October 8, 2025

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Instantvista.com collects, uses, and protects personal data of users who visit and interact with this website, in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – GDPR) and applicable Italian law.

1. Who we are

Our website address is: https://Instantvista.com

The Data Controller is InstantVista – you can contact us via email at: info@instantvista.com.

2. Personal data we collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help detect spam.

An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may choose to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you don’t have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set several cookies to save your login information and display preferences. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

3. Legal basis for processing (Art. 6 GDPR)

  • Consent: for the use of non-essential cookies and to send any promotional communications.
  • Contract performance: to allow you to register, access reserved areas, or post comments.
  • Legal obligations: to comply with legal requirements and requests from authorities.
  • Legitimate interest: to ensure site security, prevent fraud, and protect against spam.

4. Who we share your data with

Your data is not sold to third parties. However, we may share information with technical service providers (e.g., hosting, anti-spam tools). If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

5. How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely so we can recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users who register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

6. Your GDPR rights

Under the GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Access your personal data (Art. 15 GDPR).
  • Request rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR).
  • Restrict processing (Art. 18 GDPR).
  • Request data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).
  • Object to processing based on legitimate interest (Art. 21 GDPR).
  • Withdraw consent at any time for processing based on consent.

To exercise your rights, contact us at: info@instantvista.com 

7. Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

8. Data security

We adopt appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

9. Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in legislation or to introduce new services. Please review this page periodically.