This information is provided, also persuant to the article 13 of the D.Lgs. no. 196/2003 (so-called Italian Data Protection Code), to any entity having to do with the web-based services that are available by the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Italian Data Protection Authority) via electronic networks as from the following address http://www.europeanprivacycentre.eu, home page of the site web of the European Privacy Centre. The information provided only applies to our web site and does not concern any web sites that may be visited by any user via external links.
The information provided is also based on the guidelines contained in Recommendation no. 2/2001, which was adopted on 17 May 2001 by the European data protection authorities within the Working Party set up under article 29 of the directive no. 95/46/CE in order to lay down minimum requirements for the collection of personal data online-especially with regard to arrangements, timing and contents of the information to be provided by data controllers to users visiting web pages for whatever purpose.
Data Controller. Data controller of the processing of the data is the European Privacy Centre (EPCE, in short), EPCE and its legal seat is in Latina (Italy), via Duca del Mare, 16, 04100. For contacts, send letter to the suitable centre or to use the email: info@europeanprivacycentre.eu.
Place where the data is processed – The processing operations related to the web-based services that are made available via this website are carried out at the aforementioned office of the Garante exclusively by technical staff in charge of the data processings, or else by persons tasked with such maintenance as may be necessary from time to time. No data resulting from web-based services is either communicated or disseminated. Any personal data that is provided by users requesting to be sent information materials is only used to provide the service and/or discharge the tasks requested and is disclosed to third parties only if it is necessary.
Data Processing Arrangements – personal data is processed with automated means for no longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes for which has been collected. Specific security measures are implemented to prevent the data from being lost, used unlawfully and/or inappropriately and accessed without authorisation.
Navigation Data – The information systems and software procedures (browsers) relied upon to operate this web site acquire personal data as part of their standard functioning, the transfer of such data is an inherent feature of Internet communication protocols contained in the aforesaid Recommendation (no. 2/2001): “The browsers are projected software programs, besides, to graphically visualize the available material on Internet. The browsers communicate among the computer of the consumer (client) and the distance computer in which information are memorized (web server). Such information is not collected in order to relate it to identified data subjects, however it might allow user identification per se after being processed and matched with data held by third parties. This data category includes IP addresses and /or domain names of the computers used by any user connecting with this website, the URI (Uniform Recourse Identifier) addresses of the requested resources, the time of such requests, the method used for submitting a given request to the server, returned file size , a numerical code relating to server response status, and other parameters related to the users operating system. The data might be used to establish liability in case computer crimes are committed against the website, except for this circumstance, any data on web contacts is currently retained for no longer than five days.
Data provided voluntarily by the users – Sending e-mails messages to the addresses mentioned on this website, which is done 0n the basis of freely chosen explicit, and voluntary option, entails acquisition of the sender address, which is necessary in order to reply to any request, as well as of such additional personal data as is contained in the message.
Cookies – Recommendation on suitable (no. 2/2001) identifies the cookies as “a computer recording of information transmitted by a web server to a computer of the consumer for the future identification of such computer during future visits to the same site web”. No personal data concerning users is acquired by website in this regard. No cookies are used to transmit personal information, nor are so-called persistent cookies or user tracking systems implemented. Use of the so-called session cookies – which are not stored permanently on the user’s computer and disappear upon closing the browser-is exclusively limited to the transfer of session ID’s-consisting of server-generated casual numbers-as necessary to allow secure, effective navigation. The so-called session cookies used by this website make it unnecessary to implement other computer techniques that are potentially detrimental to the confidentiality of user navigation, whist they do not allow acquiring the user’s personal identification data.
Data Provision – Subject to the specifications made with regard to navigation data, users are free to provide the personal data either to be entered in the application forms submitted to EPCE or referred to in contacting EPCE to request the delivery of information materials and other communications .
Failure to provide such data may entail the failure to be provide the services requested.
Data Subjects’ Rights – Data subjects are entitled at any time to obtain confirmation of the existence of personal data concerning them and be informed of their contents and origins, verify their accuracy, or else request that such data be supplemented, updated or rectified (article 7 of Legislative degree no. 196/2003)
The above Section also provides for the right to request erasure, anonymization, blocking of any data that is processed in breach of the law as well as to object tin all cases , on legitimate grounds, to processing data.
The present policy can be subject to updating and/or variations, kept also in account of possible malfunctions of the automatic systems of control.