Cookie Policy

01 — About This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Daniel Vision Lab uses, or may use, cookies and similar technologies on danielvisionlab.com. It should be read together with the Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how personal data is processed.

The rules applicable in Italy include Article 122 of Legislative Decree No. 196/2003, as amended, and the applicable provisions of EU law, including the GDPR where personal data is processed. The Italian Data Protection Authority’s Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools provide further guidance.

This notice distinguishes the technologies currently reported as being used from details that depend on the live configuration. Cookie names, provider domains and expiry periods must be documented from the actual browser storage and site configuration, and reviewed whenever plugins or services change. Generic category descriptions do not replace a verified technical inventory.

02 — Who Is Responsible?

The person responsible for this website and for the processing described in this policy is:

03 — What Are Cookies and Similar Technologies?

Cookies are small text files stored by a website or another service on a visitor’s device. Similar technologies may include browser local storage, pixels, tags, scripts and other identifiers that store information on a device or access information already stored there.

Session and persistent technologies

Session cookies are generally removed when the browser session ends. Persistent cookies remain until their stated expiry date or until they are deleted by the visitor. The actual duration depends on the specific cookie and must be checked for each identifier.

First-party and third-party technologies

First-party technologies are associated with this website. Third-party technologies may be operated by an external provider when that provider’s service is loaded or used. A normal link to a social network is different from an embedded social feed or video: a link alone does not intentionally embed that platform’s content in the page. When a visitor follows the link, the external platform processes data under its own policies.

Not all visit information comes from cookies

Web servers, security systems, analytics tools and visitor-monitoring plugins may process technical data such as IP address, page requested, time of access or browser information even if that data is recorded in server logs rather than a cookie. Such processing is also addressed in the Privacy Policy.

04 — Technologies Used on Daniel Vision Lab

Strictly necessary technologies

Technologies that are strictly necessary for a function explicitly requested by the visitor, basic website operation, security, access controls or remembering privacy choices may be used without consent where the law permits this. Their use must be limited to what is necessary for that purpose.

Analytics and site measurement

Website analytics are used to understand visits and website performance. Depending on the service and its configuration, analytics may use cookies, local storage, scripts or server-side records. Analytics identifiers that require consent must remain disabled until valid consent is given. An exemption may be used only if the specific configuration meets the applicable legal requirements and has been verified.

The provider name and individual identifiers must be checked against the live analytics configuration and accurately reflected in the detailed inventory. Analytics must not be treated as strictly necessary unless the specific configuration has been verified as meeting the applicable exemption criteria.

DVL Site Intelligence / Site Monitor

The DVL Site Intelligence / Site Monitor plugin is reported as active on the public website. Depending on its implemented settings, it may record visitor or technical information such as visit date and time, page or URL, referrer, IP address, browser, operating system, device type and an approximate location inferred from IP address. These data fields and the actual storage method, recipients and retention period must be confirmed in the plugin configuration and its records.

Visitor monitoring is not necessarily performed through cookies. The use of the plugin does not, by itself, establish that every listed field is collected on every visit. Only fields actually recorded should be retained in the final public disclosure and the Privacy Policy.

Social media links

Based on the current information provided, the website uses ordinary links to social media rather than intentionally embedding social-media feeds or widgets. When visitors click a link and leave Daniel Vision Lab, the external platform may collect information according to its own privacy terms. If an embedded post, video, map or social widget is added, the page and consent configuration must be reviewed before it is enabled.

Marketing and cross-site tracking

Based on the current information provided, Daniel Vision Lab does not intentionally use advertising pixels or behavioural-advertising tools. This description should remain accurate to the live site: if a marketing or cross-site tracking technology is identified or later introduced, its provider, purpose and consent requirements must be disclosed before it is activated where required by law.

05 — Cookie and Technology Inventory

The table below summarises the categories and technologies currently known from the information provided. It is not a list of individual cookie identifiers: names, provider domains, purposes, lifetimes and consent status vary according to the live configuration and must be checked against actual browser storage and network requests.

06 — Consent and Your Privacy Choices

Where consent is required, optional cookies and similar technologies must not be set or activated before the visitor has made a valid choice. Consent should be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous, and it must be possible to refuse optional technologies without being forced to accept them.

The consent interface should provide a clear way to accept optional technologies, reject non-essential technologies and make a granular choice by purpose. The reject option should be easy to find and use. Closing the banner or continuing to browse must not be treated as consent.

For Daniel Vision Lab, analytics must remain disabled before consent wherever the specific analytics configuration requires consent. It may be treated differently only after its configuration has been verified against the applicable exemption criteria. Strictly necessary technologies may remain active only where they genuinely meet that classification.

Changing or withdrawing your choice

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time through the website’s privacy-preference controls, provided a persistent and easily accessible way to reopen those controls is available on every page, for example through a footer link labelled “Manage cookie preferences”. Changing a choice should stop future use of technologies that are no longer permitted; technologies already stored may need to be deleted through the site’s controls or browser settings.

The consent system must retain and apply the visitor’s choices consistently. The exact name and expiry period of the consent-preference storage should be recorded from the active consent-management settings and reflected in the detailed inventory.

07 — Third-Party Services and External Links

External service providers may process data when their tools are actually used on the website. The provider list must reflect the services that are really installed and activated; it must not include companies merely because they are commonly used on websites.

Following an ordinary social-media link takes the visitor to the external platform. The platform’s own privacy policy and settings then apply to the visitor’s activity on that platform. This Cookie Policy does not claim to control cookies set by an external website after the visitor leaves Daniel Vision Lab.

If an external video, map, feed, analytics service or other embedded component is added or is found to load automatically, Daniel Vision Lab should review what data is transmitted, whether consent is required and whether the component must be blocked until the relevant choice has been made.

08 — Personal Data, Purposes and Legal Bases

Cookies and similar identifiers can sometimes be linked to an identifiable person and therefore constitute or involve personal data. Depending on the technology, information may include an online identifier, IP address, device/browser data, pages visited and interaction events.

Strictly necessary storage or access is used only where permitted for providing a service explicitly requested by the visitor or for the operation and security of the website. For analytics and other optional technologies, consent is used where required by applicable law. Any processing based on legitimate interests must have a valid purpose, be necessary and proportionate, and be supported by the relevant balancing assessment where required.

Further information on the controller, processing purposes, legal bases, recipients, retention periods and data-subject rights is provided in the Privacy Policy.

09 — Retention and Browser Controls

Cookie and identifier durations differ depending on the technology. A cookie may expire at the end of a session or remain until a defined expiry date. The actual expiry date should be included in the cookie inventory for each identified cookie or similar technology.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls vary by browser and device. Blocking all cookies may affect essential features or the storage of privacy choices; using browser controls does not replace the website’s obligation to respect any consent already given or withdrawn.

Cookie retention periods are technology-specific. The inventory should state actual durations, including the consent-preference storage and any adult-access preference mechanism if such storage is active; generic durations should not be assumed.

10 — International Transfers

When an active analytics or other external provider processes personal data outside the European Economic Area, the controller must identify the relevant destination and ensure that a valid transfer mechanism is in place where required by Chapter V GDPR, such as an applicable adequacy decision or appropriate safeguards.

The specific providers and locations involved in the site’s analytics and visitor-monitoring setup must be confirmed before any particular international transfer or safeguard can be named as applicable. More information is available by contacting danielvisionlab@gmail.com.

11 — Your Rights and Contact

Where cookie-related information constitutes personal data and the GDPR applies, you may have rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability where applicable, objection where applicable and withdrawal of consent. You may also lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, including the Italian Data Protection Authority.

For details on requests and rights, read the Privacy Policy.

12 — Changes to This Policy

This Cookie Policy should be reviewed whenever WordPress plugins, analytics, consent tools, embedded media, security or visitor-monitoring systems change. The date above should be updated when the policy is substantively reviewed. Changes to services or recipients may also require updating the consent interface and the Privacy Policy.