Our Privacy Policy

Why A Privacy Policy?

This page will describe management of our web site as regards processing the personal data of users that visit us.

This information is provided - also in pursuance of Section 13 of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 - to any entity having to do with the web-based services that are made available by Vortex Italia via electronic networks as from the following address:

www.vortexitalia.net

which corresponds to the home page of our official web site.

The information provided only applies to our web site and does not concern any web sites that may be visited by an 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 European Directive 95/46/EC 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

Visiting this site may result into the processing of data concerning identified or identifiable persons.

The data controller is Vortex Italia, with registered office in Via Dante, 73 - 20811 Cesano Maderno (MB).

Place Where 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 Vortex Italia and EuroVPS servers located in Amsterdam (Netherlands) exclusively by technical staff in charge of said processing.

Categories of Processed Data

Navigation Data

The information systems and software procedures relied upon to operate this web site acquire personal data as part of their standard functioning; the transmission of such data is an inherent feature of Internet communication protocols.

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 the domain names of the computers used by any user connecting with this web site, the URI (Uniform Resource 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 (successfully performed, error, etc.), and other parameters related to the user's operating system and computer environment.

These data are only used to extract anonymous statistical information on website use as well as to check its functioning. 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 thirty days.

Data Provided Voluntarily by Users

Sending e-mail messages to the addresses mentioned on this website, which is done on the basis of a freely chosen, explicit, and voluntary option, entails acquisition of the sender's 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(s).

Specific summary information notices will be shown and/or displayed on the pages that are used for providing services on demand.

Extended Cookie Policy

What are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on the browser's PC inside the browser. They contain basic information about web browsing and are recognized every time the user visits the website.

Cookies used by this website

This website uses cookies - including third-party cookies - to improve the browsing experience and so that users can use our online services and display advertising in line with their preferences. The cookies used by this website fall within the categories described below.

Managing cookies

Technical cookies

Technical cookies necessary to operate the site

Cookies that allow the website to work correctly and give the user a functional browsing experience. For example, they keep you connected while browsing so that the website does not require you to login several times to access subsequent pages.

Technical cookies to save your preferences

Cookies that remember the preferences selected by the user while browsing, such as the choice of language.

Statistics and Audience Measurement Cookies

Cookies that help to understand, using the data collected in anonymous and aggregate form, how users interact with the website, providing information on the sections visited, time spent on the website and any malfunctions.

Third Party Statistics and Audience Measurement Cookies

These cookies provide anonymous/aggregated information on how visitors browse the website. Below are the links to the respective cookie policy pages to manage your consent.

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More Information Regarding Cookies

Wikipedia / Cookie

Optional Data Provision

Subject to the specifications made with regard to navigation data, users are free to provide the personal data.

Failure to provide such data may entail the failure to be provided with the items requested.

Processing Arrangements

Personal data is processed with automated means for no longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes for which it has been collected.

Specific security measures are implemented to prevent the data from being lost, used unlawfully and/or inappropriately, and accessed without authorisation.

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 origin, verify their accuracy, or else request that such data be supplemented, updated or rectified (Section 7 of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003).

The above Section also provides for the right to request erasure, anonymisation or blocking of any data that is processed in breach of the law as well as to object in all cases, on legitimate grounds, to processing of the data.

All requests should be emailed to info@vortexitalia.com, or sent to Vortex Italia, with registered office in Via Dante, 73 - 20811 Cesano Maderno (MB).

P3P

This privacy notice can be viewed in automatic format by means of the most recent browsers implementing the P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences Project) standard as proposed by the World Wide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org).

All efforts will be made to ensure the highest interoperability between the functions of this site and the automatic privacy verification mechanisms that are made available by some software products applied by users.

Bearing in mind that the current development status of automatic verification mechanisms is such as not to allow ruling out errors and malfunctioning, it is hereby specified that this document as posted at

www.vortexitalia.net/privacy/

is the privacy policy of this site and will be updated as necessary.