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1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that the websites you visit send to your device, where they are stored and sent back to the same websites on later visits. Other technologies work in a similar way, such as the browser’s local storage (localStorage) and requests to third-party servers: where they are used, this document describes them together with cookies.
This document lists by name the cookies actually found on www.osservatoriomashrek.com, with the lifetime read from the browser. The last check was carried out on 9 October 2026, from a browser in Italy, not signed in to any Google, Vimeo or Amazon account.
2. How to manage your consent
On your first visit a notice offers three choices:
- Accept cookies: allows the visit statistics and the embedded content described in sections 4 and 5;
- Deny: only the technical cookies in section 3 are used;
- View preferences: lets you choose by category (Statistics, Marketing) and confirm with Save preferences.
Closing the notice with the X means not giving consent. Until you make a choice, the site sets no statistics cookies and loads no embedded content.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with the “Manage consent” button at the bottom of every page. After withdrawal, from the next page onwards Google Analytics is no longer contacted and videos are blocked again. Cookies already set stay in the browser until they expire, but this site no longer feeds them: to remove them immediately you can use your browser settings (section 9).
3. Technical cookies
They are needed for the site to work, for its security, or to record your consent choice, and do not require consent (Article 122 of the Italian Data Protection Code).
| Name | Type | Domain | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
cmplz_banner-status, cmplz_policy_id, cmplz_functional, cmplz_preferences, cmplz_statistics, cmplz_marketing, cmplz_consented_services | first-party cookies (Complianz) | www.osservatoriomashrek.com | Store the choice made in the consent notice. They are written only after the choice | 365 days |
pll_language | first-party cookie (Polylang) | www.osservatoriomashrek.com | Remembers the language in which the site was viewed | 365 days |
tnp-popup-count | first-party cookie (Newsletter) | www.osservatoriomashrek.com | Counts how many times the newsletter invitation has been shown, so that it is not repeated on every page | 30 days |
newsletter | first-party cookie (Newsletter) | www.osservatoriomashrek.com | Only for newsletter subscribers: recognises the subscriber when opening their profile or unsubscribe page | 365 days |
_GRECAPTCHA | third-party cookie (Google reCAPTCHA) | www.google.com | Only on articles: protects the comment form from automated programs and spam (section 7) | 180 days |
_grecaptcha | first-party localStorage (Google reCAPTCHA) | www.osservatoriomashrek.com | Only on articles: service data of the same protection | until cleared from the browser |
tnsApp, tC, tPL, tMQ, tTf, t3D, tTDu, tTDe, tADu, tADe, tTE, tAE | first-party localStorage (site theme) | www.osservatoriomashrek.com | Record which graphic features the browser supports, to run the article carousels. They contain no personal data | until cleared from the browser |
The site does not offer to save a commenter’s name and email for later visits: commenting sets no cookie.
4. Analytics cookies
They are set only with consent to the Statistics category.
Visit statistics are collected with Google Analytics 4, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. They show how many people visit the site and which pages they read. Google Signals is not active and the property is not linked to Google Ads: visit data is not associated with visitors’ Google accounts and is not used for advertising.
| Name | Type | Domain | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
_ga | first-party cookie (Google Analytics) | .osservatoriomashrek.com | Distinguishes visitors with a random identifier | 400 days |
_ga_YYFZ9DD41Q | first-party cookie (Google Analytics) | .osservatoriomashrek.com | Keeps the state of the visit session | 400 days |
Without consent, Google Analytics is not started: it sets no cookies and receives no data about the visit.
5. Videos and embedded content
Some articles contain videos or previews hosted by other services. They are loaded only with consent. Without consent, a box with a button appears in their place: pressing it accepts the whole category the content belongs to, and from then on all content in that category is loaded. Until the content is loaded, the site does not contact the service’s servers: the preview image shown in the box is a copy kept on this site.
5.1 YouTube (Marketing category)
A service of Google Ireland Limited. When the player loads, YouTube sets its own cookies and also contacts Google’s advertising servers (doubleclick.net).
| Name | Type | Domain | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
YSC | third-party cookie (YouTube) | .youtube.com | Records interactions with the video | until the browser is closed |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | third-party cookie (YouTube) | .youtube.com | Estimates available bandwidth and player preferences | 180 days |
VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | third-party cookie (YouTube) | .youtube.com | Stores the user’s consent state for YouTube | 180 days |
__Secure-YNID | third-party cookie (YouTube) | .youtube.com | Security and abuse prevention | 180 days |
__Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | third-party cookie (YouTube) | .youtube.com | Manages player features | 180 days |
If you are signed in to your Google account in the same browser, Google may recognise you, in accordance with its privacy policy.
5.2 Vimeo (Statistics category)
A service of Vimeo.com, Inc., 330 West 34th Street, New York, United States. Vimeo videos belong to the Statistics category: they are loaded when that category is accepted, the same one as Google Analytics. Pressing the button on a Vimeo video box therefore also turns on the visit statistics in section 4.
| Name | Type | Domain | Purpose | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
__cf_bm | third-party cookie (Cloudflare, on behalf of Vimeo) | .vimeo.com | Tells people apart from automated programs | 30 minutes |
cf_clearance | third-party cookie (Cloudflare, on behalf of Vimeo) | .vimeo.com | Remembers that the browser has passed a security check | 365 days |
__cf_ob | third-party cookie (Cloudflare, on behalf of Vimeo) | player.vimeo.com | Service data of the same security check | until the browser is closed |
cf_clearance and __cf_ob appear only when Vimeo puts the browser through a security check, as happened during our verification. Vimeo processes data in accordance with its privacy policy.
5.3 Kindle book preview (Marketing category)
A service of Amazon Europe Core S.à r.l., 38 avenue John F. Kennedy, Luxembourg. The preview sets no cookies (verified on loading). Once loaded, the browser connects to Amazon’s servers (leggi.amazon.it, m.media-amazon.com, images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com, fls-eu.amazon.it, unagi.amazon.it) and to the error-reporting service used by Amazon (bugsnag.com), which receive the visitor’s IP address. Amazon processes data in accordance with its privacy notice.
6. What the site does not use
The site uses no advertising or profiling cookies of its own and carries no advertisements. The links to Facebook and X on its pages are plain links: nothing is loaded from the two networks until you follow them. Fonts are not requested from Google.
7. Services that connect without setting cookies
These services set no cookies on your device, but receive the visitor’s IP address, as happens with any resource loaded from another server.
- Cloudflare, a service of Cloudflare, Inc.: all pages of the site are delivered through its network, which protects them from attacks and speeds up loading.
- Google Tag Manager, a service of Google Ireland Limited: on every page the component that starts Google Analytics only after consent is loaded from www.googletagmanager.com. On its own it sets no cookies and collects no statistics.
- Google reCAPTCHA, a service of Google Ireland Limited, to tell people apart from automated programs: it connects to www.google.com, www.gstatic.com and fonts.gstatic.com. On articles it protects the comment form and sets the
_GRECAPTCHAcookie listed in section 3. On the Contact pages it protects the form and sets no cookies, either when the page opens or while the form is being filled in (verified without submitting the form). It is described in the privacy policy.
8. Transfers outside the European Union
Google, Cloudflare, Vimeo and Amazon may transfer data to the United States. Google LLC, Cloudflare, Inc., Vimeo.com, Inc. and Amazon.com, Inc. participate in the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, recognised as adequate by the European Commission in its decision of 10 July 2023.
9. How to manage cookies from your browser
Besides the consent notice, cookies can be viewed, blocked and deleted from your browser settings:
If you block all cookies the site keeps working, but the consent notice will reappear on every visit, because it cannot remember your choice.
10. Data controller and contacts
The data controller is Nino Orto, Largo Don Minzoni 1, 95047 Paternò (CT), Italy, email [email protected].
For how to exercise your rights, retention periods and other information on the processing of personal data, see the privacy policy.
11. Changes
This document is updated when the services used by the site change. Last updated: 9 October 2026.
