Privacy Policy

1. Controller & Purpose

This website (https://leonardo-ercoli.com) is the independent personal website of Leonardo Ercoli, based in Milan, Italy. For any privacy-related inquiries, you can contact info@leonardo-ercoli.com.

2. Minimal Tracking & Zero Marketing Cookies

This website is engineered with a strict privacy-first philosophy:

• No third-party advertising pixels, behavioral profiling scripts, or cross-site tracking cookies are installed.
• If you use the optional visual theme switch (Ink / Paper), your preference is stored locally in your browser's localStorage under the key le-theme solely to remember your display choice. It is never transmitted to any server.

3. Direct Email Correspondence

When you choose to contact Leonardo Ercoli by clicking a mailto:info@leonardo-ercoli.com link, your email client sends a message directly. Your email address and message contents are used exclusively to respond to your inquiry and are not added to any automated marketing list without your explicit action.

4. External Links (Substack & LinkedIn)

This website contains links to external platforms—specifically LinkedIn and Substack. When you follow an external link to read an article or subscribe to the newsletter on Substack, your interaction on those platforms is governed by their respective privacy policies.

5. Standard Server Logs

Like all standard web hosting infrastructure, the hosting provider processes technical request metadata (such as IP address, browser user-agent, timestamp, and requested path) strictly as necessary to deliver pages securely, prevent abuse, and maintain operational reliability.

6. Your Rights under GDPR

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification of, or deletion of any personal data you have shared via email correspondence by writing to info@leonardo-ercoli.com.