§Privacy

Privacy & cookies

In short: this website sets no cookies of its own, uses only anonymous cookie-free analytics, no advertising and has no forms. The only data processed is the technical data needed to serve and protect the site, and whatever you send me if you write to me.

Data controller

Giovanni Ferraro, Florence (Italy). Contact for any privacy question: giovanniferraro96 [at] gmail [dot] com.

What data and why

1. Technical browsing data

When you open a page, your browser sends the server some technical data: IP address, date and time, requested page, browser and operating system. It is used only to deliver the page and protect the site from abuse and cyber attacks.

• Legal basis: the controller’s legitimate interest in running the site securely (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Who processes it: the site is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (Cloudflare Pages) acting as processor. Cloudflare may process data outside the European Union; it participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and uses the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
• Retention: technical logs are kept by Cloudflare only as long as needed for service security, under its own policies.

2. If you write to me or call me

If you email, call or WhatsApp me, I use your contact details and message only to reply and, if we work together, to manage the collaboration. Legal basis: pre-contractual steps taken at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). I keep messages as long as needed to handle the request and any legal obligations. Email is handled by Google (Gmail); WhatsApp messages by WhatsApp Ireland Ltd (Meta group), which you open yourself with the button.

Cookies

This website sets no cookies of its own, neither technical nor profiling. That is why there is no banner to accept.

Anonymous analytics

To know how many people visit the site and which pages they look at, I use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies, does not store your IP address and does not follow people across sites. I only see aggregated numbers: page views, country, device type and browser, referring site. I do not know who you are. Legal basis: legitimate interest in understanding how the site is used (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The provider is Cloudflare, Inc. (see above).

To protect the site from automated attacks, Cloudflare may in some cases set strictly necessary security cookies (for example __cf_bm, which lasts at most 30 minutes). They are required for the service, are not used to track you and do not require consent.

Site preferences (such as language) are not stored: you switch language only with the link at the top. The browser only remembers a number (gf-intro, in the browser’s local storage) to show a different name animation each time: it is not a cookie, holds no data about you and is never sent anywhere. You can delete it at any time from your browser settings.

Video, fonts and external links

• Fonts: typefaces are served by this site, not by Google Fonts or any other external service.
• Video: if the page shows a YouTube or Vimeo showreel, the video does not load until you press play. Only from then does that service receive data such as your IP address and may set its own cookies, under its own privacy policy.
• External links: LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Google Drive open on their own websites, which have their own privacy rules. This site does not embed their buttons or content.

Your rights

You can ask at any time to access, correct or delete your data, restrict or object to its processing, or receive it in a portable format (Arts. 15–22 GDPR) by writing to the address above. If you believe your data is handled improperly, you can lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali.

Data is never sold, shared with third parties for advertising, or used for automated decisions or profiling.

Security

The site is static (no database, no user accounts), served only over encrypted HTTPS and uses modern security headers. If you find a security issue, please report it to the address in security.txt.

Last updated: 15 November 2026.