Source: https://osai-as.com/en/cookies-policy
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 16:58:49+00:00

Document:
Directive 95/46/EC – L. Decree 196/03 – Privacy Code, among others, articles: Art 7 (right of access), Art 13 (informative report), Art 14 (profiling), Art 23 (consent), Art 37 (notification), Art 122 (cookies and similar systems), Art 130 (unsolicited communications), Art 162 and following (administrative and criminal penalties).
Cookies are small text strings which the websites visited by the user send to his terminal (usually to the browser), where they are stored before being transmitted back to the same websites during the next visit by the same user. Whilst browsing a website, the user’s terminal may also receive cookies sent from other websites or web servers (so-called “third parties”), on which some elements (such as images, maps, sounds, links to specific pages on other domains) on the website that he is visiting may be present.
Information is collected through their use during the user’s browsing experience. Moreover, they are completely passive and do not contain software, viruses or spyware, carrying out a potentially useful activity both for the user and for the owner of the website.
Cookies, which are usually found in users’ browsers in a very large number and sometimes with long lasting features, are used for different purposes: running authentication information, monitoring sessions, storing information regarding specific configurations concerning the users who access the server, etc.
In order to reach a proper regulation regarding these devices, it is necessary to distinguish them on the basis of the objectives pursued by those who use them, assuming that there are no technical features which differentiate them one from the other.
Without the former it would be very difficult or impossible to perform some tasks (e.g. computer authentication). The latter are very often used by websites in order to collect important and sensitive information concerning users’ tastes, habits and choices without their knowledge.
Technical cookies are those used for the sole purpose of “transmitting information through an electronic communications network, or which are strictly necessary for the provision of an information service as explicitly requested by the subscriber or user “(see Art 122, paragraph 1, of the Code).
– Leaves untouched the obligation to provide the information pursuant to art 13 of the Code, which the operator of the website, should he only use such devices, may provide in the manner he deems most appropriate.

References: Art 7
 Art 13
 Art 14
 Art 23
 Art 37
 Art 122
 Art 130
 Art 162
 Art 122
 art 13