Cookies are small files that websites can store in your browser. They help websites work, remember certain choices and, where enabled, measure how visitors use content. Some technologies serve similar purposes without using traditional cookies. This policy explains the main categories relevant to My Italy Experience and how you can manage them.
Our website is myitalyexperience.com. For questions about this policy, contact myitalyexperience.com@gmail.com.
What cookies do
A cookie can help a website recognise a browser between page requests or during a later visit. Cookies can be set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) or by another service whose technology is used on the page (third-party cookies). Some disappear when a browser session ends; others remain for a defined period or until removed.
Not every browser storage technology is a cookie. Similar tools can include local storage, pixels and other identifiers, and the same privacy principles may apply when they are used to track a visitor.
Categories of technologies
Strictly necessary functions
Necessary cookies and related technologies help deliver requested website functions and protect the service. Examples can include security controls, remembering certain session settings and, for people who sign in to WordPress, authentication. Disabling some of these technologies may prevent an essential function from working correctly.
Where the law permits, strictly necessary technologies do not require the same prior consent as non-essential tracking, although information about their use remains important.
Preferences and functional features
A website may use browser storage to remember choices such as interface preferences. Whether an individual technology is essential or optional depends on what it actually does. Optional preference technologies should be governed by the relevant legal rules and any consent mechanism in place.
Audience measurement and analytics
Analytics tools, if activated, can help a site understand aggregate page visits, navigation and technical performance. Their privacy implications depend on the data collected, identifiability, providers and configuration. Some analytics implementations may qualify for different treatment under applicable rules; others require consent.
Advertising, affiliate and marketing measurement
Advertising or conversion-measurement tools, if used, may recognise interactions with advertising or promotional content and may involve tracking by another provider. Non-essential marketing and profiling technologies are subject to consent requirements where applicable.
A normal link to an independent accommodation or activity website does not mean that its complete cookie policy becomes ours. Once you click through, that provider may set or read its own cookies under its own notice.
How choices work
Where non-essential cookies or similar technologies requiring consent are used, visitors should be given a genuine opportunity to choose before those technologies operate. Rejecting optional tracking should not prevent access to ordinary travel articles.
If a cookie-preferences interface is available on the site, use it to review or change your choices. You can also manage stored cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls may let you view, delete or block cookies for individual sites or across your browsing activity.
Clearing cookies may remove saved preferences or sign you out of services. Disabling necessary cookies can affect basic features. Browser settings do not always stop other types of tracking, and choices made on independent third-party sites may need to be managed there separately.
Third-party websites and embedded features
Our travel guides may link to booking services, maps, videos, transport operators and official destination websites. Clicking an external link takes you to a service with its own cookie practices. If an article contains embedded third-party content, interacting with it may allow its provider to process browser or device information under that provider’s terms.
How long cookies last
Cookie lifetimes vary: session cookies typically end with a browser session, while persistent cookies remain until their expiry date or removal. The duration depends on the particular technology, its configuration and any limits imposed by law. Your browser may allow you to inspect individual cookie names and expiry dates.
Your privacy rights and further information
Where cookie or similar-technology data is personal information, you may have rights under data protection law, including access, objection or withdrawal of consent where applicable. Read our Privacy Policy for more about processing, rights and contact details.
You can contact myitalyexperience.com@gmail.com about a cookie-related concern. We may update this policy as the technology and features used on the site change.
Last updated: 21 October 2026