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Cookie policy
Praxedia S.r.l. · Last updated: 2 August 2026
This site sets no cookies — no strictly necessary ones, no analytics ones, none from third parties. One piece of information is written to a visitor's device, and it is the choice they make about statistics. This page says which, where, for how long, why it requires no consent, and how to change it.
The Italian text is the authoritative one. This English version is a courtesy translation; where the two diverge, the Italian prevails.
1What this document covers
Cookies are small text files a website saves on a visitor's device, to remember something between one page and the next, or between one visit and another.
The rule that governs them, however, does not mention cookies. Art. 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC, transposed in Italy by art. 122 of D.Lgs. 196/2003, covers any storing of information, and any gaining of access to information already stored, in a user's terminal equipment — by whatever technology.
This document therefore also covers the equivalent technologies: browser local and session storage, tracking pixels, web beacons, device fingerprinting and similar identifiers. The distinction matters, because this site uses no cookies but does use local storage, and a policy that said only “no cookies” would be formally true and substantially incomplete.
Legal references: Directive 2002/58/EC, art. 5(3); D.Lgs. 196/2003, art. 122; the Italian data protection authority's guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools, provvedimento no. 231 of 10 June 2021.
3The one thing written to the device
When a visitor makes a choice in the panel at the foot of the page — accepting or declining visit statistics — that choice is recorded in the browser's local storage, so they are not asked again on every visit. It is the only thing this site writes to the device. Choose nothing and nothing is written.
| Key | Technology | Content | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| praxedia.analytics-consent.v1 | Browser local storage | “granted” or “denied” | Remembering the choice made about statistics, so the question is not put again on every visit | Until the visitor clears the site's data in their browser. It has no automatic expiry |
No consent is required because the storage is strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user: the service requested is, literally, not being asked the same question again. It is the same exemption in the second sentence of art. 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC that exempts the cookie a site uses to remember the consent it collected.
The value is sent to no server, cannot be read by third parties and is not linkable to a person: it is a preference that stays on the device of whoever expressed it. The site uses local storage for nothing else and keeps no other information on the device.
4Visit statistics
Statistics are collected with Plausible Analytics, a service of Plausible Insights OÜ (Estonia), hosted in the European Union. Plausible sets no cookies, writes nothing to the device and stores no persistent identifier.
The statistics show how many pages were viewed and which, which site the visit came from, the country, the device type and the browser. None of that is tied to an identifier that would make the same person recognisable on a later visit or on another site.
Because nothing is read from or written to the device, art. 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC is not engaged and no prior consent is due. The processing rests on the controller's legitimate interest in understanding the use of its own website (GDPR art. 6(1)(f)), and the right to object under GDPR art. 21 remains fully available — which is what the panel at the foot of the page makes immediate.
It is also why the site uses Plausible rather than Google Analytics. Google Analytics writes identifiers to the visitor's device and would therefore require prior consent — that is, a banner standing between the reader and the content. Here there is nothing to authorise: the panel does not ask permission, it offers a refusal.
5The panel at the foot of the page
The panel appears only to visitors who have not yet made a choice. It does not block the page, does not dim the content and holds nothing back pending a click: the statistics run either way, and what the panel offers is the ability to stop them.
The two buttons carry equal visual weight and take the same number of clicks. A prominent accept button beside a faded refusal is the pattern the Italian authority's guidelines object to, and there is no reason to reproduce it for a tool that collects nothing identifying in the first place.
The refusal is real: the analytics script is not loaded, on that visit or on any later one. This is not a preference declared to a vendor that goes on measuring anyway — the network request never leaves.
6Changing a choice already made
The panel does not reappear once a choice has been made. To change it, clear the data this site has stored in the browser: the preference disappears, the site treats the choice as not yet made, and the panel returns on the next visit.
Since that preference is the only thing the site keeps on the device, doing so costs nothing else: there is no session to re-establish, no basket to rebuild and no setting to restore.
| Browser | Path |
|---|---|
| Google Chrome | Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies / Site data → See all site data and permissions |
| Mozilla Firefox | Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Data |
| Apple Safari | Settings → Privacy → Manage Website Data |
| Microsoft Edge | Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data |
Alternatively, a private browsing window discards the preference when the window closes. If local storage is unavailable — disabled in the browser, or blocked in a private window — the choice still applies to the pages open in that session, but is not remembered afterwards.
7Legal bases at a glance
| Technology | In use | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Session cookies | No | — |
| Preference cookies (language, appearance) | No | — |
| Analytics cookies | No | — |
| Profiling or advertising cookies | No | — |
| Third-party cookies | No | — |
| Pixels, web beacons, fingerprinting | No | — |
| Local storage: the statistics preference | Yes, only after an explicit choice by the visitor | Art. 122 D.Lgs. 196/2003 and art. 5(3) Directive 2002/58/EC: storage strictly necessary to provide a service the user requested. No consent due |
| Aggregate statistics without cookies | Yes | GDPR art. 6(1)(f) — legitimate interest. Art. 5(3) is not engaged, because nothing is read from or written to the device |
8Recipients and transfers
The statistics stay in the European Union and involve no transfer to a third country. The statistics preference never leaves the visitor's device and therefore has no recipients.
The hosting provider, the basis for its transfer, the retention periods and the rights available are set out in the privacy notice, which this page supplements rather than replaces.
9Updates
This page is updated whenever what the site writes to a visitor's device changes. Every version carries the date of the last change at the top.
Were the site to introduce a cookie, or any other technology storing information on the device for purposes that are not strictly necessary, this page would be updated before it was introduced and the panel would become a request for prior consent, with the processing suspended until the visitor chose. Until then the sentence at the top stands literally: no cookies.