Privacy and cookies

This site publishes a closed journal archive and two Italian reference sections, the pharmacopoeia and the conditions. There is no reader account, no comment form, no newsletter and no shop, so there is very little to collect. This page sets out what little there is, who answers for it and how to have it removed.

Who the controller is

The controller of any personal data processed through this site is the publisher of the journal:

These are the details the association publishes in its own privacy notice on auro.it. The association has not appointed a data protection officer, and says that the full list of its processors is available on request.

What the site records

Every page served leaves an entry in the web server log: the IP address of the request, the date and time, the address requested, the response code and the browser string. That record exists to keep the site running and to deal with attacks and abuse — a legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. Log entries are kept for the short period needed for that purpose and are not combined with anything else, not used to build a profile and not sold.

Nothing else is collected. The site has no contact form, no registration, no tracking pixel and no advertising.

Cookies

No analytics, advertising or social cookies are set. The publishing software issues a session cookie only to someone who signs into the administration area; a reader never receives one. Since the site sets no profiling or other non-essential cookies, no consent banner is shown — one would ask permission for something that does not happen.

Nothing is loaded from other servers

Type, stylesheets, scripts and images all come from this domain. No fonts, maps, player frames or counters are fetched from third parties, which means a page view does not disclose a reader's address to anyone else.

Links out of the site — to AIFA, the European Medicines Agency, the European Association of Urology, the publisher's listing on Google Maps or a social profile — are ordinary links. They transmit nothing until they are followed, and from the moment they are, the privacy policy of that site applies instead of this one.

Email to the secretariat

A message sent to the address above reaches the association's secretariat and is kept as long as the matter needs and as long as the association must be able to show what was answered. Writing is voluntary; the content and the address are used to reply and for nothing else.

Records from the journal years

Between 2012 and 2015 the journal ran an editorial platform that held reader registrations, submissions and review correspondence. That platform is closed and no longer accepts accounts. What the journal promised authors and readers about those records is kept verbatim in the privacy statement on the submissions page; questions about data recorded in those years go to the secretariat.

Rights, and how to use them

Articles 15 to 22 of the Regulation give every reader the right to ask what is held, to have it corrected or erased, to have processing restricted, to object to it and to receive the data in a portable form. The route is a message to info@auro.it; the answer is due within one month. What may be done with the pages themselves is a separate matter, covered by the terms of use; the secretariat and its hours are on the contact page.

A reader who considers the answer inadequate may complain to the Italian supervisory authority, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, or to the authority of the country where they live or work.

Changes to this page

This notice applies from 23 October 2026. If the site ever adds a form, a statistics tool or anything else that collects data, this page is changed before that happens, and the date above changes with it.