Privacy Policy
Last updated: 14 October 2026
1. Who is responsible for your data
This website is the professional portfolio of Stefano Capparelli. Personal data collected through it is controlled by:
Ascendo S.r.l.s.
Via Aldo Moro 73, 87042 Altomonte (CS), Italy
VAT and tax code 03802090781 — REA CS‑258310
info@ascendo.it — certified mail: ascendosrls@pec.it
For anything concerning this policy, write to info@stefanocapparelli.com. No Data Protection Officer has been appointed, as none is required under Article 37 GDPR.
2. What this site collects
This is a single static page. There are no accounts, no registration, no comments, no newsletter and no shop. There is no contact form either: the published address opens your own mail client, so nothing you write passes through this website.
Three things are processed:
- Analytics. With your consent, Google Analytics 4 counts visits and shows which work is being looked at and from which country. The data is aggregated, your IP address is truncated before storage, and no attempt is made to identify individual visitors.
- Email correspondence. If you write, we process your address, your name and whatever you choose to put in the message, in order to reply and, where it leads to work, to manage the relationship.
- Server logs. The hosting provider records technical data — IP address, time of request, pages served, browser type — for security and troubleshooting.
Fonts and every other resource are served from this domain. Apart from the analytics described above, nothing is loaded from third-party servers, so no outside provider receives your IP address merely because you visited.
3. On what legal basis
- Analytics — your consent, Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw it at any time.
- Email correspondence — pre-contractual and contractual steps, Article 6(1)(b), and the legitimate interest in answering you, Article 6(1)(f).
- Server logs and security — the legitimate interest in keeping this site available and secure, Article 6(1)(f).
- Accounting records — legal obligation, Article 6(1)(c) GDPR and Article 2220 of the Italian Civil Code.
4. Who else sees it
- Aruba S.p.A., Italy, the hosting provider, acting as data processor.
- Google Ireland Limited, for analytics.
- Our accountant and professional advisers, where a commercial relationship arises.
- Public authorities, where the law requires it.
Personal data is never sold, and it is never used for advertising or profiling.
5. Data leaving Europe
Analytics may involve a transfer to the United States. Google LLC is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and transfers are additionally covered by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. If you do not consent to analytics, no such transfer takes place.
6. How long it is kept
- Analytics: fourteen months at most.
- Email: as long as the conversation or the working relationship requires, and then up to ten years where accounting and tax law oblige us to keep it.
- Server logs: a short period set by the hosting provider, generally no more than a few months.
7. Your rights
Under Articles 15 to 22 GDPR you may ask for access to your data, for its correction or erasure, for processing to be restricted, and for portability; and you may object to processing based on legitimate interest. Where processing rests on consent, you may withdraw it at any time, without affecting what was lawful beforehand.
Write to info@stefanocapparelli.com. You will have an answer within one month.
If you believe your data has been handled unlawfully, you may lodge a complaint with the Italian supervisory authority, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, or with the authority of the country where you live.
8. Cookies
Cookies strictly necessary to serve the page are used without consent, as permitted by Article 122 of the Italian Privacy Code. Analytics cookies are set only once you have accepted them, and refusing them changes nothing about what you can see or do here. You can delete or block cookies at any time in your browser settings.
9. Changes
This page is updated whenever what we do changes. The date at the top tells you which version you are reading.
Copyright and Image Rights
1. Everything here is protected work
Every photograph, moving image, graphic design and piece of text on this site is an original work by Stefano Capparelli, protected under Italian Law no. 633 of 22 April 1941 and the Berne Convention. Copyright is held by Stefano Capparelli, or by Ascendo S.r.l.s. where the work was produced in its name.
2. Publication here is not a licence
That an image can be seen on this site gives no one the right to use it. Without written permission you may not download, copy, screenshot, reproduce, store, crop, re-colour, retouch, overlay, print or republish any image, in any medium whatsoever — social media, presentations, mood boards, portfolios and printed matter included.
This holds just as firmly for use that is non-commercial, internal, “only for reference”, or credited. Attribution is a separate right under Italian law and cannot be traded for a licence: naming the author does not make unauthorised use lawful, and leaving the name out is a further infringement on top of the first.
3. How licences actually work
Rights are granted in writing, and only for what the written agreement says. Each right of use is independent of the others, under Article 19 of Law 633/1941: a licence for one medium, territory, period or purpose does not extend to any other. Anything not expressly granted remains reserved.
4. Commissioned work
Delivering files is not transferring copyright. On a commissioned shoot the client receives the usage rights set out in the quotation or the contract, and nothing beyond them. Extending that use — another medium, another market, a longer term, a different product — requires a new agreement. The author’s right to be identified as such stays with the author in every case, and can be neither waived nor sold.
5. People in the photographs
Portraits appear here with the consent of the people shown, for the sole purpose of presenting this portfolio, under Articles 96 and 97 of Law 633/1941. That consent does not extend to anyone else. Reusing an image in which a person is recognisable exposes you to a claim from that person as well as from the author.
6. No text and data mining, no AI training
The right to carry out extraction and reproduction for text and data mining is expressly reserved, under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and Article 70‑quater of Law 633/1941. No content on this site may be used to train, fine-tune, evaluate or build any machine learning or generative model, nor gathered into any dataset for those purposes, whether by automated means or otherwise.
7. If you use something without asking
Unauthorised use is pursued. Law 633/1941 provides for the removal of the infringing material and injunctive relief under Article 156, and for damages under Article 158. Damages are not capped at the fee that should have been paid in the first place.
8. Asking is easy
Licensing is straightforward and answered quickly. Write to info@stefanocapparelli.com with the image, the intended use, the medium, the territory and the period. And if you have found this work used somewhere it should not be, we would like to hear about that too.