Use of cookies on www.valentinorossi.com

What are cookies?Cookies are small text strings stored on your computer when you visit certain web pages.

For ordering products on www.valentinorossi.com, cookies must be enabled. If you do not want to allow cookies, you can still browse the site and use it for search purposes. Cookies are enabled in most browsers; at the bottom of the page, you will find the information you need to change the cookie settings on your browser.

Cookies will not harm your device. In the cookies we generate, we do not store information that will identify you personally, such as credit card details but we use encrypted information collected from them to enhance your visit to the site. For example, they are useful for identifying and remedying errors or for determining relevant related products to be displayed to visitors during browsing.

We are providing you with this information as an integral part of our commitment to comply with recent legislation and for ensuring our honesty and transparency regarding your privacy when you use our website. We are working on further improvements on the subject of privacy and cookies on the site.

More information about cookies can be found at www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

Cookies may perform various functions, such as allowing you to browse between the different pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and, in general, enhancing a user's visit experience.

www.valentinorossi.com reserves the right to use cookies, with the consent of the user, where applicable law or regulations so allow, for facilitating browsing on this site and for customising the information that will appear. www.valentinorossi.com reserves the right to use similar systems to collect information about site users such as IP address, internet browser type and operating system used and/or web pages visited by a user for statistical purposes or security. www.valentinorossi.com may collect this information for tracking the use of the site and for enhancing certain aspects.

A brief explanation is provided further on about how www.valentinorossi.com uses cookies and similar tools.

Browsing cookies

These cookies are essential for allowing you to move around the site and for using its features, such as, for example, access to restricted areas of the website. Without these cookies, the required services, such as shopping carts or e-billing, may not be provided.

The cookies strictly necessary are used to store a unique identifier for the purpose of managing and identifying the user as unique compared to others browsing the site at that time. This enables the site to provide a consistent and accurate service to the user.

Some examples include:

remembering previous actions (for example words entered) during browsing and for going back to a page in the same section;

managing and transferring security tokens to different services within the website for identifying the status of a visitor (for example, registered, not registered);

retention of tokens for the implementation of restricted areas of the website;

routing of customers towards specific versions/applications of a service as may be required during a technical migration.

Performance cookies

These cookies may be www.valentinorossi.com cookies or belong to partners or session or persistent cookies; their use is limited to performance and enhancement of the website. Cookies collect information about how a visitor uses the site, such as, for example, the pages visited. These cookies do not collect information that may identify the user. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated in anonymous form and is only used to enhance the functionality of the site.

Some examples include:

Web Analytics, the collected data are limited only to the operator's usage of the website and for managing the performance and structure of the site. These cookies may be third-party cookies but the information will only be used by those involved in the publication of the website visited;

tracking of affiliates by www.valentinorossi.com partners - cookies are introduced by the partners and used exclusively by them for knowing whether a user from another site has purchased a product or service on www.valentinorossi.com;

error management: measurement of errors that occur on the site. Usually this feature will support the enhancement of services or the management of complaints and will generally be closely linked with web analytics;

The testing of different structures of the web page: testing of structure variants, usually using A/B or multi-variables for ensuring that current and subsequent sessions will maintain a consistent look and feel for the site user.

Functional cookies

These cookies can be either www.valentinorossi.com or partner cookies and have session or persistent length. These cookies are usually the result of an action by the user but they may also be implemented to provide a service which is not explicitly requested yet offered to the user. They may also be used to prevent a previously offered and refused service from being offered again to the same user. In addition, these cookies allow the website to remember the user's choices (such as user name, language, country of origin, etc...). The information collected by these cookies is anonymous and may not track the user's behaviour on other sites.

Some examples include:

remembering the settings that a user has applied to a website, such as, for example layout, font size, preferences, colour, etc.;

remembering a choice so that filling in a form is not required again;

detecting if a service has already been offered, such as, for example, the offer of a tutorial for subsequent website visits;

providing information for enabling the operation of an optional service, such as, for example, the offer of a live chat session;

satisfying a user request such as, for example, submitting a comment.

Third-party profiling cookies for marketing/retargeting

These cookies are used by www.valentinorossi.com partners for presenting www.valentinorossi.com advertising banners when you are visiting other sites and for displaying the latest products you have viewed on www.valentinorossi.com. While browsing on www.valentinorossi.com, these cookies are also used for showing you products you might like or which are similar to those you have been viewing, based on your browsing history. The use of these cookies does not involve the processing of personal data but may make it possible to connect to your computer or other devices and trace the saved data: these cookies connect to the browser installed on your computer or on other devices used while browsing our website. www.valentinorossi.com is not able to exercise specific control over such third-party cookies. To obtain information on these cookies and their features and operating modalities and to provide the relevant consent, use the links in the cookie table below or contact the relevant third parties directly. The profiling cookies, shown in the table below, will be enabled and used by our site only if you have given your prior consent to such use.

The following table lists all the cookies used on www.valentinorossi.com,with their specific features so that you can decide whether to consent to their use and which cookies you may want to block or delete.

How can I block cookies?

Most browsers automatically allow cookies but you may also choose to block them. We advise you not to disable this function because this may prevent you from moving freely from page to page and enjoying all the features of the site.

If you do not wish your computer to receive and store cookies, you can change the security settings on your browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, etc.). However, please note that certain parts of our site may only be fully utilised if your browser allows cookies; otherwise (for example), you will not be able to add products to your shopping cart and buy them. As a result, your decision to remove and not accept cookies may negatively affect your visit to our site.

If you want to change your settings for cookies, you can do so by accessing the settings of the various browsers. Brief instructions are provided below on how to do this on the four most popular browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Click the 'Tools' icon in the upper right corner and select 'Internet options'. In the pop up window, select 'Privacy'. Here you can adjust your cookie settings. Or, click the following link: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/windows7/block-enable-or-allow-cookies and follow the instructions provided by your browser.

Google Chrome

Click the tool icon (wrench) in the upper right corner and select 'Settings'. Then select 'Show advanced settings'("Under the hood") and change the 'Privacy' settings. Or, click the following link: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-IT&hlrm=fr&hlrm=en and follow the instructions provided by your browser.

Mozilla Firefox
From the drop-down menu in the upper left corner, select 'Options'. In the pop up window, select 'Privacy'. Here you can adjust your cookie settings. Or, click the following link: http://support.mozilla.org/it-IT/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences and follow the instructions provided by your browser.

Safari
From the drop-down settings menu in the upper right corner, select 'Preferences'. Select "Security" and here you can adjust your cookie settings. Or, click the following link: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH19255 and follow the instructions provided by your browser.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage or disable third-party marketing or retargeting, visit www.youronlinechoices.com.

To disable analytics cookies and to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your browsing, you can download the browser add-in for disabling Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We will retain your cookie preferences by using a special cookie that has the features specified in the previous table.