Cookie Policy - West of Sicily

Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy complements and completes the Privacy Policy.
The Data Controller is the Distretto Turistico Sicilia Occidentale based in Trapani (TP), Via Mafalda Savoia, 26; tel.: +39 (0)923 873803 and email address: [email protected] (“Distretto Turistico Sicilia Occidentale“).
By connecting to the website for the first time (hereinafter the “Website”), the user will see a brief notice on the use of cookies.

1. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file that is sent to the browser and saved on the user’s terminal (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when the latter visits a website. Cookies can be used for different purposes such as, for example, for storing preferences, for computer authentication, etc.

2. What types of cookies does this site use?

The Distretto Turistico Sicilia Occidentale hereby states that this Website uses the types of cookies described below, including in combination with each other, classified on the basis of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (so-called GDPR), the Provisions and Indications of the Guarantor Authority for the protection of Personal Data and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

Technical or Browser Cookies:
These are cookies that are essential for allowing the transmission of a communication on the electronic communication network and the use of the requested services. In the absence of these,  browsing the Website may not work or may be less secure. Therefore, storing them does not require the prior consent of the user accessing the Website.

Statistical or third-party analytics cookies:
These are the cookies used to collect information, in aggregate and strictly anonymous form, for internal research on the number of users and how they visit the website, and their aim is solely to improve the service for users and to optimise and improve the Website itself. They are stored in the user’s device by different subjects (so-called “Third Parties”) and require the prior consent of the user accessing the Website.

Third-party profiling cookies:
These are cookies used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user. These cookies are stored in the user’s device by Third Parties. Their storage in the device requires the consent of the user accessing the Website. The user is free to refuse the storage of all Profiling Cookies through the banner displayed on the first visit to the Website. It should be noted that the management of the information collected by third parties is governed by the relevant information notices of the third party websites, to which reference should be made.

The technical cookies used by the Distretto Turistico Sicilia Occidentale are as follows:

Name: Cache-sprite-plyr
Purpose of the cookie: Used to optimise the response between the user and the website
Duration: Permanent

Name: Plyr
Purpose of the cookie: Utilizzato per l’implementazione dei contenuti video
Duration: Permanent

 

Statistical cookies owned by third-party companies:

Third-party companies: Google
Name: _ga
Purpose of the cookie: Used to statistically determine how many visitors visit the website
Duration: 2 years
Informativa: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: Google
Name: _gat
Purpose of the cookie: Used to statistically determine how many visitors visit the website
Duration: 1 day
Informativa: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: Google
Name: _gid
Purpose of the cookie: Used to statistically determine how many visitors visit the website
Duration: 1 day
Informativa: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

 

Statistical cookies owned by third-party companies:

Third-party companies: Facebook
Name: _fbp
Purpose of the cookie: Used for the promotion of products and services based on the interests expressed through internet browsing
Duration: 3 months
Disclosure: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies

Third-party companies: Facebook
Name: _fr
Purpose of the cookie: Used for the promotion of products and services based on the interests expressed through internet browsing
Duration: 3 months
Disclosure: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies

Third-party companies: Facebook
Name: _tr
Purpose of the cookie: Used for the promotion of products and services based on the interests expressed through internet browsing
Duration: 3 months
Disclosure: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies

Third-party companies: Google
Name: IDE
Purpose of the cookie: Used for the promotion of products and services based on the interests expressed through internet browsing
Duration: 1 year
Disclosure: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: Google
Name: Test_cookie
Purpose of the cookie: Used to check that the user’s browser supports cookies
Duration: 1 day
Disclosure: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: YouTube
Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose of the cookie: Used to estimate user bandwidth on pages with embedded videos
Duration: 179 days
Disclosure: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: YouTube
Name: YSC
Purpose of the cookie: Used to statistically evaluate which videos the user has viewed
Duration: session
Disclosure: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: YouTube
Name: yt.innertube::nextld
Purpose of the cookie: Used to statistically evaluate which videos the user has viewed
Duration: permanent
Disclosure: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

Third-party companies: YouTube
Name: yt.innertube::requests
Purpose of the cookie: Used to statistically evaluate which videos the user has viewed
Duration: permanent
Disclosure: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=it

 

3. Management and deletion of cookies through browser settings

The user accessing the Website may at any time delete or disable any Cookie directly through the provided functions and settings of the browser used in their device.
The following are the methods offered by the main browsers to allow users to express their options regarding the use of cookies:

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies#ie=ie-11
Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it
Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie
Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=it_IT