Last updated: 2 August 2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how the CLIMPACT platform uses cookies and similar technologies (such as browser local and session storage) when you visit the public website and use the portals. It supplements, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy. The Data Controller is the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro; see the Privacy Policy for full controller and contact details.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website. We use a deliberately small set and serve no advertising cookies and no third-party tracking or social-media cookies. Our cookies fall into two categories.
2. Strictly necessary cookies
These are required for the platform to work and are always active. They keep you signed in, secure your session, support core functionality, and remember the cookie choices you make on the banner. Because they are strictly necessary, they do not require your consent and cannot be switched off here. The legal basis is the legitimate interest of the Data Controller in providing a working, secure platform (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
3. Analytics (optional)
With your consent, we measure how our public website, open calls and events are discovered and read, so we can improve the way we communicate our work. Analytics are off by default and are activated only after you choose "Accept all" or enable them under "Customize".
When enabled, we store one record for each page you view. That record contains: your IP address; the approximate location derived from it server-side (city, region, country and the approximate coordinates of that city) together with your network provider and, where the network belongs to an organisation such as a university or a public institution, that organisation's name; the pages you visit and how long you spend on each; the site that referred you; and the identification string your browser sends with every request, from which we derive your device type. We keep the IP address and that browser string, rather than only what we derive from them, so we can tell genuine readers from automated crawlers and recognise repeat requests from the same visitor. An opaque, per-session identifier (held in your browser's session storage) lets us group the pages of a single visit together; it is discarded when you close the tab. A second, random identifier is kept in your browser's local storage so that we can tell whether the browser has visited before: it contains nothing about you, is renewed every 12 months and is deleted when you withdraw consent. We also record how far you scroll, the files you download, the links to other sites you open, what you search for on the site and the completion of forms, without their content. None of this is used to build a profile of you or combined with data from other sources, except for newsletter subscribers who arrive from a link in one of our campaigns, as explained in the Privacy Policy.
This information is stored on our own infrastructure (Google Firebase, within the European Union) and is automatically deleted after 90 days. It is never sold or shared with advertisers and is used solely for our internal website, audience and outreach analysis. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
4. Third parties
We do not use advertising networks or social-media tracking. The only third parties involved are our hosting and infrastructure provider (Google Firebase / Google Cloud Platform), which stores the analytics records on our behalf as a data processor, and an IP-geolocation service provider, which receives a visitor's IP address solely to return an approximate location when analytics are enabled. See the Privacy Policy for details of these processors and of any international data transfers.
5. How long cookies last
Strictly necessary cookies last only as long as needed for the session or to remember your cookie choice. The analytics records described above are deleted after 90 days. The random identifier used to recognise a returning browser is renewed every 12 months and removed as soon as you withdraw consent. Your consent choice itself is remembered so that we do not ask you on every visit.
6. Managing your choices
You can change your decision at any time by reopening the cookie settings from the "Cookie settings" link in the website footer, or by accepting or declining on the banner. Declining analytics has no effect on your ability to use the platform. You can also block or delete cookies through your browser settings, although strictly necessary cookies may need to be re-set for the platform to function.
7. Changes and contact
This Cookie Policy may be updated to reflect changes in the technologies we use or in the applicable legal framework; any update is published on this page with a revised "Last updated" date. For how we handle personal data more generally, see our Privacy Policy, or contact privacy@climpact.it.