Cookie Policy

1) Definition of "cookie"

Cookies are short fragments of text (letters and/or numbers) that allow the web server to store on the client (the browser, e.g. Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox, Opera…) information to be reused during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even days afterwards (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, according to the user's preferences, by the individual browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Similar technologies, such as web beacons, transparent GIFs and all forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, can be used to collect information on the user's behaviour and on the use of the services.

A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from the user's hard disk, nor transmit computer viruses or acquire e-mail addresses. Each cookie is unique to the user's web browser. Some cookie functions may be delegated to other technologies. The term "cookie" is used to refer to cookies and all similar technologies.

Depending on their characteristics and use, various types of cookie can be distinguished:

• Strictly necessary technical cookies. These are cookies that are essential for the correct functioning of a website and are used to manage various services connected to websites (such as, for example, a login or access to reserved functions on sites). The duration of the cookies is strictly limited to the working session, or they may use a longer persistence time in order to remember the visitor's choices. Disabling strictly necessary cookies may impair the use and browsing experience of the website.
• Analytics and performance cookies. These are cookies used to collect and analyse the traffic and use of a website anonymously. These cookies, while not identifying the user, allow, for example, detecting whether the same user reconnects at different times. They also allow monitoring of the system and improving its performance and usability. Disabling these cookies can be done without any loss of functionality.
• Profiling cookies (not active on this Site). These are permanent cookies used to identify (anonymously or not) the user's preferences and improve their browsing experience. For more information on these cookies not used by the Website, we invite you to visit the dedicated section on the site www.garanteprivacy.it/cookie.

Purpose of processing and aims of technical session cookies

The cookies used on AF (Acquisizioni Forensi) have the sole purpose of performing computer authentication or session monitoring and storing specific technical information concerning users who access the servers of the Data Controller that manages the Site. In this respect, some operations on the Site could not be carried out without the use of cookies, which in such cases are therefore technically necessary. By way of example, access to any reserved areas of the Site and the activities that can be carried out there would be much more complex to perform and less secure without the presence of cookies that allow the user to be identified and to maintain that identification within the session.

Technical cookies may be used even in the absence of the data subject's consent. Among other things, the same European body that brings together all the Data Protection Authorities of the various Member States (the so-called "Article 29" Working Party) clarified in Opinion 4/2012 (WP194) entitled "Cookie consent exemption" that the following are cookies for which it is not necessary to obtain the user's prior and informed consent:

• cookies with user-input data (session identifier), lasting a session, or persistent cookies limited to a few hours in certain cases;
• authentication cookies, used for the purposes of authenticated services, lasting a session;
• user-centric security cookies, used to detect authentication abuses, for a limited persistent duration;
• multimedia player session cookies, such as "flash" player cookies, lasting a session;
• load-balancing session cookies, lasting a session;
• persistent cookies for user interface customisation, lasting a session (or slightly more);
• cookies for content sharing via third-party social plug-ins, for members of a social network who have logged in.

2) Acquisizioni Forensi's cookies

The Data Controller therefore informs that only technical cookies (such as those listed above) are active on the Site, necessary to browse within the Site since they enable essential functions such as authentication, validation, management of a browsing session and fraud prevention, and allow, for example: to identify whether the user has properly accessed the areas of the site that require prior authentication, or user validation and the management of sessions relating to the various services and applications, or the retention of data for secure access, or the functions of fraud control and prevention.

The Data Controller, using only technical cookies on the AF site, is not obliged to obtain consent for their operation. Disabling them would make it impossible to browse correctly in the areas subject to authentication, with the consequent impossibility of using the services, pages, functionalities or content available therein.

3) Third-party cookies

AF does not use third-party cookies within the platform.

For information regarding the Data Controller, please refer to the Privacy policy page.

Last revised: 17 June 2025.