Use of cookies on www.ho-w.it

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text strings stored on your computer when you visit certain pages on the internet. To order products on www.ho-w.it, cookies must be enabled. If you do not want to accept cookies, you can still browse the site and use it for research purposes. In most browsers, cookies are enabled, at the bottom you will find the information needed to change the cookie settings on your browser. Cookies are not harmful to your device. In the cookies that we generate, we do not store personally identifiable information such as credit card details, but we use encrypted information collected from them to improve your experience on the site. For example, they are useful for identifying and resolving errors, or to determine relevant related products to show the visitor while browsing. We are providing you with this information as part of our initiative to comply with recent legislation, and to ensure our honesty and transparency regarding your privacy when you use our website. We are working on further improvements regarding the topic of privacy and cookies concerning the site. Further information on cookies can be found on the sites: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu. Cookies can perform various functions, such as allowing you to navigate between the various pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and in general they can improve the user's stay. QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale reserves the right to use cookies, with the user's consent where the law or applicable regulations so establish, to facilitate navigation on this site and customize the information that will appear. QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale also reserves the right to use similar systems to collect information about users of the site, such as IP address, type of internet browser and operating system used and/or web pages visited by a user, for statistical or security purposes. QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale may collect this information to track the use of the site and improve certain aspects. Below is a brief illustration of how QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale uses cookies and similar tools.

Navigation cookies

These cookies are essential to allow you to move around the site and use its features, such as accessing the reserved areas of the website. Without these cookies, the requested services cannot be provided, such as the shopping cart or e-billing. Strictly necessary cookies are used to store a unique identifier in order to manage and identify the user as unique compared to other users who are visiting the site at that time, in order to provide the user with a consistent and precise service. Some examples include:

• Remembering previous actions (e.g. entered text) when navigating back to a page in the same session;


• Managing and passing security tokens to different services within a website to identify the visitor's status (e.g. registered or unregistered);


• Maintenance of tokens for the implementation of reserved areas of the website;


• Route customers to specific versions/applications of a service, as may be necessary during a technical migration.

Performance cookies

These cookies can be first-party (QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale) or third-party (partners), session or persistent, their use is limited to the performance and improvement of the website. These cookies collect information about how a visitor uses the site, such as the pages visited. These cookies do not collect information that can identify the user. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated anonymously and is used only to improve the functionality of the site. Some examples include:

• Web Analytics, the data collected is limited only to the use of the website by the operator, to manage the performance and structure of the site. These cookies may be third-party cookies, but the information will be used exclusively by those responsible for publishing the website visitedo;


• Tracking of affiliates by partners of QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale — cookies are introduced by Partners and used by the latter exclusively to know if a user coming from another site has purchased a product or service on www.ho-w.it;


• Error management — Measurement of errors that occur on the site, usually this function will support the improvement of services or the management of complaints and will generally be closely linked to web analytics;


• Testing different structures of the site pages — Testing on variations in the structure, usually using A/B or multivariable tests, to ensure that a consistent appearance is maintained for the user of the site in current and subsequent sessions.

Functional cookies

These cookies can be from QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale or partners, have a session duration or persistent. These cookies are usually the result of a user action, but can also be implemented in the provision of a service not explicitly requested but offered to the user. They can also be used to prevent a previously offered and refused service from being offered again to that user. Furthermore, these cookies allow the site to remember the user's choices (such as user name, language, country of origin, etc.). The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and cannot track the user's behavior on other sites. Some examples include:

• remembering the settings that a user has applied to a website such as layout, font size, preferences, color, etc.;


• remembering a choice so that the completion of a questionnaire is no longer required.


• detecting whether a service has already been offered, such as offering a tutorial for subsequent visits to the website;


• Providing information to allow the operation of an optional service such as offering a live chat session.


• Fulfilling a user request such as submitting a comment.

Third-party cookies for marketing/retargeting

These cookies are used by partners of QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale/strong>, in order to present you with advertising banners of QUIDQUID Srls Unipersonale when you are on other sites, showing you the latest products you have looked at on www.ho-w.it. While you browse on www.ho-w.it these cookies are also used to show you products that may interest you or similar to those you have previously looked at, based on your browsing history. The use of these cookies does not imply the processing of personal data, but may allow connection to your computer or other devices and track the data saved: these cookies connect to the browser installed on your computer or other devices used while browsing our site.

How can I disable cookies?

Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can also choose not to accept them. It is recommended not to disable this function, since this could prevent you from moving freely from one page to another and enjoying all the features of the site. If you do not want your computer to receive and store cookies, you can change the security settings of your browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari etc.). In any case, please note that certain parts of our Site can only be used in their fullness if your browser accepts cookies; otherwise, you will not be able to add products to your cart and purchase them (for example). Consequently, your choice to remove and not accept cookies may negatively affect your stay on our Site. If you wish to change the settings of your cookies, by accessing the settings of the various browsers, below are brief instructions on how to do this in the four most popular browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Click the Tools icon in the top right corner and select Internet Options. In the pop-up window select Privacy. Here you can adjust your cookie settings.

Google Chrome

Click the wrench in the top right corner and select Settings. Then select Show advanced settings (Under the hood) and change the Privacy settings.

Mozilla Firefox

From the drop-down menu in the top left corner select Options. In the pop-up window select Privacy. Here you can adjust your cookie settings.

Safari

From the drop-down settings menu in the top right corner select Preferences. Select Security and here you can adjust your cookie settings.