Alessandro Giovannini and privacy protection

This Privacy Policy is intended to describe the management modalities of this site and the references to the processing of personal data of users/visitors who consult it.

This notice is given, pursuant to art. 13 of Legislative Decree no. 196/03 -Code for the protection of personal data-, to those who interact with the web services provided by Alessandro Giovannini, electronically accessible on this site. The data controller is Alessandro Giovannini.
The notice is based on Recommendation no. 2/2001 that the European authorities for the protection of personal data, gathered in the Group established by art. 29 of Directive n. 95/46/EC, adopted on 17th May 2001 to establish some minimum requirements for the online collection of personal data and, in particular, the modes, timing and nature of the information that the data controllers must provide to users when they connect to web pages, regardless of the purpose of the connection. We therefore invite you to read our Privacy Policy, illustrated below.

Scope of communication of the data

The given personal data may be disclosed to third parties to meet the legal obligations, executing orders coming from legitimated public authorities or to assert or defend a legal claim.
Types of processed data and purpose of processing

1. Navigation data:

The computer systems and software procedures used to operate this website acquire, during their normal operation, some personal data that are later sent implicitly through the Internet communication protocols. This information is not collected to be associated with identified people but, by its own nature, could, through processing and associations with data held by third parties, allow to identify the users. This category of data includes IP addresses or domain names of the computers used by users connecting to the site, URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier) of the requested resources, the time of request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the file size obtained as a response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters regarding the operating system and computer environment of the user. These data are used only to obtain anonymous statistical information about the site use and to check its correct functioning and are deleted immediately after processing.

2. Data supplied voluntarily by users/visitors:

If users/visitors connecting to this website send their personal data to access certain services or to make requests via e-mail, this involves the acquisition by Alessandro Giovannini of the sender’s address and/or any other personal data that will be used exclusively to answer the request or to provide the service. The personal data provided by users/visitors will be communicated to third parties only if the disclosure is necessary to comply with the requests of the users/visitors themselves.
Processing method

The personal data are processed by means of automated tools for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which they have been collected. Specific security measures are taken to prevent data loss, illicit or improper use and unauthorized accesses.
Optional provision of data

Apart from what is specified for the navigation data, users/visitors are free to provide their personal data. Their absence can only lead to the inability to fulfil the request.
Place of data processing

The processing related to the web services of the sites mentioned above take place at the corporate office and/or at the headquarters of the website hosting and/or management company and are only handled by technical personnel of the Offices in charge of the processing or by other people responsible for occasional maintenance operations. No data coming from the web service is communicated or disclosed. The personal data provided by the users requesting the sending of informative material are used only to perform the required service and are communicated to third parties only if this is necessary for that purpose.

Rights of the interested parties

The subjects to whom the personal data refer are entitled to receive, at any time, confirmation of the existence or non-existence of such data, to know the content and origin, to verify the correctness or to request an integration, update or correction (art. 7 of Legislative Decree no. 196/03). In compliance with the above-mentioned article, cancellation, change into anonymous form or block of the data can be requested, if the data have been processed disregarding the law in force; for legitimate reasons, data processing can also be opposed.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are pieces of information that a server can send to your PC, smartphone or tablet when you visit a website or use a social network. Then, the server that transmitted them can read and record the cookies that are on your PC, smartphone or tablet to get information of various type.

Cookies have different functions: in many cases, they are useful because browsing is made easier and faster, as happens with technical cookies, used for example to save the language preferences or a shopping cart. In other cases, instead, cookies are used to monitor users while browsing; the so-called profiling cookies record information about what you buy or might want to buy, analysing your readings, your hobbies, your travels, to customize the advertising that is shown to you when you open your e-mail or browse a social network. Then, there are third-party cookies, that are pieces of information recorded from sites other than those you visited and that are used for profiling purposes.

Further information is available on the website of Privacy Authority

The cookies we use

Two types of cookies can be used on the site: ‘session cookies’ and ‘persistent cookies’:

  • ‘Session cookies’ are temporary cookies that remain on the device until the moment you leave the site.
  • A ‘persistent cookie’ stays on your device for a longer period of time or until you delete it manually.

The cookies used by our website

1. Technical cookies

The technical cookies are those whose use does not require the user’s consent. These cookies are essential to allow you to surf a website and use all its functions. Without these cookies, which are absolutely necessary, a website could not provide certain services or functions and the navigation would not be smooth and easy as it should be. A cookie of this type is also used to store the decision of a user on the use of cookies on the website. Other technical cookies are those that allow, for example, to save the language preferences or the shopping cart.

1.2 WordPress cookies

This site has been developed on the WordPress platform, thus it uses cookies implemented by that platform. The stored cookies address all those who registered an account on a WordPress blog and those who comment on the articles.

The cookies used by WordPress are:

  • wordpress_[hash]
  • wordpress_logged_in_[hash]
  • wp-settings- {time}-[UID]

All these cookies are persistent and are released to ensure a better browsing experience on this site.

2. Profiling cookies

This site does NOT use cookies of this type. The advertising cookies are installed to show the site visitors contents related to their preferences. They can then be used to show advertising contents targeted to the interests of the person. The cookies of this type work together with third-party sites and can keep track of the past navigation on pages present on different domains. The cookies of this type usually keep track of the user’s IP address and other pieces of information, some of which may be personal.

3. Third-party cookies

These cookies are used to collect information on the use of the site made by users in an anonymous form such as: visited pages, time spent, origins of source traffic, geographic origin, age, gender and interests for statistical purposes and marketing campaigns. These cookies are sent from third-party domains outside the site. This website does NOT use third-party cookies and therefore does not acquire information on the user’s behaviour on the website.

How to check or delete cookies

Most browsers are configured to accept, control or possibly disable cookies through the settings. For more information about cookies management visit the appropriate links:

For further information about cookies and to manage the cookies preferences (first and/or third-party) you can also visit the platform www.youronlinechoices.com.

Social network buttons and widgets

To make sure that the contents of a site can be shared on social networks by the visitors of the site, it is possible to integrate in the pages the tools (widgets) made available by the social networks themselves. These tools (usually code blocks inserted in the pages of the host site) can collect third-party cookies installed by the social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.); the site does not share any information with these widgets.

For more information about the cookies of the major social networks you can visit the website:

Please note that if you do not allow our use of cookies and you decide to disable the cookies that we use, this may affect your user experience while visiting our website.