Principles of this site

This site allows you to read and acquire the information made available by us through articles freely and free of charge. The fact that you read our pages and/or see images of them does not in any way allow anyone to know your personal identifying information.

Safe use of this site

This site does not contain adult materials. There are articles that deal with sensitive topics, related to issues of the sexual sphere for example, but they are always dealt with in an informative manner, with an explanatory, technical, scientific slant, and in any case not morbid or scabrous. However, minors under 18 years of age are advised to view such content in the company of their parents.

Privacy policy of this site

This site does not collect some type of personal and identifying information about users when they log in or during their visit. No registration of any kind is required for access and consultation. The site does not install cookies of any kind. Use of or access to this site implies acceptance of the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics

This site is monitored by Google's Analytics system, which serves solely and exclusively to evaluate the number of accesses to individual pages and related statistical data. This system is based on cookies and allows us to monitor the readers' liking of individual pages and improve the content more and more. However, the Analytics system does not collect personal data that would allow user identification, only general statistical data. For any clarification, please consult Google's privacy page at. http://www.google.com/intl/it/privacy.html .

Whenever you access this site, your IP address and the browser you are using are recorded by Google Analytics. This information is recorded for all users who access this site. In addition, some information about your browser is saved by Google through the use of cookies. A cookie is a data file (clearly not a virus or trojan) saved on your computer that contains technical information about you.

Link

This site contains links to other Web sites. Obviously, we are not responsible for the privacy policies of other sites. We encourage our users, when they leave our site, to read the privacy statements of all Web sites that collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by this site. This site does not accept the inclusion of links to sites dealing with adult topics, pornography, gambling, unauthorized chemicals and pharmaceuticals, racist propaganda, political activism, illegal or suspected illegal activities, and of course, although it goes without saying, child pornography.

Third-party advertising

Advertising information that appears on this site is published (or “provided”) directly by third-party advertisers or Google AdSense. In these cases, such advertisers may trace your IP address. Such advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies, such as JavaScript or so-called “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”), to monitor the efficiency of their advertisements and to personalize their content. Advertisers can then recognize your computer every time an advertisement is sent to you, so as to measure its efficiency and personalize its content. In doing so, they can record information such as the pages on which users viewed the advertisements and which of them were opened. These companies may use this data (which does not include your name, address, email address, or phone number) about your visits to this and other websites to create advertisements about products and services that may be of interest to you.

In any case, this site does not have access to this type of information and cannot control the cookies downloaded by these advertisers. Such advertisers, however, have no opportunity to acquire information through this site. This Privacy Policy covers the use of any cookies by this site, but not the possible use of these or other tracking technologies by advertisers.

Specific to Google AdSense, this site may allow it to use the “DoubleClick DART cookie” , employed by Google in ads on publishers' websites that run AdSense ads for content. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and view or click on an ad, a cookie is created in that end user's browser. The data collected through these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers serve and manage ads on their sites and across the Web. As an independent vendor, Google uses cookies to serve ads on this site. Use of the DART cookie allows Google to serve ads to our users based on their visit our sites and other Internet sites outside of us. Users can opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google's privacy policy page for the content network and ads http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Email security

This site, having no active system to collect, either voluntarily or randomly, the personal data of users is not required to make use of systems for their protection and safeguard. Emails sent to the editorial office, as well as the email address used, are stored on special external disks that are not connected to the network and as such cannot be hacked from the outside, cannot be viewed by third parties, and cannot be disclosed. These data remain strictly for the use of the editorial staff and are not given to third parties.

Terms of use, notices, and revisions

Users' use of this site and related disputes arising therefrom are subject to this Privacy Policy, as well as the Terms of Use and all measures taken in the event of disputes, including arbitration, limitation of damages, and choice of jurisdiction. This site reserves the right to change the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use at any time. Intangible changes and explanations will be effective immediately, while tangible changes will be effective within 30 days from the time they are posted on the site. Changes made will always be posted, and on the header of this page, the date from which these changes will be effective will be indicated. We encourage you to consult this Policy regularly so that you are always up-to-date.

Contact with the Web site

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us through our email on the home page.

Comments and privacy

This site, and all of its thematic channels, allow the inclusion of comments at the footer of published articles. For security reasons we are forced to require users who wish to post a comment to provide their email and name, or pseudonym. The system also records the IP of the computer from which the comment originates. The name or pseudonym is made public to accompany the comment. The originating IP and email, on the other hand, remain private and are not displayed for any reason. These data are stored exclusively on the server and rigidly protected by special protection systems “firewall, etc. of the server by the company that manages it. These data are not disclosed or made available to third parties.

The editorial staff checks and screens all comments, and moderates their content. The editorial staff reserves the right to edit the text of the comments to remove terms and phrases offensive to individuals, groups or the common sense of morality, as well as to remove swear words and dirty terms; delete any comments deemed illegal, offensive or discriminatory; ban as spam comments that are blatantly provocative, aggressive, offensive and pornographic, child pornography or political propaganda; delete and report to the appropriate authority (Postal Police) those comments that would detect the suspicion of being attempts to solicit minors. The editorial office also does not allow the inclusion of comments that contain elements of advertising promotion, links to sites of any kind and advertising, covert or overt.

Updates

In addition to updates to these rules made by the editorial staff as needed, this site (and all thematic channels linked to it) automatically comply with privacy updates made by Google, as they are linked to its Adsense banner circuit.

Use of Cookies

Definitions

Cookies are short text fragments (letters and/or numbers) that allow the web server to store information on the client (the browser) to be reused during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even days later (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, based on user preferences, by the individual browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Similar technologies, such as, for example, web beacons, transparent GIFs, and all forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, can be used to collect information about user behavior and service usage.

In the remainder of this document we will refer to cookies and all similar technologies by simply using the term “cookies.”.

Provision of consent

The user expresses his or her consent to the use of cookies by continuing to browse the website, either by taking active action through the selection of an element contained on the page below the banner (by way of example by clicking on an image or at a link) or by clicking on the “OK” button in the banner itself.

Types of cookies

By visiting this site you may receive cookies from both the site you visit (“owners”) and from sites operated by other organizations (“third parties”). The presence of the latter involves the transmission of cookies to and from the sites operated by these third parties. The management of information collected by “third parties” is governed by the relevant disclosures to which please refer. For greater transparency and convenience, the web addresses of the various disclosures and cookie management methods are listed in the table next to each “third party.”.

Based on the characteristics and use of cookies, we can distinguish different categories:

Technical Cookies: are those used for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide such service. They are not used for any further purposes and are normally installed directly by the owner or operator of the website.

Analytics cookies: are used directly by the site operator to collect information, in aggregate form, about the number of users and how they visit the site

PURPOSE	PROVENANCE	INFORMATIVE	DURATION
Monitoring traffic acquisition campaigns	GoogleAdwords	Click here	Persistent
Trackingvisits	GoogleAnalytics	Click here	Persistent

Profiling cookies: allow the user to navigate according to a set of selected criteria (e.g., language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service rendered to the user.

PURPOSE	PROVENANCE	INFORMATIVE	DURATION
Banner Advertising	DoubleClick	Click here	Persistent
Banner Advertising	GoogleAdsense	Click here	Persistent

Cookie Management

Users can also decide whether or not to accept cookies using their browser settings.

Disabling “third-party” cookies does not affect navigability in any way.

The setting can be defined specifically for different sites and web applications. In addition, the best browsers allow different settings to be defined for “proprietary” and “third-party” cookies.

As an example, in Firefox, through the menu Tools->Options->Privacy, you can access a control panel where you can define whether or not to accept different types of cookies and proceed to remove them.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/it/kb/Gestione%20dei%20cookie

Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/it-it/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9

Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.00/it/cookies.html

Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677?viewlocale=it_IT

Consequences of refusal to respond

If the Data Subject has not given consent to the processing of personal data necessary for the use of a feature or service, we will be unable to provide that feature or service.

Third parties

This site complies with the Cookie law mediate special plugin acceptance of the use of cookies in navigation. Our site does not collect any information and does not use cookies. However, within our site - in terms of cookies - third-party scripts are used such as:

• Google Adsense
• Google Analytics
• Yoast
• Amazon
• Webperformance

Update May 2018

Who we are

The address of this website is https://www.unitedstatesofitali.it

What data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comment form and also the visitor's IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your e-mail address (which we call a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service is available here https://automattic.com/privacy. After your comment is approved, your profile picture is publicly visible in the context of your comment.

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 the images on the website.

Contact form

On this website there is a contact page that contains a form through which you can send an e-mail. The data collected are the e-mail address and the first and last name, if actually affixed by the user. Neither of these data are used for marketing purposes and are not recorded in special databases.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you can choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. They are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your information again when you leave a comment. These cookies will remain for one year. If you have an account and access this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, several cookies will be set to save your login information and screen options. Login cookies remain for two days and screen option cookies remain for one year. If you select “remember me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved on your browser. This cookie does not include any personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the newly edited article. It expires after 1 day.

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 exactly the same way that the visitor visited the other website.

Privacy Policy

This site allows users to read and acquire the information posted free of charge. The site does not collect any kind of data or identifying and personal information about users at the time they log on and for as long as they remain logged on. There is no restriction on access, no cookies of any kind are installed.

Access to this site implies acceptance of what is written in this Privacy Policy.

Google Analytics

This site is monitored with Google Analytics for purely statistical and access counting purposes. The system is based on the use of cookies and allows us to get an accurate picture of users' liking of particular content. Every time someone logs on to this site, the IP address and type of browser used are recorded by the system mediate the use of cookies.

Google Analytics does not collect personally identifiable information about users. For doubts and insights we refer you to google's privacy page:

• http://www.google.com/intl/it/privacy.html.

Link

This site contains some links to other websites, for whose regulations regarding Privacy we are not responsible. We therefore encourage you, when you leave our site, to read the Privacy statements of the other sites you visit.

Therefore, this regulation applies solely and exclusively to the information contained on this site.

Advertisement

This site is affiliated, for advertisements, with Google Adsense. We therefore refer you to their information page regarding the use of cookies for display ads and user privacy regulations:

• http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Comments and privacy

This site allows you to comment on the articles you view, and the editorial staff undertakes to moderate their content before approving their publication, reserving the right to censor, in its sole discretion, comments deemed to be spam, vulgar, offensive or otherwise improper.

The system automatically records the IP of the computer from which the comment came; this information is recorded by the server and not disclosed or made public in any way.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your information with anyone.

How long we keep your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is how we can recognize and remove any follow-up comments, instead of keeping them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, change, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username, which they cannot change). website administrators can see and change this information. There is user registration on this site and at any time any user can change and/or delete their information.

What rights do 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 from the site with personal data about you. This does not include data that we are required to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments can be checked through an automatic spam detection service.

Your contact information

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Additional information

How we protect your data

The little data we do collect is protected through a system of unwanted access protection called Wordfence, as well as in compliance with password security diligence standards.

What data breach procedures are in place

IP blocking, password changes, site security recalibration.

From which third parties do we receive data

We do not receive data from third parties.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data.

None.

Industry disclosure requirements

European standards on GDPR in general can be found at this address.