This Privacy Statement was last updated on 8 April 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

I am Nadia Basciu, owner and manager of the Nadia Halfway travel blog. This Privacy Statement describes how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our services. You can contact us at the following email address: info@nadiahalfway.com.

1. Introduction

What does this policy contain? This document explains how this website collects, uses, and protects your personal data to achieve the outlined purposes. For detailed information on the use of trackers, please read our Cookie Policy. For the general rules of website use, please consult our Terms and Conditions.

What is personal data? Personal data is information that can be used to identify you directly or indirectly, such as your first name, surname, email address, tracking technologies (e.g., cookies or tracking pixels), activities, and information about the device used. You can find detailed information on the types of data collected in the dedicated sections of this privacy statement or in the messages displayed prior to collection.

2. Contact information

• Data Controller: Nadia Basciu
• Address: Via Bragadin, 09134, Cagliari, Italy
• Email: info@nadiahalfway.com
• Website: https://nadiahalfway.com

3. Types of data collected

The personal data collected by this website, either independently or through third parties, may include:

• First name;
• Surname;
• Email address;
• Tracking tools;
• Usage data.

Full details on each type of personal data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy statement or through specific informative texts displayed prior to the collection of the data itself. Personal data may be freely provided by you or, in the case of usage data, collected automatically during the use of this website. Unless otherwise specified, all data requested by this website is mandatory. Failure to provide this data may make it impossible for this website to provide its services. In cases where this website specifies that some data is optional, you are free to refrain from communicating such data, without this having any impact on the availability of the service or its operation.

Any use of cookies – or other tracking tools – by this website or by the owners of third-party services used by this website serves the purpose of providing the service required by you, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in our Cookie Policy. You assume responsibility for the personal data of third parties obtained, published, or shared through this website.

4. Methods and place of processing of personal data

Methods of processing We adopt appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorised destruction of personal data. The processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organisational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to us, in some cases, the data may be accessible to other parties involved with the operation of this website (administrative, sales, marketing, legal personnel). The data may also be accessible to external parties appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by us. The updated list of these third parties may be requested from us at any time using the contact details provided in this document.

Place The data is processed at our operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. Your personal data may be transferred to a country other than the one in which you are located.

Retention period Unless otherwise indicated in this document, personal data is processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose for which it was collected, and may be retained for a longer period due to any legal obligations or based on your consent.

5. Detailed information on the processing of personal data

Your personal data is collected to allow us to provide our service, comply with our legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests or actions, protect our rights and interests, detect any malicious or fraudulent activities, as well as for the following purposes:

Analytics The services contained in this section enable us to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of your behaviour.

• Google Analytics (Google LLC): Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC. Google utilises the data collected to track and examine the use of this website, to prepare reports on its activities, and share them with other Google services. Google may use the personal data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
  • Personal data processed: Tracking tools; Usage data.
  • Place of processing: United States.

Displaying content from external platforms This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this website and interact with them (e.g., widgets).

• Google Fonts (Google LLC): Google Fonts is a typeface visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows this website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
  • Personal data processed: Tracking tools; Usage data.
  • Place of processing: United States.

Contacting you

• Contact form (this website): By filling in the contact form with your data, you authorise this website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes, or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.
  • Personal data processed: email; first name; surname.

6. Further information

Legal basis of processing We process personal data relating to you if one of the following applies:

• Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
• Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
• Processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party.

Understanding data retention periods We will retain your personal data based on the purposes and reasons outlined below:

• For contractual purposes: until the performance of such contract is completed.
• For our legitimate interests: for as long as necessary to fulfil such purposes.
• With your consent: we may retain personal data for a longer period unless you withdraw such consent.
• Legal obligations: we may be obliged to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority. At the end of the retention period, your personal data will be deleted.

7. Your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Within the limits provided by law, you have the right to:

• Withdraw your consent at any time.
• Object to the processing of your data.
• Access your data.
• Verify and seek rectification.
• Restrict the processing of your data.
• Have your personal data deleted or otherwise removed.
• Receive your data and have it transferred to another controller (data portability).
• Lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.

How to exercise these rights Any requests to exercise your rights can be directed to us at the email address info@nadiahalfway.com. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as early as possible and always within one month.