# Cookies: what actually runs today

> Cloudflare Web Analytics is on and uses no cookies. The tag manager, GA4 and Clarity are prepared but not installed, and nothing loads before you say yes.

URL: https://myitalia.it/cookies
Last updated: 2026-09-02

As of September 2, 2026 this site sets no measurement cookies: the only site-wide statistic is Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless, and the tag manager, GA4 and Clarity are prepared but not installed.

## What is running now

One measurement tool is live: Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views at the edge without cookies, without a device identifier and without following you to another site. It needs no consent because it stores nothing on your device.

Everything else that could observe you is off. There is no advertising pixel, no session recording, no social plugin, no third-party font, no commercial map embed and no video player from another domain.

## What is prepared and switched off

Three tools sit behind the consent gate without being installed: Google Tag Manager, GA4 and Microsoft Clarity. The container exists and is empty, which means the banner you see is a working switch rather than a decoration.

If any of them is turned on, this page changes on the same day, with the name of the tool, what it stores, for how long, and who receives the data. The date at the top of the page is the honest way to check whether that has happened.

## The consent record, and the clock it uses

A consent choice is the one thing that will be stored on your device, and it carries a timestamp in Italian time: CET, UTC+1, in winter, and CEST, UTC+2, from spring to autumn. Italy shares that zone with 17 EU member states, so a timestamp taken here reads an hour ahead of London and an hour behind Athens.

You can withdraw consent at any time from the same control that gave it, and clearing your browser storage removes the record entirely.

## Why the order matters

Nothing third-party loads before the gate, which is the difference between a cookie policy and a cookie banner. An embedded map, a hosted font or a video frame contacts its server the moment the page renders, before any button can be pressed.

That is why no map here calls a commercial tile server and the fonts come from this domain. The privacy side of the same picture is on the [privacy page](/privacy).

## FAQ

### Does myitalia use cookies?

Not for measurement. As of September 2, 2026 the only site-wide statistic is Cloudflare Web Analytics, which works without cookies and without fingerprinting. If a consent choice becomes necessary, the record of that choice is the one thing stored on your device.

### Why is there a consent banner if nothing is tracking me?

Because the gate is built before the tools are, not after. A tag manager, GA4 and Clarity are prepared and switched off, and the day one of them is turned on the banner is already the thing that decides whether it loads at all.

### Do you embed Google Maps or YouTube?

No. No map here loads tiles from a commercial provider, fonts are served from this domain, and there is no social plugin, no advertising pixel and no video embed. That is a design decision: a third-party embed loads before any consent gate can stop it.

## Sources

| Fact | Source | Confidence | Valid until |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Italia usa l'ora dell'Europa centrale (CET, UTC+1) in inverno e l'ora legale dell'Europa centrale (CEST, UTC+2) in estate; il CET e' il fuso di 17 Stati membri dell'UE. | [Commissione europea - DG MOVE](https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/summertime_en) | medium | 2028-12-31 |

## Other languages

- it: https://myitalia.it/it/cookies.md
- es: https://myitalia.it/es/cookies.md
- fr: https://myitalia.it/fr/cookies.md
- de: https://myitalia.it/de/cookies.md