Last Updated: April 13, 2025

Your privacy is important to us. This section of our policy explains what personal data we collect, how we use it, and how we protect it when you visit and interact with our site (hereinafter "Site"). For detailed information about our use of cookies, please see the "Cookie Policy" section below.

1. Data Controller

The Data Controller for the personal data collected on this Site is: Domenico Muti
Contact Email: bitsparkle.blog@gmail.com

2. Types of Data Collected, Purposes, and Legal Bases

We collect different types of data for specific purposes, always in accordance with applicable law:

Browse Data (IP Addresses)

• Data Collected: The IP address of the device you use to browse the site.
• Purposes: To ensure the security of the Site, prevent fraudulent activities and misuse (e.g., comment spam), and diagnose technical issues.
• Legal Basis: The Data Controller's legitimate interest (Art. 6.1.f GDPR) in protecting its digital assets and ensuring the Site functions correctly and securely, while respecting users' rights and freedoms. IP addresses are not used for profiling or marketing purposes.
• Retention Period: A maximum of 30 days, after which they are either deleted or permanently anonymized, unless required for the investigation of crimes by judicial authorities.

Data You Provide Voluntarily (Comments)

• Data Collected: Your name (and the text of your comment itself) provided when you submit a comment.
• Purposes: To enable you to participate in discussions by posting comments on the Site; to manage and moderate comments; and to respond to any requests within your comment.
• Legal Basis: Performance of a contract (Art. 6.1.b GDPR) – you actively request to publish a comment.
• Retention Period: The data (name, comment text) is stored as long as the comment remains published on the site, or until you request its removal, except where required by law or necessary to protect the Data Controller's rights.

Data Collected Through Cookies

This Site uses cookies. Please refer to the "Cookie Policy" section below for a detailed description of the cookies we use and their purposes.

3. Nature of Data Provision

Providing Browse data (IP address) is necessary to ensure the security and operation of the site. Providing your name is optional but required if you wish to post a comment. Your consent to the use of certain cookies (such as functional cookies) is optional, but declining them may affect some features of the site.

4. Data Sharing and Recipients

The personal data we collect will not be disseminated. It may be disclosed to:

• Third-party service providers who assist us in achieving the purposes outlined above (e.g., technical service providers, hosting providers). These parties will be appointed as Data Processors where necessary, in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. You can request an updated list of Data Processors from the Data Controller at any time.
• Competent authorities, to comply with legal obligations or respond to lawful requests.
• Legal counsel or other professionals to protect the Data Controller's rights.

We do not intentionally share your data with third parties for their marketing purposes.

5. Data Transfer Outside the EU

Currently, your personal data is processed and stored on servers located within the European Union. Should it become necessary to transfer data to countries outside the EU in the future, this will only happen if adequate safeguards are in place, as required by applicable law (Art. 44 et seq. GDPR).

6. How We Protect Your Data

We take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or unlawful disclosure. These measures include, for example, the use of secure connections (HTTPS), firewalls, backup systems, and internal data handling procedures.

7. Data Breach Notification

In the event of a personal data breach that is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, we will inform affected users without undue delay, as required by Art. 34 of the GDPR. We will also notify the competent supervisory authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach, as mandated by Art. 33 of the GDPR, unless the breach is unlikely to pose a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.

8. Your Rights

As a data subject, regarding the processing of your personal data described in this policy (including data processed via cookies), you have the right to:

• Access your personal data (Art. 15 GDPR).
• Request the correction of inaccurate data or the completion of incomplete data (Art. 16 GDPR).
• Request the erasure of your data (right to be forgotten), under the circumstances provided for in Art. 17 GDPR.
• Request the restriction of processing, under the circumstances provided for in Art. 18 GDPR.
• Receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format (right to data portability), under the circumstances provided for in Art. 20 GDPR.
• Object to the processing of your data for reasons related to your particular situation, especially when the processing is based on the Data Controller's legitimate interest (Art. 21 GDPR).
• Withdraw any consent you have previously given (e.g., for functional, analytical, or profiling cookies, if applicable), without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
• Lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can exercise these rights by sending a written request to the Data Controller's email address: bitsparkle.blog@gmail.com. We are committed to responding to your request within 30 days.

9. Children

The content of this Site may be suitable for users under the age of majority. However, active participation through commenting, which involves providing personal data (name), is intended for users aged 14 years or older, the minimum age under Italian law to independently consent to the processing of their personal data online.

Minors under the age of 14 should not use the comment function or provide their personal data without the prior consent of their parents or legal guardians. The Data Controller does not intentionally collect personal data from minors under the age of 14 through the comment function without such consent.

If information about a minor under the age of 14 is unintentionally recorded through the comment function without valid parental consent, the Data Controller undertakes to delete it promptly as soon as they become aware of it or upon request.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child under the age of 14 has provided us with personal data without your consent, please contact us at the email address provided to request its deletion.

10. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (including cookie information) may be updated from time to time, for example, to reflect changes in legislation or our services. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest version. The date of the most recent update is indicated at the beginning of this document.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, require clarification, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact the Data Controller at the email address: bitsparkle.blog@gmail.com.

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Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy is an integral part of the Privacy Policy above and specifically describes how this Site uses cookies and similar technologies.

1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites send to your device (computer, tablet, smartphone) when you visit them. These files are stored and then sent back to the website on your subsequent visits. While Browse a website, you may also receive cookies from other websites or web servers ("third-party cookies"), which may include elements (such as images, maps, sounds, or specific links to pages on other domains) present on the website you are currently visiting.

Cookies are used for various purposes, including enabling computer authentication, monitoring sessions, and storing information about specific configurations of users accessing the server.

2. Data Controller

The Data Controller is the same as indicated in the Privacy Policy section of this document.

3. Types of Cookies Used by this Site

This Site uses the following types of cookies:

a) Technical or Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the Site to remember your choices (such as your name for commenting) to provide enhanced and personalized features and improve your Browse experience.

• Comment Cookies: When you submit a comment and choose to remember your name (through a "Remember me" option in the comment form), a cookie will be stored on your device to pre-fill these fields for future comments.

Legal Basis: The use of these cookies is based on your Consent (Art. 6.1.a GDPR), which you provide by positively selecting the appropriate checkbox. You can withdraw your consent at any time (for example, by deleting the cookie through your browser settings).

Duration: The functional cookie for comments has a maximum lifespan of 6 months.

b) Analytical (Statistical) Cookies

Currently, this Site does NOT directly use first-party or third-party analytics cookies to collect aggregated information about the number of users and how they navigate the site.

c) Profiling and Marketing Cookies

This Site does NOT use profiling cookies, either first-party or third-party, to track your Browse behavior and send you advertisements or messages tailored to your preferences.

4. Cookie Management

For technical or functional cookies (like the comment cookie), your consent is given through a positive action (checking the box).

How to disable cookies via browser settings

You can manage your cookie preferences directly within your browser settings. Through your browser preferences, you can also delete previously installed cookies.

Please note that disabling all cookies may impair the functionality of this Site (particularly regarding technical cookies).

5. Your Rights

To exercise your rights regarding personal data processed through cookies, please refer to the "Your Rights" section in the Privacy Policy above.

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

The Data Controller reserves the right to modify this cookie policy at any time by informing Users on this page. Please check this page regularly, referring to the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of the document.