1. What are cookies? .

 

 Cookies are small units of text strings that websites visited by the user may send to the user’s device (normally to the browser); they are then stored on the device and transmitted to the website again the next time the user visits it.

 

 Cookies must be enabled in order to be able to order products on the website. If the user chooses not to accept the cookies, you can still browse the website and use it for reference purposes. Cookies are enabled by default by most browsers, nevertheless a section with instructions on how to manage cookie settings for each browser can be found at the end of this page.

 

 It is important to point out that, while browsing the web, users may receive two different sorts of cookies:

 

 (i)       those of the website visited by the user (so-called “first party cookies”); and/or

 

 (ii)      those of other websites or web servers (so-called “third party cookies”).

 

 Cookies can also be classified into categories according to the purpose for which they are used:

 

 1. Technical cookies: these cookies provide improved browsing of the website by saving the users choices in relation to specific configurations;

 

 2. Profiling cookies: they are used to track the navigation activities of the user and send advertising and/or offer services which meet the preferences of the same ;

 

 3. Analysis cookies: these cookies can quantify the number of users, sections visited on the platform and how users interact with it to carry out statistical measurement and analysis on use, in order to implement improvements based on the analysis of data on how users use the platform or service.

 

 Cookies can perform various functions, such as allowing you to navigate between different pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and in general to improve the user’s experience on websites.

 

 Cookies are not dangerous for any user devices. No personal identification information such as, for instance, credit card details, are saved in the cookies generated by the website. The information below, however, is encrypted and collected by the same to improve the user’s browsing experience on the website. For example, they can be useful for identifying and resolving errors, or for identifying relevant correlated products to be proposed to the user during navigation.

 

2. First party cookies

 

 The website uses the following types of first-party technical cookies, for which no users’ consent is required but for which the data controller is obliged to provide adequate information:

 

 (a)       session or in-memory cookies: these are essential as they allow the user to move from one page to another on our website and make use of the services provided; as they are not stored on the user’s device, they exist only in temporary memory while the user navigates the website and disappear when the browser is closed;

 

 (b)       persistent cookies: these cookies instead of expiring when the web browser is closed as session cookies do, a persistent cookie expires at a specific date or after a specific length of time. Used solely to improve website browsing speed, as they memorise certain settings selected by the user (such as be recognized when you subsequently access the website, or if you have added items into your shopping bag and closed the session without completing the purchase). Functional cookies are not essential to the functioning of the website, but rather improve navigation quality and experience.

 

 The use of technical cookies and the processing activities related to the same, do not require prior consent of the user, according to the current laws in force.

 

 The possibility remains, in any case, for users to prevent the installation of technical cookies at any moment in time using the settings on the browser used; this does mean, however, that such settings may make the website slow, complicated or even impossible to navigate.



3. Third party cookies

 

 It is possible that some cookies are placed on your device when browsing our website which are not directly controlled and managed by the data controller. This happens, for instance, if the user visits a page that contains third party website content.

 

 In this respect, please be advised that BLAZÉ has no role in the processing of the data collected by this type of cookie, given their status as mere technical intermediaries.

 

 Third party cookies are required to view customised advertising on the website and other sites, and are based on the browsing activities of each individual user. This type of cookie may also be used by third parties to display their products and services on the website.

 

 The website also uses analytic cookies which are used to collect, as a mere example, the following information:

 

 • number of visitors, pages viewed and navigation from page to page within the website;

 

 • efficacy of the acquisition campaigns based on web traffic sources;

 

 • details on products viewed and/or downloaded from the website.

 

 These cookies, along with the purposes for which the same are used outside the website, fall under the direct and exclusive responsibility of the third part that installs them on the users’ terminals and are used to display advertising media to the user that may be of interest to the same (as in the case of third party cookies used for marketing/retargeting strategies). Should the user decide not to receive third party cookies on his/her device, it is possible to use the links below and access the information notice and consent forms provided by such third parties to reject setting of all such cookies.

 

4. How to disable cookies

 

 In the cookies settings panel, available at all times on the platform, the user can find all the information on the cookies used by this platform, along with information on the purpose, duration and management (first or third-party) of each cookie, so the data subject can enable or disable the use of cookies that are not strictly necessary for platform functioning.

 When visiting the website for the first time, the user can accept all cookies by clicking the “ok” button or the “x” closure button in the banner, or any web page element outside the actual banner itself.

 

 In all other cases, and during every subsequent visit to the website, the user can access this information note (clicking on the “cookie policy” link at the bottom of the website homepage), and deny his/her consent to the installation of cookies clicking on the relative links provided above.

 

 In any case, given that most browsers are programmed to accept cookies automatically, the user can choose to block receipt of the same, especially in those cases where the third party in question has not provided the opt-out option correctly, by accessing the browser settings and disabling the use of such cookies, according to the procedure illustrated in the links indicated below:

 

 • Internet Explorer

 

 • Mozilla Firefox

 

 • Google Chrome

 

 • Apple Safari

 

 • Opera

 

 To disable analytical cookies and prevent google analytics from collecting your navigation data, download the browser add-on to disable google analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.if the data subject chooses to disable cookies, he/she may face limitation on functionality and a deteriorated user experience.   

 


5. Data subject rights

 

 The identification data of the data controller processing user data is provided at the beginning of this information notice.

 

 In relation to the website, please be advised in particular that:

 

 1. The data is collected for the sole purposes stated in this cookie policy or the privacy policy, which is considered an essential and integral part of the same;

 

 2. Data is processed using electronic means, in accordance with the requirements of legislative decree no. 196/2003, the Italian “personal data protection code” (the “code”) and the guarantor;

 

 3. The use of technical cookies, as stated above, does not require the prior consent of users as they are essential in order to allow them to browse the website and ensure it functions correctly;

 

 4.  If the technical cookies are removed by the browser settings, it may be completely or partially impossible to navigate the websites;

 

 5. The collected data can only be communicated to the subjects who act on behalf of BLAZÉ for the analogous or otherwise related purposes to those described above.

 

 6. Users are entitled to exercise the rights granted by art. 7 of the code (as provided below for the sake of clarity), at any moment in time and without any formality, by contacting BLAZÉ: by email to the address e-boutique@blaze-milano.com or by post to the headquarters of BLAZÉ, Via Bettino Ricasoli 2, 20121, Milan.

 

 7. D.P.O. Fausto Sorrentino fausto.sorrentino@macwin2005.it tel 0637511706