This page lists the cookies and similar tools used by the site, what each one does and how long it lasts. Last updated: 11 November 2026.
In brief
- We use Google Analytics (statistics) only if you accept it in the banner that appears on your first visit. Until you choose — and if you refuse — it does not load and leaves no cookies.
- Without consent, the informational pages (our story, contact, the legal texts) do not set cookies and do not load resources from other domains. The pages where you buy — product pages, cart and checkout — load Stripe’s payment tools, and from the cart onwards the cart cookies appear.
- You can change your mind whenever you like from “Cookie preferences”, at the bottom of every page.
Cart cookies
They serve to remember what you have chosen while you move from one page to another. Without them the cart does not work.
| Name | Whose | What it is for | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
woocommerce_items_in_cart |
This site | Signals that there is something in the cart | Session |
woocommerce_cart_hash |
This site | Recognizes when the contents of the cart change | Session |
wp_woocommerce_session_… |
This site | Links your cart to your session | 2 days (7 if you are logged in to your account) |
WOOCOMMERCE_CHECKOUT_IS_CUSTOMER_DATA_DIRTY (browser storage) |
This site | Remembers at checkout whether you have already edited your details, so they are not overwritten | until you clear the site’s data |
artemide_consenso |
This site | Remembers the choice you made in the banner, so we do not ask on every page | 6 months |
Account cookies
They only exist if you create an account and log in. They keep you logged in as you move from one page to another; without them you cannot stay in your personal area.
| Name | Whose | What it is for | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
wordpress_logged_in_… |
This site | Recognises you as a logged-in user | 14 days if you have just registered or chose “Remember me”; otherwise until you close the browser |
wordpress_sec_… |
This site | Protects access to your personal area | Same as above |
Statistics: only with your consent
This tool is not necessary for the site to work. On your first visit a banner asks whether you accept it: “Reject” and “Accept” are equally prominent, closing the banner with the X counts as a refusal, and with “Customize” you can choose category by category. Until you choose it does not load. Your choice lasts 6 months; if we change the tools we ask you again.
| Name | Whose | What it is for | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga |
Google (Analytics) | Tells one visitor from another with a random number | up to 2 years (400 days in Chrome, which accepts no longer) |
_ga_… |
Google (Analytics) | Keeps the state of the visit | up to 2 years (400 days in Chrome, which accepts no longer) |
artemide_acquisti_contati (browser storage) |
This site | Avoids counting the same purchase twice if you reload the confirmation page | until you clear the site’s data |
Google’s notice on these cookies is at policies.google.com. Durations are those stated by the provider and measured on the site.
Payment: Stripe
On the product pages, in the cart and at checkout the site loads the tools of Stripe (domains js.stripe.com, m.stripe.network, m.stripe.com, q.stripe.com and b.stripecdn.com), the provider that collects card data and protects it. They serve to collect the payment and to detect fraud. For this reason Stripe may record the IP address and device information and set identifiers of its own, such as the cookies __stripe_mid (up to one year) and __stripe_sid (30 minutes) on this site and the cookie m on the domain m.stripe.com (up to 400 days), which Stripe describes as necessary for fraud prevention.
Stripe manages them as a controller for its own purposes: its notice and its cookie policy are at stripe.com/privacy and stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal. Outside these pages — the company’s story, the contacts, the legal texts — Stripe is not contacted.
The contact map
On the contact page there is a Google map, which does not load by itself: it appears only if you press the button that asks for it. Until you do, Google receives nothing and sets no cookies. If you load it, Google may set its own cookies according to its notice (policies.google.com).
Social links
In the footer there are links to Facebook and Instagram. They are simple links: until you open them, the social networks receive nothing from this site. Once you leave, their own rules apply.
How to delete them
Every browser lets you see, block and delete cookies from its settings. By deleting this site’s cookies you lose the contents of the cart and the choice you made in the banner, which you will be asked again. Blocking Stripe’s tools prevents you from paying.
How to change your mind
At the bottom of every page there is “Cookie preferences”: it reopens the banner and lets you turn each tool on or off. If you withdraw consent, the site deletes that tool’s cookies and reloads the page without it. We also talk about this in the privacy notice.