Privacy and cookies
Scienza in rete is published by Zadig srl, Milan, Italy, which is the data controller for the data collected through this site. The controller’s contact details and how to exercise your rights (access, rectification, erasure, objection) are in Zadig’s general privacy notice (in Italian). This page describes what happens on scienzainrete.it.
The site uses no profiling cookies and shows no advertising. That is why there is no consent banner: there is nothing to agree to before reading.
What stays in your browser
Reading the site does not give you any cookie. The site remembers in your browser, without sending it anywhere, the theme you chose (light or dark).
Members of the editorial staff receive a technical cookie when they enter the reserved pages: it only keeps their session open.
How we count visits
Visits are counted with Matomo, software installed on a server run by Zadig: the data are not passed to anyone else. Matomo is set up to use no cookies and to record your IP address in truncated form, so it does not recognise you from one visit to the next and does not follow you on other sites. We know how many times a page was read, from which country and with what kind of device, not who read it. We also count how many times people click on a link to another site and how many times they scroll down to the further-reading boxes, again without knowing who does it.
A second, control count is made by Cloudflare, the service the site’s traffic passes through. It uses no cookies either.
Like every website, the server logs the IP address, the requested page and the browser type for each request. These logs are used for security and maintenance.
If you do not want to be counted
You can opt out of Matomo counting with this box. Your choice is remembered with a cookie in your browser: it is the only cookie the counting uses, and only those who opt out receive it. If you delete your cookies or change browser, you need to opt out again. Matomo also respects your browser’s “Do Not Track” setting.
Video and audio from other services
Many articles contain video and audio hosted elsewhere.
YouTube and Vimeo videos and SoundCloud and Spotify audio do not load by themselves: in their place you find a box with a button. Only if you press it does your browser contact that service, which from then on receives your IP address and may store cookies or other data under its own rules. For YouTube we use the version that sets no cookies until you start the video.
Podcasts hosted on Spreaker load together with the page. Spreaker therefore receives your IP address, but its player stores nothing in your browser (we measured this on 8 October 2026).
Other external services
Fonts are served by the site itself, not by Google. The same goes for style sheets and chart libraries: reading a page calls no server other than ours.
Some images in older articles are loaded from the site that hosts them, which receives your IP address.
Links to the newsletter (Substack), to donations and to social media take you off the site: there the rules of those services apply.
Social media publishing
The editorial staff publishes on the magazine’s own social media accounts, including TikTok, through a scheduling tool installed on a server run by Zadig and reserved to the staff. When an account is connected, the tool receives from the platform only the basic account information and the access permissions needed to publish. These data are used only to publish the magazine’s content and are never sold or shared. The tool’s terms are on the terms of service page.
When you write to us
If you use the “Errors and suggestions” form, we receive what you write, the page you write from, the type of device and your IP address. We use them to understand and fix the problem.
If you propose an article through the “Write for us” form, we receive the data you enter (name, email, biography, proposal), the type of device and your IP address. We use them only to assess the proposal and reply to you.
Last updated: 4 November 2026.