Privacy policy

Last updated: August 2026

Thuis Italiaans (Alessio) takes the protection of your personal data seriously. This policy explains what we collect through this website, why, and what we do with it.

It applies to the whole website, including the blog.

What we collect

Through the contact form on this website we ask for your name, email address, preferred location and the message you write yourself. We use this to get back to you about Italian lessons.

At the end of the level test you can leave your e-mail address to receive your profile. We use that address only to send you that result. If you also tick the third box, we store your level and the topics you got wrong, so we can send you the right explanations, and after one month we send a single message asking whether you want to take the test again. That row is then deleted. If you do not tick it, we store nothing.

Reviews and testimonials

All reviews and testimonials shown on this website are carefully anonymised. To protect students' privacy we publish no photos, full names or surnames.

On request we can provide further verification to support the reliability of the reviews, such as relevant documentation. With the explicit consent of the students involved, we can also put you in touch with former learners to confirm their experience.

Why we use this data

We use your data only to:

reply to your request for a free intake or for lessons;
schedule appointments and prepare the content of the lessons;
keep any administration around the lessons.

Sharing with third parties

We do not sell your data and we do not share it with advertisers or other companies. It is used by Alessio personally, to teach you. There is one exception, and you ask for it yourself: the contact form on the pages about language schools in Italy. Exactly what happens there is described below.

Language schools in Italy

The pages about language schools in Italy carry a form that puts you in touch with a school directly. If you use it, we send your name, your email address and your message to the schools you ticked, so that they can reply to you directly. That is the whole point of the form: without those details there is no enquiry. Which schools they are is shown on screen before you send: the extra ones are off by default.

A copy of the message also reaches us. We use it to check that the enquiry arrived and to correct a school's address when it is out of date. We keep those emails for twelve months at most and use them for nothing else: no newsletter, no advertising. Sending runs through Resend, and the website through Cloudflare; both act only as processors.

If you want our copy gone, write to privacy@thuisitaliaans.com. What the school itself does with your message falls under its own privacy policy: that we cannot delete for you.

How long we keep data

We keep your data no longer than needed for the purpose it was collected for, or as long as the law requires (for tax records, for instance).

Cookies and statistics

This website uses no tracking or advertising cookies. Only technical, functional cookies are used, the ones the site needs to work.

What the site does keep in your browser stays there: the language you picked for the menu and, on the exercise pages, the answers you typed in, so that reopening a page brings you back where you left off. This lives in your browser's localStorage, on your device only: none of it is ever sent to us or to anyone else. You can delete it by clearing your browser's site data; answers older than 120 days are cleaned up by the site itself.

To understand how many visitors the site has and which pages are read most, the server keeps count itself. This happens without cookies. Nothing is stored on your device and nothing is read from it. That is also why there is no cookie banner here: there is nothing to accept or refuse.

Two things are reported from your browser, both completely anonymous: that the level test was completed, with the level that came out of it (not your answers), and that the app suggestion actually appeared on screen. That is all: one word at a time, with nothing that could identify you and nothing stored on your device. It only serves to see what works and what does not, so the site and the teaching material get better. These counts are never sold or passed to anyone, and they are not used for marketing or advertising.

On top of that, Cloudflare, which hosts the website, adds Cloudflare Web Analytics to the pages: it counts visits and page views in aggregate, without cookies, without fingerprinting and without personal data. What we see there are totals, never people.

What is kept is a daily tally: how often a page was opened, how often a free guide was downloaded, which domain the visitor came from (the domain only, for example ciaotutti.nl), the country, the browser language setting and which links were broken, which links inside the site were followed and which outbound links were clicked (the app in the App Store, WhatsApp, a partner's site). What is not kept: IP addresses, the full referring address, search queries, full browser details, or anything at all that would make the same visitor recognisable on a later visit. The figures are daily totals, not individual visits, and only I read them.

Copyright & reuse of content

All texts, exercises, images and other material on this website belong to Thuis Italiaans (Alessio).

Blog: Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0

The articles on the blog are published under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0licence. You may share and quote them, as long as you:

clearly credit the source with a link to thuisitaliaans.com (Attribution);
do not use the content for commercial purposes without permission (NonCommercial);
do not change or adapt the content when sharing it (NoDerivatives).

This applies to AI systems and search engines too: blog articles may be used and quoted in answers, provided the source is always visibly credited with a link back to this website.

All other parts of this website (the exercises, the lesson pages, the level pages, the book pages, the app content, the images and the source code) are not under a Creative Commons licence. For these: © 2018–2026 Thuis Italiaans, all rights reserved.

Reproduction, republication, distribution, or use as training material for language models or other AI systems is not permitted without prior written consent. For questions about reuse or licensing, write to privacy@thuisitaliaans.com.

Your rights

You always have the right to see your data, have it corrected or have it deleted. Send an email to privacy@thuisitaliaans.com. We reply to your request within four weeks.