Cookies and similar technologies

One only, and it is set only after a login. Anyone reading the portal without an account receives no cookie from this site.

Name

payload-token

Purpose

keeping the reader signed in to the reserved area from page to page

Type

technical, first-party, strictly necessary

Lifetime

seven days from login

Properties

not readable by JavaScript, sent only over an encrypted connection in production, not sent with requests originating from other sites

When it is removed

on sign-out, or when it expires

Prior consent is required for cookies that are not needed to deliver the service the user asked for: measurement, profiling, advertising. There are none here. The only cookie present keeps the session of someone who has just signed in — that is, does exactly what that person asked for — and therefore needs no consent.

A banner asking permission for something already permitted would train readers to click without reading, and would make the request less credible the day it is genuinely needed. If measurement tools or embedded third-party content are introduced in future, a banner will become necessary and this page will be updated before that happens.

• no profiling, advertising or audience-measurement cookies;
• no analytics tool installed;
• no share buttons, embedded videos or social network widgets;
• no fonts loaded from external domains: they are served by the application;
• no use of the browser’s local storage or session storage.

Entries translated from other people’s works show illustrations that were not copied onto this site: they stay where they are published. To display them the reader’s browser sends a request to the source site, which therefore receives their IP address and the usual information of a web request. The portal does not tell it which page was being read.

That site is not run by us: opening one of its pages means leaving this portal, and its policies apply rather than these. The reason the figures are not copied is explained on the Licences and attribution page.

Every browser lets you inspect, block and delete a site’s cookies. Blocking the session cookie makes it impossible to stay signed in: after login the portal would no longer recognise the reader and the reserved area would be unreachable. Public reading is unaffected, because it uses no cookies.

What the portal collects beyond cookies — account data, professional profile, verification documents, IP address for rate limiting — is described in the privacy notice. For questions: redazione@example.it.