This page describes the website management methods for the handling of the personal information of users.
This information is provided in accordance with art. 13 of the Italian Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 - Code of Personal Information Protection for those interacting with the web services of Infogroup S.c.p.A., accessed through http://www.infogroup.it which corresponds to the opening page of the main website of Infogroup S.c.p.A. This information is provided for the official website of Infogroup S.c.p.A. as well as the company's other websites which may be consulted by the user through links.

This information also refers to Recommendation no. 2/2001 which was adopted on 17th May 2001 by European personal information protection authorities meeting in a Group set up as a result of art. 29 of directive no. 95/46/CE, in order to identify the minimum requisites for collecting personal information on-line and, in particular, the methods, timing and nature of the information that data controllers have to provide to users when they access web pages, independently from the purposes of the said access.

THE DATA CONTROLLER

Information related to identified or identifiable persons may be handled as a result of consulting this website.

The Data controller handling the said information shall be Infogroup S.c.p.A., with head offices in Florence (Italy), Via delle Panche 140, 50141, part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group.

PLACE IN WHICH THE INFORMATION IS HANDLED

The handling of the information related to the services of this website shall take place in the aforementioned head offices of Infogroup S.c.p.A. and shall be carried out by the company's technical staff.

TYPE OF INFORMATION HANDLED

Navigation data

In the course of normal management, the data processing systems and software procedures used for running this website will acquire some personal information the transmission of which is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.

This is information which has not been collected in order to be associated with identified interested parties but which, by its very nature could, through processing and the association with information held by third parties, make it possible to identify the users.

This category of information includes IP addresses or the domain names of the computers utilized by users accessing the website, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of the resources requested, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the state of the response given by the server (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters related to the operating system and the user's IT ambient. This information is only used in order to obtain anonymous statistical data regarding site use and to check the same is running properly and will be deleted immediately after processing. The information could be used to ascertain liability in the event of possible computer crime to the detriment of the website: apart from such cases, information regarding web contacts is currently held for no longer than seven days.

Information voluntarily provided by the user

The explicit and voluntary provision of the e-mail address in the registration section shall result in the subsequent use of the said address for notifications of a commercial and marketing nature. A specific information sheet and consent formula are included on the website registration page.

COOKIES

No persistent cookies - i.e. systems for tracing users - of any type are used.

The use of session cookies (which are not permanently stored on the user's computer and disappear once the browser is closed) is strictly restricted to the transmission of session identifying data (consisting of random numbers generated by the server) which is necessary for safe and efficient site exploration.

The session cookies used on this website avoid the need to use other data processing techniques which could potentially reduce the confidentiality of the users' navigation of the website and would not permit the acquisition of identifying personal information regarding the user.

COMMUNICATION AND CIRCULATION

No information deriving from the web service shall be circulated. The personal information provided by users shall be utilized for the sole purpose of carrying out the service requested and only passed on to third parties where necessary for this purpose.

OPTIONAL PROVISION OF INFORMATION

Apart from the conditions described in relation to navigation data, the provision of the personal information requested on the registration form is optional. However the failure to provide this information may make it impossible to use certain services.

METHOD OF HANDLING

Personal information is handled using automated instruments for the period of time strictly necessary in order to achieve the purposes for which it was collected.

Specific safety measures are taken to avoid the loss of data, illegal or incorrect use and non-authorized access.

RIGHTS OF INTERESTED PARTIES

Interested parties shall have the right to obtain confirmation, at any time, of whether or not personal information concerning the said party exists, to know the content and origin of the same, to verify its correctness or to request the integration, updating or amendment of the same ( art. 7 Italian Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 ).

Pursuant to the same article, interested parties shall have the right to request the cancellation, transformation into an anonymous format or the blockage of data handled in breach of the law and, in any case, to oppose, for legitimate reasons, the handling of the same.

All requests should be forwarded, in writing, to Infogroup S.c.p.A., for the attention of the Data Controller Representative, Dr. Giampaolo Moscati, Via delle panche 140, 50141 Florence.

Since the level of perfection of automated control mechanisms does not currently make them free from errors and malfunctions, it is hereby specified that this document, published at the following web address, http://www.infogroup.it/privacypolicy, constitutes the Privacy Policy of this website which, over time, will be subjected to the necessary updates as a result of changes to the purposes and methods of information handing used or variations to the reference regulations.