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Cookie Policy
Last updated: 12 September 2026
This policy is provided pursuant to Article 122 of Legislative Decree 196/2003 (the Italian Personal Data Protection Code), Directive 2002/58/EC as amended by Directive 2009/136/EC (“ePrivacy”), Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools adopted by the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) by measure No. 231 of 10 June 2021.
1. In brief: this website does not use cookies
We prefer to say it straight away, without beating about the bush: the website www.ilgirasoleputignano.com installs no cookies, whether its own or third-party. We do not use technical session cookies, we do not use analytics cookies, we do not use profiling cookies, we do not use tracking pixels, we do not use device fingerprinting, we do not use web beacons and we have not installed any statistics tool such as Google Analytics, Meta Pixel or the like.
The site also loads no resource from third-party domains: everything needed to display the pages, including the fonts, is hosted on our own domain. Full details are in point 5.
The only information that may be stored on your device is your language preference, saved in the browser's local storage only if you select it yourself, as explained in point 4. This is a strictly technical tool that does not require your consent.
2. What cookies and local storage tools are
Cookies are small text files that the websites you visit send to the user's browser, where they are stored and then sent back to the same sites on the next visit. They are commonly divided into technical cookies, which are necessary for the site to function or to provide a service explicitly requested, and profiling cookies, which are designed to reconstruct the user's habits and preferences in order to send targeted advertising. Only the latter, and non-necessary cookies in general, require the user's prior, free and informed consent.
Alongside cookies there are other local storage tools made available by modern browsers, in particular Web Storage in its two forms localStorage and sessionStorage, and IndexedDB databases. Unlike cookies, this data remains on the user's device and is not automatically sent to the server with every request. It is nonetheless subject to the same rules as cookies as regards the obligation to provide information and, where not strictly necessary, to obtain consent.
3. Cookies used by this website: none
Own technical cookies: none. The site consists of static pages, requires no authentication, has no shopping cart, has no members' area and manages no user sessions.
Analytics cookies: none. We do not collect statistics on visits, whether directly or through third-party services.
Profiling, marketing and third-party cookies: none. There is no embedded content that installs cookies: no interactive maps, no embedded videos, no social widgets, no externally loaded review system, no advertising network.
As a result, there is no list of cookies to consult and no preference to withdraw.
4. Local storage: the language preference
The site is available in Italian and English. To avoid taking you back to the Italian version every time, when you click the language selector your browser saves your choice in your device's local storage (localStorage). Here are the full details:
Entry name: ig-lang
Type: a localStorage entry; it is not a cookie and is not transmitted to our servers or to third parties
Possible values: it, en
Purpose: to remember the language you have chosen and automatically offer you the corresponding version of the pages
Nature: a strictly necessary tool to provide a service explicitly requested by the user, pursuant to Article 122(1) of Legislative Decree 196/2003
Controller: il Girasole (first party)
Duration: permanent until the site data is manually cleared from the browser; the entry has no automatic expiry
Personal data contained: none. The value stored is a two-letter code that identifies a language, not a person, and does not in any way allow the user to be recognised, tracked or identified
If you do not use the language selector, nothing is written to your device. If you already have a saved preference and wish to remove it, simply follow the instructions in point 7 or select a different language, which overwrites its value.
5. No resource loaded from third-party domains
When a page opens, your browser connects only to the domain www.ilgirasoleputignano.com. Style sheets, scripts, images and fonts are all hosted on that same domain.
The Caveat, Marcellus, Outfit and Spectral fonts are installed on our server as woff2 files and called by the site's style sheet via @font-face rules. They are not fetched from Google Fonts: the pages do not contact the fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com domains, or any other external distribution network.
It follows that, while you browse the site, your IP address is not communicated to any third-party provider. The only external party that processes technical data at this stage is the hosting provider, which acts as a processor on our behalf: full details are in points 4.1, 8 and 9 of the Privacy Policy.
No third-party content is embedded in the pages: no interactive maps, no videos, no social widgets, no external review system, no advertising network, no statistics tool.
6. Links to external services
On the site you will find some links that lead away from www.ilgirasoleputignano.com. These are not embedded content: none of them loads anything until you click.
WhatsApp (wa.me domain, WhatsApp Ireland Limited, Meta group) — the “Message us on WhatsApp” buttons open a conversation with the property. Once the service is open, the privacy policy and cookie policy of WhatsApp/Meta apply.
Google Maps — the “Open directions in Google Maps” link opens Google's navigation service in a new tab. No map is embedded in our pages, so no Google cookie is installed during the simple browsing of the site.
Telephone and email — the tel: and mailto: links open the phone application or the email client on your device, without transmitting any data to the site.
We recommend that you consult the privacy policies of the respective providers: the controller has no control over the cookies and trackers installed by third-party sites and services.
7. How to delete local storage data and cookies from your browser
Even though this site installs no cookies, you can delete your language preference and any other data stored by the sites you visit at any time. Below are the paths for the most common browsers; the exact wording may vary slightly depending on the version.
Google Chrome (desktop). Menu ⋮ → Settings → Privacy and security → Clear browsing data; alternatively, to act on our site alone: Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data → See all site data and permissions → search for www.ilgirasoleputignano.com → Delete.
Mozilla Firefox. Menu ☰ → Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data section → Manage Data…, then select the site and remove it, or Clear Data… to remove everything.
Safari (macOS). Safari menu → Settings → Privacy tab → Manage Website Data… → select the site and click Remove.
Safari (iPhone and iPad). Settings app → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Website Data → remove the desired site; to clear everything: Safari → Clear History and Website Data.
Microsoft Edge. Menu … → Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies and site data → See all cookies and site data → find the site and delete it.
Google Chrome (Android). Menu ⋮ → Settings → Site settings → Stored data → select the site → Delete.
You can also browse in private or incognito mode: in that case local storage data is automatically deleted when you close the window. Remember that, by clearing this data, the site will forget the language you had chosen.
8. Why there is no consent banner
The Italian Data Protection Authority's Guidelines of 10 June 2021 and Article 122 of Legislative Decree 196/2003 require the user's consent to be obtained only for the storage of information, or access to information already stored, on the device that is not strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user.
This site installs no cookies of any kind, and the only information saved on the device — the language preference described in point 4 — fully qualifies as a strictly necessary tool, because it serves solely to provide, in the requested language, a service that the user has actively requested by clicking the selector.
Showing a consent banner in the absence of any processing that requires it would add no protection: it would merely be an obstacle to browsing and a request for consent with no object, contrary to the principle of fairness and transparency in Article 5 of the GDPR. That is why we have chosen not to include one and instead to explain to you, on this page, exactly what happens.
9. Data controller
The data controller is Margherita Capozzi (Italian tax code CPZMGH96B60C134V), owner of the holiday home il Girasole, Via Nuova 15, 70017 Putignano (BA), Italy — CIN IT072036C200125324. Email ilgirasole.putignano@gmail.com, telephone and WhatsApp +39 380 373 4277.
For the full list of processing operations, recipients, legal bases, retention periods, the rights you can exercise and how to lodge a complaint with the Garante, please see the Privacy Policy.
10. Updates
If in the future we were to introduce tools involving the use of cookies or other trackers — for example a statistics system, an embedded map or a booking engine — we would update this page in advance and, where necessary, activate a banner to collect consent before installing any non-necessary tool. The version of this policy in force is always the one published at this address, with the last-updated date shown at the top.