processes

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This site uses different types of cookies:
- Anonymous cookies that permit the user to browse the site, using its functions and accessing secure areas.
- Anonymous cookies aimed at assessing site efficaciousness and improving it: these cookies gather information on how users use the site (for ex., the most visited pages, the page the user came from, number of error messages, etc.), and are only used in an aggregate form. An example of this type are web analytics cookies.
- Anonymous cookies that enable the site to save visitors’ preferences and choices in order to facilitate their navigation in future visits (automatic authentication, language, location, etc.).

The information gathered with these cookies cannot be used in any case for marketing or user profiling for advertising and commercial purposes.
In addition: third party cookies that can, on the contrary, collect information on the user in an individual form and not anonymously because they are related, for example, to personal profiles (examples are widget of Facebook, twitter, YouTube, google plus, etc.). If you do not want to allow the site to send cookies to your device, you can refuse the use of cookies by using the options and settings of your browser.