Cookie Policy
Version 1.0 — in force since 11 September 2026. Notice given under Article 122 of Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003 (Privacy Code), Articles 13 and 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the Guidelines on cookies and other tracking tools issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority on 10 June 2021 (doc. web no. 9677876).
This page explains what cookies are, which ones www.carlomansi.com uses, what they do, how long they last and how you can change your mind at any time. The data controller is Liquorificio Carlo Mansi di Mansi Carlo, Via Vescovado 1, 84010 Minori (SA), Italy, VAT 00300110657, info@carlomansi.com. For everything else (rights, recipients, retention) see the Privacy Policy.
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that the sites you visit send to your device, where they are stored and then sent back to those same sites on your next visit. Alongside cookies there are technologies with similar effects, which this notice treats in the same way: browser local storage and session storage, pixels and invisible images, fingerprinting and device identifiers.
They differ by who installs them — first-party cookies, managed by the owner of this site, and third-party cookies, managed by others — and by how long they last: session cookies are deleted when you close the browser, persistent ones remain until the stated expiry or until you delete them.
Legally, only two families matter: technical cookies, which Article 122 of the Privacy Code allows without consent because they are needed to carry out the communication or to provide the service you requested, and every other tracking tool, which requires your prior, free, specific, informed and revocable consent.
2. The categories we use
| Category | Used for | Consent | On by default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary technical | Running the site, the language switch, the quote-request cart, form security and remembering your cookie choice | Not required (Article 122 Privacy Code) | Yes |
| Preference (functional) | Remembering non-essential settings you chose | Required | No |
| Statistics | Measuring site visits in aggregate form | Required | No |
| Third-party content and marketing | Showing embedded maps and videos; any advertising tools | Required | No |
Until you make a choice the site installs only technical cookies: scripts and content in the other categories stay blocked and are not even downloaded from the providers’ servers.
3. Necessary technical cookies
They require no consent and cannot be switched off from the banner, because without them the features you asked for do not work. You can still block them from your browser settings, accepting that parts of the site will stop working.
| Name | Type and provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
cm_cookie_consent | First-party cookie (carlomansi.com) | Stores the categories you accepted or refused, the date of your choice and the notice version, so the banner is not shown on every page | 6 months |
cm_cookie_consent_log | First-party local storage | Local record of your latest cookie choices, kept to demonstrate that consent was properly collected (Article 7(1) GDPR) | Until manually deleted |
cm_cookie_consent_dismissed | First-party session storage | Remembers that you closed the banner with the X without choosing, so it is not repeated on every page of the same session. Closing is not consent | Until the browser is closed |
cm_lang | First-party cookie | Remembers the site language you selected | 12 months |
cm_quote_cart | First-party local storage | Keeps the products and quantities you added to the quote-request cart until you submit the form | Until the request is sent or manually cleared |
PHPSESSID | First-party cookie generated by the server | Identifies the browsing session, required to submit forms and to protect against automated submissions | Session |
cm_form_token | First-party cookie | Anti-forgery token for the forms (CSRF and spam protection) | Session |
Note on the current version of the site. While the WordPress and WooCommerce version remains online, the quote-request cart also uses the first-party technical cookies wp_woocommerce_session_* and yith_ywraq_session_* (2 days), which keep the cart contents and its link to the session, plus wordpress_* and wp-settings-* for people who log into the admin panel only. They are all technical cookies and serve the purposes described above.
4. Preference cookies
They remember non-essential settings, for instance accessibility options (font size, high contrast) or a dismissed notice. They are installed only if you switch on the “Preference cookies” category in the banner. They are first-party cookies lasting at most 12 months. If the category stays off the site still works, but forgets those choices at every visit.
5. Statistics cookies
We use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), to learn how many people visit the site, which pages they come from and what they read. The tool is configured with IP truncation, Google signals and advertising personalisation switched off, and is not combined with other Google services for profiling. The script is loaded only after you switch on the “Statistics cookies” category; without it the site applies Google Consent Mode v2 with every consent parameter denied.
| Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Ireland Limited | Generates a random identifier to distinguish visitors | 2 years |
_ga_<ID> | Google Ireland Limited | Keeps the session state for the GA4 property | 2 years |
_gid | Google Ireland Limited | Distinguishes visitors within a single day (present in some configurations only) | 24 hours |
_gat | Google Ireland Limited | Throttles the rate of requests sent to Google servers | 1 minute |
Provider notice: policies.google.com/privacy — types of cookies used by Google: policies.google.com/technologies/cookies. You can switch Analytics off on every site by installing the browser opt-out add-on. The processing may involve transfers to the United States: see point 6 of the Privacy Policy.
If we later activate advertising or remarketing tools (for example Google Ads or Meta Pixel), this notice will be updated before they go live and fresh consent will be requested.
6. Third-party content and marketing
Some pages embed content supplied by third parties. It stays blocked until you switch on the “Third-party content and marketing” category: in its place you will see a box explaining what it is and letting you decide whether to load it, even for that single item. Once the content loads, the provider receives your IP address, information about your browser and the page you came from, and may set its own cookies: for that processing the provider answers as an independent controller.
| Name | Service and provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
NID, CONSENT, SOCS | Google Maps — Google Ireland Limited | Map display preferences, security and memory of choices made on Google services | 6 months to 2 years |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | YouTube — Google Ireland Limited | Estimates bandwidth and selects the player interface | 6 months |
YSC | YouTube — Google Ireland Limited | Identifies the player session and counts views | Session |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA, __Secure-YEC | YouTube — Google Ireland Limited | Stores the privacy preferences expressed on the platform | Up to 13 months |
PREF | YouTube — Google Ireland Limited | Remembers player preferences, such as volume | Up to 2 years |
Videos are embedded in privacy-enhanced mode through the youtube-nocookie.com domain: Google sets no profiling cookies until you start playback, but it still receives your IP address the moment the content loads. That is why the content stays blocked until you consent. Provider notice: Google (Maps and YouTube).
Links to our Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages are plain links and set no cookies until you click them: at that point you leave the site and the destination platform’s notice applies.
7. How the banner works and how to change your choice
- On your first visit a banner appears which, before any non-technical installation, offers three equally prominent choices: Accept all, Reject all and Customise.
- The X in the top right corner closes the banner without giving any consent: no non-technical cookie is installed and the banner will be shown again on your next visit.
- In the “Customise” panel the optional category switches are all off: no box is pre-ticked and scrolling the page does not count as acceptance.
- Refusing does not restrict access to content: we use no cookie wall.
- Your choice is stored for 6 months; after that the banner reappears. The same happens if we change the services that require consent.
- You can change or withdraw your choices at any time through the Cookie preferences link in the footer of every page. When you withdraw consent to statistics cookies, Google cookies already present are removed from the site domain.
- To demonstrate that consent was properly collected we record on your device the date and time of the choice, the categories accepted, the notice version and a random identifier, with no data that directly identifies you.
8. How to delete cookies from your browser
Regardless of the banner, you can block or delete cookies from your browser settings. Note that blocking technical cookies as well will stop some features working, such as the quote-request cart.
Most browsers also offer a private browsing mode and the Global Privacy Control signal: our banner never pre-selects any category, so no tracking starts before an explicit choice of yours.
9. Rights, complaints and contacts
In relation to data processed through cookies you may exercise the rights under Articles 15‑22 GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection) and withdraw your consent at any time under Article 7(3) GDPR. Write to info@carlomansi.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority, Piazza Venezia 11, 00187 Rome, or with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence. Full details of your rights are in the Privacy Policy.
10. Updates to this document
This notice is updated whenever the cookies used by the site or the embedded third-party services change. The version and effective date are shown at the top of the page. Where the changes concern tools subject to consent, the banner will be shown again to collect a fresh choice.
This English text is a courtesy translation. In case of discrepancy, the Italian version prevails, as the processing is governed by Italian law.