This page provides information about the personal information we collect and the ways in which we use it. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact us.

Who we are
This Privacy Policy applies to all services offered by AboutScience Srl, Piazza Duca D’Aosta 12 – 20124 Milan (Italy) through the website www.aboutscience.eu

How we collect your personal data

Visiting this website
When you visit this website for informational reasons we automatically collect the following non-personal information:

• IP Address
• Cookies
• Number of visits
• Geo-location data (City level only)
• Length of time spent on website
• Pages clicked on
• your device type, screen resolution and browser version
• your internet service provider
• the website from which you have been directed to our website

We use your data to customise content and improve our services by analysing how you navigate our website. If you do not agree with our Policy, please do not visit this website.

Cookies
We use cookies to manage user sessions. Cookies are not required to visit the site and to read content. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see our cookie policy. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work. By continuing to use this site you are agreeing to the use of cookies.

Other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites which we do not control and which are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access them through the links provided, these sites may collect information from you. Please review the privacy policy of the websites you visit.

For statistical analyses we use web analytics services to collect information about the use of our submission site. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). On our behalf Google will use the information generated by a cookie for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website. The tools collect information such as:

• Device and browser information (operating system information, Mobile device identifier, mobile operating system, etc.)
• IP address
• Page accessed, URL click stream (the chronological order of our internet sites you visited)
• Geographic location
• Time of visit
• Referring site, application, or service

We use this information only to determine the most useful information to improve our website. We do not attempt to match information collected through the use of this tool with personal data.

To fight spam and abuse on our site, we implemented reCAPTCHA v3. Please note that reCAPTCHA v3 is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

How we use your personal information

Your personal data will not be disclosed or shared to third parties.

Your rights
In accordance with local and international privacy laws please note that you have the right to be informed about the personal data we process.

Securing your data and data retention
We have reasonable state of the art security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of personal data under our control which are stored on a secured internal server. Although we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of information will never occur, we use all reasonable efforts to prevent it. Your navigation data is store on a permanent bases to ensure statistical analysis in time.

Contacting us

Please submit any questions, concerns or comments you have about this privacy policy or any requests concerning your personal data by email to editorial@aboutscience.eu.

This policy has been updated on July 25th, 2025 and will be reviewed should the terms indicated be subject to change.