The website of San Raffaele S.p.A. (hereafter, respectively, the “Site” and “San Raffaele”) which can be visited at http://www.sanraffaele.it/, uses some cookies towards users. With this policy, St. Raphael informs the user about the cookies installed by the Site only, their characteristics and how they are managed. For cookies installed on any other websites reachable through the Site, however, users are invited to consult the relevant cookie policies.

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files (usually formed by letters and numbers) that are stored on the device used by the user (computer, tablet, cell phone or other mobile device) and examined each time the user accesses the Site. Cookies make it technically possible to record, for a certain amount of time (varying according to the duration of use), useful information to ensure that the Site is easily usable and effective, as well as to understand how you use the Site and what preferences you have shown.

There are different types of cookies:

(a) based on the duration of their use,

Session cookies, which are automatically removed when the browser session ends;
permanent cookies, which instead remain stored in the user’s device even after the browser session ends;
(b) based on the party installing them on the user’s device,

First-party (or proprietary) cookies, which are installed by the website the user is visiting;
Third-party cookies, which are installed by a website other than the one the user is visiting.

Necessary, statistical and marketing cookies: user consent

The Site makes use of necessary, statistical and marketing cookies (see below for their definitions).
Necessary cookies are used to enable the user to access and navigate the Site; therefore, they do not require the user’s consent.
Statistical and marketing cookies, on the other hand, operate only with the user’s consent. Such consent may be given or withheld by the user on his/her first visit to the Site, in the manner indicated in the appropriate banner.

On further visits to the Site, the user may, in addition, revoke the consent previously given to the use of such cookies. To do so, the user can make use of the dedicated cookie management page http://www.sanraffaele.it/cookie_policy.html

Social button

The Site uses several links, which allow users:

to visit the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram profiles of theSan Raffaele- see Site header;
to “Like” on Facebook against content in certain sections of the Site-such as “Work with Us” and “Communication and Media”-or to tweet such content.
These links do not involve the installation of third-party cookies.

Cookies and browser options

It should be noted, to users that by changing the settings of the browser used, they always have the option of deleting cookies already installed and not accepting new ones.

The procedures to change these settings are different for each type of browser and each operating system used.

Here are links to the cookie settings of popular browsers:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it;
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie;
Safari: https://support.apple.com/it-it/HT201265 (for IPhone, IPad and IPod Touch) https://support.apple.com/it-it/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac(for MacBook);
Windows Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/it-it/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies;
Windows Microsoft Edge: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy.
Users can find more information about the main cookies used on the Internet (statistical and marketing) and how to uninstall them by consulting the Network Alliance Initiative’s opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page, or http://youronlinechoices.eu.

Cookies used by the site

When you visit the Site, the Site itself and third-party websites install some cookies on the device you use.

Necessary cookies

These session or permanent cookies make a website usable, allowing, for example, navigation between pages, or access to restricted areas.

Here are the necessary cookies that are installed when you visit the Site:

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TO BE DEFINED.

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