Information about cookies

This website is managed by OMFB S.p.a. - HYDRAULIC COMPONENTS (defined in the following text as “Site owner”). You can find other useful information related to your privacy on the following page: Privacy Policy.

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

“Cookies” (or “cookie”) are small text files that a website creates in the directories used by its visitors' web browsers.

Cookies collect some information about how visitors use a given site (how many and which pages were visited, how long they stayed on the site, through which channel they reached the website etc.).

This information is generic and cannot be associated with identified or identifiable persons.

Users who visit the website will see minimum amounts of information stored in the devices (computers, tablets and smartphones) that they use to browse the website.

There are various types of cookies, some make the use of a website more effective, while others enable certain features. Analysing them in detail, cookies are used to:

• store the entered preferences
• avoid re-entering the same information several times during the visit
• analyse how the user uses the services and content provided by the website, so that the website owner can optimise the browsing experience and the services offered
• view video content
• view the maps of Google Maps
• protect user data from unauthorised access

Where are cookies stored?

On the hard disk (or memory unit) of the device you are using, used to visit the Website.

As a visitor, can I disable one or more cookies?

Yes, it is possible, through the functions available in your browser (see below).

HOW CAN COOKIES BE CLASSIFIED?

• Classification of cookies according to the website that generates them
  - First-Party Cookies: they are generated by the website you are visiting, and only this website can read these cookies.
  - Third-Party Cookies: they are generated by other websites, external to the one you are visiting. When you visit a page on our Website, you may find content added by external websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr or others, and such websites may generate cookies. Our Website has no control over them. Please check these websites (see list below) for further details - in addition to what you can find on our Website - about these cookies.
  
• Classification of cookies according to their duration in your device
  - Temporary (or session) cookies: they do not have an expiry date, and are deleted as soon as the browsing session ends or you close the browser.
  - Persistent cookies: they all have an expiry date (shown below for every single cookie) and remain on your computer even when you have finished browsing or you close the browser. They can be read by the website that created them in subsequent visits to the same website.
  
• Classification of cookies according to their intended use
  - Technical cookies: This type of cookie ensures the proper operation of certain sections of the Website. They are of two categories, temporary (or session) and persistent (see above). These cookies are necessary to view the website correctly and in relation to the technical services offered; they will therefore always be used and sent, unless you change the settings in your browser (with the possibility, however, not to make the most of some services offered by the website or make them unusable).
  - Cookies for analysis of third-party services: These cookies are used to collect information on how the website is used by users anonymously, such as: pages visited, time spent on the website, traffic of origin, geographic origin, age, gender and interests for the purpose of marketing campaigns. These cookies are sent from third-party domains external to the site.
  - Cookies to integrate products and functions of third-party software: This type of cookie integrates features developed by third-parties within the pages of the website, such as icons and preferences expressed in social networks in order to share website content or for the use of third-party software services (such as software for generating maps and additional software offering additional services). These cookies are sent by third-party domains and by partner sites that offer their services in the pages of the website.
  - Profiling cookies: These cookies are necessary to create user profiles in order to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user within the pages of the website.
  

This website, according to the legislation in force, is not required to seek consent for technical cookies, since they are necessary for the normal operation of the Website.

For all other types of cookies, consent may be expressed by the User with one or more of the following methods:

- Through specific configurations of the browser used or the related computer programs used to browse the website pages.
- Through the modification of the settings relating to the use of third-party services.

Both of these solutions may prevent the user from using or viewing parts of the Website.

HOW TO DISABLE THE COOKIES THROUGH BROWSER CONFIGURATION

Chrome

Run the Chrome Browser
Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the URL entry window for browsing
Select Settings
Click on Show Advanced Settings
In the “Privacy” section click on the “Content settings” button
In the “Cookies” section you can change the following settings relating to cookies:
- Allow data to be saved locally
- Modify local data only until the browser is closed
- Prevent websites from setting cookies
- Block third-party cookies and website data
- Manage exceptions for some internet websites
- Delete one or all cookies

For further details visit the dedicated page on the google.com website

Mozilla Firefox

Run the Mozilla Firefox Browser
Click on the menu in the browser toolbar next to the URL entry window for browsing
Select Options
Select the Privacy panel
Click on Show Advanced Settings
In the “Privacy” section click on the “Content settings” button
In the “Tracking” section you can change the following settings relating to cookies:
Ask the websites not to track you
Enable websites to track you
Do not give any preference relating to personal information tracking
From the “History” section you can:
- By enabling “Use custom settings”, accept third-party cookies (always, from the most visited websites or never) and store them for a specified period (until they expire, when Firefox closes or ask every time
- Remove individual stored cookies

For further details visit the dedicated page on the mozilla.org website

Internet Explorer

Run the Internet Explorer Browser
Click on the Tools button and select Internet Options
Click on the Privacy tab and in the Settings section, change the slider depending on the desired action for the cookies:
- Block all cookies
- Allow all cookies
- Selection of websites from which to obtain cookies: move the cursor to an intermediate position so as not to block or allow all cookies, then press Sites, in the website Address box enter a website and then press on Block or Allow

For further details visit the dedicated page on the microsoft.com website

Safari

Run the Safari Browser
Click on Safari, select Preferences and press Privacy
In the Block Cookies section, specify how Safari must accept cookies from websites.
To see which sites have stored cookies, click on Details

For further details visit the dedicated page on the apple.com website

Safari iOS (mobile devices)

Run the Safari iOS Browser
Tap on Settings and then Safari
Tap on Block Cookies and choose from the various options: “Never”, “Third party and advertisers” or “Always”
To delete all cookies stored by Safari, tap on Settings, then Safari and then Delete Cookies and data

For further details visit the dedicated page on the apple.com website

Opera

Run the Opera Browser
Click on Preferences then on Advanced and finally on Cookies
Select one of the following options:
- Accept all cookies
- Accept cookies only from the website you are visiting: third-party cookies and that are sent from a domain other than the one you are visiting will be rejected
- Never accept cookies: all cookies will never be saved

For further details visit the dedicated page on the opera.com website