Privacy and Cookies policy

Introduction

The privacy of our website visitors is very important to us, so we are committed to protecting it. This privacy policy explains how we will treat your personal information.
In accordance with the terms of this information, by giving your consent to the use of cookies on your first visit to our website, you allow us to use these cookies every time you visit our site

Collection of personal data

The following types of personal data may be collected, stored and used:

information regarding your device, including IP address, geographic location, type and version of the browser and operating system in use;
information regarding your visits and uses of this site, including the referring web page (referral), the duration of the visit, the pages visited and navigation paths within the website;
information you provide when registering on our website, such as your email address, your name, your date and place of birth, your telephone number, your profession;
your signature when registering on our website;
information provided by you while using the services of our website;
information generated during the use of our website, such as date and time, frequency as well as the circumstances of your use;
information relating to any communications you send to us via email or via our website, including the content and metadata of such communications;
any other information or personal data you send to us.

Before sharing another person's personal information with us, you will need to obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and processing of that personal data in accordance with this policy.

Use of personal data

Personal information you submit to us via our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

managing our website and business;
personalizing our website for your benefit;
enabling the user to use the services available on our website;
sending commercial communications without marketing purposes;
the sending of commercial communications for marketing purposes;
sending our newsletter via e-mail;
sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
the provision of statistical data regarding our users to third parties (such third parties will not be able to trace the identity of individual users based on such information);
the management of requests and complaints from you and your actions in relation to our website;
maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud;
verifying compliance with the terms and conditions of use of our website;
further uses.
The publication of articles or other web content.

If you provide personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you have granted to us.

Through the appropriate controls made available on the site, you can configure your privacy settings to limit the publication of your data and information on our website.

Without your explicit consent, we will not in any way provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing activities or for the promotional activities of other third parties.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional consultants, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our corporate group (that is, our subsidiaries, our parent company and each of its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

to the extent we are required by law;
in the context of ongoing or future legal proceedings;
in order to assert, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
to the buyer (or potential buyer) of any of our companies or assets that we are about to (or considering) selling;
to any person reasonably believed by us to apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information, if, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably inclined to require disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide any of your information or personal data to third parties.

International data transfers

The information we collect may be stored, processed and transferred between each of the countries in which we operate, in order to allow us to use it in accordance with this policy.
The information we collect may be transferred to the following countries that do not have personal data protection regulations equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
Personal information that you publish or submit for publication on our website may be available via the Internet throughout the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of this information by others.
You expressly consent to the transfers of personal data described in this Section F of this policy.

Storage of personal data

This Section G sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help us ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of data and personal information.
The personal information we process will be retained for no longer than is necessary for the intended purposes.
Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section G, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
1. to the extent we are required by law;
2. if we believe that such documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
3. in order to assert, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).

Security of personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to avoid any loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store any personal information you provide to us on our servers or on computers belonging to our company personnel.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information online is inherently insecure and that we cannot guarantee the security of data sent via the Internet.

Changes

We may occasionally update this policy by posting a new version on our website. We recommend that you periodically check this page to ensure that you understand any changes made to the information. We may notify you of changes to this policy via email or via the private messaging system on our website.

Your rights

You can ask us to provide you with all your personal data and information in our possession; this operation will be subject to the following conditions:

the payment of a fee of €100;
the provision of suitable evidence of your identity (we will normally accept a photocopy of your identity document).

We may retain the personal data you request to the extent permitted by law.

You can request at any time that your personal data not be processed for marketing purposes.

In practice, regarding the use of your personal data for marketing purposes, you will normally consent explicitly and in advance, or you will be given the opportunity to request your exclusion.

Third Party Sites

Our site includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of these third parties.

Updating information

Please let us know if we make any corrections or updates to the personal information we hold about you.

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a browser, and stored by it. The identifier is then sent back to the server every time that browser requests access to a page on that server. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session": a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its scheduled expiry date, unless the user deletes it first; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, i.e. when the browser is closed. Cookies generally do not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about you may be linked to information stored in, and obtained from, cookies. On our website, both session cookies and persistent cookies.

Below, the names of the cookies we use on our website, as well as the purposes of their use:
1. we use Google Analytics and Adwords on our website to recognize a computer when a user visits the site, track users as they navigate the site, enable the use of a shopping cart on the site, improve the usability of the site, analyze the use of the site, administer the site, prevent fraud and improve the security of the site, send targeted advertising proposals that may be of particular interest to specific users;
2. We use essential cookies to save user preferences and offer them a better web experience.
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies; for example:
1. in Internet Explorer (version 10) it is possible to block cookies using specific management settings that replace the basic configuration, by clicking on "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
2. in Firefox (version 69) it is possible to block all cookies by clicking on the menu button at the top right and selecting “Options”; in the “Privacy and security” section, “Content blocking”, select “Custom”; here select the “Cookies” box and in the relevant drop-down menu choose “All cookies”;
3. in Chrome (version 77) it is possible to block all cookies by accessing the menu at the top right and clicking on "Settings"; on the left, select “Advanced”, “Privacy and security”, then click on “Site settings”, “Cookies and site data”; finally, deactivate the “Allow sites to save and read cookie data” option.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. By blocking cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of our website.

You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example
1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions for doing so can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
2. in Firefox (version 69), you can delete all cookies by clicking on the menu button at the top right and selecting “Options”; in the “Privacy and security” section, “Cookies and website data”, click on the “Delete data…” button; check that the appropriate box is selected, then press the “Delete” button;
3. in Chrome (version 77), it is possible to delete all cookies by accessing the menu at the top right and clicking on “Other tools”, “Clear browsing data”; here, in the “Time range” drop-down menu, select “All”; check that the “Cookies and other site data” box is selected, then press the “Delete data” button.
. Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.