Web pages can contain text, images, and other multimedia information, but they can also contain “instructions” that are automatically executed by the user’s browser. A web page may also contain instructions for storing information on the user’s device, known as cookies.

Cookies are distinguished by their different purposes of use:

• Technical cookies: their sole purpose is to improve the user’s browsing experience or to provide a service expressly requested by the user.

• Browsing or session cookies: they ensure normal browsing and use of the website.

• Analytics cookies: these are treated as technical cookies when used directly by the website operator to collect information, in aggregate form, about the number of users and how they visit the website.

• Functionality cookies: these allow the user to browse according to a set of selected criteria, such as language, in order to improve the service provided to the user.

• Profiling cookies: these are intended to obtain information about the user that may be used for purposes not requested by the user, for example to deliver advertising messages that are more relevant to the user.

Cookies of the University of Trieste

The provision issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority, to which reference is made for a more precise definition of the terms, establishes, for the protection of users, that each website must declare which type — or purpose — of cookies it uses.

Technical cookies

This website uses the Matomo analytics tool. Like many websites, we collect analytics data for statistical purposes. The data collected is stored on servers owned by us and is not transferred to third parties.