Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy is aimed at describing the management of the personal data collected by Union spa. (“Company”) through this website, in compliance with the applicable law.
PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
Personal data that may be collected are the following:
i. personal data provided to receive a specific service (e.g. name and contact details);
ii. browsing data (e.g. IP address, location – country -, information on pages visited by the user within the website, access time on the website, navigation time on each page, clickstream analysis. While the Company does not collect this information in order to link it to specific users, it is still possible to identify those users either directly via that information or by using other information collected);
iii. cookies (i.e. small text files that may be sent to and registered on the user computer by the visited websites, to then be re-sent to those same sites when the user visit them again. Please refer to the website Cookie Policy for details).
PURPOSE AND PROCEDURE FOR THE PROCESSING
The personal data collected (“Data”) may be processed for the following purposes:
a) giving execution to a specific user request or provide the requested service (“Service”);
b) allowing the Company to perform surveys on customers satisfaction (“Customer Satisfaction”) related to the quality of Company goods and services according to the Company legitimate interest;
c) subject to your express consent, sending commercial communications as well as sending advertising on Company products and services, or performing market researches (“Marketing”);
d) subject to your express consent, analyzing your behaviors, habits and propensity to consume to enhance products and services provided by the Company as well as satisfy your expectations (“Profiling”);
e) subject to your express consent, communicating Data to Company subsidiaries and affiliates, as well as their partners in the automotive, financial, insurance and telecommunication sectors, that will process them to send commercial communications as well as advertising on their products and services, or perform market researches (“Marketing third Party”);
f) improving the user experience on the Company websites.
The Data may be processed in hardcopy, by automated or electronic means including via mail or e-mail, phone (e.g. automated phone calls, SMS, MMS), fax and any other mean (e.g. web sites, mobile apps).
RECIPIENTS OF THE DATA
The Data may be processed by natural persons and/or legal entities, acting on behalf of the Company and under specific contractual obligations, based in EU Member States or in countries outside the EU.
The Data may be communicated to third parties to comply with legal obligations, to execute Public Authorities orders or to exercise a Company right before judicial authorities.
DATA TRANSFER OUTSIDE OF THE EEA
Within its contractual relations the Company may transfer the Data in countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), including store them in databases managed by entities acting on behalf of the Company. Databases management and Data processing are bound to the purposes of the processing and are carried out according to applicable data protection law.
In case the Data are transferred outside of the EEA the Company will use any appropriate contractual measures to guarantee an adequate protection of the Data including – among the others – agreements based on the standard contractual clauses adopted by the EU Commission to rule the transfer of personal data outside of the EEA.
LINK TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Third party websites accessible from this website are under the third party responsibility.
The Company declines all responsibility concerning requests and/or provision of personal data to third party websites.
CONTROLLER AND DATA PROTECTION OFFICER TEAM
The Controller is Union S.p.A., You can contact the Data Protection Officer team at the email address info@uniondcm.com
DATA RETENTION
The Data processed to provide the Service and the Customer Satisfaction will be kept by the Company for the period deemed strictly necessary to fulfil such purposes. However, the Company may continue to store these Data for a longer period, as may be necessary to protect Company’s interests related to potential liability related to the provision of the Service.
Data processed for Marketing and Profiling purposes will be kept by the Company from the moment you give consent until the moment you withdraw the consent. Once consent is withdrawn, Data will no longer be used for these purposes, although they may still be kept by the Company, in particular as may be necessary to protect Company’s interests related to potential liability related to this processing unless further clarification are provided by the competent Supervisory Authority in this regard.
The Data processing to improve the user experience on websites will be kept for the periods indicated in the Company Cookie Policy.
DATA SUBJECTS’ RIGHTS
Data subjects can exercise the following rights:
1. right to access means the right to obtain from the Company whether your Data are being processed and, where applicable, have access to them;
2. right to rectification and right to erasure means the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate and/or incomplete Data, as well as the erasure of Data when the request is legitimate;
3. right to restriction of processing means the right to request suspension of the processing when the request is legitimate;
4. right to data portability means the right to obtain Data in a structured format, ordinary used and readable, as well as the right to transfer Data to other controllers;
5. right to object means the right to object to the processing of Data when the request is legitimate, including when the Data are processed for marketing or profiling, if applicable;
6. right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in case of unlawful processing of Data.
Data subject can exercise the abovementioned rights by writing to Union S.p.A., or to the email address info@uniondcm.com
AMENDMENTS
This Privacy Policy entered into force on 04.24.2018.
The Company reserves the right to partly or fully amend the Privacy Policy, or simply to update its content (e.g. as a result of changes in applicable law). The Company will publish any update on this website.
COOKIE POLICY
Definitions, characteristics and application of the rule
Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device and be trasmitted again to you when you visit the site a second time. By means of cookies, the site records user’s actions and preferences (such as, for example, the language chosen, the character dimensions, other settings concerning the layout of the site, etc.) so as to avoid that the user has to enter them when returning to the site at a later date or when the user visits a different page of the same site. Cookies are therefore used for user log in, to monitor browsing sessions, store information relating to the users who access the Site and may contain a unique identification code that allows to track the user’s navigation within the Site for statistics and advertising purposes.
Users may download cookies on their devices owned by sites and web servers different from the Site that they are actually visiting (“third-party cookies”). Some cookies are necessary for the technical functioning of the Site; if you do not accept the latter cookies some functionalities and features of the Site may not be accessible.
Different types of cookies exist, depending on their features and functions, and they might be stored on the users’ devices for different timeframes: session cookies are cancelled at the end of each browsing session while persistent cookies may last up to a certain date that has been pre-set by their owner.
On the basis of the law applicable to cookies, user’s consent to the latter is not always mandatory. The user’s consent is not necessary for “technical cookies”, such as cookies are used exclusively with a view of carrying out the transmission of a communication on an electronic communications network, or insofar as it is strictly necessary to the provider of an information society service that has been explicitly requested by the contracting party or user to provide the said service. The latter cookies are indispensable for the proper functioning of the Site and to execute activities specifically requested by the users.
Amongst the technical cookies, that do not require an explicit prior consent by the users to be deployed, see the following:
“cookie analytics” insofar as they are used directly by the website manager to collect aggregate information on the number of visitors and the pattern of visits to the website,
“browsing or session cookies” (to log-in to the website),
“functional cookies”, which allow users to navigate as a function of certain pre-determined criteria such as language or products to be purchased so as to improve the quality of service.
For “profiling cookies”, namely those aimed at creating user profiles and used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences shown by the user during navigation, the user’s prior consent is necessary.
Types of cookies used by the Site and the possibility to de-activate them
The Site deploys the following cookies, while always offering the possibility to de-activate them, except for third-party cookies that can be de-activated by the users directly on the owners’ websites using the links provided below:
Information are processed in an aggregated and anonymous fashion. The data controller may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. This aggregate information may be shared with third parties to assist them in targeting advertisements to appropriate audiences;
Technical functional cookies, which allow users to navigate as a function of certain pre-determined criteria such as language or products to be purchased so as to improve the quality of service.
BEWARE: if you disable technical/functional cookies the Site might not work properly and some services or some of the Site’s functionalities may not be available or work properly; you could be required to modify or manually fill in some information or preferences each time you visit the Site.
Third Party Cookies, namely cookies owned by sites and web servers different from the Site that the user is actually visiting, including profiling cookies. The latter third parties are listed below with the links to their respective privacy policies; they are autonomous data controllers of the data collected through the cookies they serve; you shall refer to their privacy policies and consent forms (activation and de-activation of their respective cookies – as specified in Simplified Arrangements to Provide Information and Obtain Consent Regarding Cookies – 8 may 2014), listed hereby below:
http://www.google.it/intl/en-GB/policies/privacy/
http://www.sharethis.com/legal/privacy/
How to display and modify the cookie settings via your browser
Users may select the cookies they want to enable, disable or cancel cookies (wholly or partially), by means of the tools offered by the browser used: however, please notice that if you disable technical/functional cookies the Site might not work properly and some services or some of the Site’s functionalities may not be available or work smoothly, and you could be required to modify or manually fill in some information or preferences each time you visit the Site.
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