Privacy Policy: 

Thanks for visiting my website! I do respect your privacy. When it comes to your personal information, I believe in transparency, not surprises. That’s why I’ve set out here what personal information I collect, what I do with it and your choices and rights.

By using any of my notifications, you confirm you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy.

I collect your personal information regarding you or your device. This includes the following:

  • Information you provide to register for notifications about new articles, specifically email address, first name and last name.

  • Your marketing preferences.

  • The emails and other communications that you send us or otherwise contribute, such as comments to my blog articles. Please be aware that information on public parts of my site is available to others.

  • Information from your use of my site. This includes: IP addresses, preferences, web pages you visited prior to coming to my site, information about your browser, network or device (such as browser type and version, operating system, internet service provider, preference settings, unique device IDs and language and other regional settings), information about how you interact with my site (such as timestamps, clicks, scrolling, browsing times, searches, referral pages, load times, and problems you may encounter, such as loading errors).

I obtain personal information from various sources in two main ways:

  • You provide some of it directly (such as by registering for a notification).

  • I record some of it automatically when you use my site (including with technologies like cookies).

I use the personal information I obtain about you for the following purposes:

  • Communicate with you, including by sending you emails about new articles on my blog or other future news.

I process your personal information for the above purposes when:

  • You have consented to the use of your personal information in a particular way. When you consent, you can change your mind at any time.

  • I do not share your personal information with any other party.

You can also elect not to receive marketing communications by sending me an e-mail or by following the unsubscribe instructions in such communications.

Please note that, for technical reasons, there is likely to be a delay in deleting your personal information from my system when you ask me to delete it. I also will retain personal information in order to comply with the law, protect my rights, resolve disputes or enforce our legal terms or policies, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

The precise periods for which I keep your personal information vary depending on the nature of the information and why I need it. Factors I consider in determining these periods include the minimum required retention period prescribed by law or recommended as best practice, the period during which a claim can be made with respect to an agreement or other matter, whether the personal information has been aggregated or pseudonymized, and other relevant criteria. 

As Users may have a seasonal site or come back to my site after an inactive period, I don’t immediately delete your personal information after a short while of inactivity. Instead, I keep your personal information for a reasonable period of time, so it will be there for you if you come back.

You may delete your registration by contacting me at alessandra.ragazzi (at) icloud.com and I will delete the personal information I hold about you (unless I need to retain it for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy).

Please note that in the course of providing the site, I collect and maintain aggregated, anonymized or de-personalized information which I may retain indefinitely.

Personal information that you submit through the Services may be transferred to countries other than where you live, such as, for example, to our servers in the U.S. We also store personal information locally on the devices you use to access the Services.

Your personal information may be transferred to countries that do not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information.

My Website provider relies upon a number of means to transfer personal information which is subject to the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in accordance with Chapter V of the GDPR.  These include:

  • Standard data protection clauses. They transfer, in accordance with Article 46 of the GDPR, personal information to recipients that have entered into the European Commission approved contract for the transfer of personal data outside the European Economic Area.

  • Other means. We may, in accordance with Articles 45 and 46 of the GDPR, transfer personal information to recipients that are in a country the European Commission or a European data protection supervisory authority has confirmed, by decision, offers an adequate level of data protection, pursuant to an approved certification mechanism or code of conduct, together with binding, enforceable commitments from the recipient to apply the appropriate safeguards, including as regards data subjects’ rights, or to processors which have committed to comply with binding corporate rules.