Privacy & Cookie

Contact enquiries

The form sends your name, email address, selected service and message to Formspree, which handles delivery of the enquiry. Information you choose to send by email is also used to respond and follow up. Please avoid sensitive information or confidential details belonging to third parties.

For service and collaboration enquiries, the information is used to handle the pre-contractual steps you request. Analytics consent is not required to contact me, and sending an enquiry does not subscribe you to a newsletter. Information is retained as necessary to handle the enquiry, any subsequent relationship and applicable obligations.

Hosting and technical data

The production website is hosted by IONOS. Page delivery and service security require technical request data such as IP address, requested resource, access time and browser information. This processing is separate from Google Analytics and does not depend on analytics-cookie consent.

Fonts in the new version are served by this website, without requests to Google Fonts.

Optional analytics

Google Analytics 4 loads only after affirmative consent. It measures visits, pages and interactions using browser and device information and analytics identifiers; this information is not described as fully anonymous. Google Signals and advertising personalization are disabled.

Custom events cover project openings, filters, professional links and enquiries accepted by the contact service. Their parameters do not include names, email addresses or message contents. Page addresses sent by the site exclude query parameters and fragments.

The property's settings distinguish two-month event-data retention from fourteen-month user-data retention. These periods are separate from cookie lifetimes; aggregated reports follow separate rules.

Cookies and your choice

The essential cookie_consent cookie stores an accepted or rejected choice for 180 days. Analytics cookies _ga and _ga_* are enabled only after consent and configured for 180 days; their expiry can renew on visits while consent remains valid.

You can decline, accept or customize the banner choice and change it through Cookie settings in the footer. Withdrawal stops subsequent measurement and removes GA cookies accessible to this site. It does not automatically delete data already received by the provider; contact me to exercise your rights.

Providers and transfers

The services involved are IONOS for hosting, Formspree for the contact form and Google for optional analytics. Google and Formspree may process data outside the European Economic Area. Their notices describe processing locations, subprocessors and terms. Links to GitHub, LinkedIn, LeetCode and other websites open services with their own privacy notices.

Exercising your rights

You can contact business@mattiasica.com to request access, correction or erasure and, where applicable, restriction, objection or portability. Analytics consent can be withdrawn at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing. You may complain to the Italian Data Protection Authority or your competent supervisory authority.

Legal bases and further information

Service enquiries rely on pre-contractual steps you request (GDPR Article 6(1)(b)). Optional analytics relies on consent (point (a)). Website delivery and security rely on the legitimate interest in keeping the service operational and preventing abuse (point (f)). Any legal obligations rely on point (c).

Providing form data is voluntary. Your name, email and message are needed to handle the enquiry through the form; without them it cannot be submitted. You can use the email contact instead. Declining analytics does not prevent browsing or contacting me.

For enquiries, retention is determined by completion of the response and any clarifications; if a relationship follows, relevant data is kept to manage it and meet applicable legal obligations or protect rights. For information about provider retention periods, applicable safeguards for transfers outside the EEA and how to obtain a copy, write to business@mattiasica.com. Provider links do not replace this way of requesting information.