Cookie policy
What is a cookie?
Cookies (also called web cookie, Internet cookie, browser cookie or simply cookie) are small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by the user’s web browser while the user is browsing a website. Cookies can be read by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the website can “remember” you on your return visit. Cookies may also be used to remember arbitrary pieces of information that the user previously entered into form fields such as names, addresses, passwords, and credit card numbers. Cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified unless you have furnished such information to the website.
How do Milano Ventures use cookies?
Milano Ventures uses cookies to collect information about visitors’ use of the website, including connection speed, operating system details, the time and duration visits and IP addresses. The information collected by cookies enables Milano Ventures to understand the use of its site, including the number of visitors it has, the pages viewed per session, time exposed to particular pages, etc. recognized, in turn, helps to provide visitors with a better experience. Milano Ventures will not attempt to identify visitors from their IP addresses personally.
Advertisements and promotional information are displayed on Milano Ventures’ websites. These are presented to all users. Cookies may also be used to present specific marketing or advertising messages to you, using targeting cookies (see below for more information about targeting cookies)
Cookies do not in any way compromise the security of your computer. Visitors can use most Milano Ventures’ websites with no functionality loss if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
What types of cookies does Milano Ventures use?
Milano Ventures uses the following cookie types:
| Cookie type | Cookie purpose |
|---|---|
| Functionality | These cookies allow Milano Ventures’ websites to remember choices you make (such as your preferred language) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to recognise changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. Other examples include cookies that keep track of your progress when filling online application forms. |
| Performance | These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore, anonymous. Milano Ventures uses first-party analytics cookies for this purpose. |
| Targeting Cookies | Targeting cookies remember individual websites you have visited and help Milano Ventures present relevant and targeted online advertising. Targeting cookies may be placed on your machine when you visit a Milano Ventures website page. When targeting cookies have been placed on your device, they can be recognised by subsequent websites you visit. This allows those sites to present targeted Milano Ventures and third-party advertising to you. While targeting cookies can track your visits to different websites and identify a Milano Ventures user, the information collected is anonymous. Users can set their browsers to accept or reject all, or analyse cookies. If you would like more information on managing cookies, please see the section below, ‘How to manage and disable cookies’. |
Please take note of the following information about Google’s third-party cookies used on our website:
Google Universal Analytics
What is Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to evaluate your use of Milano Ventures’ website. Browsers do not share cookies across domains.
How Google Analytics Works
Google does not collect or store personal information. Google Analytics prohibits the tracking or collecting personal information or association of personal information with web analytics information. Google Analytics does not report the actual IP address information to Google Analytics customers.
What Google Analytic Features are enabled by Milano Ventures
The following Google Analytics Advertising features are enabled in respect of Milano Ventures’ use of Google Analytics:
User ID -This allows Milano Ventures to associate multiple sessions (and any activity within those sessions) with a unique ID, in this case, an ID derived from online interactions with Milano Ventures. When the unique ID and any related engagement data is sent to Google Analytics, all activity is attributed to one anonymous user who is not personally identifiable in the reports.
With the unique ID, Milano Ventures can get a more accurate user count, analyse the signed-in user experience, and access the new cross-device reports.
With a unique ID, Milano Ventures can present more relevant Milano Ventures and third-party advertising to a user as the unique ID can indicate if an anonymous user is an existing user of Milano Ventures online services without removing the anonymity of that user.
While Google Analytic cookies are targeting cookies which use a unique ID and can track your visits around different websites, the information collected is anonymous, and you will not be personally identifiable to either Google or Milano Ventures.
Demographics and interests reporting – Understand how Milano Ventures’ site audience breaks down by age, gender, and interests.
Google analytics data sharing settings enabled: Google products & services – Milano Ventures share Google Analytics data with Google to improve Google’s products and services.
Benchmarking – Milano Ventures contributes anonymous data to an aggregate data set to enable features like benchmarking and publications to help Milano Ventures understand data trends. All identifiable information about Milano Ventures’ website is removed and combined with other anonymous data before it is shared with others.
Technical support – Google technical support representatives have access to Milano Ventures’ Google Analytics data and account when necessary to provide service and find technical issues.
Opt-out: Users may opt-out of Google Universal Analytics use of cookies by visiting the Google Universal Analytics opt-out page.
Storage Location: Google stores the cookie’s information on secure Google servers in Europe or the USA. Google is registered under the US Privacy Shield (see https://www.privacyshield.gov/list).
Matomo (previously known as Piwik)
We collect some anonymous analytical data on our web traffic using Matomo, an open-source platform that stores and analyses traffic data on our servers, without transferring them to third parties. You may opt-out of our process of collecting your traffic data with Piwik following the instructions below:
Google Adwords
What is Google Adwords
Google Adwords is an advertising analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
How Google Adwords Works
Adwords uses temporary cookies that are stored on a user’s computer for a limited period. Only pages that a user has visited containing the Google conversion code are tracked.
Google does not collect or store personal information. Conversions are not isolated: This means that Google or Milano Ventures cannot match conversion data to specific customers. Instead, Google or Milano Ventures can see overall data for ads and keywords.
Opt-out: There is no opt-out available for this third-party cookie. If you do not wish for this third-party cookie to be on your computer, please do not click on Google Ads.
Storage Location: Google stores the information collected by the cookie on secure Google servers.
Google Adwords Remarketing
What is Google Adwords Remarketing
AdWords Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioural Targeting service provided by Google Inc.
How Google Adwords Remarketing works
This website uses the Google AdWords remarketing service to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to Milano Ventures’ site. It means that Milano Ventures advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on a Milano Ventures site, for example, not completing a product application. This could be in the form of an advertisement on a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to Milano Ventures websites.
Google does not collect or store personal information.
Opt-out: Users may opt-out of Adwords Remarketing use of cookies by visiting the Adwords Remarketing opt-out page.
Storage Location: Google stores the information collected by the cookie on secure Google servers.
For more information, go to Privacy Policies and Privacy Ads.
Mautic
Mautic cookies (“mautic_refer_id, mautic_session_id, mautic_session_name”) are used to detect how visitors engaged with the website, to improve the information we provide on our website or through marketing campaigns. Visitors that choose not to engage with any website form or email-link will remain anonymous.
How to manage and disable cookies?
For more information about how to manage cookies, including opting-out of different types of cookies, please visit: www.aboutcookies.org
You can also find more information about how to opt-out of targeting cookies by visiting: www.youronlinechoices.com
