Privacy policy - Cookies

Below are the purposes of the processing of data related to the navigation of users on Grant Thornton Italy website:

• Provide you and/or your company with information. The disclosure of such data is optional and can imply the sending of e-mails to the e-mail addresses you indicated on this website. Therefore, the e-mail address of the sender, necessary to reply to requests, as well as any other personal data included in the communication will be acquired. Data are processed pursuant to art. 6, para. 1, letter f) of the Regulation.
• Statistical purposes to identify the composition of the user base, as well as of the users’ interests and behaviours. Researches carried out are prepared and analysed autonomously and as aggregate data. Data are processed pursuant to art. 6, para. 1, letter a) of the Regulation.

Browsing data

During their normal operation, IT systems and software procedures used for the functioning of the abovementioned website acquire some personal data, which are implicitly transmitted when using Internet communication protocols.

These data consist in information that are not collected to be associated to identified interests, but that could help identifying users, due to their nature, through elaborations and associations with data held by third parties.

These data include IP addresses or domain names of computers of users who connect to the website, URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of requested resources, the time of the request, the method used to make the request to the server, the size of the file received in reply, the code indicating the server reply status (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters related to the operating system and the user’s IT environment.

Cookies

During the navigation, our website sends some cookies to the visitors’ computer. These are text files that store information on visitors’ hard disk or browser. Our website is provided with anonymous third-party technical and analytical cookies.

Our website uses cookies to guarantee the normal navigation and utilization of the website, to collect aggregate information on the number of users and on how they visit the website, to allow visitors to navigate basing on a range of selected criteria in order to improve the service offered. Cookies are not used to monitor the navigation, collect data on personal preferences, habits and choices that allow the reconstruction of detailed consumer profiles.

Third-party cookies on our website collect anonymous data by hiding or anonymizing IP addresses when they are received from the collection network, before being in any way stored or processed for the generation of statistics on the use of the web portal.

Most part of Internet browsers accepts cookies automatically. The use of cookies on our website is optional and visitors can disable them at any time by changing their browser settings. Changing cookies settings on browsers could prevent visitors from using website functions fully.