Privacy notice

This page explains what personal data is processed when you visit Cargonary. Version of 15 November 2026.

In brief

• The site uses no analytics or advertising cookies.
• We count page views with our own system, without cookies, and do not store IP addresses.
• Forms (contact, newsletter) collect only what you type in.
• No advertising and no profiling.

Controller

The controller is the publisher of Cargonary, Geremia Signorella, sole trader. You can reach him at redazione@cargonary.com. Further details are in the legal notice.

Browsing data

The site is hosted by Vercel Inc. Like any hosting service, its servers log some visit data for technical and security reasons, including the IP address, date and time, the page requested and the browser type. This is needed to run the site and protect it from abuse. The legal basis is the controller’s legitimate interest.

Vercel is based in the United States, so processing may involve a transfer of data outside the European Economic Area. In that case the safeguards of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework apply or, where it does not, the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

Forms: contact and newsletter

When you fill in a form we process what you enter: email address, name, company, what you do, how many vehicles you run and your message. If the site ever offers a file to download in exchange for an email address, the same form and the same rules apply.

With each request we also store where it came from: the article you were reading, if you came from one, the page where you filled in the form, any campaign parameters in the address (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign) and the name of the referring website, domain only. We take this from the page address, without cookies.

• Contact: we use your data to reply. The legal basis is your request.
• Newsletter (The week in brief): you receive it only if you ask for it, through the newsletter form or by ticking the box in other forms, and after confirming through the link we email you. After confirming you receive a welcome email and, a week later, one about the site’s tools. The legal basis is your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time from the link at the bottom of every email.

We do not sell or pass on contact details. Contact messages and other requests are kept for 24 months. Unconfirmed newsletter sign-ups are deleted after 30 days. Subscribers stay on the list until they unsubscribe; after that, with no other open requests, we delete the data within 24 months. You can ask for deletion at any time.

Contacts are stored in a Postgres database run by Neon, Inc. (United States), in a data centre in the European Union. If the data is accessed from the United States, the same safeguards as for Vercel apply. Emails are sent from our own domain mailbox, through an email provider whose name and country we will add here before the first email goes out. We use no marketing platforms.

To protect the forms from abuse we count how many requests arrive from the same email address and the same IP address. The IP address is not stored: instead we keep, for one day, a code that does not contain it and that cannot be linked to anyone from the next day. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the service safe.

Cookie-free statistics

To know which pages are read and where readers come from, the site counts page views with our own system, without cookies and without third-party services.

For each page view we record:

• the page read and, if the address does not exist, the fact that it was a page not found;
• the referring website, domain only (for example google.com), without search terms;
• any campaign parameters in the address;
• the page language, the country derived from the IP address, the device type (phone, tablet or computer) and the browser family, without the version;
• a code valid for one day only that does not contain the IP address, to count unique visitors. It is calculated from the IP address and browser together with a random key that changes every day and is deleted the next day: from then on it cannot be linked to anyone.

We do not store IP addresses, cookies or anything else on your device, or identifiers that last longer than a day. This data is never matched with form data.

We also count how often a calculator is used, without recording what is typed into the fields: only the tool name, the type of action, the page language and the day are kept.

The legal basis is the controller’s legitimate interest in knowing which pages are useful to readers. The data sits in the same database as the contacts and is deleted after 13 months. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, the visit is not recorded. You can also object by writing to the controller.

Cookies

Today the site uses a single technical cookie, to remember the language you chose. Details are in the cookie notice. If we ever use an analytics tool with cookies, it will only switch on with your consent and this page will be updated first.

Fonts and images

Fonts and images are served by the site itself. A visit makes no calls to third-party services to load them.

External links

Articles link to external sources such as EUR-Lex, official gazettes and ministry websites. When you follow a link, that site’s rules apply.

Your rights

You can ask the controller for access to your data, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and portability, and you can object to processing or withdraw consent to the newsletter, without affecting what happened before. Write to redazione@cargonary.com: we reply within one month. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority, such as the Italian Garante per la protezione dei dati personali or the authority where you live.

Changes

If the tools or providers used by the site change, this page is updated before the change takes effect.