Cookie Policy

COOKIE POLICY

The company COVISIAN S.P.A., with registered office in via dei Valtorta, 47 – 20127 Milano (MI) (“Company”) provides below the information concerning to browsing data and working of cookies and other tracking tools, about the website www.covisian.com (“Website”). For the purposes of this cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”), for clarity, “cookie” means and includes also the other tracking tools used by the Website, as better described below.

The following information is provided for the Company’s Website and not for other third-party websites that may be visited by the user through links of the Website itself.

This Cookie Policy should be read in conjunction with the Company’s Privacy Notice, to which reference is made for any other information on the processing of your personal data.

1. Browsing data, Cookies and other tracking tools

1.1. Browsing data

The IT systems and software used for the Website collect, during their normal operation, some personal data whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.

Such data are not collected for the purpose of being associated with identified persons, but due to their nature may, through processing and association with data held by third parties, allow users to be identified.

The above data include IP addresses or domain names of computers used by users who connect to the Website, addresses in URI notation (Uniform Resourse Identifier) of the requested resources, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the files received, the numbers / codes indicating the response status given by the server (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters relating to the operating system and the user’s computer environment.

These data are used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the use of the Website and to check its correct functioning and are deleted immediately after processing.

The data could be used to ascertain responsibilities in case of hypothetical computer crimes against the Website and/or the Company: except for this case, the data are kept for the periods set forth in the relevant legislations or, in general, for the time strictly necessary to provide the user with the service required to guarantee the transmission of the communications.

1.2 Cookies and other tracking tools

Cookies are usually text strings that websites (so-called “Publisher” o “First Part“) visited by the user, or different sites or web server (so-called “Third Parties“), place and store – directly, in the case of the Publisher, and indirectly, through the latter, in the case of “Third Parties” – within a terminal device in the availability of the user himself. The terminals to which reference is made can be, for example, a personal computer, a tablet, a smartphone, or any other device capable of storing information.

Browsers and the above devices can store cookies and then transmit them again to the websites that generated them in case of a subsequent visit by the same user, thus maintaining memory of his previous interaction with one or more websites.

The information encoded in the cookies may include personal data, such as an IP address, username, unique identifier or email address, but may also contain non-personal data, such as language settings or information about the type of device a person is using to browse the Website.

Cookies can therefore perform important functions, including: computer authentication, monitoring of sessions, storage of information on specific configurations regarding users accessing the server, accessibility of online contents, tracking of items in an online shopping cart, or information used for filling out an IT form. The so-called “authentication” cookies are particularly important when is necessary to check the identity of a person accessing certain services, such as banking; on the other hand, through cookies it is also possible to convey behavioral advertising and then measure the effectiveness of the advertising message.

1.3 Types of cookies

Cookies and the other tracking tools may have different characteristics, from a temporal point of view, and therefore be described according to their duration (session-based or permanent), or from a subjective point of view (depending on whether the Publisher acts independently or on behalf of “Third Party“). In any case, the classification that mainly meets the data protection perspective is the following one, based on three macro-categories:

• technical cookies, used for the sole purpose of “carry out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communication network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service, explicitly requested by the contracting party or by the user, to provide that service“;
• profiling cookies, used to link, to identified or identifiable persons, specific actions or recurring behavioral patterns in the use of the features offered by the Website (so-called “pattern“), to group the different profiles within homogeneous clusters of different sizes, so that it is possible to send increasingly targeted advertising messages, consistent with the preferences expressed by the user while browsing;
• analytics cookies, also used to evaluate the effectiveness of an information society service provided by a Publisher, to design a Website or to help measure its traffic (e.g. the number of visitors, also possibly divided by geographical area, time slots of the connection, or other characteristics). According to Italian Data Protection Authority, these cookies may be included in the category of the technical ones, and as such be used in the absence of the prior acquisition of the consent of the interested party, if:
  – are used solely to produce aggregate statistics and in relation to a single Website or a single mobile application;
  – for those of Third Parties, at least the fourth component of the IP address is masked;
  – Third Parties refrain from combining such analytics cookies with other data (customer files or statistics of visits to other sites, for example) or from transmitting them to other Third Parties.

According to current legislation, the use of technical cookies is subject only to the obligation to provide this information, while profiling cookies and other tracking tools can only be used with the consent – free, specific and informed – of the user, expressed through the appropriate features of the Website.

2. List of cookies used by the Website

This Website uses cookies for the following purposes: technical, analysis and statistics (analytics), to improve the user’s interactivity with the Website through social networks (social media) and to personalize the sending of information and advertising communications according to the interests of the user (profiling).

2.1 Technical Cookies

For the installation of technical cookies, the prior consent of users is not required. In any case, all browsers allow you to change the settings of cookies. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or in the “preferences” menu of the browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful. Or you can use the “Help” in your browser for more information.

• Cookie settings in Explorer/Edge
• Cookie settings in Firefox
• Cookie settings in Chrome
• Cookie settings in Safari and iOS

In case of blocking the use of cookies, the service offered to the user through the Website will be limited, thereby influencing the experience of using the Website itself.

2.2 Other cookies (profiling, analytics, etc.)

Please find below, for each cookie used by the Website that does not fall into the category of technical cookies, the following information: its name, the relevant Third Party (if the cookie is not installed by the Publisher), its purpose and duration.

For all information related to cookies provided by Third Parties and for the modalities to opt-out from a specific cookie, please make reference to the privacy/cookie notice of the relevant Third Party, as well as to the tool provided by the Third Party to opt-out from a specific cookie.

We inform you that it is possible to opt-outin relation to a third-party cookie installed on the user’s browser also through the following links:

• https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN (for the companies adhering to the WebChoices tool of the Digital Advertising Alliance, including Facebook);
• https://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/le-tue-scelte

3. Data protection rights

You have the right to ask the Company, in compliance with the conditions set out in the GDPR:

• The access to the Data concerning you, as well as their rectification;
• the erasure of the Data;
• the limitation of the processing;
• within the limits of the Data processed for contractual purposes and / or based on your consent, and processed with automated methods, to receive such Data in a structured format, commonly used and readable by automatic devices and / or the transmission of the same to another data controller (so-called “portability“).

Right to object: You have the right to object at any time, for reasons related to your particular situation, to the processing of Data by the Company for the pursuit of its legitimate interest and to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes.

To exercise your rights, please contact the Company at the following address: privacy@covisian.com.

Withdrawal of consent: You have the right to withdraw, at any time, any consent given for the installation of one or more categories of cookies. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. The consent may be withdrawn through the appropriate features of the Website or, for cookies of Third Parties, at the following addresses:

• https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN (for companies participating in the WebChoices tool of the Digital Advertising Alliance, including Facebook);
• https://www.youronlinechoices.com/it/le-tue-scelte

The exercise of the rights of the data subject is subject to some exceptions, in particular aimed to the safeguard of the public interest (e.g., the prevention or identification of crimes) and/or protecting the Company’s rights. In the event you have exercised any of the aforementioned rights, the Company shall check that you are entitled to exercise it and provide you feedback, normally, within one month.

In addition, in case of refusal (total or partial) to the installation of cookiesand other non-technical tracking tools (as defined above), the provision of your consent will not be requested again by the Publisher before, at least, six months have elapsed since the previous submission of the banner of the Website.

If you believe that the processing of Data does not comply with the provisions of the GDPR, you also have the right to lodge a complaint to the Supervisory Authority of your Country, or to refer the matter to the appropriate courts.

4. Contacts

The contact details of the Company, as data controller, are the following: COVISIAN S.p.A, with registered office in via dei Valtorta, 47 – 20127 Milano (MI), VAT number IVA 07466520017, PEC covisian.spa@legalmail.it, email info@covisian.com.

To exercise your rights, you can contact the Company by email  privacy@covisian.com, or by sending a registered letter with return receipt to the abovementioned address of the Company or a Registered Email to the address via dei Valtorta, 47 – 20127 Milano (MI).

The contact details of the Company’s DPO are the following: dpocorporate@covisian.com.