Cookie Policy

Cookie Policy

Information under Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) and Article 5(3) of Directive 2002/58/EC (the “ePrivacy Directive”), as implemented in Italy by Article 122 of the Italian Personal Data Protection Code (Legislative Decree 196/2003) and in Germany by Section 25 of the Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG)

Version 2.0  ·  Effective [DD] September 2026  ·  Read together with our Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website is operated by HSYCO S.r.l. (“HSYCO”, “we”, “us”), Strada 8 – Palazzo N8, 20089 Rozzano (MI), Italy, which is the controller of any personal data collected on it through cookies and similar technologies. You can reach us about anything in this policy at privacy@hsyco.com.

This policy applies to the website hsyco.com in all its language versions, including our campaign pages. It explains what is stored on your device when you visit, who stores it, why, for how long, and how you can change your mind. How we handle personal data more generally is set out in our Privacy Policy.

1.  What a cookie is

A cookie is a small file that a website asks your browser to keep on your device, so that it can recognise you on your next visit: to remember a preference, or to follow what you do from one page to the next. Browsers also offer other ways for a website to store information on your device, such as local storage. In this policy we call all of them “cookies”. The law treats them all the same way: anything that is not strictly necessary may be stored or read only with your consent.

2.  What this website uses, at a glance

This website sets no cookies of its own. It stores one strictly necessary item — your answer to our cookie question. Everything else is optional and grouped into two categories, which you can accept or refuse separately:

• Analytics — Google Analytics, which tells us which pages are read and how visitors arrive here.
• Advertising measurement — Google Ads conversion measurement, which tells us whether a visit that began from one of our ads led to an enquiry.

Nothing else. The website loads no third-party resources at all: no external scripts, no embedded frames, no social media trackers, no device fingerprinting, and no video players, maps, chat widgets or fonts served by anyone else. Our fonts and videos are served from our own server, and we use no cookies to show you advertising or to build advertising profiles. Google’s tag, described in Section 5, is the only third-party code this website loads, and it loads only after you have accepted.

3.  Your choice

On your first visit, a banner asks for your choice. It offers three options, shown with equal prominence: Accept all, Reject all, and Customise, which lets you accept or refuse each category on its own. The button that closes the banner is labelled Close and refuse: closing the banner without choosing counts as refusing. Until you accept, only the strictly necessary item described in Section 4 is stored.

4.  The one thing we always store

Your answer to our cookie question is kept in your browser, under the name hsyco-consent. It holds your choice for each category — accepted or refused — and the date you made it, so that we do not have to ask you on every page. It is never sent to us or to anyone else, and it exists precisely so that a refusal stays respected.

Because it is strictly necessary to respect your choice, it does not require consent (Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and the national laws named above).

5.  Cookies that are set only with your consent

Google’s tag is not loaded until you accept at least one category. It is not loaded and then switched off — a script that has been loaded has already done its work. If you refuse both categories, close the banner, or simply do not answer, no request is made to Google and none of the cookies below exists.

When the tag loads, it tells Google which categories you have accepted, and Google stores and uses only the cookies of those categories. All four are set under the hsyco.com domain:

_gcl_aw is set only if you reached the website by clicking one of our ads.

Who receives the data. These services are provided to us by Google Ireland Limited, acting on our behalf. Data may be transferred onward to Google LLC in the United States, under the safeguards described in Section 4 of our Privacy Policy. Measurement data is kept in Google Analytics for 14 months. Google explains its own practices in its Privacy Policy and on its page How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.

Legal basis. Your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive as implemented by the national laws named above). Giving it is optional: the website works exactly the same without it, and refusing has no other consequence.

6.  Changing your mind

Cookie preferences, at the bottom of every page, reopens the question at any time. If you refuse a category you had accepted, its cookies are deleted from this browser and the page reloads, so that nothing of them is left running. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of the measurement carried out before you withdrew it.

We ask again after twelve months, and we will also ask again before setting any cookie not listed in this policy.

Most browsers also let you see and delete the cookies a website has stored, and refuse new ones, from their settings. Your choice applies to the browser and device you make it on; if you use another one, you will be asked again.

7.  When you write to us

Two forms let you write to us. In both cases, what you type is passed to a service provider, which delivers it to us. Neither form stores a cookie on your device, neither sends anything until you press the button, and nothing you type in them is passed to Google.

• The contact and quotation form is delivered by Brevo.
• The newsletter form is sent to Mailchimp, which manages our mailing list.

What we do with what you send us is set out in our Privacy Policy.

8.  Links to other websites

We link to our documentation and our wiki, and to services such as YouTube, LinkedIn and GitHub. A link loads nothing until you follow it. When you do, you are on someone else’s website, under its own rules and its own cookies.

9.  Your rights

You have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection, and the right to withdraw consent at any time. Section 7 of our Privacy Policy explains each of them and how to use them. You also have the right to complain to the Italian supervisory authority, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Piazza Venezia 11, 00187 Rome, Italy — www.gpdp.it — or to the supervisory authority of the country where you live or work.

10.  Changes to this policy

We update this policy when the cookies we use change. The version number and effective date appear at the top of this page. If a change means setting a cookie that requires consent and is not listed here, we will ask for your consent again before setting it. Previous versions are available on request.

11.  Contact us

Email: privacy@hsyco.com

Post: HSYCO S.r.l. — Privacy, Strada 8 – Palazzo N8, 20089 Rozzano (MI), Italy

Full company details are set out in our Impressum.