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Last updated: 13 February 2026

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, to provide information to website owners, and to enhance the user experience. Similar technologies include pixels, web beacons, and local storage.

2. How We Use Cookies

PortaleItaly LLC (“PortaleItaly,” “we,” “us,” “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website for the following purposes:

Essential operation: Ensuring the website functions correctly, maintaining security, and remembering your cookie consent preferences.

Performance and analytics: Understanding how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and how we can improve the user experience.

Functionality: Remembering your preferences and settings to provide a more personalized experience.

Advertising and marketing: Delivering relevant advertising and measuring the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.

3. Categories of Cookies

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually set in response to actions you take, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. Without these cookies, some parts of the website may not work properly.

3.2 Preference / Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.

3.3 Analytics / Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, including which pages are visited most often and whether users receive error messages. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and used to improve how our website works.

3.4 Marketing / Targeting Cookies

These cookies may be set through our website by our advertising partners. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other websites. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.

4. Specific Services & Third-Party Cookies

4.1 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, to measure and analyze how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as your IP address (which may be anonymized depending on configuration), browser type, pages visited, time spent on pages, and referring URLs.

Google may use this data in accordance with its own privacy policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

In the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, and other jurisdictions that require prior consent, Google Analytics cookies will only be activated after you provide consent through our cookie banner.

4.2 Microsoft Clarity & Microsoft Advertising

We partner with Microsoft Clarity and Microsoft Advertising to capture how you use and interact with our website through behavioral metrics, heatmaps, and session replay to improve and market our products/services. Website usage data is captured using first and third-party cookies and other tracking technologies to determine the popularity of products/services and online activity. Additionally, we use this information for site optimization, fraud/security purposes, and advertising.

For more information about how Microsoft collects and uses your data, visit the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

4.3 Calendly

We use Calendly for scheduling consultations and appointments. When you interact with our Calendly integration, Calendly may set its own cookies for functionality and analytics purposes. For more information, see Calendly’s Privacy Policy.

4.4 Salesforce

We use Salesforce for customer relationship management. Salesforce-related cookies may be present if you interact with forms or features powered by Salesforce. For more information, see Salesforce’s Privacy Policy.

5. Cookie List

The following table provides examples of cookies that may be set when you visit our website. Actual cookies may vary based on configuration and the features you use.

Cookie Name	Provider	Purpose	Category	Duration
pi_cookie_consent	PortaleItaly	Stores your cookie preferences	Necessary	6 months
_ga, _gid	Google Analytics	Analytics and usage tracking	Analytics	Up to 13 months
_clck, _clsk	Microsoft Clarity	Behavioral analytics, heatmaps	Analytics	Up to 12 months
MUID	Microsoft Advertising	Advertising identification	Marketing	13 months
Calendly cookies	Calendly	Scheduling functionality	Necessary	Varies

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you first visit our website from outside the United States, you will be presented with a cookie consent banner allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookies.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the cookie icon (🍪) in the bottom-left corner of any page, or by adjusting your browser settings.

Browser controls: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can usually find these settings in the “Options” or “Preferences” menu of your browser. Note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

For more information about cookies and how to manage them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

7. Legal Basis for Cookies (EEA/UK)

Under the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR, strictly necessary cookies may be set without consent. All other cookies (analytics, preference, and marketing) require your prior consent, which you can provide or withdraw through our cookie banner.

For full details on how we process personal data, please see our Privacy Policy & Disclosures.

8. Contact

If you have questions about our use of cookies, please contact us:

PortaleItaly LLC
260 Kings Mall Court, Box 208
Kingston, NY 12401, United States
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (888) 482-5903