This Cookie Policy applies to the website https://www.alps.it (hereinafter, the "Website") and forms an integral part of the Privacy Policy.
DATA CONTROLLER AND CONTACT DETAILS The Data Controller is Alps Blockchain S.p.A., with registered office at Vicolo Liceo 1, 38122 Trento (TN), Italy, Italian tax code and VAT number 02515120224, Trento Economic and Administrative Index (REA) no. TN-230317 (hereinafter also the “Data Controller” or simply the “Controller”). For any clarification or information, or to exercise the rights set out in this Cookie Policy, the Data Controller may be contacted at the following details: tel. +39 333 2663836, email: amministrazione@alpsblockchain.com, certified email (PEC): info@pec.alpsblockchain.com.
COOKIES USED BY THE WEBSITE, PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASIS Cookies are small text files that the websites visited by the user (so-called “publishers” or “first parties”), or other websites or web servers (so-called “third parties”), place and store on the user’s computer or mobile device—directly in the case of publishers and indirectly, through them, in the case of third parties—so that they can be sent back to the same websites on the user’s next visit.
Cookies allow a website to remember the user’s actions and preferences (such as login details, selected language, font size and other display settings), so that the user does not have to enter them again when returning to the website or moving from one page to another. Cookies are therefore generally used to perform electronic authentication, monitor sessions and store information about the activities of users who access a website. They may also contain a unique identification code that makes it possible to track the user’s browsing activity within the website for statistical or advertising purposes.
More specifically, the Data Controller informs users that the Website uses the types of cookies described below, classified in accordance with the applicable personal data protection legislation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Italian Legislative Decree No. 196/2003, as amended by Legislative Decree No. 101/2018) and the guidance issued by the competent authorities, including the Italian Data Protection Authority (the “Authority”), with particular reference to the “Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools” adopted by Decision No. 231 of 10 June 2021. 2.1 TECHNICAL COOKIES These cookies are essential to enable the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network or are strictly necessary to provide an information society service expressly requested by the user. Without these cookies, browsing the Website and carrying out certain operations requested by the user would be impossible or less secure. These cookies enable essential functions such as managing a browsing session, customising the browsing experience (e.g. selecting the language and/or currency) and detecting and preventing fraud.
In view of the purposes for which technical cookies are used, storing them on the device does not require the user’s prior consent under Article 122 of Italian Legislative Decree No. 196/2003 (the “Privacy Code”) and Article 5 of Directive 2002/58/EC, as subsequently amended and supplemented. Disabling these cookies will prevent the user from browsing the Website correctly and/or from using the services, pages, functions or content available on it.
2.2 ANALYTICS COOKIES These cookies are used to assess a website’s effectiveness and help measure its “traffic”, i.e. the number of visitors, which may be broken down by geographical area, connection time or other characteristics. They are therefore used to produce aggregate statistics for internal research into the number of users and how they visit the website.
As specified by the Authority in the “Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools” (Decision No. 231 of 10 June 2021, published in Official Gazette No. 163 of 9 July 2021), analytics cookies are treated in the same way as technical cookies and may therefore be used without the user’s prior consent if:
They are used by the publisher (so-called first-party analytics cookies) to process purely statistical data, even where the data relate to multiple domains, websites or apps, provided that they are attributable to the same publisher.
Analytics cookies are used by third parties that provide web measurement services to the publisher, subject to the following conditions: they are used solely to produce aggregate statistics and in relation to a single website or mobile application; at least the fourth component of the IP address is masked; and those third parties refrain from combining analytics cookies, even where minimised in this manner, with other processing activities (for example, customer files or statistics on visits to other websites) and/or from disclosing them to further third parties, except where the statistics produced by those further third parties from the minimised data concern multiple domains, websites or apps attributable to the same publisher or corporate group.
Conversely, if analytics cookies do not meet all the above conditions, they may be used only after the website has obtained the user’s consent. The Website does not, however, use analytics cookies.
2.3 PROFILING COOKIES In general, these cookies are used to associate specific actions or recurring behavioural patterns in the use of a website’s functions with identified or identifiable individuals. Their purpose is to group profiles into homogeneous clusters of varying sizes so that, among other things, the service can be delivered in an increasingly personalised manner beyond what is strictly necessary to provide it, and targeted advertising communications can be sent in line with the preferences expressed by the user while browsing online.
By their nature, these cookies may be installed on the device only with the user’s prior consent, as required by Article 122 of the Privacy Code and Article 5 of Directive 2002/58/EC, as subsequently amended and supplemented. The user gives consent through the banner displayed upon first accessing the Website, in accordance with the Authority’s Guidelines No. 231/2021. Profiling cookies may be selected or deselected directly through the banner shown upon first access to the Website or, subsequently and at any time, through the dedicated link in the footer of every page of the Website. Through the banner, the user may manage these cookies individually and withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.