DATA CONTROLLER
ERA S.r.l., with registered offices in Moncalieri (Turin), Via Fernando Santi 15, 10024, Italia, tax code and VAT number IT07647200018, registered at the Court of Turin n. 298/1999 (hereinafter also “Company”).
1 – PURPOSES OF DATA PROCESSING
1.1 – WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are text strings, normally consisting of letters and/or numbers, created by a server and stored on the hard disk of the computer or on any other device used by the user (from now on User of the site nipparts.com (from now on “Site”)) to access the Internet (smartphones, tablets, etc.). Cookies allow to collect information concerning the navigation carried out by the User on the website. Cookies are classified based on:
- duration: session or persistent cookies;
- origin: first-party or third-party cookies;
- purpose: technical, analytical or profiling cookies.
Cookies can be stored permanently on the User’s computer and have a variable duration (so-called persistent cookies), or be eliminated when the browser is closed and have a limited duration (so-called session cookies).
Cookies can be installed by the site that the User is visiting (so-called first-party cookies) or by other websites (so-called third-party cookies).
It should be specified that the purposes usually fulfilled by cookies can also be achieved with other similar technologies, including certain features to identify devices, allowing visits to a website to be analysed. This information sheet, in fact, applies to any technology that stores or accesses information on the users’ devices. For example, HTML5 local storage, Local Shared Objects (also called flash cookies) and fingerprinting techniques may fall into this category. Device fingerprinting, in particular, is a technique that combines information enabling to uniquely identify a particular device. Examples of information that device fingerprinting can detect, associate, or infer include:
- data resulting from the configuration of a device;
- data resulting from the use of particular network protocols;
- JavaScript;
- HTTP header information, clock information;
- installed fonts;
- plugins installed in the browser.
These elements can also be combined with additional information, such as IP addresses or unique identifiers, etc. From now on, the definition cookies will also include other similar technologies.
The Site uses first-party and third-party cookies, as well as other related technologies, as described in greater detail below.
1.2 – HOW WE USE COOKIES
A. Technical Cookies
Technical cookies are necessary for the operation of the website to enable functions to facilitate user navigation, allowing users to access their profile without having to login each time, or select the language required to navigate the site without having to set it each time. Technical cookies are considered strictly necessary, because the storage of information is essential to be able to provide the service requested by Users. These cookies therefore do not require User consent, as they are essential for the correct functioning of the Site. The list of technical cookies used, their purposes and their durations is reported in the “Cookies table”.
B. Analytical Cookies
These are first- or third-party cookies installed to collect aggregate information of a mainly statistical nature regarding the use of the site (how long a user has remained on a web page, how many visitors the site has had, etc.). They are useful for the statistical analyses of access or visits to the site itself, and to allow the owner to improve its structure, navigation logics and contents. The information collected is used to improve the use of the site as well as to make the contents more interesting and relevant for Users. Consent to the installation of these cookies is optional, as analytical cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of the Site. The User may, at any given time, modify the preferences expressed or withdraw consent to their use by means of the appropriate preferences management menu. The list of analytical cookies used, their purposes and their durations is reported in the “Cookies table”. This Site does not use analytical cookies.
Google Analytics, like other systems, uses cookies to allow the website to analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookies about the use of the website by users (including IP addresses) is transmitted to and stored on Google servers in the United States. Google uses this information for the purpose of tracking and examining the use of the website, compiling reports regarding website activity and providing other services relating to the use of the Internet. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate user IP addresses with any other data held by Google. Consent to the installation of third-party analytical cookies is optional: the User can refuse it by means of the specific preferences management menu.
Alternatively, Users can prevent the use of their data by Google Analytics by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out add-on for their web browser, available at the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it
C. Profiling cookies
These cookies are used to track Users’ browsing on the net, analyse their behaviour for marketing purposes and create profiles on their tastes, habits, choices, etc. This type of cookie allows to offer Users advertising in line with their preferences and interests already expressed by Users during online navigation.
Consent to the installation of third-party analytical cookies is optional as profiling cookies are not strictly necessary for the operations of the Site. The User may, at any given time, modify the preferences expressed or withdraw consent to their use by means of the appropriate preferences management menu. The list of profiling cookies used, their purposes and their durations is reported in the “Cookies table”.
This Site does not use profiling cookies.
D. Social Cookie
The Site you also has social media buttons/widgets, that is “buttons” depicting social network icons (in particular, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest). These “buttons” allow the User to reach and interact directly with the pages of the Owner of each social network with a “click” while browsing the Site. By means of the click, the social network acquires data relating to Users’ visits to the Site and simultaneously releases its profiling cookies. Consent to the use of this type of cookie is optional: Users can, at any given time, lend or revoke it by accessing the specific preferences management menu (link).
1.3 – MANAGING USER COOKIE PREFERENCES
Technical cookie is used to remember user preferences regarding the use of cookies. Users may, at any given time, change their preferences expressed at the time of their first visit to the Site, by clicking on the button to manage their preferences (link). When clicking, a menu is displayed in which consent or refusal for each type of cookie can be given.
Alternatively, Users can choose to set their browser in such a way as to automatically prevent cookies, or some types of cookies, from being stored on their device.
The instructions provided by the main browsers are available at the following links:
Chrome (link)
Microsoft Edge (link)
Mozilla Firefox (link)
Internet Explorer (link)
Opera (link, please read “Manage cookies in pages” section)
Apple Safari (link)
Finally, at the end of each browsing session, Users can delete the collected cookies from the hard disk of their device.
To learn more about cookies and behavioural advertising, Users can click on the following links:
http://www.allaboutcookies.org
http://www.youronlinechoices.com
| Name of the cookie | Scope of the cookie | Cookie retention time | What happens if users delete cookie | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Used to distinguish users. | 2 years | If deleted, data is not collected | |
| _gid | Used to distinguish users. | 24 hours | If deleted, data is not collected | |
| _gat | Used to limit the frequency of requests. If Google Analytics is distributed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be called _dc_gtm_ <property-id>. | 1 minute | If deleted, data is not collected |
3 – NATURE OF DATA PROVISION
Personal data processed through the installation of first-party technical cookies are necessary to ensure correct operation and navigation of the Site. On the contrary, analytical, profiling and social cookies are not strictly necessary: Users’ personal data will be processed through the use of these cookies only with the express consent of Users.
4 – DATA RECIPIENTS
The Data may be processed by external parties operating as autonomous controllers such as, for example, authorities and supervisory and control bodies.
The Data may also be processed, on behalf of the Data Controller, by external parties designated as Processors, who are given appropriate operating instructions. These subjects are essentially included in the following categories:
a. companies that offer e-mail services;
b. companies that offer services instrumental to the pursuit of the purposes indicated in this statement (IT suppliers, company that deals with the management and maintenance of the site…).
The list of persons appointed as Data Processors is constantly updated and available on request, by sending an e-mail.
5 – SUBJECTS AUTHORISED TO PROCESS
The collected data may be processed by the employees of the corporate functions appointed to pursue the aforementioned purposes (analysis, marketing, profiling), who have been expressly authorized to process and who have received adequate operating instructions.
6 – DATA RECIPIENTS
The data collected through the use of Google cookies may be transferred outside the European Union, in particular to the United States.
7 – YOUR RIGHTS AS DATA SUBJECT – COMPLAINT TO THE CONTROL AUTHORITY
By contacting the Company via email at privacy@rhiag-group.com, you may request the Company to access your own personal data, their deletion, the correction of inaccurate data, the integration of incomplete data, the limitation of processing in cases foreseen by Art. 18 of GDPR, as well as the objection to the processing in the case of legitimate interest of the Company.
Furthermore, if the data processing is based on consent or contract and is carried out with automated tools, you are entitled to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and automatically readable format, as well as, if technically feasible, to transmit them to another controller without impediments.
You have the right to revoke consent for marketing and/or profiling purposes, as well as to object to the processing of data for marketing purposes, including profiling related to direct marketing at any given time. You have the right to prefer to be contacted for the aforementioned purpose exclusively by means of traditional methods, to express your objection only to receive communications through automated methods.
You have the right to lodge a complaint to the competent Supervisory Authority in the Member State in which you normally reside or work or the State in which the alleged violation occurred.