Privacy policy

Plain version: this is a static site with no accounts and no forms, but it does use Google Analytics, and the links out to GetYourGuide are tracked. Details below.

What we do not collect

There is nothing to sign up for on this site: no accounts, no newsletter, no contact form and no comments. We do not ask for your name, your email address or anything else, and there is no database here holding your details.

If you email us at info@piazzamaggiore.com, we have your email and whatever you wrote in it. We keep it long enough to reply and deal with what you wrote about. We do not add you to any list.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to see how many people visit, which pages they read, and roughly where in the world they came from. We look at that in aggregate, as counts and charts, and we make no attempt to identify individual visitors.

Google Analytics does this by setting cookies in your browser and sending Google information about your visit, including your IP address. Google uses that address to derive coarse location data, city, region and country, and states that it does not log or store IP addresses from visitors in the EU, Switzerland and the UK.

Google processes this data under its own terms, which you can read in Google’s privacy policy.

You can opt out with Google’s browser opt-out add-on, or by blocking analytics scripts with a browser extension or your browser’s tracking protection. The site works fine either way.

Links to GetYourGuide

Tour links on this site are affiliate links. When you click one, a tracking parameter identifying this site is added to the URL so that GetYourGuide can attribute a booking to us and pay the commission described in our affiliate disclosure.

Once you land on GetYourGuide you are on their site, under their privacy policy, and they set their own cookies. We do not receive your personal details from them. What we see is a count of bookings, not who made them.

Other outbound links

We link to official sites for the buildings and services we write about, including museums, transport operators and the city of Bologna. Those are ordinary links with no tracking added by us, and once you follow one that site’s privacy policy applies.

Selling data

We do not sell personal data, and we have none to sell.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top. For anything you want to ask about it, including a request to have an email exchange deleted, write to info@piazzamaggiore.com.