Cookie Policy
What are cookies
Cookies are small text files that websites visited by users send to their terminals, where they are stored and then retransmitted to the same sites on subsequent visits.
Cookies used by Arduino
Cookies used by the Arduino site and their purpose. The site uses cookies, which have the function of allowing the proper functioning of some sections, for example, to access the private area of the website ("Strictly Necessary cookies"), to ensure certain customization features ("functional cookies"), to improve the browsing experience ("analytical cookies") and to help us to offer you personalized recommendations of products that you might like ("profiling cookies"). The first time you visit the website, you will be asked to accept (or not accept) cookies through a banner. You will be able to refuse to accept all or some cookies or you will be able to modify, also at a later date, the settings of your computer in order to know when you receive cookies or to be able to disable the function of automatic acceptance of cookies. The Website uses the following categories of cookies:
Cookie Categories
The website uses the following cookies categories:
Strictly Necessary cookies (or browsing cookies), which contribute to the operation of the Website, for example, to allow you to browse between pages and access the private area of the Website; the legal basis for the processing underlying the use of these cookies is the interest of Arduino to provide efficient and well-functioning services to its customers; the retention period of these cookies starts from the date of first access to the website until they are disabled.
Measurement cookies, which allow to acquire statistical information in aggregate and anonymous form, relating to the browsing mode; the legal basis of the processing underlying the use of these cookies is the interest of Arduino to provide efficient and well-functioning services to its customers; the retention period of these cookies starts from the date on which they are enabled on the site until they are disabled. You may accept and disable – at your convenience – these cookies using the cookie management tool.
Targeting and advertising cookies, which allow us to customize advertisements according to your interests and preferences, in order to send you only advertisements that you may consider relevant or interesting. The legal basis for the processing underlying the use of these cookies is the consent of the data subject; the retention period of these cookies starts from the date on which they are enabled on the website until they are disabled, and in any case no longer than 12 months. You may accept and disable – at your convenience – these cookies using the cookie management tool.
List of Cookies
Www.arduino.cc uses so-called “technical” Cookies and other similar Trackers to carry out activities that are strictly necessary for the operation or delivery of the Service.
Third-party Trackers
Traffic optimization and distribution
This type of service allows www.arduino.cc to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.
Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between www.arduino.cc and the User's browser.
Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information of the User are transferred.
Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.)
Cloudflare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by Cloudflare Inc.
The way Cloudflare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through www.arduino.cc, i.e., communication between www.arduino.cc and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from www.arduino.cc to be collected.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Further information about Personal Data
iubenda Consent Solution localStorage (iubenda srl)
iubenda ConS JS library localStorage (IUB_DATA) temporarily stores pending data in a storage space internal to the User's browser (localStorage) until it's received by the API, then it is deleted.
Personal Data processed: Cookies.
Place of processing: Italy – Privacy Policy.
Spam and bots protection
This type of service analyzes the traffic of www.arduino.cc, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from unwanted parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as spam or protecting it from malicious bots activities.
Cloudflare Bot Management (Cloudflare, Inc.)
Cloudflare Bot Management is a malicious bot protection and management service provided by Cloudflare, Inc.
Personal Data processed: app information, Application opens, browser information, browsing history, city, clicks, country, county, custom events, device information, device logs, geography/region, interaction events, IP address, keypress events, language, latitude (of city), launches, longitude (of city), metro area, motion sensor events, mouse movements, number of sessions, operating systems, page events, page views, province, scroll position, scroll-to-page interactions, search history, session duration, session statistics, state, touch events, Trackers, Usage Data, video views and ZIP/Postal code.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __cf_bm: 3 seconds
- __cfruid: duration of the session
- cf_ob_info: 3 seconds
- cf_use_ob: 3 seconds
- cfmrk_cic: 3 months
Functionality
Www.arduino.cc uses Trackers to enable basic interactions and functionalities, allowing Users to access selected features of the Service and facilitating the User's communication with the Owner.
Registration and authentication
By registering or authenticating, Users allow www.arduino.cc to identify them and give them access to dedicated services.
Depending on what is described below, third parties may provide registration and authentication services. In this case, www.arduino.cc will be able to access some Data, stored by these third-party services, for registration or identification purposes.
Some of the services listed below may also collect Personal Data for targeting and profiling purposes; to find out more, please refer to the description of each service.
Auth0 (Auth0, Inc)
Auth0 is a registration and authentication service provided by Auth0, Inc. To simplify the registration and authentication process, Auth0 can make use of third-party identity providers and save the information on its platform.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, email address, first name, last name, password, picture and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Tag Management
This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on www.arduino.cc in a centralized fashion.
This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Segment (Twilio Ireland Limited)
Segment is a tag management service provided by Twilio Ireland Limited.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- __storejs__: indefinite
- __tld__: duration of the session
- ajs%3Acookies: duration of the session
- ajs%3Atest: duration of the session
- ajs_anonymous_id: 1 year
- ajs_group_id: 1 year
- ajs_group_properties: indefinite
- ajs_user_id: 1 year
- ajs_user_traits: indefinite
- seg_first_url: 1 year
- seg_first_utm: 1 year
- segmentio*: indefinite
Experience
Www.arduino.cc uses Trackers to improve the quality of the user experience and enable interactions with external content, networks and platforms.
Displaying content from external platforms
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of www.arduino.cc and interact with them.
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Google Fonts (Google LLC)
Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows www.arduino.cc to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
YouTube video widget (Google LLC)
YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google LLC that allows www.arduino.cc to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- PREF: 8 months
- VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: 8 months
- YSC: duration of the session
Interaction with data collection platforms and other third parties
This type of service allows Users to interact with data collection platforms or other services directly from the pages of www.arduino.cc for the purpose of saving and reusing data.
If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service.
Hotjar Recruit User Testers (Hotjar Ltd.)
The Hotjar Recruit User Testers widget is a service for interacting with the Hotjar data collection platform provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Trackers, Usage Data and various types of Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
Interaction with external social networks and platforms
This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of www.arduino.cc.
The interaction and information obtained through www.arduino.cc are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on www.arduino.cc isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.
Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (X Corp.)
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by X Corp.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- personalization_id: 2 years
Interaction with online survey platforms
This type of service allows Users to interact with third-party online survey platforms directly from the pages of www.arduino.cc.
If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service.
Hotjar Poll & Survey widgets (Hotjar Ltd.)
The Hotjar Poll & Survey widgets are services that enable interaction with the Hotjar platform provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
Measurement
Www.arduino.cc uses Trackers to measure traffic and analyze User behavior to improve the Service.
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
Meta Events Manager (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited)
Meta Events Manager is an analytics service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited. By integrating the Meta pixel, Meta Events Manager can give the Owner insights into the traffic and interactions on www.arduino.cc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
- _fbp: 3 months
Heat mapping and session recording
Heat mapping services are used to display the areas of www.arduino.cc that Users interact with most frequently. This shows where the points of interest are. These services make it possible to monitor and analyze web traffic and keep track of User behavior.
Some of these services may record sessions and make them available for later visual playback.
Hotjar Heat Maps & Recordings (Hotjar Ltd.)
Hotjar is a session recording and heat mapping service provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic „Do Not Track” headers. This means the browser can tell its script not to collect any of the User's data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
Marketing
Www.arduino.cc uses Trackers to deliver personalized marketing content based on User behavior and to operate, serve and track ads.
Advertising
This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on www.arduino.cc, possibly based on User interests.
This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
Some of the services listed below may use Trackers for identifying Users, behavioral retargeting i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, or to measure ads performance. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.
Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section "How to opt-out of interest-based advertising" in this document.
LinkedIn conversion tracking (LinkedIn Insight Tag) (LinkedIn Corporation)
LinkedIn conversion tracking (LinkedIn Insight Tag) is an analytics and behavioral targeting service provided by LinkedIn Corporation that connects data from the LinkedIn advertising network with actions performed on www.arduino.cc. The LinkedIn Insight Tag tracks conversions that can be attributed to LinkedIn ads and enables to target groups of Users on the base of their past use of www.arduino.cc.
Users may opt out of behavioral targeting features through their device settings, their LinkedIn account settings or by visiting the AdChoices opt-out page.
Personal Data processed: device information, Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- AnalyticsSyncHistory: 1 month
- JSESSIONID: duration of the session
- UserMatchHistory: 1 month
- bcookie: 1 year
- bscookie: 1 year
- lang: duration of the session
- lidc: 1 day
- lms_ads: 1 month
- lms_analytics: 1 month
Meta ads conversion tracking (Meta pixel) (Meta Platforms Ireland Limited)
Meta ads conversion tracking (Meta pixel) is an analytics service provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited that connects data from the Meta Audience Network with actions performed on www.arduino.cc. The Meta pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Meta Audience Network.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt out.
Storage duration:
- _fbp: 3 months
- fr: 3 months
X Ads conversion tracking (X Corp.)
X Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by X Corp. that connects data from the X advertising network with actions performed on www.arduino.cc.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Storage duration:
- personalization_id: 2 years
Hotjar Form Analysis & Conversion Funnels (Hotjar Ltd.)
Hotjar is an analytics service provided by Hotjar Ltd.
Hotjar honors generic Do Not Track headers. This means your browser can tell its script not to collect any of your data. This is a setting that is available in all major browsers. Find Hotjar’s opt-out information here.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: Malta – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- _hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress: 30 minutes
- _hjCachedUserAttributes: duration of the session
- _hjClosedSurveyInvites: 1 year
- _hjDonePolls: 1 year
- _hjFirstSeen: duration of the session
- _hjIncludedInSessionSample: 30 minutes
- _hjLocalStorageTest: duration of the session
- _hjMinimizedPolls: 1 year
- _hjSession*: 30 minutes
- _hjSessionRejected: duration of the session
- _hjSessionResumed: duration of the session
- _hjSessionTooLarge: 1 hour
- _hjSessionUser*: 1 year
- _hjSessionUser_*: 2 years
- _hjShownFeedbackMessage: 1 year
- _hjTLDTest: duration of the session
- _hjUserAttributesHash: duration of the session
- _hjViewportId: duration of the session
- _hjid: 1 year
Microsoft Advertising (Microsoft Corporation)
Microsoft Advertising is an advertising service provided by Microsoft Corporation.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- MUID: 2 years
- _uetmsclkid: 3 months
- _uetmsclkid: indefinite
- _uetsid: 1 day
- _uetsid: indefinite
- _uetvid: 2 years
- _uetvid: indefinite
Managing contacts and sending messages
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.
Sendgrid (Sendgrid)
Sendgrid is an email address management and message sending service provided by Sendgrid Inc.
Personal Data processed: email address and Trackers.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
Remarketing and behavioral targeting
This type of service allows www.arduino.cc and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of www.arduino.cc by the User.
This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
Services of this kind usually offer the possibility to opt out of such tracking. In addition to any opt-out feature offered by any of the services below, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section "How to opt-out of interest-based advertising" in this document.
LinkedIn Website Retargeting (LinkedIn Corporation)
LinkedIn Website Retargeting is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by LinkedIn Corporation that connects the activity of www.arduino.cc with the LinkedIn advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- AnalyticsSyncHistory: 1 month
- JSESSIONID: duration of the session
- UserMatchHistory: 1 month
- bcookie: 1 year
- bscookie: 1 year
- lang: duration of the session
- lidc: 1 day
- lissc: 1 year
- lms_ads: 1 month
- lms_analytics: 1 month
Criteo Dynamic Retargeting (Criteo SA)
Criteo Dynamic Retargeting is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Criteo SA., that connects the activity of www.arduino.cc with the Criteo advertising network.
As part of the operation of www.arduino.cc, the Owner and Criteo SA are joint controllers for the Criteo Dynamic Retargeting advertising service.
For this purpose, the Owner has entered into a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with Criteo SA which can be reviewed here.
Users may at any time withdraw their consent to the processing of their Personal Data by Criteo and opt out of personalized advertising by clicking the “Disable Criteo services” button in Criteo’s privacy policy.
Personal Data processed: Trackers and Usage Data.
Place of processing: France – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.
Storage duration:
- criteo_fast_bid: 7 days
- criteo_fast_bid_expires: 7 days
- cto_bundle: 2 years
- cto_optout: 5 years
- optout: 5 years
- uid: 2 years
How to deactivate technical cookies
You may deny your consent to the use of cookies through specific settings in your browser. Some features of the Website may not work properly if you do not use cookies.
Below you will find links explaining how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers (for other browsers you may wish to use, we suggest you look for this option in the help function of the software, normally available by clicking on the F1 button)
Internet Explorer: Click on the Tools button and then on Internet Options. Click on the Privacy tab and under Settings move the slider up to block all cookies
Google Chrome: Click on the menu in the browser toolbar. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the "Privacy" section, click the Content Settings button. Turn off "Allow sites to save and read cookie data".
Mozilla Firefox: Click on the menu button and select Options. Select the Privacy panel. Under History Settings: select use custom settings. To enable cookies, flag Accept cookies from websites; to disable cookies unflag it.
Safari: Click on 'Safari' in the menu bar, then 'Preferences'. Now click on 'Privacy', then on 'Details' to select the site, then select 'Remove
Alternatively, you may disable only Google Analytics cookies, using the opt-out add-on provided by Google for major browsers https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it
