For a complete understanding on how we use your data, please read our Privacy Policy.
This Cookie Policy is written to allow the user to understand what cookies are and how they are used by the Great This Time website, in implementation of the measures of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data of 10 June 2021 “Guidelines for cookies and other tracking tools”, in compliance with art. 13 of EU Regulation 2016/679 for the protection of personal data, and in accordance to the CCPA.
This policy if effective as of February 20, 2023 and was last updated on February 23, 2023.
What is a cookie and why do we use cookies?
We use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on your preferences.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:
- Understanding how you use our site
- Showing you content that is relevant to you
- Working with partners to deliver to you relevant advertising
This allows us to create relevant content that you can see on our website.
You can control the use of cookies on our website expressing your preference through the buttons on the cookie banner. If you want to revoke your consent, you can do so by clicking on “Manage Consent” at the bottom of the web-page you are visiting.
First-party and third -party cookies
There are different types of cookies:
- First-party cookies – cookies that are set by Great This Time when you use our site;
- Third-party cookies – cookies that are set by an organisation other than Great This Time when you use our site. Some of our pages may also contain content from other sites which may set their own cookies. If you share a link to a Great This Time page, the service you share it on may set a cookie on your browser.
At Great This Time, we do not sell your personal information. If you are a California user, please refer to our Privacy Policy to check your rights in regard to your personal data management.
Disclaimer
This website uses affiliate links. As defined by Techopedia, an affiliate link is a specific URL that contains the affiliate’s (Great This Time) ID or username. When a visitor of Great This Time clicks on one of its affiliate links, the website to which the visitor is redirected will recognise that the visit was generated by a link shared by Great This Time, and will generally recognise Great This Time a small commission.
When you are redirected to another website, that website will use its own cookies, according to its own cookie policy, which we invite you to read. We have no control over cookies used by other websites.
What types of cookies are used on our website?
We use four types of cookies:
- Strictly Necessary – cookies that are essential to provide you with your experience on our website. It means that those cookies cannot be switched off through the cookie settings link.
- Performance – cookies which measure how often you visit our site and how you use them. We use this information to get a better sense of how our users engage with our content and to improve our website. For example, we collect information about which of our pages are most frequently visited, and by which types of users. We also use third-party cookies to help with performance.
- Functionality – cookies that are used to recognise you and remember your preferences or settings when you return to our site, so that we can provide you with a more personalised experience. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
- Advertising – cookies that are used to collect information about your visit to our site, including the content you have viewed, the links you have followed and information about your browser, device and your IP address. These cookies are used to show you more tailored advertising, according to the preferences you have shown by navigating our website.
Our website integrates third-party software that, via cookies, provide us with information about how the website is used and what content you have viewed for the purposes of online advertising and analytics, in a similar way to our site. We allow other organisations to use cookies and other technology to help us analyse how our site is being used, measure the number of visitors to the site, and display advertising. To accomplish these goals, Great This Time uses cookies and similar technologies to communicate information about you to others.
How do third parties use cookies for advertising?
We share and receive online data collected through cookies and similar technology with our advertising partners. This means that when you are on another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our sites. We may also show you advertising on our sites based on your browsing patterns on other sites that we have obtained from our advertising partners.
Operation of the banner
The privacy management banner activated on this site does not allow any profiling cookies to be activated before the user has given their consent. If the user clicks the I agree button, all profiling cookies will be activated. If, on the other hand, the user decides to click the customize button, he will personalize his choices and decide which profiling cookies to activate. If you click on the reject button or on the X at the top right of the banner, no profiling cookies will be activated.
User choices can be changed at any time by accessing the control panel from the privacy control icon. The new configuration will last for six months.
How long do cookies last?
There are different types of cookies which last a different amount of time.
- Session cookies – cookies that only last as long as your online session, and expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies – cookies that stay on your device after your browser has been closed and last for a time specified in the cookie (but not longer than 13 months). We use these cookies when we need to remember you for more than one browsing session.
The user’s choices will be stored for six months through a technical cookie that will be installed on the device used by the user to access the site. It is important to explain that if the user changes device, so maybe he switches from the computer to the mobile phone, the choices cannot be found on the new device, for technical reasons, and therefore must be selected on the new device.
Social Media
We embed a Facebook widget, which may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
We use other social media platform widgets or widgets of any kind for the social sharing of the content of this website that may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget and other personal data of yours, and use them in accordance to their own privacy policy, which we invite you to read if you decide to use the social share button.
At Great This Time, we do not sell your personal information. If you are a California user, please refer to our Privacy Policy to check your rights in regards to your personal data management.
Optionality of data supply
As required by the provision of 10 June 2021 “Guidelines for cookies and other tracking tools”, the user of the site is free to authorize or not authorize profiling cookies according to his free choice and will. In some cases, such as the Google reCaptcha cookie, blocking this profiling cookie prevents the request from being sent via the data acquisition forms. If necessary, it will be possible to re-enable the cookie from the privacy preferences or, if you decide to keep the cookie block, send this request via email.
In addition to the one specified for navigation data, the user is free to provide personal data contained in the request forms present on the sites or indicated in contacts with the structures to request the sending of the newsletter, informative material or other communications.
Failure to provide such data may make it impossible to obtain what has been requested.
Right to lodge a complaint
If a data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her as performed via this website infringes the Regulation, he or she has the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant body, pursuant to Article 77 of the Regulation, or else to bring a judicial proceeding to the relevant body pursuant to Article 79 of the Regulation.
How to manage cookies at Great This Time
You can manage the use of cookies on our site, including advertising cookies, and disable the sharing of data with partners for advertising purposes by clicking the Manage Consent link in the footer of every page of our site.
It is also possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies altogether by changing your browser cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of the browser of your choice. The following links may be helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser. If you do this some features on our sites may not work properly.
