Cookie and Privacy policy

Cookie policy

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Our cookies help us:

We do not use cookies to:

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

More about our Cookies

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

There is no way to prevent these cookies to being set, other than block all the cookies in your browser for this site. The site may still work without cookies enabled but losing some functionalities, like the possibility to remember preferred language or to properly browse search results.

Third party functions

This site includes functionality provided by third parties. At the moment this site includes the following, which uses cookies:

1) Embedded e-book, powered by PUB HTML5 (or Publitas for mobile devices).

Disabling these cookies does not break the main functions offered by this third party service, so This Website disable this cookies by default*, unless your explicit consent is granted by clicking agree on the Cookie Consent Banner. However, some functions, like using bookmarks, will not work with the restrictions applied to disable cookies. Therefore, if you don’t want those third party cookies set, it is advisable to block third party cookies in your browser, allowing This Website to remove the restrictions, recovering lost functionalities.
*Provided that you are using a compatible modern browser.

PUB HTML5 uses cookies to gather statistics on how you got there and what e-book you seen. Have a look at their privacy policy for details.

2) Anonymous Visitor Statistics

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics, such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what pages they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before, helping us to improve the development of our services.

We use Google Analytics. Here follows a brief summary of their privacy policy, with links to their extended privacy policy and to opt out instructions.

Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Ireland Limited)

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of This Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening User’s IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

To get rid of the Cookie Consent Banner you have to either agree to this cookie policy - by clicking the “Agree” button - or completely disable cookies in your browser.

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Privacy Policy

Personal Data collected for the following purposes and using the following services

Contact form (This Website)

By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes This Website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

Personal Data collected

Comment form (This Website)

Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this website.
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments. This Website has its own internal comment system.

Personal Data collected

Registration and authentication. At the moment this is a private service only (This Website)

By registering or authenticating, Users allow this website to identify them and give them access to dedicated services.

Direct registration (This Website)

Users at the moment are registered directly by myself, on their request.

Personal Data collected

Spam protection

This type of services analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing User’s Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as spam.

Akismet (Automattic Inc.)

Akismet is a spam protection service provided by Automattic Inc.

Personal Data collected

Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

Data Controller and Owner

Antonio Ranesi,
Via di Donna Olimpia, 134
00152 Rome - Italy
privacymelacotta@antonioperacrudaranesi.it

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page, that is last update date below.

Published on: 14 Mar 2016
Last update: