PRIVACY INFORMATION FOR THE USERS OF THE WEBSITE

Please read carefully this privacy information (hereinafter, “Privacy Policy”) which is meant for the users of the website fertimore.it, fertimore.com, fertimore.cn, fertimore.com.cn, fertimore.ru, fertimore.com.ru (hereinafter, the “Website”), drawn up pursuant to art. 13 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation no. 679/2016 (hereinafter, also “GDPR”), in which we inform you about all the details related to the processing and the use of your personal data.

1. WHO DOES PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Data Controller
TA Italia S.p.A. with registered office at, Via Visconti di Modrone no. 18, 20122, Milan (MI), Italy, e-mail address: privacy@taitalia.it (hereinafter also, “TA Italia” or the “Data Controller”).

Other subjects to whom your data may be disclosed
Your personal data may be shared with:

  1. Persons authorized by the Data Controller to process personal data that undertake to keep the data confidential or have a legal obligation of confidentiality;
  2. Persons delegated and/or appointed by the Data Controller to perform activities aimed at pursuing purposes indicated below (including technical interventions on the systems), appositely appointed as data Processor;
  3. Persons, companies or law firm that provide legal assistance and advice the Data Controller, properly appointed as data Processor;
  4. Persons, bodies or authorities to whom the communication of your personal data is mandatory pursuant to provisions of law or regulation or orders of the competent authorities;
  5. Others Group companies.

Your personal data will not be transferred outside the European economic area.

2. WHAT TYPES OF DATA DO WE COLLECT?

Personal Data voluntarily provided by the user
The website offers the users the possibility of voluntarily providing personal information e.g. Name, Surname, City, mail address and telephone number, subscription to the newsletter and the filling of the contact form.

Third parties’ personal data
In the event you decide to provide us personal data of the third parties, please make sure that those persons have been previously and adequately informed about the methods and purposes of the processing indicated here. In this case, you will stand as an autonomous Data Controller, assuming all the obligations and responsibilities of law.

Personal data of under 16 persons
In this regard, we remind you that if you are under 16 you can not provide us with any personal data. However, we do not take any responsibility about possible false statements that you may provide. Should we notice the existence of untruthful declarations, we will proceed with the immediate cancellation of any personal data acquired.

Browsing data
We collect the following data through the services that you use:
• Technical data: this category includes IP addresses or domain names of the computer used by users connecting to the website, URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier) of the requested sources, request time, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response provided by the server (success, error, etc.) and other parameters relating to the operating system and to the IT environment of the user. These data are used only for statistic information (and are therefore anonymous), in order to check the correct functioning of the website and are deleted immediately after processing. The data may be used to determine the liability in case of hypothetical cybercrime to the detriment of the website; except for this case, the data concerning the web contacts will not persist for more than 7 days.

Cookies: Definition, characteristics and application of the legislation
Cookies are small text files that the website visited by the user sends and records on his computer or mobile device, to be then retransmitted to the same websites at the next visit. Through the cookies, a website can remember the user’s actions and preferences (such as, login data, the chosen language, font size, other display settings, etc.) so that they are not to be indicated again as the users comes back to visit such website or browses throughout its pages. Cookies are thus used in way to perform informatics authentications, to monitor sections and record information related to the activities of the users that accede to a website and may contain a unique identification code that allows the tracking the user’s browsing within the same website for statistical or advertising purposes. During the browsing in a website, the users may also receive on his computer cookies from websites or web servers other than the one that he/she is visiting (cookies of "third parties"). Some operations could not be performed without the use of cookies, which in some cases are therefore technically necessary for the functioning of the website.
There are different types of cookies, depending on their characteristics and functions, and these may remain on the computer of the user for different periods of time: session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed; persistent cookies, which remain on the user’s device until a predetermined expiration.
According to the Italian legislation, the user’s express consent is not always required for the use of cookies. In particular, "technical cookies", e.g. those used for the sole purpose of transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary to provide a service explicitly requested by the user, do not require such consent.
These cookies are essential for the functioning of the website or necessary to perform activities requested by the user.
Among technical cookies, which do not require an explicit consent for their use, the Italian Data Protection Authority (see “Simplified Arrangements to Provide Information and Obtain Consent Regarding Cookies – 8th May 2014”, hereinafter only "Ruling") also includes:
• "Cookie analytics" when used directly by the website operator to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of users and how they visit the site itself;
• Session or “browsing cookies” (to log-in);
• “Functionality cookies”, that allow the user to browse according to a series of selected criteria (e.g. the language, the products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided;

Types of cookies utilized by the website
The website uses the following cookies that can be de-selected, except for third parties cookies for which it must refer directly to the related modalities of selection and de-selection of the respective cookies, indicated by means of links:
Technical browsing or session cookies and strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website to allow you to enjoy the contents and the requested services.
Functionality cookies, used to activate specific functionalities of the website and selected criteria (e.g. the language) in order to improve the service provided.
Technical-analytics cookies, which allow us to understand how the website is used by users. With such cookies, no information about the user’s identity is collected, nor any personal data. The information is processed in aggregation and anonymously.

Settings related to cookies
You can block or erase (totally or partially) the technical and functional cookies through the specific functions of your Browser. However, we inform you that failure to authorize the technical cookies may involve the impossibility of using the website, visioning the contents and using the related services. Inhibiting the functional cookies may involve that some services or website functions may not be available or may not work correctly and you may be forced to modify or manually enter some information or preferences every time you visit the website.
The choices made with regard to the cookies of the website will be in turn recorded in a special cookie. Such cookies, however, may not work properly under some circumstances: in such cases, we advise you to delete unwanted cookies and to inhibit their use through the functionalities of your Browsers.
Your preferences, with regard to the cookies, will be reset in the event you use different devices or browsers to accede to the website.

How to visualize and modify cookies through the Browser
You can authorize, block, delete (totally or partially) cookies through the specific functions of your Browser. In order to have more information about how to set preferences on the use of cookies through the Browser, it is possible to consult the following instructions:

3. FOR WHICH PURPOSES DO WE PROCESS YOUR DATA?

The personal data that you provide through the website will be processed for the following purposes:
a) to answer the requests you make through the “Contact us” section on the subject of direct recruitment to the establishment of a working relationship or collaboration TA Italia (for further details, see the privacy information for Candidates), with the purpose to be contacted by the local agronomist, in way to receive technical, commercial and marketing information and in order to receive information relating to the company’s export;
b) transmit promotional communications: in compliance with the provisions of the Italian Data Protection Authority “Guidelines on Marketing and against Spam – 4th July 2013 [2542348]”, in the event you decide to give your consent to the reception of information related to the Data Controller promotional activities, including market researches, we inform you that such activities may be exercised, as required by current legislation, by means of paper mail, telephone contacts through operators (“traditional methods”), e-mail, texting , push notifications and use of social network (“automated methods”);
c) send you commercial communication via e-mail concerning products and services similar to those you bought, except for your refusal to receive such communications, which may be expressed at the time of purchase or on subsequent occasions (so called “soft spam”);
d) ensuring compliance with the obligations of the law, regulations, and EU legislation;
e) assessment, exercise or defense of a right before a court or whenever a judicial authority performs its duties.

With regard to the purposes under letters a) the legal basis for the processing of your personal data can be found in art. 6, par. 1(b) of the GDPR “performance of a contract or to take steps prior to entering into a contract”; such activity does not require your consent.
With regard to the purpose under letter c), the legal basis of the processing of your personal data can be found in the consent you give pursuant art. 6, par. 1 (a) of the GDPR. In the absence of such consent you may use the other services requested but it will be impossible for the Data Controller to send you promotional communications. However, we remind you that you can revoke your consent at any time, according to the modalities under paragraph 5 of this Information Policy.
With regard to the processing carried out for the purposes under letter c), the legal basis of the processing of your personal data is the legitimate interest pursuant to art. 6 par. 1 (f) of the GDPR that does not require your consent. You may object to the processing of your Personal Data for such purposes by using the link “Unsubscribe” that you find at the bottom of every communication sent by e-mail.
With regard to the purposes of letter d) the processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which the Controller is bound pursuant to art. 6, par.1(c) of the GDPR.
With regard to the purposes of letter e), the processing is based on a legitimate interest of the Data Controller pursuant to art. 6, par. 1, letter f) of the GDPR.
The provision of your personal data is optional, but failure to provide it would make it impossible for TA Italia to pursue the aforementioned purposes.

4. HOW LONG DO WE RETAIN YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

The retention of your personal data will be in paper and/or electronic form and will last for the time strictly necessary to perform the purposes under point 3.
With regard to the processing for the purposes under point 3.a), we inform you that data sent via the “Contact us” form will be retained for a period of time no longer than 3 years.
With regard to the processing for the purposes under point 3.b), we inform you that your data will be deleted following a missed access to the Reserved Area for a period of 24 months.
With regard to the processing for the purposes under point 3.c), your Data will be retained until the moment you revoke the consent.
With regard to the processing for the purposes under point 3.d), we inform you that your personal Data will be retained until the moment you object to the processing.
With regard to the processing for the purposes under point 3.e), we inform you that your personal Data will be processed for the period strictly necessary to allow the Data Controller to ascertain, exercise or defend a right in front of a Court or whenever the Courts exercise their jurisdictional functions.
With regard to the processing for the purposes under point 3.f), we inform you that your personal Data will be processed for a period strictly necessary to allow the Data Controller to comply with the legal obligation to which he/she is bound.
We remind you that, to comply with the antiterrorism provisions introduced by art. 24 of the Law 167/2017, which has transposed the EU Directive 2017/541, we will retain the personal data related to the Internet traffic, except for the content of communications, for a period no longer than 72 months as from the date of communication.
Without prejudice to the foregoing, the Data Controller reserves the right to retain its Personal Data for the period of time envisaged and permitted by Italian law to protect its own interests (Article 2947 (1) (3) of the Civil Code).

5. HOW CAN YOU PERFORM YOUR RIGHTS?

Revoke the Consent and object to the soft spam
To revoke the consent given for direct marketing purposes, you may contact the Data Controller by texting privacy@taitalia.it.
To object to the soft spam activities, just press “Unsubscribe” that you find at the bottom of all our communications.

Exercising your rights
In accordance with the provisions of the GDPR, you have the right to request the Data Controller, at any time, to access to your Personal Data, correct or delete them or oppose their processing. Furthermore, the law allows you the right of requesting the limitation of the data processing in the cases provided for by art. 18 of GDPR, and to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, in the cases provided for by art. 20 of the GDPR.

Any request can be addressed to the e-mail address privacy@taitalia.it.

Finally, we remind you that you have always right to lodge a complaint to the competent supervisory authority (Italian Data Protection Authority) pursuant to art. 77 of GDPR, if you believe that the processing of your personal data infringes the existing legislation.

6. HOW DO WE ENSURE THE PROTECTION OF YOU DATA?

Your personal data are processed by the persons listed under point 1, in accordance with the provisions of the existing legislation. In particular, in way to grant the security of your personal Data, considering the state of art and the implementation costs, as well as the nature, object , context and purposes of the processing, and even the possible and serious risks for rights and freedoms of the natural persons, we adopted technical and organizational measures, adequate to the maintaining of a security level appropriate to the risk.

7. WHEN WAS THIS PRIVACY INFORMATION UPDATED?

This Privacy Policy was published in September 2018 and could be modified over time even due to the possible coming into force of new sector legislation, the updating or provision of new services or technological innovations. In such event, the Data Controller will inform you by giving you evidence of such updates.