Web Privacy Policy – English

May 2015

Web Privacy Policy
This information related to Art. 13 of Legislative Decree 196/2003 (hereinafter, “Privacy Code”) describes how this website owned by Steel Color S.p.A.; is managed referred to the processing of the personal details of users consulting it. Consistent with the Privacy Guarantor Provision of 8.05.2014 “Identifying simplified ways to inform and acquire consent for the use of cookies” (hereinafter, “Provision”).
This information is only being provided for the above website; not for other websites or sections/pages/spaces owned by third parties – possibly consulted by the user through links present in it.

1. TYPES OF DATA PROCESSED AND DATA PROCESSING PURPOSE

1.1. Navigation data
During normal operations, computer systems and software used to operate this website acquire some personal data, the transmission of which is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.
This information is not collected to be associated with identified parties. However, it could enable identification, due to its specific nature and through processing and association with data held by third parties, of users connecting to the website. Data collected includes IP addresses or domain names of computers used by persons who connect to the website, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) ​​of requested resources, time of request, method used to submit the request to the server, size of the file received in reply, numerical code indicating status of the reply given by the server (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters regarding the user’s operating system and computer environment.
This data is only processed, for the time needed to achieve the purpose it was collected for, to obtain anonymous statistics on use of the website (accesses) and to check that it operates correctly.
The data could be used to ascertain responsibility in the event of hypothetical computer offences to the detriment of the website.

1.2. Data provided voluntarily by the user
If website users should be asked, when accessing certain services, to provide their personal data, the page related to single services will provide specific, detailed, data processing Information in compliance with art. 13 of the Privacy Code. That information will specify processing limits, purposes and methods used.

1.3. Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files sent from the website visited by the user to the user’s device (usually to the browser) where they are stored so that the device can be recognised on its next visit. On each visit, the cookies are sent to the website user’s device again.
Each cookie generally contains: the name of the server the cookie was sent from; expiry date and a value, usually a single number generated casually by the computer. The website server transferring the cookie uses this number to recognise you when you make a return visit or surf from one page to the next.
Cookies can be installed not only by the manager of the website visited by the user (first party cookies), but also by another website installing cookies through the first website (third party cookies) and can recognise them. This happens because the website visited could have elements (images, maps, sounds, links to other domain web pages, etc.) residing on other servers.
Depending on purpose, cookies are divided into technical cookies and profiling cookies.
Technical cookies are those only used to “transmit a communication on an electronic communication network, or to the extent strictly needed by the supplier to supply a company service, information specifically requested by the subscriber or user to supply that service” (see art. 122, clause 1, of the Privacy Code, as amended by Legislative Decree 69/2012). More specifically, those cookies are usually used to enable efficient navigations between pages, memorise user preferences (language, country, etc.), for computer authentication, to manage the cart or permit online purchases, etc. Some of these cookies (called essential or strictly necessary) enable functions without which no operations would be possible. In compliance with art. 122, clause 1 of the Privacy Code , use of technical cookies does not require user consent.
Technical cookies are assimilated with the so-called analytic cookies if used directly by the website manager to collect aggregate data on number of users and on how they visit the website itself. Those cookies enable website owners and/or managers to understand how users interact with website content, in order to optimise it.
Profiling cookies are used to track user navigation, analyse its behaviour for marketing purposes and create profiles on tastes, habits, choices, etc.; to transmit targeted advertising messages related to the user’s interests and consistent with preferences shown when surfing the web. Those cookies can only be installed on the user’s computer if the latter has specifically consented, using the simplified modes indicated in the Provision.
Based on their duration, cookies are persistent, remain memorised on the user’s device until they expire, unless the latter should remove them; and session, are not memorised persistently on the user’s device and vanish when the browser is closed.

What cookies are used by this site?

a. Technical cookies.
This website uses technical cookies, installed by the website itself to monitor website operations and enable it to be navigated efficiently.
Here below, for each technical cookie that could be used, you will find name, use purpose and type/duration.

Those cookies cannot be disabled using the functions of this website, but can be disabled through your browser settings at any time (as indicated below). Disabling them might preclude optimal use of some website areas.

b. Performance and analytic cookies
Analytic cookies are used to analyse website traffic statistically, count accesses or visits and enable the owner, thanks to estimates of numbers and consumer models, to improve the structure, navigation logics and content, to adapt it to user interests, speed up searches, etc.
Here below you will find, for each analytic cookie used, name, use purpose, type/duration and origin.

c. Profiling cookies.
Third party profiling cookies
When navigating this website, profiling cookies could be installed and managed in the user’s computer by third parties; to send advertising messages consistent with preferences shown by the user when surfing the web. As indicated above, this happens because the website could contain elements residing on servers other than the ones containing the website visited. If third parties set cookies while you visit this website, they obtain information on the fact that users visited it. More information on use of cookies is available through the following links to third party websites. A refusal to consent to the use of third party profiling cookies does not interfere with the possibility to access the website.
Below you will find the name of third party cookies that could be installed by the latter through the website, purpose, name of that third party and a link to its website.

Please note that users can always manage their preferences for what concerns online behavioural advertising (so-called “on line behavioural advertising”) through the website www.youronlinechoices.com/it, which lists the main providers of behavioural advertising. Through the website, users can disable or enable all companies or alternatively adjust their preferences individually for each company.

How do you disable cookies?
By default almost all web browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. However, the user can modify that configuration through browser settings. Disabling /blocking cookies or deleting them could prevent optimal use of some website areas, prevent the use of some services and make navigation slower.
Cookie management configuration depends on the browser used. Usually, cookies are configured through the menu “Preferences”, “Tools” or “Options”.
Here are links to the cookie management guides of the main browsers:
Internet Explorer: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
Internet Explorer [mobile version]: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp7/web/changing-privacy-and-other-browser-settings
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647
Safari: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/5.0/en/9277.html
Safari [mobile version]: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1677
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
Android http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=169022

2. PROCESSING METHODS
Personal data is processed automatically (e.g. using electronic procedures and supports) and/or manually (e.g. on paper) for the time needed to achieve the purposes for which data was collected and in accordance with current regulations.

3. DATA PROCESSING CONTROLLER
The Controller of data processing is Steel Color S.p.A.;.

4. RIGHTS OF PARTIES INVOLVED
Subjects the personal data refers to have the right, at any time, to receive confirmation of whether their data is being held or not, to know content and origin, check it is correct or request it be integrated or updated, or rectified pursuant to art. 7 of the Privacy Code. In compliance with that same article, interested parties also have the right to request it be deleted, be transformed into an anonymous format or that any data processed in breach of laws in force be blocked; and, in any case, to object to it being processed, for legitimate reasons.
For any information on data processing and to exercise rights established in art 7 of the Privacy Code, users may also send a specific request (even by email) to the addresses indicated on line in the Contacts page that can be reached from the website footer.