One cookie, and only if you ask for it.

01

Why there is only one

It follows from how the website is built. A cookie serves to remember something from one visit to the next, or to let someone else recognise you. The second never happens here; the first has a single case: the language.

• Only the language, only if you choose it. When you use the IT/EN switch, your browser stores the technical cookie lingua, containing nothing but it or en, for 365 days. When you come back to the main address of the website, the server reads it and opens the language you chose; without it, the website opens in Italian. It contains no identifier: it is the same for everyone who chose the same language.
• No external resources. Fonts, style sheets, images and scripts all come from the same server as this page. No fonts loaded from third parties, no libraries taken from a content delivery network.
• No analytics. We use no traffic analysis tools, neither our own nor third-party ones. We do not know how many people read this page, and we can live with that.
• No embedded content. No videos hosted elsewhere, no maps, no social media widgets, no review widgets.
• No forms. There is nothing to fill in, so there is nothing else to remember from one visit to the next.
• No restricted area. There are no accounts and no session to keep open.

02

The check, if you would rather not take our word for it

Everywhere else on the site we say that the numbers can be checked. It would be inconsistent to ask you to trust us right here, so we give you a way to look for yourself. It takes less than a minute and works on any computer.

03

The two families, for those who cannot tell them apart

Italian and European law divide cookies into two categories with very different rules. The distinction matters, because it decides whether a website has to ask for your consent or not.

The only cookie we use is a technical one and we install none from the second family, so there is no consent to collect. If you would rather not have it, you can delete or block it in your browser settings: the website still works, it will simply always open in Italian.

04

What the server records anyway

There is one thing we have to say, because it is true of every website and does not depend on cookies. When your browser requests a page, the server hosting it records the request in a technical log: IP address, date and time, page requested, browser type, outcome.

It serves to run and protect the website, not to recognise you: we do not build a profile from that log and we do not link two visits together. The purposes, retention periods and your rights are described in the privacy notice, Articles 2 and 4.

05

If it ever changes

If in future we added another cookie or a tool that requires them — traffic analytics, a contact form, a video hosted elsewhere — this page would change before the tool was switched on, the date at the top would show it, and a consent request would appear where the law requires it.

We have no plans to do so any time soon. We prefer a website that loads quickly, depends on nobody else's servers and does not need to ask you anything in order to be read.