Privacy Policy

Introduction

We at Capitalvirello take your privacy seriously. This document sets out, in plain English, what information we collect from you when you visit the site, why we collect it, who we share it with, and how to exercise the privacy rights granted to you under applicable law. Reading this policy in full is a good idea — privacy obligations vary by jurisdiction and a few of the choices below are yours to make.

Information We Collect

When you visit any page of Capitalvirello our servers and our hosting providers automatically log standard request data — your IP address, the user-agent string sent by your browser, the page or article you requested, the referring URL, and a timestamp. This information is used to operate the site, troubleshoot problems, measure aggregate traffic, and detect abusive behavior such as scraping or brute-force attacks.

Where you actively interact with Capitalvirello — by subscribing to our newsletter, by sending us a tip or correction through the Contact form, by requesting an ad-rate sheet via the Advertise form, or by submitting an unsubscribe request — you provide us with information directly. We treat that information as confidential and use it only for the workflow you initiated.

How We Use Your Information

Information collected through Capitalvirello is used to provide and improve the editorial product. Concretely, that means rendering pages to you, sending you newsletters you've explicitly opted in to, replying to messages you send via the Contact form, producing aggregated readership reports for our editorial team and advertisers, securing the site against abuse, and complying with applicable law. Your personal information is never sold to third parties.

Where European data-protection law applies, we rely on the following bases for our processing activities: legitimate interest (for site operation, security, and aggregate analytics); consent (for marketing communications and optional non-essential cookies); contractual necessity (for delivering subscription content you have requested); and legal obligation (for retention of records we are required to keep). You may withdraw consent at any point without affecting prior lawful processing.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use a small number of cookies on Capitalvirello: a session cookie to keep the site functioning, a preferences cookie to remember things like your cookie-banner choice and your accepted timezone, optional analytics cookies (used only with your consent in regions that require it), and — when we display ads — cookies set by our advertising partners. Cookies expire over time and can be deleted at any time through your browser.

Third-Party Service Providers

Capitalvirello integrates a handful of third-party services so that we can run the site without operating every piece of infrastructure ourselves. These typically include a hosting provider, a content delivery network, an email-delivery service for newsletter distribution, and a privacy-respecting web-analytics provider. We choose vendors with strong data-protection track records and we maintain data-processing agreements with them.

Advertising

We may display advertising on Capitalvirello sold programmatically through Google AdSense or another reputable advertising network. These networks use cookies to measure ad delivery and (where consent is granted) to personalize the ads shown. You can disable personalized advertising in your Google account at https://www.google.com/settings/ads and refuse non-essential cookies through our cookie banner.

Data Retention

Capitalvirello's data-retention practices follow the principle of proportionality. We keep newsletter contacts only while the subscription is active (plus a suppression record after unsubscribe); we keep contact-form messages for up to two years; we keep server logs for up to 90 days; and we delete anything beyond those windows unless we have a specific legal reason to keep it longer.

Your Privacy Rights

Under privacy laws including the GDPR (Europe) and the CCPA / CPRA (California), you may have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, to correct it if it is inaccurate, to ask us to delete it, to opt out of any sale or sharing of it (we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising), to restrict its use, and to bring a complaint to a regulator. To exercise any of these rights, contact us through the Contact form below.

Children's Privacy

Our service is intended for adult readers. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16, and we will delete any such information we discover. Parents and guardians who believe a child has submitted information to Capitalvirello are encouraged to contact us so we can remove it promptly.

International Data Transfers

Because Capitalvirello operates online and uses cloud-based vendors, your personal information may be processed in countries outside the country in which you reside, including the United States. Where personal data is transferred from the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom to a country that does not have an adequacy decision, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent safeguards to protect the data.

Security

We protect your personal information using a combination of administrative, technical, and physical safeguards proportionate to the sensitivity of the data, including encryption in transit (HTTPS/TLS), restricted internal access on a need-to-know basis, regular review of vendor access controls, and prompt investigation of any incident that may impact your data. No system is perfectly secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security — but we work hard to minimize risk.

Changes to This Policy and How to Reach Us

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy when our practices change or when the law requires it. The current version is always the one published on this page and the "Last updated" date indicates when it took effect. If you have a privacy question or want to exercise a right described above, please reach us through the Contact form — that's the canonical channel for privacy correspondence with Capitalvirello.