GPS Mele utilizes "cookies". Cookies allow you to customize your experience on the website. They allow us also to evaluate the quality obtained by the search engine services

The most popular browser requires you to block cookies, in which case it will still be possible to use GPS Mele while giving up some features. The cookies used by GPS Mele have been categorized according to the guidelines selected by the UK ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) Cookie’s Guide. GPS Mele uses the following categories:

Category 1

Cookies which are useful to improve the user experience.

These cookies are the basis of some GPS features. Without cookies, it would not be possible to provide functionality, such as contacting the agency without re-entering your contacts.

Category 2

Cookies for performance analysis

These cookies collect information on how to use our search engine, for example which searches you do most often: this is data that improves our service by making it easier and more comfortable. These cookies do not collect personal information that identifies you: all the data collected is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

Category 3

Functionality analysis cookies

Thanks to these cookies, GPS Mele can remember the choices you make while browsing. For example, we have stored your contacts after the first time you enter them to make it more convenient to contact the agencies. These cookies do not collect information on personal and unregistered identifiers about your activities related to other websites.

FAQ BASED ON REGULATIONS

Pursuant to article 13 of Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Law that refers to the protection of personal data) Mele Fashion S.r.l. provides the following information relating to the cookies installed on the domain www.gpsmele.it.

1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies are text strings created by a server and stored on the computer's hard disk or on any device used by the user to access the Internet (smart phone, tablet) and then get retransmitted on subsequent user accesses to the Internet.

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES FOR?

Cookies allow us to collect information on the browsing effectuated by the user on the website. Cookies can be stored permanently on your computer and have a variable duration (so-called persistent cookies), but they can also disappear when the browser is closed or have a limited duration (so-called session cookies). Cookies can be installed by the site you are visiting (so-called first-party cookies) or they can be installed by other websites (so-called third-party cookies).

3. WHAT ARE "TECHNICAL" COOKIES?

These are cookies that are used to browse or provide a service requested by the user. They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the website owner. Without the use of these cookies, some operations could not be performed or would be more complex and/or less secure, such as home banking activities (display of the bank statement, wire transfers, bills’ payment, etc.). For those reasons those cookies, that allow you to make and maintain user identification during the session, are essential.

4. ARE ANALYTICS COOKIES "TECHNICAL" COOKIES?

No. The Guarantor (see the provision of May 8th, 2014) has specified that they can be assimilated to technical cookies only if used for the purpose of optimizing the site directly by the owner of the site who, in turn, will be able to collect information in an aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the site. Under these conditions, the same rules apply to cookie analytics, in terms of information and consent, provided for technical cookies.

5. WHAT ARE "PROFILING" COOKIES?

These are the cookies used to track the user's browsing on the net and create profiles on his tastes, habits, choices, etc. With these cookies, advertising messages can be transmitted to the user's terminal in line with the preferences already expressed by the same user while browsing online.

6. IS YOUR CONSENT NECESSARY FOR THE INSTALLATION OF COOKIES ON YOUR TERMINAL?

It depends on the purposes for which cookies are used and, therefore, if they are "technical" or "profiling" cookies. For the installation of technical cookies, users' consent is not required, while it is necessary to provide the information (art.13 of the Privacy Code). Profiling cookies, on the other hand, can be installed on the user's terminal only if the latter has given his consent after being informed in simplified ways.

7. HOW SHOULD THE OWNER OF THE SITE PROVIDE SIMPLIFIED INFORMATION AND REQUIRE CONSENT TO THE USE OF PROFILING COOKIES?

As established by the Guarantor in the provision indicated in question no. 4, the information must be set on two levels: when the user accesses a website (on the home page or on any other page) a banner must immediately appear containing a first "brief" information, the request for consent to the use of cookies and a link to access to a more "extended" information. On this page, the user can find more and more detailed information on cookies and choose which specific cookies to authorize.

8. HOW MUST THE BANNER BE MADE?

The banner must be large enough to partially cover the content of the web page that the user is visiting. It must be able to be eliminated only through active user intervention, i.e. by selecting an element contained on the page below.

9. WHAT INFORMATION MUST THE BANNER CONTAIN?

The banner must specify that the site uses profiling cookies, possibly also from "third parties", which allow to send advertising messages in line with the user's preferences. It must contain the link to the extended information and the indication that, through that link, it is possible to deny consent to the installation of any cookie. He must specify that if the user chooses to continue by "skipping" the banner, he agrees to the use of cookies.

10.HOW CAN THE ACQUISITION OF CONSENT MADE THROUGH THE USE OF THE BANNER BE DOCUMENTED?

To keep track of the acquired consent, the site owner can use a special technical cookie, a system that is not particularly invasive and which, in turn, does not require further consent. In the presence of such "documentation", it is not necessary for the short information to be repeated on the user's second visit to the site, without prejudice to the possibility for the latter to refuse consent and/or modify, at any time and in an easy manner, users’ options, for example through access to the extended information, which must therefore be linked to from every page of the site.

11.CAN THE ONLINE CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES BE REQUESTED THROUGH THE USE OF THE BANNER?

No. sites’ owners have always the possibility to use methods other than the one identified by the Guarantor in the aforementioned provision, provided that the chosen methods conform to all requirements of the consent required by the law.

12. IS THE OBLIGATION TO USE THE BANNER APPLICABLE EVEN ON SITES’ OWNERS THAT USE ONLY TECHNICAL COOKIES?

No. In this case, the site’s owner can provide information to users in the manner he considers most suitable - For example by adding the relevant indications in the privacy policy published on the site.

13. WHAT MUST THE "EXTENDED" NOTICE INDICATE?

It must contain all the elements required by law and analytically describe the characteristics and purposes of the cookies installed by the site and allow the user to select/unselect individual cookies. It must include the updated link to the information and consent forms of the third parties with which the owner has entered into agreements for the installation of cookies through its website. Finally, it must recall the possibility for the user to express their options on cookies also through the setting of the used browser.

14. WHO IS REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION AND TO REQUEST CONSENT FOR THE USE OF COOKIES?

The website’s owner who installs profiling cookies. For third-party cookies installed through the site, the disclosure and consent obligations are imposed on third parties, but the owner of the site, as a technical intermediary between them and users, is required to insert the updated links, in the "extended" section, to the information and consent forms inherent to third parties themselves.

15. THE USE OF COOKIES MUST BE NOTIFIED TO THE GUARANTOR?

Profiling cookies, which usually persist over time, are subject to the notification obligation while cookies that have different purposes and fall into the category of technical cookies, must not be notified to the Guarantor.

16. WHEN DO THE MEASURES PRESCRIBED BY THE GUARANTOR COME TO FORCE WITH MA 8H, 2014 PROVISIONS?

The Guarantor has foreseen a transitional period of one year from the provision publication date in the Official Journal to allow concerned parties to comply. This period ended on June 2, 2015.

COOKIES AND PRIVACY

Cookies allow us to collect information on the browsing made by the user on the website. Cookies can be stored permanently on your computer and have a variable duration (so-called persistent cookies), but they can also disappear when the browser is closed or have a limited duration (so-called session cookies). Cookies can be installed by the site you are visiting (so-called first-party cookies) or they can be installed by other websites (so-called third-party cookies). Given the particular invasiveness that profiling cookies (especially those from third parties) may have within the private sphere of users, European and Italian regulations provide that the user must be adequately informed on the use of the same and express their valid consent to the insertion of cookies on their terminals. In particular, with the provision "Identification of simplified procedures for the information and the acquisition of consent for the use of cookies" of May 8th, 2014 [web doc n. 3118884] the Guarantor for the personal data protection has established that when accessing the home page or another page of a website that uses cookies for profiling and marketing purposes, a clearly visible banner must immediately appear, in which should be clearly indicated:

• That the site uses profiling cookies to send targeted advertising messages;

• That the site also allows the use of "third party" cookies. Such as cookies installed by a different site through the site you are visiting;

• The presence of a link to a more detailed and extended information along with indications on the use of cookies sent by the site and where it would be possible to deny consent to their installation directly or by connecting to the various sites in the case of "third party" cookies;

• That by continuing to browse (e.g. by accessing another area of ​​the site or selecting an image or a link) you consent to the use of cookies.

Source: Guarantor for the protection of personal data.