Effective Date: January 1, 2025
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://lovingitaly.us
2. Introduction
Artours di Rina Bucci DBA “Loving Italy” (hereinafter referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you visit our website.
3. Purpose of Data Processing
The automatically collected data is used for the following purposes:
- Performance improvement
- Website analytics
4. Data Recipients
We may share automatically collected data with third-party services such as:
- Cloudflare: For content delivery network services.
- Google Analytics: To analyze website traffic and usage.
5. International Data Transfers
As a touring company based in Europe, we may transfer automatically collected data outside the EU to third-party service providers (e.g., Google Analytics). We ensure that appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, are in place to protect your data in accordance with applicable laws.
6. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
7. Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
8. Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
For more information on how to manage your cookie preferences, please refer to your browser’s settings or consult this guide.
9. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Please note that we do not control these external sites’ privacy practices and encourage users to review their privacy policies.
10. Who We Share Your Data With
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
11. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
12. User Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The right to access your personal data.
- The right to rectify inaccurate data.
- The right to request deletion of your data.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. You can also withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
13. What Rights You Have Over Your Data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
14. Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will inform users about changes by updating the privacy policy text on our website.
Feel free to make further adjustments or let me know if there’s anything else you’d like to add!