Privacy Policy
Website: Places of Virginia (placesofvirginia.com) · Last updated: November 9, 2026
1. Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is Giordano Trapani, Via Mirandola 30, 00182 Rome, Italy. Email: privacy@scovasconti.it. Because the controller is based in the European Union, this policy follows the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It also covers U.S. privacy rules that apply to websites, including the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and U.S. state consumer privacy laws (see section 8).
2. What data we use, why, and for how long
| What we do | Data | Legal basis (GDPR art. 6) | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
| Show you the website and keep it secure | IP address, browser and device data in our host’s server logs | Legitimate interest (security and operation) | Kept by our hosting provider for a limited time for security, then deleted |
| Show ads (Google AdSense) | Cookies and similar identifiers, IP address, pages visited | Consent for advertising cookies where the law requires it (EU/EEA, UK, Switzerland); in U.S. states, you can opt out of the sale or sharing of personal data and of targeted advertising (section 8) | See the Cookie Policy |
| Answer your emails | Your email address, name (if you give it) and message | Legitimate interest / steps taken at your request | Up to 24 months after the conversation ends |
| Remember your sound choice on the home page | The value “off” in your browser’s local storage, only if you turn the sound off | Strictly necessary to remember a choice you made | Until you clear your browser data |
| Live data tools (weather, river flow, tides, maps) | Your browser asks public U.S. government services (National Weather Service, USGS, NOAA) and the USGS map servers directly, so they receive your IP address. If you use “near me”, your location is used only in your browser and is not sent to us | – | Not stored by us |
We do not create user accounts, and we do not run a newsletter or a contact form. We do not use a separate analytics service. We do not sell personal data for money. However, under some U.S. state laws, letting advertising partners such as Google use cookies to show personalized ads can count as “selling” or “sharing” personal data, or as “targeted advertising”. You can opt out at any time (section 8).
3. Advertising (required disclosures for Google AdSense)
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info.
- How Google uses information from sites that use its services: policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Source of these points: Google AdSense Help, “Required content”.
4. Who receives data
Only providers who help us run the site:
- hosting: DreamHost (servers in the United States);
- advertising: Google (AdSense) and the advertising partners listed in the consent message;
- maps: the U.S. Geological Survey map service (The National Map), whose map images may be delivered through Amazon Web Services;
- live data: National Weather Service, U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA, called directly by your browser.
Fonts and the map software (Leaflet) are stored on our own server, so no third party receives your IP address when they load. Public authorities may receive data if the law requires it.
5. Data outside the European Union
The website is hosted in the United States, and Google and Amazon may process data in the United States. Transfers rely on the safeguards of GDPR Chapter V: the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for providers certified under it, or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
6. Children
This website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13 (COPPA) or sell or share the personal data of consumers under 16. If you believe a child has sent us personal data, write to privacy@scovasconti.it and we will delete it.
7. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals, because there is no common standard for them. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC): if your browser sends a GPC signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data and of targeted advertising for that browser, where the law of your state recognizes it.
8. Your rights
Your choices. Use the “Privacy choices” link at the bottom of every page to see or change your choices about advertising cookies. In the EU/EEA, UK and Switzerland you can accept, reject or change your consent at any time. In U.S. states with a consumer privacy law, the same link lets you opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data and of targeted advertising. You can also use Google Ads Settings, the browser settings described in the Cookie Policy, or a Global Privacy Control signal.
If you are in the EU/EEA, UK or Switzerland: you can ask for access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objection, and you can withdraw consent at any time. You can complain to a data protection authority, for example the Italian Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it).
If you live in a U.S. state with a consumer privacy law (for example California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Maryland, New Hampshire or Rhode Island, where the law applies to us): you may have the right to know what personal data we process, to access it, to correct it, to delete it, to get a copy, and to opt out of its sale or sharing, of targeted advertising and of profiling. We do not process sensitive personal data. You can appeal if we refuse your request by writing to the same email address with the word “Appeal”. We will not discriminate against you for using your rights. You may use an authorized agent.
How to ask: write to privacy@scovasconti.it. We answer within one month (EU) or within 45 days (U.S. states), and we may ask for information to confirm your identity.
California “Shine the Light” and categories: in the last 12 months we have processed the categories “identifiers” (IP address, cookie identifiers), “internet or other electronic network activity” (pages visited, interaction with ads) and “geolocation” only approximate from the IP address, for the purposes in section 2. They are disclosed to the providers in section 4.
9. Changes
We will publish any change on this page with a new date.