Cookie Policy

1. About cookies

Most websites you visit use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you, either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’).

Cookies performs many different functions, like allowing you to navigate through pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of the website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website does not use cookies, it will “think” you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it will not recognize you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

Some websites will also use cookies to enable them to target their advertising or marketing messages based for example, on your location and/or browsing habits. Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (‘first party cookies’) or they may be set by other websites who run content on the page you are viewing (‘third-party cookies’).

 

2. What is in a cookie?

A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping cart.

 

3. What to do if you don’t want cookies to be set

Some people find the idea of a website storing information on their computer or mobile device a bit intrusive, particularly when this information is stored and used by a third party without them knowing. Although this is generally quite harmless you may not, for example, want to see advertising that has been targeted to your interests. If you prefer, it is possible to block some or all cookies, or even to delete cookies that have already been set; but you need to be aware that you might lose some functions of that website.

 

4. How this Website site uses Cookies

Cookies enable us to identify your device, or you when you have logged in. We use cookies that are strictly necessary to enable you to move around the site or to provide certain basic features. We use cookies to enhance the functionality of the website by storing your preferences, for example. We also use cookies to help us to improve the performance of our website to provide you with a better user experience.

 

5. Technical cookies and profiling cookies

Cookies are divided into 2 macro-categories: technical cookies and profiling cookies. Only profiling cookies require consent.

Analytical cookies can be assimilated to technical cookies, i.e. those that generally collect statistical information on how the user uses the website, on the number of visitors to the website, on which pages are visited most often, on the time spent on the website, on provided, however, that the owner of the visited site or third parties who insert these cookies is precluded from the possibility that, through their use, the user can be directly identified.

In compliance with the provision of the Competent Data Protection Authority of 8/5/2014 and the Guidelines of the same Authority issued with the provision of 26/11/2020, the company Tierra S.p.A., with registered office in Via Lombardore 223, 10040 Leinì, Turin (Italy), informs, as owner of the processing of personal data, that the site tierratelematics.com uses only technical cookies, its own and third parties’.

Cookies on the site

Below we have provided you with further information on the cookies set by the Website.

Cookie name	Category	Duration	Purpose
_gat_gtag_UA_144228135_1	Stored technical cookie	Expires after 1 minute	Used for statistics
_ga	Stored technical cookie	Expires after 2 years	Used to distinguish users.
_gid	Stored technical cookie	Expires after 24 h	Used to distinguish users.
_PHPSESSID	Session technical cookie	Expires after 10 minutes	Used to remind to the application the state of the user’s session.

 

6. Google Analytics

The information generated by the cookie_NID about your use of our Site (including your shortened IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of our websites, to compile reports on website activity for website operators and to provide other services associated with the use of our Site and services related to the use of the Internet.

For more information about how Google uses your information, please see Google’s Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

We inform you, however, that the Google Analytics code has been integrated on this site to anonymize your IP address.

 

7. Management of the cookies

Web browser cookies

If you do not want to receive cookies, it is possible to modify the browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent, or it is possible to refuse cookies altogether. It is also possible to cancel cookies that have already been set.

If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies which are set on your device, then you can do this through your browser settings; the Help function within your browser should tell you how to do it. Alternatively, it is possible to visit www.aboutcookies.org, which contains comprehensive information on how to perform this operation on a wide variety of desktop browsers.

Hereafter, some links of reference to understand the procedure to deactivate cookies on the most used browsers:

INTERNET EXPLORER
https://support.microsoft.com/it-it/products/windows?os=windows-10

GOOGLE CHROME
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=it

APPLE SAFARI
http://support.apple.com/it-it/HT1677

MOZILLA FIREFOX
https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Attivare%20e%20disattivare%20i%20cookie

OPERA
http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html

 

8. Data subject’s rights

At any time, the user can exercise the right to access their personal data, to request their correction, cancellation – in the cases provided – the limitation of processing or to oppose their processing, as well as the right to request data portability, by addressing the related request to the Data Controller, to the aforementioned address of the registered office or to the e-mail address privacy@tierratelematics.com.

If the user considers that the processing of his/her personal data (IP address, username or a unique identifier) ​​carried out through cookies is carried out in violation of the relevant legislation, he/she will have the right to lodge a complaint with the Competent Data Protection Authority.