Cookies and similar technologies

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that the sites surfed by users send to their terminals or devices,. There they are stored to be forwarded again to those sites during subsequent visits. Cookies (and / or similar technologies such as SDK technologies for the mobile world) can be stored permanently (persistent cookies) on your device or can have a variable duration; they can in fact be deleted when closing the browser or having a limited duration to the single session (session cookies). Cookies can be installed by bio-komp.com (first-party cookies) or by other websites (third-party cookies).

Cookies are used for different purposes as better specified in the next paragraph 2 of the current page.

For profiling activities, personal data collected through cookies are processed for a maximum period of 12 months since the consent to treatment is given. Below you will find all the information on installed cookies via the bio-komp.com website and / or related applications and all necessary instructions on how to manage your preferences as regards to them.

We remind you that our platform supports following browsers and / or applications for the purposes of proper service delivery. We recommend you to download the latest version of your browser and / or app for best results.

We remind you that bio-komp.com can not guarantee the correct operation of the service and the effectiveness of the directions found in this report as to previous versions of browsers and / or unsupported apps.

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1.1. Desktop website browser

• Chrome version 49.0 or later

• Firefox version 52.0 or later

• Internet Explorer version 11 or later

• Edge

• Safari version 8 or later

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1.2. Mobile website browser

• iOS 7.1 or later (iPhone 4 or later): Safari

• Android 4.1 or later: Chrome 28.0 or later, Samsung Browser 3.3 or later, Android browser.

• Windows Phone 8.1 or later: IEMobile

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1.3. Browser for tablet devices

• Ipad: Safari

• Android: Android Browser

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2. What kind of cookies can you find on bio-komp.com?

2.1. First-party cookies and related purposes

• The main purposes of the installed cookies by bio-komp.com are:

• (i) Technical. They are used for purposes related to the service provision in order to allow or to improve surfing on bio-komp.com or to store searches. These cookies are essential to ensure that our platform is properly working

• (ii) Analytical: They collect statistical information about the employ of the service by users (e.g. number of visitors, pages visited, ...). We use these cookies to anonymously analyze traffic on our pages, no storing personal data.

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2.2. Third-party cookies and related purposes

The main purposes of the installed cookies by third parties are:

(i) analytical: to collect statistical information on the employ of the service by users (e.g. number of visitors, pages visited, ...). These cookies are employed to anonymously analyze the traffic on our pages, without storing personal data.

Third parties:  Google Analytics, Xiti, nielsen, Comscore

(ii) performance: thanks to these cookies it is possible to develop and implement the service, to improvie your browsing experience and therefore the use of the same.

Third parties:  Hotjar

(iii) profiling:

• marketing: we analyze your online actions so that you can provide, through third-party partners, content and commercial offers in line with your interests, also based on your previous browsing experience. This information is managed separately from the identification data.

Third parties:  Google Adwords, Kenshoo.

• personalized advertising: thanks to these cookies we can submit you advertisements according to your preferences, habits or consumption choices. Furthermore, cookies specially designed for "social networks" could be activated. They allow the user to interact via social networks (share function, Facebook). When a page contains this command, a direct connection is established with the selected social network. Bio-komp.com could allow the use of similar technologies on your mobile devices such as AppsFlyer tools (for opt-out click here), Google Firebase and Facebook, in addition to cookies, in order to improve the service and navigation or for profiling activities. The use of these technologies is governed by the privacy policies of these companies and not from the privacy policy of bio-komp.com .

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3. How is consent (opt-in) to the use of cookies given?

The user provides his/her consent to the use of profiling cookies through the following procedures: when closing the banner containing the short report, when scrolling the page that hosting the banner or when clicking any of its elements. It can be revoked at any time. All technical cookies do not require consent, therefore they are automatically installed as a result of the access to the website or service.

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4. How to revoke (opt-out) the consent to the use of cookies?

Cookies can be completely disabled by the browser just using the appropriate function provided in most browsers. Please remind that when deactivating cookies, some of bio-komp.com features may not be more available. Please find the links to the information of the main browsers for more information on the deactivation of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Edge cookies:

Click on the links to the information of the third parties expressly indicated in paragraph 2 of the present cookie policy to individually disable third-party performance and profiling cookies.

With reference to profiling cookies aimed at offering you personalized advertising, please be informed that, should you exercise the opt-out, you will continue to receive general advertising in any case. To opt out and deactivate personalized advertisements by changing the settings of your mobile devices, follow the instructions below:

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4.1. Android

1. Open the "Google Settings" app on your device

2. Scroll down and select "Google"

3. select "Ads"

4. Select "Disable interest-based ads" or "Disable ad personalization"

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4.2 iOS

iOS devices use Apple Advertising Identifier. For more information on how to restrict its ad tracking, please surf the "Settings on your device" app or surf https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT205223.

5. More information on cookies and how to exercise opt-out

The Youronlinechoice and Networkadvertising.org platforms offer the possibility to refuse or to accept cookies of many digital advertising professionals.

We recommend you to use these platforms to manage the withdrowal of consent to use of cookies.

If you wish to learn more about targeted advertising please refer to following pages:

• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EIDAA)

• Network Advertising Initiative (NAI)

• Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)

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