Last updated: October 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies are used on www.cookingclassborgoponeta.it.

It should be read together with the website’s Privacy Policy.

1. Data Controller

BORGO PONETA SOCIETÀ SEMPLICE AGRICOLA
VAT No. IT06783330480
Strada di Poneta 70
50121 Barberino Val D’Elsa (FI), Italy

Email: info@borgoponeta.it

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may store on a user’s device.

Cookies and similar technologies may be used for:

  • essential website functionality;
  • security and session management;
  • booking functionality;
  • online-payment functionality;
  • user preferences;
  • statistics;
  • remembering consent choices;
  • booking-source attribution.

3. Categories of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These technologies are required for essential website, booking, payment or security functionality.

Where permitted by applicable law, they may operate without prior consent.

Preference Cookies

These may be used to remember optional user choices.

Where required, they are activated only after consent.

Statistics Technologies

These may be used to understand how the website is used.

Where consent is required for a particular statistics technology, it is activated only after consent.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing or advertising technologies, where present, are activated only after the required consent.

Booking-source attribution is not used for behavioural advertising or cross-site profiling.

4. Cookie Consent Management

The website uses a first-party cookie-consent management system.

Users may choose:

  • Accept all
  • Reject optional cookies
  • Customize

Consent preferences are remembered for a maximum of 180 days.

Users may change or withdraw their choice through the Cookie settings option available on the website.

5. Booking Source Attribution

The website may record information concerning the source from which a customer reaches the booking process.

This may include:

  • referring website;
  • referral domain;
  • UTM or campaign parameters;
  • commercial or referral partner.

This information is used to:

  • identify the source of reservations;
  • associate bookings with referral channels or commercial partners;
  • manage commercial attribution or commissions where applicable;
  • obtain internal booking-source statistics.

Operation without optional cookies

Where technically possible, booking-source information is transmitted through website navigation and the booking process without placing a persistent attribution cookie on the user’s device.

When a booking is submitted, relevant source information may be stored together with the reservation.

Rejecting optional cookies therefore does not necessarily prevent the source of a booking from being recorded.

Optional attribution cookie

Where the relevant consent has been provided, the website may use a first-party attribution cookie to remember the source across future visits.

Cookie: asa_booking_source_consent
Provider: cookingclassborgoponeta.it
Purpose: remembering booking/referral source
Activation: after the relevant consent
Maximum duration: up to 1 year unless configured for a shorter period

It is not used for behavioural advertising or cross-site profiling.

6. SlimStat Analytics

The website uses SlimStat Analytics configured in a privacy-oriented manner.

In particular:

  • IP addresses are masked;
  • browser fingerprinting is disabled;
  • SlimStat does not set its own tracking cookie;
  • statistical information is stored locally in WordPress;
  • analytics data are retained for a maximum of 420 days;
  • archived records are not retained beyond the applicable retention period;
  • geographic information is limited to country level.

SlimStat may process page views, referrers, browser/device information, operating system, country and technical navigation information.

7. Amelia Booking System

The website uses Amelia to manage booking requests.

Technical mechanisms may be used where necessary to:

  • display the booking interface;
  • manage booking steps;
  • process dates, times and participant information;
  • submit booking requests;
  • maintain Pending and confirmed booking information;
  • associate booking-source information with reservations;
  • coordinate the booking with the online-payment process.

8. Nexi Online Payments

The website uses Nexi to securely process online payments.

During the payment process, Nexi may use cookies or similar technologies necessary for:

  • maintaining the payment session;
  • secure transaction processing;
  • authentication;
  • fraud prevention;
  • traffic distribution;
  • other functions strictly necessary to provide the payment service.

These technical technologies may be necessary for the payment process to function correctly.

Payment-card information is processed through Nexi’s infrastructure and full card details are not stored by this website.

Nexi may process personal data and use technologies according to its own privacy and cookie documentation.

9. Hosting – Aruba

The website is hosted through Aruba S.p.A.

Technical or server-side technologies may be used where necessary for website operation, security, performance, sessions and protection against misuse.

10. Embedded Third-Party Content

The website may include:

  • maps;
  • review widgets;
  • external media;
  • payment interfaces;
  • other embedded services.

These providers may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

Where technologies are not strictly necessary, they should only be activated after the relevant consent where legally required.

11. Main Cookies and Technologies

Technology Provider Purpose Duration
Consent preference cookingclassborgoponeta.it Remembers cookie choices Up to 180 days
Booking-source transmission cookingclassborgoponeta.it Carries referral information through booking Session / booking
asa_booking_source_consent cookingclassborgoponeta.it Remembers booking/referral source Up to 1 year
SlimStat cookingclassborgoponeta.it Privacy-oriented statistics Database up to 420 days
Amelia cookingclassborgoponeta.it Booking functionality As technically required
Nexi payment technologies Nexi Payment session, security, authentication and transaction processing As required for the payment process

12. Legal Basis

Strictly necessary technologies may be used where required to:

  • provide website functionality requested by the user;
  • manage bookings;
  • securely process online payments;
  • maintain website and transaction security.

Optional technologies requiring consent are activated only after the relevant consent has been provided.

13. Managing Cookie Preferences

Users may change their preferences at any time through Cookie settings.

Cookies may also be deleted or blocked using browser settings.

Blocking technologies necessary for bookings or payments may prevent those functions from operating correctly.

14. Personal Data

Further information about processing purposes, legal bases, retention, recipients and users’ GDPR rights is available in the website’s Privacy Policy.

15. Changes to this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated following changes to the website, booking system, payment system, technologies or applicable legislation.

The latest version will always be published on this page.