Privacy and Cookies

THE MEANING OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY

In the following privacy policy Guide d'arte intends to describe the working of this website, with specific regard to the modalities whereby personal data pertaining to the users who visit it are gathered, registered and used, as well as the purposes of such processing: this notice has been issued for the website https://www.guidedarte.com, only and is not meant to be applied to the other websites possibly visited by the user through the links on the pages of the aforementioned websites. Guide d'arte website is run and controlled by Guide d'arte, the “Data Controller”, whose seat is in Via del Monte, 5 Bologna, 40126 -  Italy.

This privacy policy, addressed to anyone who enjoys Guide d'arte web services, intends to satisfy the requirements provided for by art. 13 of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 – Personal Data Protection Code – and it also draws inspiration from Recommendation no. 2/2001, adopted on May 17, 2001 by the EU authorities for the personal data protection, that are all part of the Group created pursuant to art. 29 of Directive no. 95/46/EC. This Recommendation identifies some basic requirements for the on-line collection of personal data; in particular, the nature of the information, as well as the timing and modalities of their provision, to be supplied by the holder of processing to the users whenever the latter visit some web pages, no matter what the reasons of their connection are.

PLACE OF DATA PROCESSING

Communications are transferred to Guide d'arte servers in order to reply to the users’ requests.

TYPE OF DATA PROCESSED

The IT systems and the software procedures for the operation of this website, while being normally used, collect some personal data whose transmission is implicit while using the Internet communication protocols. The above information is not collected to be associated to any identified persons; yet, its same nature could make it possible to identify users, by means of special processing and associations with other data. The IP addresses or the domain names through which the users connect to the website, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) addresses of the resources requested, the time of request, the procedures used to submit the request to server, the file size of the reply, the numeric code indicating the status of the server's reply (successfully delivered, error and so on) and other parameters relating to the user's operating system or IT environment, fall within this category of data.

Data voluntarily provided by the user

The optional, explicit and voluntarily sending of electronic mail messages to the addresses indicated on the website implies the following collection of the senders address, necessarily to reply to possible requests, as well as of the other personal data, if any included in the message.

Purposes of data processing and communication

Navigation data is merely used to obtain anonymous statistical information on the website and to verify its proper operation, thus it will be deleted immediately after processing.  The data may be used to ascertain any liability in case of possible IT related offenses to the prejudice of the website: except this circumstance, the data relating to web contacts will not be held for more than seven days.

Processing connected to web services provided by this website are run by Guide d'arte operators, who were appointed as “People in charge of processing” as well as by external subjects in their quality as “Data Processors” or as “Data Controllers” with regard to the specific activities carried out by them. The distinct role the Firm’s partners take in relation to the data processing given to them is strictly connected to the specific activity performed.

Personal data can be transferred abroad, as far as the above mentioned purposes are concerned, to other

Guide d'arte seats or to professional partners. In that case, the user will have the opportunity to express his/her preference in relation to such transfer of his/her data.

COOKIES

What are CookiesCookies are data files that our website sends to your browser. Your browser stores them on your computer or device and sends them back to guidedarte.com while browsing.

Why we use cookies
We use cookies to determine and store the language of those who browses on guidedarte.com and to record the login to private pages on guidedarte.com. Without cookies the site would be monolingual, and it would be impossible to view private areas. We use also third party cookies ( Google Analytics) to check how a user navigates on the guidedarte.com site in order to constantly improve the service offered.

How do you delete Cookies
Cookies do not  store personal information, you can always delete them. The most common web browsers enable you to delete them by typing a user command or automatically when closing the browser. You can also configure your web browser to block the creation of cookies, but in such  case it is not possible to ensure the proper functioning of the service offered. Each browser is different, so you should check the browser help procedures to change cookie preferences.

LIST OF COOKIES USED BY GUIDEDARTE.COM
COOKIE NAME: __ga
PURPOSE: Used by Google Analytics tool to collect data for statistical purposes. This cookie determines the visitor session.
DEADLINE: In Session
ORIGIN: Third Part

COOKIE NAME: __gat
PURPOSE: Used by Google Analytics tool to identify visitors univocally
DEADLINE: 2 years after setting / update
ORIGIN: Third Part

COOKIE NAME: PHPSESSION
PURPOSE: Used by guidedarte.com to determine the language and the identity of the visitor within the domain guidedarte.com
DEADLINE: In session (on closing your browser)
ORIGIN: guidedarte.com

VOLUNTARY PROVISION OF DATA

Except as specified for navigation data, the user is free to provide his/her personal data by email to urge information, to submit an application to Guide d'Arte by sending his/her CV or to Guide d'Arte initiatives.  However, any refusal by the user to provide the above data may impair, in such situations, the obtainment, by the user themselves, of the information requested.

PROCESSING METHODS

Personal data is processed with IT tools exclusively for specific security measures have been adopted to prevent any loss of data, any unlawful or incorrect use of the same and unauthorised access. No data deriving from the web service shall be disseminated.

RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECTS

The data subjects are entitled at any time to have confirmation of the existence of such data and to be acquainted with its contents, to verify its source and accuracy and to require its integration, updating or correction (art. 7 of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003). In compliance with the above mentioned article, any subject is entitled to request that his/her data processed in infringement of the law are deleted, turned into anonymous or blocked, as well as to object anyway, for lawful reasons, to its processing.

Requests can be sent to the e-mail address: info@guidedarte.com