Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Privacy Policy and aims to explain the types and purposes of cookies used by the website homeortigia.com (hereinafter "Site") and to describe how you can manage your preferences.
1. What are Cookies
Cookies are small text files that websites visited by users send and record on their computer or mobile device, to be then re-transmitted to the same sites on the next visit. There are different types of cookies:
- Technical Cookies: these are essential for the proper functioning of the site. They include navigation cookies (to maintain the session) and functional cookies (to memorize choices such as language). Under Italian law, their use does not require user consent.
- Analytical Cookies: these are used to collect information, in aggregated and anonymous form, on the number of users and how they visit the site (e.g., most visited pages, dwell time). If anonymized, they are assimilated to technical cookies.
- Profiling (or Marketing) Cookies: these are aimed at creating user profiles and are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user while surfing the web. Their use requires user consent.
- Third-Party Cookies: these are cookies set by a website other than the one you are visiting (e.g., Google, Facebook).
2. Cookies Used by this Site
This Site uses the following types of cookies:
A) Technical Cookies (Necessary)
These cookies are essential for the correct operation of the Site and to allow navigation. Their disabling could compromise the correct display of pages or the use of some services.
- Local Storage (Session Storage): the Site uses the browser's local memory (Session Storage) for the operation of the virtual assistant "Home Ortigia Assistant". This allows maintaining conversation history and chat window status (open/closed) while navigating between different pages of the site. These data reside exclusively on the user's device and are deleted when the browser is closed.
- Legal Basis: legitimate interest of the Data Controller (Art. 6, par. 1, lett. f, GDPR) and contractual necessity (Art. 122, co. 1, D.Lgs. 196/2003).
- Consent: not required.
B) Third-Party Analytical and Profiling Cookies
The Site uses Google Tag Manager (GTM), a service provided by Google Ireland Limited (and Google LLC for extra-EU transfers). GTM is a tag management tool that allows implementing other scripts on the site. GTM itself does not install profiling cookies, but it is the vehicle through which third-party services, such as Google Analytics, can be activated.
- Google Analytics:
- Description: web analysis service provided by Google Inc. Google uses Personal Data (navigation and usage data) to track and examine the use of this Site, compile reports, and share them with other services developed by Google. Google may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
- Data collected: usage data and IP address (potentially not anonymized, unless specifically set).
- Legal Basis: explicit user consent (Art. 6, par. 1, lett. a, GDPR).
- Third-Party Notice: Google Privacy Policy | Google Analytics Opt-out
- Purpose of these cookies: to understand how users interact with the Site (aggregate statistical analysis) and, potentially, for marketing purposes (profiling).
- Consent: mandatory and prior. These cookies and the scripts linked to them (including GTM) are blocked on first access and are activated only following your explicit consent ("Accept All" or specific selection in "Customize").
3. Consent Management and Browser Settings
Upon your first access to the Site, you are shown a banner containing a brief notice and consent management controls.
You can:
- Accept All: consent to the use of all cookies (technical and analytical/profiling).
- Reject: reject all non-technical cookies, continuing navigation with only necessary technical cookies.
- Customize: analytically choose which categories of cookies to consent to.
Your choices will be stored via a specific technical cookie.
Furthermore, you can manage cookie preferences directly within your browser, preventing - for example - third parties from installing them. Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookie in which the consent to the installation of cookies by this site is eventually saved.
For information on how to manage cookies in the most common browsers:
4. Data Controller
The Data Controller is Carlo Di Silvestro, as specified in the Privacy Policy.
Last update: November 2, 2025
