Cookies policy for the website visitors

Use of Cookies

The “Site” simecgroup.com uses Cookies to make its services simple and efficient for the users who visit it. Cookies are small text files (letters and/or numbers) which allow the web server to store on the client (the user’s Internet browser) information to be used again during the website visit or at a later stage. Depending on the user’s preferences, cookies are stored by the single browser to the device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

There are various types of cookies, some to make the use of the Site more effective, others to enable certain functionalities.

By analysing them in detail, our cookies allow us to:

– store the preferences you have entered;

– avoid having to re-enter the same information several times during your visit, such as your username and password;

– analyze the use of services and content provided by simecgroup.com to optimize the browsing experience and services offered.

Types of Cookies

Technical cookies

This type of cookie allows specific sections of the website to operate correctly. There are two categories, persistent and session:

– persistent: once the browser is closed they are not destroyed but remain until a preset expiry date;

– session: they are destroyed each time the browser is closed.

These cookies, which are always sent from our domain, are necessary to correctly display the site and in relation to the technical services offered, they will therefore always be used and sent, unless the user changes the settings in their browser (thus affecting the display of the site pages).

Analytical cookies

The cookies in this category are used to collect information about the use of the site. simecgroup.com will use this information for anonymous statistical analysis in order to improve the use of the site and to make the content more interesting and relevant to the wishes of users. This type of cookie collects data in an anonymous form on the activity of users and how they reached the Site. Analytical cookies are sent by the Site itself or by third-party domains.

Third party analytics cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about the use of the Site by users in an anonymous form such as: pages visited, time spent, traffic origin, geographical origin, age, gender and interests for marketing campaigns. These cookies are sent from third party domains external to the Site.

Cookies to integrate third party software products and features

These types of cookies embed features developed by third parties within the pages of the Site such as icons and preferences expressed in social networks in order to share the content of the site or to use third party software services (such as software to generate maps and other software that offer additional services). These cookies are sent from third party domains and partner sites that offer their functionality between the pages of the Site.

Profiling cookies

These are those cookies 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 Site.

According to the regulations in force, simecgroup.com is not obliged to ask for consent for technical and analytical cookies, as they are necessary to provide the requested services.

For all other types of cookies, the consent can be expressed by the User in one or more of the following ways:

– By means of specific configurations of the browser used or the relevant computer programs used to navigate the pages that make up the Site.

– By changing the settings when using third party services.

Both of these solutions may prevent you from using or viewing parts of the Site.

Third party websites and services

The Site may contain links to other websites which have their own privacy policy which may be different from that used by simecgroup.com and which are therefore not responsible for these sites.

In greater detail, the service Google Analytics, supplied by Google Inc., is active to track and analyze the use of this website, write and share reports with the other services developed by Google.  https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

The integration of Google Analytics keeps the IP address anonymous. Anonymity works by shortening the user’s IP within the borders of EU Member States or in other countries having entered into the European Economic Space agreement. In very few cases will the IP address be sent to Google servers and shortened within the United States.

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How to disable cookies by configuring your browser

If you would like to learn more about how your browser stores cookies when you navigate, please follow these links on the websites of the respective providers.