Cookie Policy

Last updated: October 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on www.cookingclasssantulivieri.it.

It should be read together with the website’s Privacy Policy.

1. Data Controller

The Data Controller is:

AZ. AGR. S.ULIVIERI DI GANOZZI ALESSANDRO
VAT No. IT01545940528
Via Podere Sant’Ulivieri, 144
53034 Colle di Val d’Elsa (SI), Italy

Email: info@santulivieri.it

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on a user’s device when the website is visited.

Cookies and similar technologies may be used for purposes such as:

  • enabling essential website functions;
  • remembering user preferences;
  • maintaining security and session information;
  • obtaining statistical information about website usage;
  • remembering cookie-consent choices;
  • maintaining information relating to the source of a booking.

3. Categories of Cookies and Technologies Used

The website may use the following categories.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies and technologies are required for the correct operation, security or functionality of the website and for services specifically requested by the user.

Where permitted by applicable law, they may be used without prior consent.

Preference Cookies

These technologies may be used to remember choices made by the user.

Where consent is required, they are activated only after the user has provided the relevant consent.

Statistics Cookies

These technologies may be used to understand how visitors use the website.

Where consent is required for a particular statistics tool, it is activated only after consent.

The website also uses the privacy-oriented analytics configuration described below.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing or advertising technologies, where present, are activated only after the user has expressly consented to their use.

Booking-source information is not used for behavioural advertising or cross-site profiling.

4. Cookie Consent Management

The website uses a first-party consent-management system that allows users to choose whether optional cookie categories may be activated.

Users may be offered choices such as:

  • Accept all
  • Reject optional cookies
  • Customize

Strictly necessary technologies remain available because they are required for essential website or booking functionality.

The user’s consent preferences are stored so that the website can remember the choice made.

Consent preferences are retained for a maximum of 180 days, after which the website may ask the user to make a new selection.

Users may change or withdraw their preferences at any time through the Cookie settings control available on the website.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

5. Booking Source Attribution

The website records information concerning the source from which a customer reaches the booking process.

This may include:

  • referring website;
  • referral domain;
  • campaign or source parameters;
  • UTM parameters;
  • commercial or referral partner associated with the visit.

The purpose is to:

  • identify the source of a booking;
  • associate a reservation with the relevant commercial or referral partner;
  • manage commercial attribution and, where applicable, commissions;
  • obtain internal statistical information concerning booking sources.

Operation without optional cookies

The booking-source attribution system is designed to operate, where technically possible, without placing a persistent attribution cookie on the user’s device.

Source information may be transmitted through website navigation or the booking process and then stored together with the booking when the customer submits a reservation.

Rejecting optional cookies therefore does not necessarily prevent the website from recording the source associated with a booking.

Source information stored together with a reservation forms part of the booking record and is processed in accordance with the website’s Privacy Policy.

Optional first-party attribution cookie

Where the user has provided the relevant consent, the website may use a first-party cookie to remember the booking source across future visits.

This cookie is used for booking-source attribution and referral management only.

It is not used for behavioural advertising or cross-site profiling.

Cookie name: asa_booking_source_consent
Provider: cookingclasssantulivieri.it
Type: First-party attribution cookie
Purpose: Remembering the referral or booking source associated with a potential future booking
Activation: Only after the relevant consent has been provided
Maximum duration: Up to 1 year, unless configured for a shorter period

If the relevant consent is withdrawn, this optional attribution cookie may be deleted.

6. Website Analytics – SlimStat

The website uses SlimStat Analytics to obtain statistical information concerning website usage.

SlimStat is configured in a privacy-oriented manner.

In particular:

  • IP addresses are masked;
  • browser fingerprinting is disabled;
  • SlimStat does not set its own tracking cookie;
  • statistical data are stored locally in the website’s WordPress database;
  • analytics data are retained for a maximum of 420 days;
  • archived analytics records are not retained after the applicable retention period;
  • geographic information is limited to country-level information.

SlimStat may process information such as:

  • page views;
  • referring websites;
  • browser information;
  • device information;
  • operating system;
  • country of origin;
  • technical navigation information.

These data are used to understand website usage, evaluate traffic sources, identify technical issues and improve the website.

SlimStat information is not used for behavioural advertising or cross-site profiling.

7. Booking System – Amelia

The website uses Amelia to manage online bookings.

Amelia may use technical mechanisms necessary to:

  • display the booking interface;
  • maintain booking steps;
  • process selected services, dates and participant information;
  • submit booking requests;
  • associate booking-source information with the relevant reservation.

Information provided during the booking process is stored in the website’s WordPress database as described in the Privacy Policy.

8. Payment Card Guarantee – Stripe

Certain bookings may require a payment card to be provided as a guarantee.

Payment-card information is securely processed through Stripe.

Stripe may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for:

  • secure payment-card processing;
  • fraud prevention;
  • authentication;
  • security of payment services.

These technologies may be provided directly by Stripe and are subject to Stripe’s own privacy and cookie practices.

Full card details are not stored by this website.

Where the card is requested solely as a booking guarantee, no immediate payment is made unless otherwise expressly stated during the booking process.

9. Hosting and Technical Services – Aruba

The website is hosted through services provided by Aruba S.p.A.

Technical cookies or server-side technologies may be used where necessary for:

  • website operation;
  • security;
  • server performance;
  • session management;
  • protection against misuse or technical attacks.

These technologies are used only to the extent necessary for the operation and security of the website.

10. Embedded Content and Third-Party Services

The website may display or integrate services provided by third parties, including:

  • maps;
  • review widgets;
  • external media;
  • embedded content.

These providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

Where such technologies are not strictly necessary, they should only be activated after the user has provided the relevant consent.

Third-party services process data according to their own privacy and cookie policies.

11. Main Cookies and Technologies

Cookie / Technology Provider Purpose Category Duration
Cookie consent preference cookingclasssantulivieri.it Stores the user’s cookie-consent choices Necessary Up to 180 days
Booking source transmission cookingclasssantulivieri.it Transfers referral/source information through the booking process without persistent attribution storage where possible Booking functionality Session / booking process
asa_booking_source_consent cookingclasssantulivieri.it Remembers booking or referral source across future visits Optional attribution Up to 1 year
SlimStat cookingclasssantulivieri.it Privacy-oriented website statistics without SlimStat tracking cookies Statistics Database data up to 420 days
Amelia technical functionality cookingclasssantulivieri.it Enables online booking functionality Necessary Session / as technically required
Stripe technical/security technologies Stripe Card guarantee, authentication, security and fraud prevention Necessary where required for card processing According to Stripe configuration

The exact cookies used by third-party services may change when those providers update their technologies.

12. Legal Basis

Strictly necessary cookies and technologies are used where necessary to:

  • provide a service requested by the user;
  • enable essential website functionality;
  • maintain website or booking security.

Where consent is legally required for optional cookies or tracking technologies, processing is based on the user’s consent.

Users may refuse optional cookies without preventing access to the general content of the website.

Certain booking-source information may still be transmitted and stored without persistent cookies as part of the booking process, as described above and in the Privacy Policy.

13. How to Change Cookie Preferences

Users may review or change their cookie preferences at any time using the Cookie settings option available on the website.

Users may:

  • accept optional categories;
  • reject optional categories;
  • change individual preferences;
  • withdraw previously given consent.

Users may also delete cookies directly through their browser settings.

Deleting cookies may cause the website to ask for cookie preferences again.

14. Browser Cookie Controls

Most internet browsers allow users to:

  • view stored cookies;
  • delete existing cookies;
  • block all or selected cookies;
  • prevent websites from storing cookies;
  • automatically delete cookies when the browser is closed.

Disabling strictly necessary cookies through browser settings may affect the correct functioning of certain website features, including the booking process.

15. Personal Data and User Rights

Where cookies or similar technologies involve the processing of personal data, users may exercise their rights under the GDPR.

Further information about:

  • purposes of processing;
  • legal bases;
  • data retention;
  • recipients;
  • international transfers;
  • user rights;
  • contact details of the Data Controller

is available in the website’s Privacy Policy.

16. Changes to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes to:

  • cookies used by the website;
  • booking or payment systems;
  • consent-management functionality;
  • third-party services;
  • applicable legislation or regulatory guidance.

The latest version will always be published on this page together with the date of the most recent update.