Cookie Policy — ItalianAirports.eu

Last updated: 14 October 2026.

1. General provisions

This Cookie Policy (the “Policy”) explains how ItalianAirports.eu uses cookies and similar technologies, why they may be necessary, what information may be processed and how visitors can manage their preferences.

ItalianAirports.eu is an independent information project about Italian airports, flights, transport routes, travel destinations and events. The website owner and operator is MEDIA IEU, SIA, registration number 40203268669, registered office at Andreja Pormaļa iela 15, Jēkabpils, LV-5201, Latvia. Email: info@mediaieu.cc; website: https://italianairports.eu.

Relevant European Union and Latvian legislation applies, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and rules on electronic communications. This Policy applies to every language version of ItalianAirports.eu.

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files saved by websites in the browser on a computer, smartphone, tablet or other device. On later visits, the browser may send them back to the relevant website so that sessions, language preferences, settings and security functions can work.

Cookies are not executable programs and do not themselves run code on a device. However, certain cookies or similar identifiers may constitute personal data where they directly or indirectly identify an individual.

3. Categories of cookies

3.1. Strictly necessary cookies

These support essential functions: keeping a session active, registration and sign-in, protecting user and administrator areas, validating forms, preventing spam and automated attacks, retaining necessary technical settings and recording choices about optional cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies may be used without separate consent only where the law permits. Blocking them in the browser may prevent some website functions from working correctly.

3.2. Functional cookies

Functional cookies help remember the chosen interface language, display settings and other preferences. Where a specific technology requires prior consent, it must not be activated before consent is given.

3.3. Analytics cookies

If analytics tools are enabled, they may help measure visits, identify popular sections, diagnose technical problems and improve usability. Depending on configuration, information may include pages viewed, session duration, device type, approximate location and referral source.

Tools that legally require consent must only run after consent has been obtained. Describing this category does not mean that every possible analytics service is installed on ItalianAirports.eu.

3.4. Advertising and affiliate cookies

The website may display advertisements and partner offers related to aviation, transportation and tourism. Connected affiliate tools may record referrals and resulting interactions; advertising tools may measure campaign performance or personalise ads.

Optional advertising or tracking technologies that require consent must not run before consent is obtained. Declining them must not prevent access to the website's core informational content.

4. First-party and third-party cookies

First-party cookies are set by ItalianAirports.eu for the website's own functions. Third-party cookies may be set by external providers when embedded elements or connected services load, such as security tools, analytics platforms, social networks or partner systems.

External providers may determine the purposes and retention periods of their cookies under applicable law. Their own privacy notices explain how they handle information.

5. WordPress cookies

ItalianAirports.eu runs on WordPress with additional software modules. Depending on visitor activity, WordPress and active modules may set technical cookies for authentication, access verification, session management and interface preferences.

Signing out may delete or invalidate relevant session identifiers. The actual cookie set depends on installed components and which functions a visitor uses.

6. Website security and Cloudflare Turnstile

ItalianAirports.eu may use Cloudflare Turnstile to protect forms against spam, bots and abuse. During a security check, the service may process technical information about the browser or device, interactions with the form and necessary technical identifiers.

This processing is intended to protect the service. Additional information can be found in Cloudflare's documentation and privacy policy, subject to applicable legal requirements.

7. Social media and external services

ItalianAirports.eu maintains pages and communities on Facebook, Telegram and other platforms. The website may include ordinary links and embedded elements from external services. An ordinary text link does not, by itself, place that platform's cookies on a visitor's device before the link is followed.

Interactive embedded components may transmit technical data and set cookies. If prior consent is required, the component should load only after the visitor consents. Following a link to an external website makes the rules of that website's operator applicable.

8. How long cookies are retained

Session cookies generally remain active for the current browser session and are deleted when it ends. Persistent cookies remain on the device until their expiration date or until the user removes them.

Retention depends on each cookie's purpose, the software configuration and the external provider's terms. We aim to limit storage to a necessary period. Names, providers, purposes and lifetimes of cookies actually in use should be disclosed in an up-to-date cookie list or consent-management interface where relevant technologies are deployed.

9. Consent to cookies

Where optional technologies require consent, visitors must receive clear information about cookie categories and a genuine choice to accept, reject, configure individual categories, change their preferences or withdraw consent.

Consent must be freely given through a clear affirmative action. Silence, continuing to browse or pre-ticked boxes do not, on their own, constitute valid consent. Optional cookies requiring consent must not be set before it is obtained.

Refusing optional cookies must not block the site's core informational content. Strictly necessary technologies may operate under the applicable legal exemptions.

10. Managing cookie settings

If ItalianAirports.eu offers a consent-management interface, visitors can use it to review cookie categories and withdraw consent. Modern browsers also allow users to view, delete or block cookies, including third-party cookies.

Blocking every cookie may affect account login, saved preferences and security features. Merely deleting cookies in a browser may not replace withdrawing consent recorded in a website consent system; where such an interface exists, the relevant withdrawal mechanism should be used.

Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.

11. Personal data and visitors' rights

Where cookie-related information can identify a natural person, its processing is subject to GDPR. Depending on the circumstances, visitors have rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, portability and withdrawal of consent.

Details about purposes, legal bases, recipients and international transfers are provided in the separate Privacy Policy. Requests may be sent to info@mediaieu.cc. Visitors may also complain to a competent data-protection authority; in Latvia this is the Datu valsts inspekcija.

12. International data transfers

Some external technical, analytics or partner services may process information outside the European Economic Area. Where personal data is transferred, the relevant safeguards under GDPR are applied, which may include European Commission adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses or other lawful mechanisms.

No transfer should be made without a proper legal basis and the safeguards required in the particular circumstances.

13. Changes to this Policy

MEDIA IEU, SIA may update this Policy following changes in law, website functions, technical infrastructure or connected services. An updated version will be posted with a revised date. If changes require new consent, this will be requested before the relevant optional technologies are used.

14. Contact details

MEDIA IEU, SIA
Registration number: 40203268669
Registered address: Andreja Pormaļa iela 15, Jēkabpils, LV-5201, Latvia
Email: info@mediaieu.cc
Website: https://italianairports.eu

This Policy is read together with the ItalianAirports.eu Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.