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INFORMATION ON OUR USE OF COOKIES

Play Around (hereinafter the “Company”) points out the following pursuant to art. 13, in light of paragraph 30 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter “GDPR”) on natural persons’ data protection with regard to the processing of their personal data, with a view to explaining the purposes and the modalities of the processing of the personal data that might be shared while visiting this website (hereinafter the “Site”).

It is specified that this information uniquely refers to the Site and not to the websites run by third parties, which Users may reach by means of links contained in it.

CATEGORIES OF DATA PROCESSED

Navigation data

The information systems and the software procedures relied upon to operate the Site acquire, as part of their standard functioning, some personal data whose forwarding is implied in the use of Internet communication protocols. This information is not collected with a view to being associated to identified interested users; however, due to their nature, it may allow identifying users through elaborations and associations with data held by third parties. This category of data include, for instance, IP addresses or names indicating the domains of the computers utilised by users that connect to the Site, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of the requested resources, the time of the request, the method used while making the request to the server, the dimension of the file obtained in reply, the number code indicating the status of the reply offered by the server (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters regarding users’ operation system and IT environment. These data are used for the sole purpose of retrieving anonymous statistical information on the use of the Site and in order to monitor its correct functioning, and will be immediately deleted after processing.

Data provided voluntarily by Users

The discretionary, explicit and voluntary transmission of email to the addresses indicated in the Site will result in the following acquisition of the sender’s address, which is necessary to reply to requests, as well as potential additional personal information that may have been included in the email. Furthermore, specific summaries will be provided or visualised in the Site’s pages prepared for particular services that may be requested and, if necessary, shall be subject to the interested party’s consent.

Cookies

In accordance with applicable regulations, the Company informs users about the use of navigation cookie in this Site. It is noted that this information uniquely refers to the Site and not to the websites run by third parties, which Users may reach by means of links contained in it.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to the browser in use and stored on the device in use when visiting an Internet website. Cookies enable the Site to function efficiently and enhance its performances, provide information to the Site’s owner for statistical or advertising purposes, mainly to customise the navigation experience, keeping track of users’ preferences. The Site uses different types of first-party cookies, set up and run by the Company, and of third-party cookies, set up and run by third parties in accordance with their privacy policy and not controlled by the Company.  Details are in the table below:

TYPE OF COOKIE FUNCTION

Technical (session or navigation) cookies. They guarantee normal navigation and use of the website, and are therefore aimed at optimising and making the navigation within the site functional.

Functionality cookies. They are strictly necessary to provide services that users explicitly request.

First-party analytics cookies. They are used and created exclusively by the Company to collect information, in an aggregated and anonymous form, on the number of users and on how they utilise the site.

Third-party analytics cookies (ex. Google Analytics). The Company has adopted appropriate tools for these cookies to collect information for mere statistical aims.

Enabling and disabling cookies from your Browser

Most browsers are configured to accept, control or possibly disable cookies through settings. However, we remind you that disabling navigation or functionality cookies may result in an unsatisfactory functioning of the site and/or in limiting the service we offer.

Please, find below the actions to take to manage cookies from the following browsers:

Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox
  2. Press “Alt” on the keyboard
  3. Click “Tools” and then “Options” on the toolbar in the upper section of the browser
  4. Select the “Privacy” tab
  5. Go to “History Settings:” and then on “Use custom settings”. Disable “Accept cookies from sites” and save preferences.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Click on “Tools” and then on “Internet Options”
  3. Select the “Privacy” tab and move the slider onto the desired level of privacy (upwards to block all cookies or downwards to enable all of them)
  4. Click on OK

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Click on the “Tool” icon
  3. Select “Settings” and then “Advanced settings”
  4. Select “Content settings” under “Privacy”
  5. You can disable cookies and save preferences in the “Cookie” tab

Safari:

  1. Open Safari
  2. Click on “Preferences” on the toolbar and then select the “Security” panel in the following dialogue box
  3. In the section “Accept cookies”, you can specify if and when Safari must save the cookies from websites. For further information, click on the Help tag (marked with a question mark)
  4. For further information on the cookies that are stored on your computer, click on “Show cookies”.

 

LEGAL BASIS AND PURPOSE OF THE PROCESSING, NATURE OF DATA TRANSFER AND CONSEQUENCES IN CASE OF REFUSAL

The Company will process users’ data in order to assist browsing and to provide the services that may be requested through forms that are made available specifically in the Site. With the exception of what has been specified in relation to navigation data and technical cookies, within the Site sections set up for particular services upon request, users will be free to provide their personal data for the purposes described in the respective informative reports, but failure to provide them may result in the impossibility to obtain the service requested.

DATA RETENTION PERIOD

The personal data collected through the use of the Site are processed for the period that is strictly necessary to attain the purposes for which they have been collected, as well as, at the end of it, for the period possibly laid down by the regulations in force.

For more details, please refer to the informative reports set up for particular services.

AREAS OF COMMUNICATION OF DATA AND CATEGORIES OF RECIPIENTS

Exclusively for the purposes specified above, all the data collected and processed can be transferred to external subjects that are authorised to process them by reason of their duties, as well as to external subjects to whom it might be necessary to transfer them. Such recipients, where they should process data on behalf of the Company, will be designated as subjects in charge of processing with a specific contract or other legal act.

For more details, please refer to the informative reports set up for particular services.

DATA TRASFER TOWARDS THIRD COUNTRIES AND/OR AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION

Personal data shall not be transferred to non-European Third Countries.

DATA CONTROLLER

The data controller is Play Around which can be contacted at the following e-mail address: info@Play.Around.com