Privacy Policy on the use of the website

 

Introduction

Elitec S.r.l. (“Company” or “we”) takes its users’ privacy very seriously and undertakes to comply in full with the applicable law (Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – hereinafter defined as the “GDPR”).

This document (“Privacy Policy”) provides information on how the personal data collected by the Company through this website (“Website”) are processed, and constitutes “an information notice to the data subjects” under the terms of art. 13 of the GDPR.

 

Data Controller and DPO

The Data Controller is Elitec S.r.l., with registered office in Via della Croce Rossa, n. 42 – 35129 Padova (PD).

The Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) can be contacted at the following address: info@elitec.it

 

The Data we process

The following data can be processed:

1) Ordinary personal data which you may provide when interacting with website functions, including browser data or requests to use services offered on the Website (e.g. registration in any reserved areas, competitions and other initiatives which may be present on the Website, use of any Apps, requests for information and reports submitted also through contact forms, etc.) as well as data collected by cookies as specified in the Cookie Policy.

2) Special categories of data such as those relating to health status (Article 9 of the GDPR). Where that occurs, processing is performed on the basis of the user’s consent, to fulfil legal or regulatory obligations or contractual or pre-contractual obligations involving the supply of goods or services (including requests for information on our products and their correct use). In any event, the legal basis for processing of particular categories of data is Article 9.2 (a) and (i) of the GDPR.

 

Why and how we process your personal data

With your consent, the Company may process your ordinary personal data to enable you to benefit from the available services and functionalities and optimise their performance, to perform statistics on its usage, to manage requests and reports received through the Website, to manage your registration and your access to any restricted-access areas and initiatives (e.g. competitions) which may be present on the Website pursuant to Article 6.1.a of the GDPR. The Company may also process your personal data to fulfil obligations stemming from laws, regulations and European Union law: the legal basis for the processing for this purpose is Article 6.1. (c) of the GDPR.

Furthermore, with your optional consent, your ordinary personal data may also be used to send institutional communications. The legal basis for the processing for this purpose is Article 6.1. (a) of the GDPR.

Finally, the Company may process your ordinary and sensitive personal data to protect its rights in legal proceedings or to apply the Elitec Code of Conduct (Articles 6.1.(f) and 9.2.(f) of the GDPR).

All your data are processed using automatic and electronic instruments suitable to ensure full security and confidentiality.

 

Necessary processing and optional processing

The forms to be completed on this website require you to confer personal data which are strictly necessary to handle your communications and requests.

 

Browsing data

If you only visit the Website (i.e., without sending communications or using any of the available services/functions), the processing of your data is limited to browsing data i.e., data whose transmission to the Website is necessary for the functioning of the computers which operate the Website and of the Internet communication protocols. This category includes, for example, IP addresses or computer domain used to visit the Website and other parameters pertaining to the operating system used to connect to the Website. The Company collects these and other data (such as, for example, number of visits and time spent on the Website) merely for statistical purposes and in anonymous form in order to monitor the functioning of the Website and improve its performance. Such data is not collected to be associated with other information regarding, or for the identification of, users; however, such information, by its very nature, may enable the Company to identify users through processing and association with data held by third parties. Browsing data are normally deleted following processing in anonymous form but can be stored and used by the Company to detect and identify perpetrators of any computer offences committed to the detriment of the Website or using the Website. Without prejudice to this possibility and to the provisions of the Cookie Policy, the browsing data described above are stored only temporarily, in compliance with law.

 

Links to other websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website as defined above. Even though the Website may contain links to other websites (known as third party websites), please be informed that the Company does not perform any access or control over cookies, web beacons or other user-tracking technologies that may be active on such third party websites, on the contents and materials published thereon, or on their methods of processing of your personal data; for this reason, the Company expressly declines any liability for such matters. You should therefore verify the privacy policies of such third party websites and collect information about their terms and conditions and about how they process your personal data.

 

How we store data and for how long

In compliance with Article 5.1.(c) of the GDPR, the computers and programmes used by the Company are set up in such a way to reduce the use of personal and identifying data to a minimum. Such data are processed only to the extent required to achieve the purposes indicated in this Policy, and will be stored for as long as strictly necessary for achievement of the specific purposes pursued – in any event, the criterion used to determine the storage period is based on compliance with time limits permitted by law and the principles of data minimisation, storage limitation or rational management of our records.

 

How we ensure your personal data’s security and quality

The Company undertakes to ensure security of the user’s personal data and comply with provisions on security provided by law to avoid data loss, illegitimate or unlawful uses of data or unauthorised access to data, with particular but not exclusive reference to Articles 25-32 of the GDPR. The Company uses many types of advanced security technologies and procedures intended to aid protection of the user’s personal data; for example, personal data are stored on secure servers situated on premises with protected and controlled access. The user can assist the Company to update and correct their personal data by communicating any change of address, qualifications, contact information, etc.

 

Persons who have access to the data

Persons belonging to the following categories are authorised to process the user’s data: technical and administrative staff, IT staff, etc., as well as other staff members who require processing the data for performance of their job duties.

Additionally, the Data can be communicated, also in Third Countries, to: (i) institutions, authorities, public bodies for their institutional purposes; (ii) professionals, independent consultants –working individually or in partnerships- and other third parties and providers which supply to the Company commercial, professional or technical services required to operate the Website (e.g., provision of IT and Cloud Computing services) for the purposes specified above and to support the Company with the provision of the services you requested ; (iii) third parties in the event of mergers, acquisitions, transfers of business -or branches thereof-, audits or other extraordinary operations; (iv) the Supervisory Board, based at the Controller’s address, in the pursuit of its supervisory activities and for the enforcement of the Elitec Code of Conduct. The mentioned recipients shall only receive the Data necessary for their respective functions and shall duly undertake to process them only for the purposes indicated above and in compliance with data protection laws. The Data can furthermore be communicated to the other legitimate recipients identified from time to time by the applicable laws. With the exception of the foregoing, the Data shall not be shared with third parties, whether legal or natural persons, who do not perform any function of a commercial, professional or technical nature for the Controller and shall not be disseminated. The parties who receive the Data shall perform processing as Data Controller, Processor or persons authorised to process personal data, as the case may be, for the purposes indicated above and in compliance with the applicable data protection law.

Regarding any transfer of Data outside the EU, including in countries whose laws do not guarantee the same level of protection to personal data privacy as that afforded by EU Law, the Controller informs that the transfer shall in any event take place in accordance with the methods permitted by the GDPR, such as, for example, on the basis of the user’s consent, on the basis of the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, by selecting parties enrolled in international programmes for free movement of data (e.g. EU-USA Privacy Shield) or operating in countries considered safe by the European Commission.

 

Your Rights

You may at any time exercise the rights afforded by Articles 15-22 of the GDPR, including the right to obtain confirmation of the existence of personal data which relate to you, check its content, origin, correctness, location (also with reference to any Third Countries), request a copy, request correction and in cases provided by law, restriction of processing, deletion, oppose to direct contact activities, (also limited to particular means of communication). Likewise, you may always withdraw consent and/or make observations on specific issues regarding processing operations of your personal data which you regard as incorrect or unjustified by your relationship with the Company, or lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority.

You may contact the Controller and/or DPO at the addresses displayed above to make any requests regarding personal data processing by the Company, to exercise your legal rights and to obtain an updated list of the parties who have access to your data.

 

Cookie Policy

The website uses cookies to facilitate and personalise the user’s browsing experience; by browsing the Website, the user agrees to the use of cookies in compliance with this document. This notice represents an extension of the cookie notification banner displayed when users first connect to the home page of this Website. There exist two categories of cookies:

• technical cookies: these are necessary for correct functioning of a website and to permit browsing by the user; without these the user may not be able to visualise the pages correctly or to use some services.
• profiling cookies: these are used for creating user profiles to send advertising messages in line with preferences shown by the user during browsing.

Cookies, whether “technical” or “profiling”, can also be classified as:

• “session” cookies, which are deleted immediately on closing of the browser;
• “persistent” cookies, which remain in the browser for a determinate period of time; these are used, for example, to recognise the device which connects to a website, facilitating user authentication operations;
• “own” cookies, generated and managed directly by the operator of the website on which the user is browsing;
• “third party” cookies, generated and operated by parties other than the operator of the website on which the user is browsing.

The Website uses “technical” cookies and in particular the following types of cookie:

• (i) own cookies, session or persistent, necessary to allow browsing on the Website, for the purpose of internal security and systems administration;
• (ii) third party cookies, persistent, used by Website to send statistical information to Google Analytics, by way of which the Company can perform statistical analysis of access/visits to the Website. The cookies used pursue exclusively statistical purposes and collect information in aggregated form. By way of two cookies, one persistent and the other session (expiring on closure of the browser), Google Analytics also saves a register with times of commencement of visits to the Website and exit from same. It is possible to prevent Google from taking the data by way of the cookies and the subsequent formulation of the data by downloading and installing the plug-in for browser from the following address: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it

You can choose to which cookies to give your consent. In the case of third party cookies, users shall provide or deny consent directly to the owner of the cookie in question, to which the Company merely refers: most third party cookies present on the website can be disabled by users on their own browser or by consulting directly the sites of the operators using the links indicated in the table below. In any event, we point out that disabling cookies could impair your ability to use the Website and/or prevent you from benefitting in full from the available functions and services.
The following table describes in detail the cookies present on the Website. The link to the privacy policy of the party which generates and manages those cookies is shown alongside each “third party cookie”:

COOKIES	TYPE	PURPOSE	PRIVACY POLICY
www.elitec.it	First Party – Session and persistent	Cookies required to make navigation on the Website possible, for internal security and administration purposes, as well as to memorize the language selected by the user	This page
google.it google.com	Third Party – persistent	Cookie for the Google Analytics service	https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

 

Instructions for operation of cookies on the various browsers:

 

Chrome

• Select the menu on the upper right-hand corner of the browser tool bar
• Select Settings
• Select the link Show advanced settings
• In the section Privacy select Content settings
• In the section Cookie change the following settings based on the action required for operation of the cookies:
  • Allow sites to save and read cookie data
  • Keep local data only until you quit your browser
  • Prevent sites from setting any data
  • Block third party cookies and site data
  • Manage exceptions for some Internet sites
  • All cookies and site data

For more information visit the relevant Google page.

 

Mozilla Firefox

• Click on the menu in the upper right corner of the browser tool bar
• Select Options
• Select the Privacy section
• In the section Tracking, select the appropriate button if you want to communicate to sites your wish not to be tracked
• In the section History, select from the drop-down menu Use Custom Settings change the following settings depending on the action desired for cookie operation:
  • Accept cookies from websites (select the appropriate button);
  • Accept third party cookies (select from the drop-down menu one of the following Options: always, from most visited or never);
  • Store them for a set period of time (select from the drop-down menu one of the following Options: until they expire, when Firefox is closed or ask every time);
• Again, in the History section, select Show cookies if you wish to clear the cookies present on your computer.

For more information visit the relevant Mozilla page.

 

Internet Explorer

• Click the Tools button
• Select Internet Options
• Select Privacy
• In the scrolling menu, select one of the following options change the following settings according to what you want to do to handle the cookies:
  • Block all cookies
  • High
  • Medium High
  • Medium
  • Low
  • Accept all the cookies
• Select specific sites that you will accept cookie from: click “Sites” and in the “Address of Website” box, type a website address then click “Block” or “Allow”

For more information visit the relevant Microsoft page.

 

Safari

• Open Safari
• Click on Safari
• Select Preferences and then click on Privacy
• In the “Block Cookies” section choose the way Safari should handle cookies.
• Click on Details to see which websites have stored their cookies

For more information visit the relevant Apple page.

 

Opera

• Start Opera
• Select “Settings” in the main menu in the top left-hand corner of the screen
• Select “Privacy & Security”
• In the section “Cookies”, select one of the following options:
  • Allow local storage
  • Keep local data only until I quit my browser
  • Do not permit sites to save any data
  • Block third party cookies and site data
• By selecting the button “All cookies and site data” you can remove the cookies present on your computer.

For more information visit the relevant Opera page.