Cookies.
Clearly explained.

The public website

The public website consists of static pages. Its code sets no profiling cookies, uses no advertising pixels and does not follow you across other sites.

One thing we do measure: Google Analytics counts visits and shows which pages get opened. It writes cookies, so it only runs if you accept. Until you choose, nothing at all goes to Google: its script is simply not loaded into the page.

Switching language opens a different page without saving a preference. Forms send data to the management system once and do not store a copy in browser storage.

Your choice

On your first visit a bar appears at the foot of the page with two buttons of the same size: Accept and Decline. Neither is larger than the other, and the site behaves identically either way.

Your answer stays in your own browser’s storage, under an entry called “giraffa-cookie”: it is not a cookie and it never reaches us. To change your mind, the Cookie preferences button at the foot of every page reopens the bar; if you decline after having accepted, Google’s cookies are deleted.

What Google Analytics writes

If you accept, Google Analytics writes two cookies on your device, _ga and _ga_<id>: they last two years and tell a new visit from a returning one. They hold no name of yours and we do not use them to recognise you elsewhere.

We asked Google for statistics and nothing else: advertising features, ad personalisation and Google Signals are switched off, and we tell its script so before it even loads. The data reaches Google’s servers, including outside the European Union, on the basis of the standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission.

Services used to load the page

Vercel hosts the website and images. Google Fonts supplies the fonts. Supabase receives forms when you submit them. Google Analytics receives the visits, but only if you have accepted it. Contact with these services involves sending the technical information needed for the request, including your IP address.

The Instagram link opens a separate website with its own terms and settings.

The portal and protected previews

The portal at crm.giraffastudio.it is a separate application and uses technical tools to keep authorised users signed in.

Private previews hosted on Vercel domains may require authentication and the platform’s associated technical cookies. These functions are separate from the public website.

Further information

For details on data processing, read the privacy notice. For questions, email nicola@giraffastudio.it.