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Privacy policy

We don't want your name to read a buying guide, and we don't ask for it. This policy lists the little personal data the site does touch, and what changes once you leave for a store.

Deals Meridian Editorial TeamIn effect from

The short version

  • No accounts, no newsletter, no comments, no forms: you read the site anonymously.
  • The site itself handles three things: web server logs, one cookie that stores your banner answer, and emails you send us.
  • No analytics, ad or social tracker runs on our pages. Fonts, photos and scripts all come from our own server.
  • Clicking a store link hands you over to an affiliate network and the store, which record the click under their own policies.

The controller

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the company answerable for personal data on dealsmeridian.com is CTAWeb Srls: Via Castelluccio 3, 81030 Falciano del Massico (CE), Italy; VAT IT04201890615; company register CE-307422. Questions about this page go to info@dealsmeridian.com. Given how little we process, and since nobody is monitored on a large scale, appointing a data protection officer is not mandatory for us, and there is none.

What the site handles, and why

1. Server logs

Whenever your browser fetches a page, a photo or a stylesheet, the web server notes one line: IP address, timestamp, requested path, status code, bytes returned, referring page and user agent string.

  • Why: to deliver the site, keep it secure, stop attacks and trace errors.
  • Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running a safe website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We weighed it against your interests: the logs aren't used to recognize, follow or profile anyone.
  • How long: logs rotate weekly and disappear after roughly six weeks. Specific lines can outlive that only during the investigation of a security incident, or while they are needed for a legal claim.

2. The consent cookie

A first-party cookie called consent stores the word accepted or rejected after you answer the cookie banner.

  • Why: to remember your answer, and above all to respect a refusal on every page.
  • Legal basis: compliance with the cookie consent rules we are subject to (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).
  • How long: it expires 180 days after your answer, or earlier if you clear it. Full description in the cookie policy.

3. Your emails

When you write to info@dealsmeridian.com, we receive your address, any name you give, your message and any attachments.

  • Why: to reply, fix the pages you report and deal with privacy requests.
  • Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering readers and correcting our guides (Art. 6(1)(f)); legal obligation when you exercise your data rights (Art. 6(1)(c)).
  • How long: two years from the latest message in a thread at most, beyond that only for a pending legal claim. Anything you send that we neither asked for nor need, such as order numbers or card details, gets deleted the moment we notice it.

We make no automated decisions about readers and build no profiles.

Links to stores in our guides are often affiliate links run by Awin or Admitad, and sometimes by other networks or by the store itself (see the affiliate disclosure). Nothing happens on our pages when you read them. When you click one of those links:

  1. your browser visits the network's tracking address, which records the click, the time, our publisher ID and technical data such as your IP address and browser, and usually sets a tracking cookie on the network's domain or adds a click reference to the store's address;
  2. you arrive on the store's site, where the store runs its own cookie banner;
  3. if you buy, the store and the network use that reference to credit the order to Deals Meridian.

In this chain the networks and the stores act as independent controllers under their own privacy notices: Awin privacy policy and Admitad privacy policy. Anything you type into a store's checkout, an account or a newsletter form is collected by that store, not by us.

What reaches us from the networks are reports: numbers of clicks and orders, order values and commissions, each with a date, the country and a transaction reference. These reports contain no names, email addresses or delivery details, and we don't try to link them to individual readers. We keep them as accounting records for as long as Italian tax law requires, usually ten years.

Hosting and other recipients

Site and mailbox live on servers in Germany rented from Hetzner Online GmbH, our processor under an Article 28 GDPR agreement, which forbids it to put the data to any use of its own. Otherwise, personal data goes to a third party only when a statute, a court or a regulator entitled to request it obliges us. Selling, renting or swapping personal data is something we never do.

Data outside Europe

We keep what we handle inside the European Economic Area. Some affiliate networks and stores are based in, or transfer data to, other countries; their privacy notices explain the safeguards they rely on.

What you can ask us

The GDPR entitles you to:

  • find out if we hold anything about you and receive a copy;
  • have wrong details put right;
  • have your data erased, or its use put on hold;
  • receive what you gave us in a machine-readable file.

You may also object whenever you like to processing that rests on our legitimate interest. We then stop, unless there are compelling grounds to go on or the data is needed to bring or defend a legal claim.

Send requests to info@dealsmeridian.com with a subject line starting with "Privacy". We answer within one month; for a complex request we may take two more months and will tell you why. Log lines hold IP addresses, not names, so to find yours we need your IP address and the rough time of your visit. For data held by an affiliate network or a store, contact that company directly.

Unhappy with how we handled your data? You have the right to complain to the Italian regulator (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali) in Rome, or to the supervisory authority of the EU member state where you reside or work.

Readers in California and other US states

These rules apply to every reader. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act and comparable state laws: we sell no personal information, we pass none to others for targeted advertising based on activity across sites, and we don't use sensitive personal information. Access and deletion requests work as described above, and filing one won't change how the site treats you.

Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

Our pages load no trackers, and no third party is allowed to gather data about your browsing on them over time or across other websites. So with Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control switched on, your browser receives the very same pages as any other; the signal has nothing here to disable. Networks and stores apply their own rules to those signals once you click through.

Children

Deals Meridian is written for adults who shop online, and we never knowingly gather data from children under 16. Should a child have written to us, tell us and the message will be erased.

Security

Every page travels over encrypted HTTPS. Server access, the logs and the mailbox are restricted to the people who publish the site, and each kind of data is erased on the timetable given above.

Changes

The version in force is the one dated at the top, in effect since September 28, 2026; any revision updates that date. New kinds of data or new purposes will be announced in a notice kept above this policy for 30 days or more, and nothing that requires your consent starts before you give it.

Who is responsible for your data

Publisher
CTAWeb Srls
Address
Via Castelluccio 3, 81030 Falciano del Massico (CE), Italy
VAT
IT04201890615
Company register
REA CE-307422
Share capital
EUR 2,500.00, fully paid up