In short
- The Site uses analytics cookies (Google Analytics) only if you accept them on the banner. Without consent it only stores the choice you make in your browser.
- The app uses only technical cookies, needed to make it work and to remember your preferences.
- We do not use profiling or marketing cookies. If we introduce them in the future, they will only run after your consent.
The controller is Starbridge di Gabriele Feruglio, VAT number IT03119880304 (“Kelp Studio”). For details on how we process personal data, read the privacy policy.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser to remember information from one page or visit to the next. Similar technologies, such as local storage, work in the same way. In this policy we call them all “cookies”.
Under Art. 122 of the Italian Privacy Code and the Italian Data Protection Authority’s Guidelines of 10 June 2021:
- technical cookies are needed to provide the service you asked for and do not require consent;
- analytics and profiling or marketing cookies require your prior consent, except anonymised analytics cookies treated as technical ones.
The Site
Without your consent the Site does not set cookies: it uses the browser’s local storage only to remember the choice you made on the banner, so it does not ask you on every page.
If you accept analytics cookies, the Site loads Google Analytics 4 by Google Ireland Ltd, which shows us in aggregate how many people visit the Site, where they come from and which pages they read. Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. If you withdraw consent, its cookies are deleted. How Google processes this data: policies.google.com/privacy.
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
kelp-consent |
Local storage, technical | Remembers your cookie preferences | Until you clear it or change your choice |
_ga |
Analytics, Google Analytics, with consent | Tells visitors apart anonymously | 2 years |
_ga_<ID> |
Analytics, Google Analytics, with consent | Keeps the state of the visit | 2 years |
The Site’s fonts are served from our own servers: opening the Site does not contact third-party servers to load them.
The app
| Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
kelp-studio-session |
Technical | Keeps you signed in during the session | 120 minutes of inactivity |
XSRF-TOKEN |
Technical, security | Protects forms from cross-site request forgery (CSRF) | Same as the session |
remember_web_* |
Technical | Keeps you signed in if you choose “Remember me” | Until you sign out, at most 400 days |
locale |
Technical, preference | Remembers the interface language | 400 days |
appearance |
Technical, preference | Remembers light or dark mode | 365 days |
sidebar_state |
Technical, preference | Remembers whether the sidebar is open | 7 days |
cookie_consent |
Technical | Remembers your cookie preferences | 180 days |
referral |
Technical, functional | Attributes your sign-up to the partner who invited you, if you arrive through their link; not used to profile you | 30 days |
The exact name of the session cookie depends on the app’s configuration.
Third-party cookies
Some features take you to third-party services, which use their own cookies under their own policies:
- Stripe, on the payment page, to process the payment and prevent fraud: stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal;
- Google, when you sign in with Google or connect YouTube: policies.google.com/technologies/cookies;
- Meta, when you connect an Instagram account: privacycenter.instagram.com/policies/cookies;
- Canva, when you connect Canva: canva.com/policies/cookies-policy.
We do not control these cookies.
How to manage your preferences
- From the banner: on your first visit you can accept, reject or choose by category. Rejecting is as easy as accepting.
- At any time: from the “Cookie preferences” link at the bottom of every page of the Site or from the app settings.
- From your browser: you can block or delete cookies in your browser settings. If you block the app’s technical cookies, signing in and some features will not work.
Instructions for the main browsers: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge.
Proof of consent
When you make a choice on the app’s banner we record it, together with the version of this policy, your anonymised IP address and browser type, so we can prove consent as required by Art. 7 GDPR. We will show you the banner again if the cookies we use change or 6 months after your choice.
Changes
We update this policy when the cookies we use change. The date at the top shows the latest version.
The Italian version of this policy prevails in case of any inconsistency with this translation.