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Privacy Policy

Last modified: 05-07-2023

  • Information on this policy 
    1. This policy explains when and why we collect personal information about our members and instructors, how we use it and keep it safe, and your rights in relation to it.
    2. We may collect, use and store your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy and as described when we collect your data.
    3. We reserve the right to change this Data Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. If there are significant changes, you will be notified, but we recommend that you check our website for the latest version of the Privacy Policy.
    4. When processing your personal data, we will always comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). For the purposes of the GDPR, we will be the “controller” of all personal data in our possession.
    5. Consenting to the use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website enables us to use cookies each time you visit our website.
  • Who are we? 

 ABIVET società Benefit a R.L. We can be contacted at Viale Etiopia 79 00199 Rome, info@abivet.org,

  • Collection of personal information. 

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored and used:

  1. information about your computer, including IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  2. information on your visits and use of this website, including the referral source, duration of visit, pages viewed and navigation paths on the site;
  3. information, such as your e-mail address, that you enter when registering on our website;
  4. information that the user enters when creating a profile on our website, e.g. name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, education and employment data;
  5. information, such as your name and e-mail address, that you enter to set up your subscription to our e-mails and/or newsletters;
  6. information entered by the user when using the services of our website;
  7. information generated during your use of our website, including when, how often and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. information relating to any purchase, service or transaction made through our website, including name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and credit card details;
  9. information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the Internet, including your user name, profile pictures and post content;
  10. the information contained in any communication you send to us by e-mail or through our website, including the contents and metadata of the communication;
  11. any other personal information you send us.

Before disclosing another person's personal information to us, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.

  • Use of personal information 

Personal information sent to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

  1. administer our website and our business;
  2. customising our website for you;
  3. enable the use of the services available on our website;
  4. send you products purchased via our website;
  5. provision of services purchased through our website;
  6. send statements of account, invoices and payment reminders to the user and collect payments from the user;
  7. send you non-marketing commercial communications;
  8. the sending of e-mail notifications specifically requested by you;
  9. send you our e-mail newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer need the newsletter);
  10. send you marketing communications relating to our business or that of carefully selected third parties that we believe may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technology (you may inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
  11. provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but such third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from this information);
  12. handle enquiries and complaints made by or about you in connection with our website;
  13. keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
  14. monitoring compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring of private messages sent via our website's private messaging service);

If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence granted by you. Your privacy settings can be used to restrict the publication of your information on our website and can be adjusted using the privacy controls on the website. Without your explicit consent, we will not provide your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing or that of other third parties.

  • Disclosure of personal information 

We may disclose your personal data to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (i.e. our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all of its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

We may disclose your personal data:

  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. in connection with any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction);
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset we are selling (or contemplating selling); and
  5. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of such personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, it is reasonably likely that such court or authority would order disclosure of such personal information.

Except as provided for in this policy, we will not provide your personal data to third parties.

  • International Data Transfers 
  1. The information collected may be stored, processed and transferred between the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use it in accordance with this policy.
  2. The information collected may be transferred to the following countries that do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
  3. Personal information published on our website or submitted for publication on our website may be available, via the Internet, worldwide. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
  4. The user expressly accepts the transfers of personal information described in this section 6.
  • Retention of personal information 
  1. This Section 7 outlines our data retention policies and procedures to ensure compliance with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
  2. Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes will not be kept longer than necessary for that or those purposes.
  3. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we shall retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
    1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
    2. if we consider that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings;
    3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to third parties for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction).
  • Security of personal information
  1. We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.
  2. All personal information you provide will be stored on our secure servers (protected by passwords and firewalls).
  3. All electronic financial transactions made through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
  4. You acknowledge that the transmission of information via the Internet is inherently insecure and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent via the Internet.
  5. You are responsible for the confidentiality of the password you use to access our website; we will not ask you for your password (except when accessing our website).
  • Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you understand any changes to this policy. We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.

  • Third-party websites

Our website contains hyperlinks and details of third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

  • Updating Information

Please let us know if any personal information in our possession needs to be corrected or updated.

  • Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent from a web server to a web browser and stored by the latter. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie is stored by a web browser and remains valid until the set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, expires at the end of the user's session, when the web browser is closed.

Cookies generally do not contain information that personally identifies a user, but the personal information we store about the user can be linked to the information stored and obtained by cookies. both session and persistent cookies.

  1. The names of the cookies we use on our website and the purposes for which they are used are set out below:
    1. We use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to anonymously track the user experience on our site (privacy policy)
    2. We use Facebook Pixel for retargeting and ad measurement purposes(privacy policy)
  1. Most browsers allow you to refuse the acceptance of cookies, for instance:
    1. In Internet Explorer (version 10), it is possible to block cookies using the cookie management override settings available by clicking on “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy” and then “Advanced”;
    2. in Firefox (version 24), it is possible to block all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Options”, “Privacy”, selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu and unchecking “Accept cookies from sites”; and
    3. In Chrome (version 29), it is possible to block all cookies by accessing the “Customisation and Control” menu, clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Content settings”, then selecting “Prevent sites from setting any data” under “Cookies”.

Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the functions of our website.

  1. You can delete cookies already stored on your computer, for instance:
    1. in Internet Explorer (version 10), it is necessary to delete the cookie files manually (instructions for doing so are available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 );
    2. in Firefox (version 24), cookies can be deleted by clicking “Tools”, “Options” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show cookies” and then “Remove all cookies”; and
    3. In Chrome (version 29), it is possible to delete all cookies by accessing the “Customisation and Control” menu, clicking on “Settings”, “Show advanced settings” and “Delete browsing data”, then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking on “Delete browsing data”.
  2. The elimination of cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
  • Your rights

You may ask us to provide you with any personal information in our possession; the provision of such information will be subject to the following:

  1. the payment of a tax;
  2. the provision of adequate proof of your identity (for this purpose, we usually accept a notarially certified photocopy of your passport and an original copy of a utility bill indicating your current address).
  3. to access their personal data
  4. receive information on how their personal data are processed
  5. to rectify their personal data
  6. delete one's personal data under certain circumstances
  7. object to or restrict the processing of their personal data
  8. to have your personal data transferred to yourself or another company in certain circumstances.

We may retain the personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.

You can ask us at any time not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

In practice, users usually expressly agree in advance to the use of their personal data for marketing purposes, or they are offered the opportunity to opt out of the use of their personal data for marketing purposes.

For any doubts or clarifications, you can also contact the Data Protection Authority

Piazza di Monte Citorio, 121 00186 Rome Tel. +39 06 69677 1 Fax +39 06 69677 785
e-mail: garante@garanteprivacy.it Website: http://www.garanteprivacy.it/

For more details, we invite you to address questions, comments and requests concerning our data processing practices to our manager Maurizio Albano info@abivet.org