Cookies are small text files that are sent to the user's terminal equipment (usually to the user's browser) by visited websites; they are stored in the user's terminal equipment to be then re-transmitted to the websites on the user's subsequent visits to those websites. When navigating a website, a user may happen to receive cookies from other websites or web servers, which are the so-called "third party" cookies. This happens because the visited website may contain items such as images, maps, sound files, links to individual web pages on different domains that are located on servers other than the one where the page being visited is stored.
Cookies are present as a rule in substantial numbers in each user's browser and at times they remain stored for long. They are used for several purposes ranging from IT authentication to the monitoring of browsing sessions up to the storage of specific information on user configurations in accessing a given server, and so on.
In order to appropriately regulate these devices, it is necessary to distinguish them by having regard to the purposes sought by the entities relying on them, as there are no technical features that allow differentiating them. From this standpoint and for the purposes of this decision, cookies may be distinguished into two major group: "technical" cookies and "profiling" cookies.
Cookies may however be eliminated with specific procedures in each browser.
An additional element to be taken into account in order to put this issue against the appropriate backdrop has to do with the entities involved. That is to say, account should be taken of the entity installing cookies on the user's terminal, which may be the manager of the website visited by the user – which can be referred to as the "publisher" for the sake of convenience – or the manager of another website that installs the cookies by way of the former – which is a so-called "third party".
Publisher cookies, are usually created and read by the site who created them. Third party cookies, are created and read by external domains and data are stored by third party.
The main browsers allow you to choose whether to enable or disable the use of Cookies.
Below are the links with the procedures provided by main browser for disabling cookies:
Cookie - 1 | Value |
Technical Name | ffdbd13d96d903c026c4876e97eb63a4 |
Cookie Type | Technical Cookie |
Cookie Detail | Navigation/Session Cookie |
Cookie Purpose | Browsing session |
Installing Entity | Publisher |
Expiration | At the end of the session |
Domain | ecoforcity.com/ |
Service | Eco for city srl Web |
Cookie - 2 | Value |
Technical Name | _ga |
Cookie Type | Technical Cookie - assimilated |
Cookie Detail | Cookie Analytics |
Cookie Purpose | Website visit stats |
Installing Entity | Third party |
Expiration | 2 years |
Domain | ecoforcity.com/ |
Service |
Cookie - 3 | Value |
Technical Name | _gat |
Cookie Type | Technical Cookie - assimilated |
Cookie Detail | Cookie Analytics |
Cookie Purpose | Website visit stats |
Installing Entity | Third party |
Expiration | 10 minutes |
Domain | ecoforcity.com/ |
Service |
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