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Cookies are small text files that a website may store on a user's device during a visit. They can support essential functions, retain limited preferences, improve security and, where specifically enabled, provide statistical information about how a website is used.

Similar technologies — including local storage, tags, pixels and software identifiers — may perform related functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include comparable technologies where appropriate.

Different technologies serve different purposes

Strictly necessary and technical cookies

These support functions necessary for the website to operate, including security, network management, consent management, session continuity and the storage of technical preferences.

They are not used to create advertising profiles and generally do not require prior consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the website or a service requested by the visitor.

Preference or functional cookies

These technologies may remember choices made by visitors, such as interface settings or other optional preferences, where such functions are available.

Analytics and statistics cookies

Analytics technologies can provide information about how visitors interact with the website, such as pages viewed, approximate traffic patterns, device categories and interactions.

Under applicable Italian and European rules, analytics technologies are not automatically treated as strictly necessary technical cookies. Their legal treatment depends on their configuration, purpose and the information processed.

Marketing and profiling cookies

Marketing or profiling technologies may be used to analyse behaviour, create profiles, measure advertising or provide personalised marketing.

Where such technologies require prior consent, they must remain inactive until the visitor has made the relevant choice.

Technologies used or potentially activated on this website

The website may use Google Site Kit as an administrative integration tool. The presence of Site Kit itself does not necessarily mean that every Google service supported by the plugin is active on the public website.

Where Google Analytics or another statistics service is enabled, its operation is subject to the consent and privacy configuration applicable to that service.

When prior consent is not normally required

Strictly necessary cookies may generally be used without prior consent where they are necessary to transmit a communication, maintain website security or provide a service expressly requested by the visitor.

This does not remove the obligation to provide transparent information about their use.

Technical technologies may therefore operate independently of the visitor's choices concerning statistics or marketing cookies.

Consent for statistics, marketing and profiling

Where analytics, advertising, profiling or other non-essential technologies require consent, they are intended to remain inactive until the visitor has made an informed choice.

Consent should be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous. Visitors may accept or reject non-essential technologies through the consent controls displayed by the website.

Refusing non-essential cookies should not prevent access to the ordinary editorial content of Underground Rome.

Your privacy choices

Underground Rome uses a consent-management system to present privacy choices and to store the visitor's selected preferences.

The consent system may itself use technical storage necessary to remember whether a visitor has accepted, rejected or customised cookie categories.

Visitors can subsequently change or withdraw their choices using the cookie settings made available through the website.

Website measurement and Google services

Underground Rome may use website analytics to understand, in aggregate, how the website is discovered and used and to improve its structure, content and technical performance.

Where Google Analytics is activated through Google Site Kit or another integration, the service may process technical information associated with visits to the website according to its configuration.

Analytics technologies requiring consent are intended to be activated only after the visitor has selected the relevant statistics category.

The exact cookies and storage periods associated with analytics services can change as providers update their technology. The website's consent system should therefore be consulted for the current categories and choices available.

External services and linked websites

Technical providers involved in hosting, website security, analytics, email delivery or website maintenance may process limited technical information where necessary to provide their respective services.

Underground Rome also contains links to external websites. Following an external link may take the visitor to a website operated by an independent third party.

Those external websites may use their own cookies or similar technologies and are governed by their own privacy and cookie policies. Underground Rome does not control cookies placed directly by independent external websites after a visitor leaves this domain.

Browser controls and deletion

Visitors can review or change their choices using the cookie settings available on Underground Rome.

Most browsers also allow users to view, block, restrict or delete cookies. The location and operation of these controls varies between browsers and devices.

Browser-level controls operate separately from Underground Rome's consent-management system.

Blocking strictly necessary cookies or browser storage may prevent certain website functions from operating correctly.

How long cookies remain on a device

Session cookies are generally removed when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until their specified expiration date or until they are manually deleted.

The duration depends on the purpose and configuration of the particular technology and should be limited to what is reasonably necessary for that purpose.

Consent records may be retained for a reasonable period to demonstrate and respect the visitor's privacy choices.

Further information about personal data

Cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal data.

For information about the Data Controller, legal bases, purposes, recipients, retention periods, international transfers and data-subject rights, please consult the Privacy Policy .

Changes to this Cookie Policy

The technical configuration of Underground Rome may change when WordPress, themes, plugins, analytics tools, security systems or third-party services are installed, removed or updated.

Before intentionally activating a non-essential tracking or profiling service, the Data Controller will assess the applicable information and consent requirements.

This Cookie Policy may therefore be updated to reflect technical, legal or regulatory changes. The current version will be published on this page together with its revision date.