Cookie policy
Cookies and similar tools
This page describes what the site stores in your browser and how you can manage your choices. Courtesy translation: the Italian version prevails. Version of 31 October 2026.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small files or identifiers saved in your browser that let a site work, remember preferences or enable services. Technical ones are necessary and need no consent; non-anonymised statistics, profiling and marketing cookies may be used only after you consent.
2. What this site uses
The site uses a technical cookie to remember the choice you made in the banner, anonymous cookie-free statistics (Matomo) and, only if you consent to the "Statistics" category, the Google Analytics 4 cookies described below. There are no marketing cookies or other tracking tools such as pixels, local storage or fingerprinting.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| upb_consent | Technical, first party | Stores the preferences expressed in the cookie banner (accepted categories, version and date of the choice). | 6 months |
| _ga | Statistics, third party (Google) — consent only | Distinguishes users for aggregate Google Analytics 4 statistics. | 13 months |
| _ga_* | Statistics, third party (Google) — consent only | Keeps the state of the Google Analytics 4 measurement session. | 13 months |
3. Categories and consent
- Necessary: always on, essential for the site to work and to remember your choices.
- Statistics: the anonymous Matomo statistics use no cookies and are always on; Google Analytics 4 is active only if you consent, in aggregate form with a truncated/anonymised IP address; you can withdraw consent at any time.
- Marketing: not used at the moment. There is no remarketing and no profiling.
4. Anonymous statistics (Matomo)
To understand in aggregate how the site is used, we use Matomo, analytics software installed on a server located in the European Union. Matomo is configured not to use cookies or store identifiers on your device, to honour your browser's “Do Not Track” signal, not to detect browser features, to truncate the IP address and to produce aggregate statistics only (pages visited, traffic source, device type), without profiling individual visitors or combining the data with other information. The data is not disclosed to anyone else for their own purposes and is kept for a maximum of 25 months, then deleted. With these settings, the statistics fall among the tools for which the Italian data protection authority's Guidelines of 10 June 2021 do not require consent; processing is based on the controller's legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in knowing how the site is used in order to improve it.
You can choose not to be counted in the anonymous statistics at any time, even though no cookies are used: use the control below. If you do, your browser stores a technical preference cookie (matomo_ignore) that only serves to remember this choice.
5. Google Analytics
If you consent to the "Statistics" category, the site loads Google Analytics 4, an analytics service by Google Ireland Limited that uses cookies and similar technologies to collect aggregate data on how the site is used (pages visited, traffic source, device type). Your IP address is truncated/anonymised before storage and data is kept for 14 months, then automatically deleted. Processing is based solely on your consent (Art. 6.1.a GDPR) and may involve a transfer of data to the United States under Google's standard contractual clauses. You can withdraw consent at any time with the button, or install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on. Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.
6. How the banner works
On your first visit the banner lets you accept, reject or customise the optional categories, with equal prominence. Closing the banner with the “X” counts as a rejection. The banner does not reappear for six months unless the tools we use change significantly, and continued scrolling is not treated as consent.
7. Changing or withdrawing your choices
You can change your mind at any time with the button, also available in the footer of every page. You can also delete or block cookies from your browser settings; in that case the banner may appear again.
8. Third-party services
Apart from Google Analytics (consent only, see above), the site embeds no other third-party content such as maps or videos, and its fonts are hosted on our own server. The Google Maps link on the contact page opens an external page: from then on Google's terms and cookie policy apply.
9. Legal references
Art. 122 of Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code), Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Italian data protection authority's Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools of 10 June 2021. For the processing of personal data see the privacy policy.