Last updated: July 13, 2026
This Privacy and Cookie Policy explains how The Pixel Gazette collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data when users visitthepixelgazette.com, contact the editorial team, or interact with the services available through the website.
The Pixel Gazette is committed to processing personal data lawfully, fairly, transparently, and only to the extent necessary for the purposes described in this policy.
This policy should be read together with ourEditorial Policy,About page, and any privacy choices displayed through our consent management platform.
1. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for the processing of personal data through this website is:
- Data controller: Marco Cresta
- Commercial name and editorial team: Pixel.News
- VAT number: IT18069411009
- Italian tax code: CRSMRC88R04C352P
- Tax regime: RF01 — Ordinary
- Registered address: Via Antonio Galtarossa 4/1, 00100 Rome (RM), Italy
- Certified email address — PEC:marcocresta@pec.it
- Editorial contact:editor@thepixelgazette.com
Privacy-related requests and requests concerning the exercise of data-protection rights should preferably be sent to the certified email address listed above.
2. Scope of This Policy
This policy applies to personal data processed through The Pixel Gazette website, including data generated when users:
- browse pages and articles;
- interact with the cookie consent interface;
- contact the editorial team by email;
- request a correction or clarification;
- submit a news tip, proposal, or other communication;
- interact with analytics or advertising technologies, where enabled and authorised.
This policy does not govern websites, platforms, or services operated independently by third parties that may be linked from our articles.
3. Personal Data We Process
Depending on how the website is used, we may process the following categories of information.
Technical and Connection Data
Technical data may be generated automatically when a user visits the website, including:
- Internet Protocol address;
- date and time of access;
- requested URL or page;
- HTTP request and response information;
- browser type and version;
- operating system;
- device category;
- approximate geographic area;
- referring page or website;
- network and connection information;
- security, firewall, and anti-abuse events;
- diagnostic and performance information.
Some of this information is necessary to deliver the website, maintain its security, diagnose errors, and prevent malicious activity.
Analytics Data
When the user provides the required consent, Google Analytics may process information such as:
- page views;
- session information;
- interaction events;
- approximate location;
- browser and device characteristics;
- traffic source;
- pseudonymous or randomly generated identifiers;
- information about how visitors navigate and use the website.
We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, telephone numbers, or other directly identifying information to Google Analytics.
Consent and Cookie Preferences
Our consent management platform may process information necessary to:
- display the appropriate privacy notice;
- record whether consent was granted or refused;
- store the categories and purposes selected by the user;
- demonstrate that a privacy choice was made;
- avoid repeatedly displaying the consent request;
- allow the user to modify or withdraw consent.
Information Provided Voluntarily
When users contact us, we may receive:
- their name;
- email address;
- the content of the message;
- the article URL concerned;
- supporting documents or evidence;
- any other information voluntarily included in the communication.
Users should avoid sending unnecessary sensitive personal data through ordinary email.
4. Purposes and Legal Bases
We process personal data for the following purposes.
| Purpose | Categories of data | Legal basis |
|---|---|---|
| Delivering pages and website functions | Technical and connection data | Legitimate interest in operating the website |
| Protecting the website against abuse, attacks, fraud, and unauthorised access | Technical, network, and security data | Legitimate interest in maintaining security |
| Diagnosing technical problems and improving reliability | Technical and performance data | Legitimate interest in maintaining the service |
| Recording and managing cookie preferences | Consent records and technical identifiers | Compliance with legal obligations and legitimate interest in demonstrating users’ choices |
| Measuring readership and website usage through Google Analytics | Analytics data and pseudonymous identifiers | User consent |
| Responding to emails, requests, corrections, or proposals | Contact details and message content | Legitimate interest or steps requested by the user |
| Managing disputes, complaints, or legal claims | Relevant communications and records | Legitimate interest in establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims |
| Complying with tax, administrative, regulatory, or legal duties | Relevant business and communication data | Compliance with a legal obligation |
| Delivering personalised or non-personalised advertising, when enabled | Cookie data, identifiers, device and browsing information | Consent where required by applicable law |
Where processing is based on consent, users may withdraw their consent at any time without affecting processing that took place before the withdrawal.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
Cookies are small text files stored on a user’s device. Similar technologies may include local storage, software development tools, pixels, tags, and other identifiers.
The Pixel Gazette may use the following categories.
Strictly Necessary Technologies
Strictly necessary technologies support functions such as:
- website delivery;
- network security;
- fraud and abuse prevention;
- load balancing;
- consent preference storage;
- access to requested pages;
- protection against automated traffic.
These technologies are activated because they are necessary to operate and protect the website. They do not require consent where they are used exclusively for strictly necessary purposes.
Analytics Cookies
Google Analytics may use first-party cookies, including cookies such as _ga and service-specific variants, to distinguish pseudonymous visitors and measure sessions and interactions.
Analytics cookies and non-essential Analytics storage are activated only where the user has provided the required consent through the consent management platform.
Users who refuse Analytics consent can continue to access the website.
Advertising Cookies
The Pixel Gazette is intended to be financed through advertising revenue.
At the date of this policy, no third-party programmatic advertising network is active on the website.
Before a third-party advertising provider is activated, this policy and the consent management platform will be updated to identify:
- the advertising provider;
- the purposes of the processing;
- the categories of data used;
- the relevant cookies or identifiers;
- applicable retention periods;
- available privacy controls;
- any international data transfers.
Where required by law, advertising or profiling technologies will not be activated before the user has provided valid consent.
Current Technology Overview
| Category | Provider | Purpose | Activation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Necessary infrastructure and security | Cloudflare | Hosting infrastructure, content delivery, DNS, security, traffic management, performance, and abuse prevention | Necessary |
| Consent management | Google Consent Management Platform | Displaying privacy notices and recording consent or refusal choices | Necessary for consent management |
| Audience measurement | Google Analytics 4 | Measuring visits, sessions, page use, devices, and website performance | After consent where required |
| Advertising | No external advertising network currently active | Future advertising delivery and measurement | Not currently active |
The exact technologies active on a device may depend on the user’s choices, location, browser configuration, and the website features in use.
6. Google Consent Management Platform
The Pixel Gazette uses the Google Consent Management Platform, made available through Google’s Privacy & Messaging services, to collect and manage privacy choices.
The consent interface may allow users to:
- accept the proposed processing purposes;
- refuse non-essential processing;
- manage individual purposes or providers;
- review information about participating providers;
- modify or withdraw previously expressed choices.
The platform may use technically necessary cookies or local-storage technologies to remember the user’s choices and demonstrate that a consent decision was made.
Closing or refusing the consent request does not prevent users from accessing the editorial content of the website, although some non-essential functions may remain unavailable.
Users can reopen the consent panel at any time by selecting the“Privacy and cookie settings” link available in the website footer.
More information about Google’s privacy practices is available in theGoogle Privacy Policy.
7. Google Analytics
The Pixel Gazette uses Google Analytics 4, a web-measurement service provided by Google, to understand how readers discover and use the website.
Google Analytics may process:
- the number of visitors and sessions;
- page views and interaction events;
- approximate geographical information;
- browser, operating-system, and device information;
- referral and traffic-source information;
- pseudonymous client identifiers.
Google Analytics may store a randomly generated client identifier in a first-party cookie such as_ga when Analytics storage has been authorised.
Google states that Google Analytics does not log or store users’ Internet Protocol addresses. The address may nevertheless be processed transiently for communication, security, and approximate location purposes before being discarded.
Google acts as a data processor for Google Analytics in accordance with the applicable service and data-processing terms.
We do not intentionally use Google Analytics to collect:
- names;
- email addresses;
- telephone numbers;
- postal addresses;
- payment details;
- account credentials;
- other information that directly identifies a visitor.
Consent
Where consent is legally required, Google Analytics and its non-essential cookies are activated only after the user has accepted the relevant purpose through the consent management platform.
When Analytics consent is refused or withdrawn, we do not intentionally store Google Analytics identifiers on the user’s device.
Retention
User-level and event-level data stored in Google Analytics is retained for no longer than14 months, subject to the configuration of the Analytics property.
Aggregated statistical reports that no longer identify or single out individual users may be retained for longer periods for historical comparison and website-performance analysis.
Google Analytics Controls
Users can:
- refuse or withdraw Analytics consent through the website’s privacy settings;
- delete or block cookies using their browser;
- use the officialGoogle Analytics opt-out browser add-on;
- review the Google Privacy Policy;
- read how Google processes data from partner websites on theGoogle partner-sites information page.
Blocking Analytics does not prevent access to the editorial content of The Pixel Gazette.
8. Cloudflare
The Pixel Gazette uses services supplied by Cloudflare for website infrastructure, hosting or delivery, Domain Name System services, content distribution, security, performance optimisation, and protection against malicious or automated traffic.
Because website traffic passes through Cloudflare’s global network, Cloudflare may process information such as:
- Internet Protocol addresses;
- request dates and times;
- requested URLs;
- browser and device information;
- HTTP headers;
- network information;
- security events;
- firewall and anti-abuse signals;
- diagnostic and performance metadata.
This processing is necessary to deliver pages efficiently, maintain website availability, prevent attacks, and identify technical or security problems.
Cloudflare generally processes this information on our behalf in accordance with the services enabled for the website and the applicable contractual terms.
Cloudflare is not used by The Pixel Gazette to determine editorial content or create advertising profiles.
Further information is available in:
9. Advertising
The Pixel Gazette’s business model is based exclusively on advertising revenue.
At present, however, the website does not use an active third-party programmatic advertising network.
This means that the current version of the website does not intentionally activate third-party advertising or profiling cookies for the delivery of programmatic advertisements.
If an advertising provider is introduced in the future:
- this policy will be updated before or at the time the service is activated;
- the provider will be listed in the consent management platform;
- users will be informed about the relevant purposes and data processing;
- consent will be requested where required;
- users will be able to refuse or withdraw their consent;
- sponsored or paid editorial material will remain clearly distinguishable from independent editorial content.
Advertising partners will not receive the right to review, approve, or alter independent editorial content.
10. Recipients and Service Providers
Personal data may be made available, where necessary, to:
- Cloudflare and its relevant group entities;
- Google and its relevant group entities;
- technical service providers;
- website administrators and authorised collaborators;
- professional advisers, where required;
- public authorities, courts, regulators, or law-enforcement bodies where disclosure is legally required.
Service providers receive only the data reasonably necessary to perform their assigned functions and are required to process it in accordance with applicable contractual and legal obligations.
We do not sell personal data to data brokers.
We do not exchange personal data for payment.
This statement does not exclude the technically necessary transmission of information to service providers used to operate the website, measure traffic, manage consent, or deliver advertising where authorised.
11. International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by The Pixel Gazette operate internationally and may process data in countries outside Italy or the European Economic Area.
Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, the transfer is carried out using an applicable legal mechanism, which may include:
- an adequacy decision adopted by the European Commission;
- standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission;
- supplementary technical and organisational safeguards;
- another transfer mechanism recognised under applicable data-protection law.
Further information about the transfer mechanisms used by Google and Cloudflare is available in their respective privacy and data-protection documentation.
12. Data Retention
Personal data is retained only for the period necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
The following criteria generally apply:
- Google Analytics user-level and event-level data: no longer than 14 months;
- aggregated Analytics reports: potentially retained for longer where they no longer identify or single out users;
- consent records: retained for as long as reasonably necessary to demonstrate the privacy choice and comply with applicable obligations;
- security and technical data: retained for the period made available by the relevant infrastructure provider or for as long as needed to investigate a security event;
- ordinary correspondence: generally retained for up to 24 months after the request has been resolved;
- communications relating to disputes or legal claims: retained for the period necessary to manage the matter and comply with applicable limitation periods;
- records required by law: retained for the period established by the applicable legal or regulatory obligation.
Data may be retained for a longer period where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim, respond to an authority, or investigate fraud or security incidents.
13. Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal data against:
- unauthorised access;
- accidental loss;
- unlawful disclosure;
- alteration;
- destruction;
- misuse;
- malicious or automated attacks.
These measures may include encrypted connections, access controls, security monitoring, firewall protections, software updates, and restricted administrative access.
No method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security, but we regularly review the measures used to protect the website and its information.
14. User Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable laws, users may have the right to:
- obtain confirmation as to whether their personal data is being processed;
- request access to their personal data;
- request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
- request deletion of personal data where the legal requirements are met;
- request restriction of processing;
- object to processing based on legitimate interests;
- receive portable data where the right to portability applies;
- withdraw consent at any time;
- lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
A request may be sent to:
PEC: marcocresta@pec.it
The request should clearly describe the right being exercised and provide sufficient information to identify the relevant data.
We may request reasonable proof of identity where necessary to protect personal information against unauthorised disclosure.
15. Complaints to the Supervisory Authority
Users who believe that their personal data has been processed unlawfully may lodge a complaint with the Italian supervisory authority:
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
Official website:www.garanteprivacy.it
Users may also contact the supervisory authority of another European Union Member State where applicable.
16. Children’s Privacy
The Pixel Gazette is a general-audience news and culture publication and is not specifically directed at children under the age of 14.
We do not knowingly request names, contact information, account details, or other personal data directly from children under 14.
A parent or legal guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information may contact us so that the matter can be investigated and, where appropriate, the data removed.
17. Automated Decision-Making
The Pixel Gazette does not use personal data to make decisions based solely on automated processing that produce legal effects or similarly significant effects on users.
Analytics tools may automatically categorise traffic, devices, or interactions for statistical purposes, but these classifications are not used to make legally significant decisions about individual readers.
18. External Links
Articles may contain links to websites, social networks, videos, documents, shops, or other services operated by third parties.
The Pixel Gazette does not control the privacy practices, cookies, security, or content of those external services.
Users should review the privacy information of the relevant third party before providing personal information or accepting non-essential cookies.
19. Managing or Withdrawing Consent
Users may modify or withdraw their cookie and privacy choices at any time through the“Privacy and cookie settings” link displayed in the website footer.
Users may also delete stored cookies or block future cookies through their browser settings.
Disabling certain technologies may affect non-essential features, but refusing Analytics or future advertising consent does not prevent access to the website’s editorial content.
20. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy and Cookie Policy to reflect:
- changes to the website;
- the introduction of new service providers;
- the activation of an advertising network;
- changes to Analytics or consent-management settings;
- legal or regulatory developments;
- changes to our data-processing practices.
Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
Where required, users may be asked to review the updated information or provide a new consent choice.
21. Contact
For questions about this policy or the processing of personal data, contact:
Marco Cresta — Pixel.News
Via Antonio Galtarossa 4/1
00100 Rome (RM), Italy
PEC: marcocresta@pec.it
Editorial email:editor@thepixelgazette.com