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Life in Italia does not set cookies — not for analytics, not for advertising and not for anything else. The only thing the site stores in your browser is your progress in our interactive planning checklists, and only if you use them. This page explains exactly what that is.
Cookies and Browser Storage
Cookies are small files a website can place in your browser, and they are sent back to the website with every request. Local storage is a different mechanism: it lets a page keep information in your browser, but that information is not sent to the website automatically. Life in Italia uses local storage for one feature, described below, and no cookies.
What the Site Stores
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Type | Duration | Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bsi-checklist:[checklist name] | Life in Italia (this website) | Remembers which items you have ticked in an interactive planning checklist, so your progress is still there when you come back | Local storage (functional) | Until you untick every item in that checklist or clear your browser's site data; it doesn't expire automatically | Optional: created only when you tick an item |
The checklists appear in a few practical guides, such as the travel planning checklist and our guides to airport transfers, getting between cities, ferries and the Dolomites, and in their Italian editions. Each checklist has its own entry. It contains only the text of the items you ticked — no name, email address or identifier — and it is never sent to us.
If your browser blocks site data, for example in some private-browsing modes, the checklist still works for the page you're on but forgets your ticks when you leave.
What the Site Does Not Use
- Analytics — no Google Analytics or any other analytics service.
- Advertising — no advertising cookies, pixels or ad networks.
- Third-party embeds — no embedded videos, maps or social-media widgets that could set their own cookies.
- Third-party requests — images and fonts are served from our own domain, so reading a page doesn't send requests to other companies' servers.
Consent
Because the site sets no cookies and uses no tracking, we don't show a cookie banner. The checklist storage is only created when you choose to tick an item, and you can remove it at any time. If we ever add cookies or other technologies that need your consent, we will ask for it before they are used and list them on this page.
Clearing Checklist Progress
- Untick all the items in a checklist: its entry is deleted.
- Or clear this site's data in your browser settings (often under "Cookies and site data" or "Site settings"), which removes all our checklist entries at once.
Other Websites
When you follow a link to another website — such as an official source or a transport operator — that website may set its own cookies under its own policies.
Changes to This Policy
We will update this page before the site starts storing anything new in your browser. See also our Privacy Policy. Questions: lifeinitaliya@gmail.com (opens in a new tab).