Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

As most websites do, we sometimes place small data files called cookies on your device. A cookie is a small piece of data that a website asks your browser to store on your computer or mobile device. Websites have no “memory”, and cookies allow them to “remember” your actions or preferences (such as login, language, and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Websites mainly use cookies to:

• Identify users (check if the user is a recurring visitor or a first-timer, separate human users from search-engines…).
• Remember users’ custom preferences (such as language, font-size…).
• Help users complete tasks without having to re-enter information when browsing from one page to another or when visiting the site later.
• Collect behavioural information in order to evaluate the user’s experience and make improvements to the website.
• Collect behavioural information in order to show relevant adverts for the user.

Most browsers support cookies, but users can set their browsers to decline them and can delete them whenever they like.

Types of cookies

A cookie can be classified by its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.

By lifespan, a cookie is either a:

• Session cookie: It’s stored in the user’s computer/device temporary memory, and not in its hard drive. It’s erased when the user closes the browser.
• Persistent cookie: It’s stored in the user’s computer/device hard drive, and remains there for a pre-defined period of time.

As for the domain to which it belongs, there are either:

• First-party cookies: They are set by the same domain of the visited page. Most cookies are first-party cookies.
• Third-party cookies: They are stored by a different domain to the visited page’s domain. This can happen when the website references a service located outside its domain, for example when they include a Twitter widget or use an external mechanism for comments such as Facebook or Disqus. Another common use for third-party cookies are remarketing strategies, when the user is shown adverts relevant to past searches and visits.

How do we use cookies?

• We won’t use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
• Cookies will not be used for any purpose other than the one stated in the list below.
• Some of the features on our site may not work if you disable cookies.

This is the list of cookies used at our site:

Cookie	Type	Lifespan	Description
_ga	Function: Behavioral analytics Persistent: Yes Domain: First-party	2 years	Set by: Google Analytics, a tool that provides metrics of how users interact with the website contents. It helps website owners to come with improvements for their site. Details: This cookie is used to distinguish the user from other visitors when it enters the website. It doesn’t collect any personal data that helps to personally identify the visitor, such as name, telephone or phisical address, except for the IP address to provide website owners a sense of where in the world their visitors come from. This kind of geolocation is imprecise and it cannot be used to track down a user.
_gat	Function: Behavioral analytics Persistent: Yes Domain: First-party	10 minutes	Set by: Google Analytics, a tool that provides metrics of how users interact with the website contents. It helps website owners to come with improvements for their site. Details: Used to throttle request rate.
viewed_cookie_policy	Function: Technical Persistent: Yes Domain: First-party	1 year	Set by: Cookie Law Info, a WordPress plugin that helps comply with the EU cookie directives. Details: Stores that the user has accepted the cookie policy, thus hiding the warning about the use of cookies from those users who have accepted the cookie policy.
wfvt_*	Function: Security Analytics Persistent: Yes Domain: First-party	30 minutes	Set by: Live Traffic function from Wordfence, a WordPress security plugin. Domain: Used to track a user for the duration of their visit in order to group their page views together. It allows to use the Live Traffic option from Wordfence to determine if there’s any suspicious activity happening.
wordfence_verifiedHumans	Function: Security Analytics Persistent: Yes Domain: First-party	24 hours	Set by: Live Traffic function from Wordfence, a WordPress security plugin. Details: Used to separate human visitors from bots on the Live Traffic option from Wordfence.
_icl_current_language	Function: Technical Persistent: Yes Domain: First-party	24 hours	Set by: WPML, a WordPress multilingual plugin. Details: Stores the language selected by the user to display the website.

How to disable and delete cookies

You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

We cannot provide accurate instructions for every browser, as they get updated frequently and the instructions would soon become obsolete. As a general rule:

1. Open the browser’s main menu. It is usually located under a button with a gear icon () or menu icon ().
2. Look for an option called Tools, Configuration or Settings.
3. Inside the Tools/Configuration/Settings window, search for a tab called Privacy or Security. It may be under a Advanced Options tab.
4. Cookie configuration settings should be in there.
5. If you cannot locate your browser’s cookie configuration settings, usually a Google search featuring “delete cookies (your browser name)” or “block cookies (your browser name)” throws accurate instructions in the few first results.

Cookie policy acceptance

This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. By continuing to use this site without changing your browser settings, you implicitly consent to our use of cookies. You can change your browser settings to delete and automatically block cookies at any time.