Cookies

COOKIE POLICY

The AgroFossilFree uses cookies to improve our service and enhance your browsing experience. We want to inform you clearly and precisely on the cookies we use, providing detailed information on what a cookie is, what it is used for, what types of cookies we use, their purpose and how you can manage or disable them if you so wish.

What is a cookie and what is it used for?

A cookie is a small file that is stored in the user’s computer, Tablet, Smartphone or any other device containing browsing information.

Cookies allow us to improve the quality of our website, to monitor which pages are useful and which are not, and which have room for improvement.

Cookies are essential for the running of our website, enhancing the provision of interactive services, making your browsing experience easier and increasing the usability of our website.

Cookies can never damage your equipment. Quite on the contrary, enabling your cookies will help us identify and correct errors.

What types of cookies do we use?

According to the organization who installs and manages them:

• First-party or proprietary cookies: These cookies are sent to your browser from our own equipment or domains – from which we provide the service you request from us.
• Third party cookies: These cookies are sent to your browser from an equipment or domain not managed by us but by a collaborating organization, such as cookies from social media websites or those used in external content by Google Maps.

Depending on the time they remain activated:

• Session cookies: These cookies are temporary cookies that stay on your browser’s cookie folder until you leave the website, so none of them stays in your computer’s hard drive. The information obtained by these cookies is used to analyze traffic habits. In the long run, they allow us to enhance your browsing experience, improve our contents and make it easier for you to use our website.
• Persistent cookies: These cookies are stored in your hard drive and our website reads them every time you visit us. Permanent websites have a specific expiry date, so the cookie will stop working after such date. These cookies are generally used to facilitate purchases and access through registration.

According to their purpose:

• Technical cookies: These cookies are necessary for you to browse and for the good running of our website. They allow, for instance, to monitor the traffic and communication of data, to access restricted areas, to complete purchases, to use security elements, to store contents to share videos or to share contents over social media websites.
• Functionality cookies: These cookies allow you to access the service with some predefined features according to a series of criteria, such as language, type of browser used to access the service, regional settings, etc.
• Analytic cookies: These cookies enable us to quantify the number of users accessing the website, and to measure and conduct statistical analysis on the use of the services provided.
• For that purpose, the browsing in the website is analyzed, in order to improve the offer of products and services provided.
• Advertising cookies: These cookies allow to manage in the most efficient way the advertising spaces that may be included in our website.
• Behavioural advertising cookies: These cookies store information about the behaviour of users obtained through continuous observation. They allow us to identify browsing habits and to display advertising that is relevant to your browsing profile.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., a Delaware company whose main office is 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

List of cookies used and specifications

- Cookie name: XSRF-TOKEN   

  Host: platform.agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: Protection of forms sent by the user

- Cookie name: agrofossilfree_platform_session

  Host: platform.agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: enables websites to store serialized state data

- Cookie name: _gid

  Host: .agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: Google Analytics: stores and updates a unique value for each page visited.

- Cookie name: cookiesConsent

  Host: platform.agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: Cookie consent is the term for when users give their consent to letting a website activate its cookies and trackers that process personal data

- Cookie name: remember_user_{hash}

  Host: platform.agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences

-  Cookie name: _ga

  Host: .agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: Google Analytics: It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. Expiration time by default is two years, but this may be customised by site owners.

-  Cookie name: locale

  Host: platform.agrofossilfree.eu

  Purpose: Remembers your language settings

How to set up or disable your cookies

You may allow, block or delete the cookies installed in your equipment by using the setup options of your browser. If you disable cookies in your browser, some services may not be available to you and your experience on our website may prove less satisfactory.

Follow the links below for further information on how to set up or disable cookies in your browser: Google Chrome; Mozilla Firefox; Internet Explorer; Safari; Safari for IOS (iPhone and iPad); Chrome for Android

Consent

By browsing and continuing to use our website, you consent to the use of the cookies listed above in accordance with the terms set in this Cookie Policy.