then be used to send advertising messages to the user's device.
Once again quoting the Italian Data Protection Authority,

Profiling cookies are aimed at creating user profiles. They are used to send ads messages in line with the preferences shown by the user during navigation. In the light of the highly invasive nature of these cookies vis-à-vis users' private sphere, Italian and European legislation requires users to be informed appropriately on their use so as to give their valid consent.

Cookies can also be categorized into first party and third party cookies depending on who sets the cookie.

3. First party cookies

These are set directly by the website that you are visiting and can only be accessed by that site.

4. Third party cookies

Third party cookies are set by a different organisation to the owner of the website you are visiting. For example, the website might use a third party analytics company who will set their own cookie to perform this service. The website you are visiting may also contain content embedded from, for example YouTube or Flickr, and these sites may set their own cookies.

Cookies used by this website

This website uses technical cookies from drupal, matomo e youtube as indicated below.

Drupal: the technical platform used by this site. Drupal uses the following first party technical cookie to enable the website to function correctly:

Matomo: like many websites we collect analytic data to help improve the services offered to users. We use Matomo (https://matomo.org) an open source alternative to Google Analytics which has the advantage that any data collected is stored as aggregated data on servers owned by us and not transferred to third parties. Matomo uses the following first party technical cookies:

Youtube: used to provide video content. Youtube uses the following third party technical cookies:

See the Google Privacy Policy - https://policies.google.com/privacy for further details.  

Manage cookies

You can manage cookies by modifying your web browser preferences (see the following paragraph for more details of how to do this). Typically you can accept or reject cookies or ask to be notified when a cookie is set. Please remember if you choose to block cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of this website. If you do wish to restrict or block cookies which are set on your device then you can do this through your web browser settings (the help function within your browser should tell you how). You can also visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of web browsers.

Contact Details

If you have any questions regarding our cookie policy we will gladly answer them. You can contact us at:

SISSA Medialab s.r.l.
info@medialab.sissa.it
Via Bonomea, 265
34136 Trieste - Italy
Phone +39 040 3787 620

This cookie policy was last updated in December 2022