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Last updated: 13 February 2026

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, provide a better user experience, and supply information to site owners. Similar technologies include pixels, local storage, and web beacons.

2. How PortaleItaly Uses Cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website (portaleitaly.com) for the following purposes:

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

Analytics and performance: Understanding how visitors interact with our site so we can improve content, navigation, and user experience.

Marketing and advertising: Measuring the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and delivering relevant content.

3. Categories of Cookies

3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, and access to secure areas. The website cannot function properly without these cookies, and they are set without requiring your consent where permitted by law.

Examples: Session cookies, cookie consent preferences, security tokens.

3.2 Preference Cookies

These cookies remember choices you make (such as language or region) to provide a more personalized experience.

3.3 Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often, time spent on pages, and any error messages encountered. This data helps us improve the website’s performance and content.

Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to measure and analyze website usage. Google Analytics may collect data such as your IP address, device identifiers, and browsing behavior. In the EEA/UK and other jurisdictions requiring consent, Google Analytics is activated only after you provide consent via our cookie banner.

Microsoft Clarity: 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.

3.4 Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies may be used to track visitors across websites to display relevant advertisements. If implemented in the future, these cookies will only be set with your consent where required by law.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies on our site are placed by third-party services we use. These may include:

Google Analytics (analytics) — Google Privacy Policy

Microsoft Clarity / Microsoft Advertising (analytics/advertising) — Microsoft Privacy Statement

Calendly (scheduling functionality) — Calendly Privacy Policy

Salesforce (CRM/form integration) — Salesforce Privacy Policy

We do not control third-party cookies. Please refer to each provider’s privacy policy for details on how they process your data.

5. Your Choices & Managing Cookies

5.1 Cookie Consent Banner

When you visit our website from outside the United States, you will see a cookie consent banner that allows you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your preferences at any time.

5.2 Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to block or delete cookies. Please note that disabling strictly necessary cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

For instructions on managing cookies in popular browsers:

Google Chrome • Mozilla Firefox • Safari • Microsoft Edge

5.3 Opt-Out of Analytics

Google Analytics: You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Microsoft Clarity: You can opt out via the Microsoft Privacy Statement or by adjusting your cookie preferences on our site.

6. Legal Basis (EEA/UK)

For users in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom, we rely on the following legal bases for setting cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies: Exempt from consent under ePrivacy Directive Article 5(3).

All other cookies: Set only after obtaining your informed consent, as required by the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last updated” date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

8. Contact

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

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