Il Privacy Guarantor with provision dated 8 May 2014 it implemented, with definitive entry into force in Italy starting from 2 June 2015, the European directive 2009/136/EC which requires web page administrators to publish information on the cookie policy of the site that visitors are browsing.
This Policy can be updated at any time due to changes in current legislation or for any change in the configuration and type of cookies used, therefore we suggest that you periodically view this cookie policy in order to find out about all subsequent updates to it.
The Site may contain links to other Web sites that have their own privacy policy which may be different from the one adopted by the SEO-positioning of the Site and which therefore is not responsible for these sites.
What are cookies and how they are used
Cookies are short strings of information (text files) regarding the user's activity on the website, which are memorized, during the first navigation on the website, on the device (computer, smartphone or tablet) of the user browsing internet, to then be retransmitted to the same sites on a possible subsequent visit by the same user, allowing our site to automatically recognize the user (or other users who use the same tool) after the first visit and therefore improve their user experience.
Their functioning is totally dependent on the navigation browser that the user uses and they can be enabled or not by the user himself.
In order to always guarantee the best navigation possible, our site offers the best performance with cookies enabled. By default, almost all web browsers are set to automatically accept cookies.
Cookies can be:
- "first party" when they are managed directly by the website manager;
- "third party" when cookies are set up and managed by managers unrelated to the website visited by the user.
Third-party cookies fall under the direct and exclusive responsibility of the manager himself, and in relation to their installation, the manager of the first-party site assumes the mere role of technical intermediary.
Which cookies we use and for what purpose
The Site uses or may use, also in combination with each other, the following categories of cookies:
- Permanent or “persistent” cookies: these cookies remain stored on the device even after leaving the website or in any case closing the browser: in particular, they remain until their expected expiry or until they are manually deleted by the user. Persistent cookies fulfill many functions in the interest of surfers (such as password storage), however in some cases they can also be used for promotional purposes.
- Session (or temporary) cookies: They have a limited duration for the visit and are deleted when the browser is closed, which ends the "session" for accessing the website. As a rule, they allow the user to access personalized services and to take full advantage of the site's functions, avoiding the use of other IT techniques that could potentially compromise the privacy of users' browsing.
- Technical-functional cookies, for example for the transmission of session identifiers necessary to allow safe and efficient exploration of the site. These cookies avoid the use of other IT techniques potentially prejudicial to the privacy of users' browsing.
For the use of technical cookies, the law requires the mere release of the information to the interested party, as occurs with this communication, i.e. also without the creation of specific banners on the Site.
For all non-technical cookies, on the other hand, the legislation in force subordinates their installation to the manifestation of prior consent in the simplified forms provided for by the Provision of 8.5.2014 of the Guarantor, i.e. through the publication of a synthetic banner that can be viewed by the user upon first "landing" on the site and which allows to generate a further use action of the Site (based on the "scroll", or on the continuation of navigation within the same web page) with which the user can implicitly communicate his consent, or, alternatively, to access an analytical cookie information (i.e. this information), within which you can express your necessary consent or dissent. This consent or not can be formulated by the user not with reference to the individual cookies installed but in relation to broader categories of cookies, or to specific producers and/or intermediaries with which the Site has established commercial relations.
- Analysis cookies (so-called "analytics"): these cookies can be both temporary and permanent, and allow for the collection and analysis of aggregated and/or disaggregated statistical information relating to accesses (e.g. geographical area of origin of the user, access tool used, age, etc.) and in general to the behavior of users on the site and therefore to improve the experience and the content provided.
These analytical cookies can be assimilated to technical cookies only if they are created and used directly by the first-party site (without, therefore, the intervention of third parties). For example, the site makes use of log files (that is, it records the history of operations as they are performed) and log files (which include IP addresses, browser type, operating system used by the user's device, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date, time, entry and exit page and the number of clicks, but also the pages visited on the site, the third party sites from which the user comes). All this to analyze user behavior trends and administer and optimize the site. The information collected in this way has no personal value as the data is collected and analyzed anonymously.
However, if analytical cookies are created and/or used by third parties (i.e. different from the owner of the first-party site), they cannot be assimilated to technical cookies and have a different legal treatment.
- "Profiling" (or advertising) cookies (always permanent). they are used to obtain information, aggregate or otherwise, useful for evaluating the use of the website and the activities carried out by the visitor (choice of viewing specific pages, specific products and/or services, etc.), used by the owner for the formulation of targeted commercial advertisements for products and/or services, i.e. based on the user's previous activities (instead of the generalist ones offered without distinction to all).
List of cookies actually present on the website
The aforementioned premise does not automatically imply that this website currently uses all the categories of cookies indicated above. The list of cookies actually used by HOTELTURIST is indicated below.
Cookie name |
Session/permanent |
Function (technical, analytical, advertising) |
Duration (if permanent and if not deleted first by the user himself) |
_gat_UA-52126534-11 |
session |
analytical |
1 minute |
_ga |
permanent bases |
analytical |
two years |
_gid |
session |
analytical |
24 hours |
fr |
permanent bases |
analytical |
3 months |
mktz_client |
permanent bases |
analytical |
two years |
mktz_sess |
session |
analytical |
24 hours |
cookie_notice_accepted |
permanent bases |
analytical |
1 month |
The Site also uses Google Analytics cookies (Google Inc. cookies, which is an American company, third party). We specify that through the functions of Google Analytics no strictly personal information is collected, but, only in aggregate statistical form, data on the age, gender, and preferences of interest of our visitors (for the purpose of better evaluating the use of the our website and the activities carried out by the visitor and to better target the services provided). These cookies are stored on servers that can be located in the United States or in other countries. Google reserves the right to transfer the information collected with its cookie to third parties where this is required by law or where the third party processes information on its behalf.
The "Analytics" function is in any case configured by HOTELTURIST, by default, in such a way as to significantly mask portions of the user/visitor's IP address, and therefore the data relating to the IP address thus collected is already anonymized at 'origin and therefore the analytical cookie does not allow to trace even indirectly - and in particular through further processing - the identity of the user / visitor. For this reason, HOTELTURIST, which from time to time is the manager of the site, is not even required by law to comply with the obligations and fulfilments provided for by the legislation on cookies (for example, notification of the processing of cookies to the Privacy Guarantor). The user can always disable Google analytics cookies, using a special add-on made available by Google, at the following link.
In the event that HOTELTURIST decides in the future to modify the configuration of the "Analytics" function at any time in such a way as to allow the collection of data relating to the user consisting of the last three numbers that make up the IP address of the same, such the choice must be notified in advance to the Privacy Guarantor by the data controller operated through the portal or site, to protect the user.
We inform you that Google also ensures, as of now, in turn, not to associate the user's IP address with any other data held by Google in order to obtain a more detailed user profile.
No named profiling cookies are used on this site, i.e. based on personal identification data.
Our site use remarketing lists and ads from the display network, i.e. online advertisements based on categories of general interests expressed by categories of users through previous web browsing.
Stopping the generality of the foregoing, our site have used the specials Google Analytics Advertising Features, which allow you to activate additional features not available through the standard implementations of Google Analytics and related cookies.
These advertising features also allow for the collection of traffic data (through Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers) in addition to the data normally already collected by us through a standard implementation of Google Analytics. The advertising features of Google Analytics are as follows:
- Remarketing with Google Analytics
- Google Display Network impression reporting (when used through AdWords)
- Integrations with the DoubleClick platform
- Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reports
- Social cookies: these cookies are from third parties, i.e. connected to services provided directly from the domains of the most common social media networks that are connected to our website. Site via links to official pages, content sharing buttons and links. The use of these buttons and features implies the exchange of information (eg texts, photographs, videos, etc.) with these sites. In the event that a social service is installed, even if the Users do not use the service, the same collects traffic data relating to the pages in which it is installed.
- Like button and social widgets for Facebook (Facebook, Inc.)
- Click "Like" Facebook and social widgets are services of interaction with the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook, Inc.
- Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage Data.
- Place of treatment: USA
- Tweet button and social widgets to Twitter (Twitter, Inc.)
- The Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are interactive services with the social network Twitter, provided by Twitter, Inc.
- Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage Data.
- Place of treatment: USA
- 1 + button and Google+ social widgets (Google Inc.)
- The + 1 and Google+ social widgets are interactive services with the Google+ social network, provided by Google Inc.
- Personal data collected: Cookie and Usage Data.
- Place of treatment: USA
The management of information and the methods for deleting these social cookies is regulated by the social media sites themselves: the user is invited to consult the respective privacy policies of each of them, at the following Left:
o Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ or https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
o Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/it/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies or https://twitter.com/it/privacy
or YouTube: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/types/
or Pinterest: https://policy.pinterest.com/it/privacy-policy
or Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
or Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=uno-reg-guest-home-privacy-policy
or Google+: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it
The use of these cookies is of a purely anonymous nature, no personal information is collected unless the user intends to provide it explicitly by sending contact forms and/or information request forms.
Further information on privacy and the use of social cookies can be found directly on the websites of the respective third-party managers.
How cookies work and how to disable them
Accepting or rejecting cookies is your right
By default, browsers generally accept the use of cookies both from our site and from third party sites. To allow the site to function properly, take advantage of its features and use it in its entirety, we recommend that you accept the use of cookies.
However, the user is enabled to modify the predefined (default) configuration at any time. To manage the operating modes of cookies, as well as the options to limit or block cookies, it is in fact sufficient for the user to change the settings of his Internet browser via the relative toolbar. It is possible to choose between the unconditional acceptance of all cookies (in particular: by navigating in any form on our site after the initial appearance on the screen of the synthetic banner that warns you of the presence of cookies on our website, you implicitly consent to the use of cookies), the indistinct refusal of all cookies definitively, or the display of a popup window (Notice) each time a cookie is proposed, in order to be able to evaluate whether or not to accept it through an explicit action by of the user.
Below are the links for configuring the most popular browsers that describe how to manage cookies:
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=it
– Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie
– Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
- Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html
– Safari: https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT201265
To change the cookie settings in browsers other than those listed, refer to the help documentation prepared by the manufacturer of the specific browser.
The user can also selectively disable the action of Google Analytics by downloading and installing on his browser the additional opt-out component specifically provided by Google for his browser, at the following link:
– http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Remember that you must set cookie preferences for each device and each browser used to navigate the internet.
For any further information relating to Google Analytics, please refer to the Privacy Policy at the following link:
– http://www.google.com/intl/it_ALL/analytics/learn/privacy.html
To delete cookies from the Internet browser of your smartphone / tablet, it is necessary to refer to the user manual of the device.
For more information on cookies and privacy, we invite you to consult the appropriate document prepared by the Privacy Guarantor at the following link:
– http://www.garanteprivacy.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/2142939