PRIVACY NOTICE
pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (GDPR)

VORTICE S.p.A. (hereinafter “Company”), with headquarter in Via Brugnoli 3, 37063 Isola della Scala (VR), is the data controller and intends to inform you that the processing of your personal data is in compliance with the current legislation on the protection of personal data, including the EU Regulation 2016/679 (the "GDPR").

Type of personal data processed
The personal data processed by the controller are the following: Name, Surname, Mail Address, Address, Phone Number, Type of user.

Legal basis, Purposes and Nature of the processing
Legal basis of the processing is based on data subject’s consent to the processing of his/her personal data for marketing purposes, as described in this privacy notice.
The personal data provided by the data subject will be processed for the purposes of direct marketing activities also through the sending of the newsletter.
The provision of the consent is optional, however your possible refusal to provide the consent may lead to the result that is not possible for the Data Controller to pursue the purpose above mentioned.

Processing methods
Personal data will be processed with information systems suitable to ensure security and confidentiality, in full compliance with Chapter II (Principles) and Chapter IV (Controller and processor) of the Regulation.
The processing can also be carried out by automated tools in order to memorize, manage or transmit personal data. The processing of your personal data is carried out by means of the operations indicated in Article 4,( 2) of the Regulation, to which it refers for any useful purpose.

Data Retention Period
Personal data collected will be processed and stored for the duration of 48 months. After that they will be erased or anonymized on permanent basis.

Access to personal data
Your personal data may be made accessible to:
employees and collaborators of the Company, duly authorized by the Data Controller, in their capacity as persons authorized to process and / or system administrators within the Company;
authorized representatives, including companies, consultants, self-employed professionals, also in associated form, and / or other collaborators, who provide services functional to the purposes, as data processors, with particular but not exclusive regard to technological, accounting, administrative, legal, fiscal and financial matters;
subjects to which is entrusted the service of maintenance and development of our computer system, for the time strictly necessary to the execution of the services.

The complete list of all the external people which the data can be accessible could be available by sending an email at privacy@vorticeindustrial.com

Data communication
Also without your explicit consent the data controller could communicate your personal data to authorities, supervisory bodies or any other subject where the data communication is mandatory by Law.
The complete list of all the external people which the data can be accessible could be available by sending an email at privacy@vorticeindustrial.com

Data transfer
Management and storage of personal data shall be in servers located in European Union, belonging to the Data Controller or to third-party companies duly appointed as Processors. Data won’t be transferred outside European Union. However, the Data Controller has the right to change the servers’ location inside the European Union and/or to Countries Extra-UE. In the latter case, the Data Controller ensures that Extra-UE data transfer shall be in full compliance with Articles 44 and following of the Regulation, and will provide appropriate safeguards by contractual clauses between the Data Controller and the recipient of the personal data in the third country.

Data Subject Rights
We inform you that at any time in relation to your data, you can exercise the rights under Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR.
In order to exercise your rights, please contact the data controller with a written, dated and signed request, sent to the company's attention, at the following address: privacy@vorticeindustrial.com; this request will be provided with appropriate feedback within 30 days.
In detail:
(a) You have the right to obtain from the Company confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information:

The purposes of the processing;
The categories of personal data concerned;
The recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
The period for which the personal data will be stored;
Where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
The existence of automated decision-making, and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic;
The appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR relating to the transfer.

(b) Moreover you have the right of the:

Access, update, rectification, integration or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
Obtain the data portability;
Withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, if applicable;
To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

In order to exercise your rights, please contact the data Controller with a written request and send it at the following address privacy@vorticeindustrial.com

The Data Controller will provide information on action taken on a request under Articles 15 to 22 to you without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. The Data controller will inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.

REGISTRATION

PRIVACY NOTICE
pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data (GDPR)

Type of personal data processed
The personal data processed by the controller are the following: Name, Surname, Address, Mail Address, phone number, Type of user.

Legal basis, Purposes and Nature of the processing
Legal basis of the processing is based on data subject’s consent to the processing of his/her personal data for purposes b) and c) and the execution of the contract for the purpose a)

The personal data provided by the data subject will be processed for the following purposes:

a.       Management and execution of the contractual relationship and related obligations;
b.       Direct marketing activities also through the sending of newsletter, SMS and MMS messages and other technological systems;
c.       Market research or other research aimed at improving the company’s products and services.

The provision of the consent is optional, however your possible refusal to provide the consent may lead to the result that is not possible for the Data Controller to pursue the purpose above mentioned.

Data Retention Period
Personal data collected will be processed and stored for the duration of the contract between you and the Company and, after its termination, for purposes related to the fulfilment of regulatory obligations in the administrative-accounting, tax, fiscal and civil matters for the purpose a).
Personal data collected will be processed and stored for the duration of 48 months for the purposes b) and c). After that they will be erased or anonymized on permanent basis.

In detail:
(a) You have the right to obtain from the Company confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information:

The purposes of the processing;
The categories of personal data concerned;
The recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
The period for which the personal data will be stored;
Where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
The existence of automated decision-making, and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic;
The appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR relating to the transfer.

(b) Moreover you have the right of the:

Access, update, rectification, integration or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
Obtain the data portability;
Withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, if applicable;
To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

In order to exercise your rights, please contact the data Controller with a written request and send it at the following address privacy@vorticeindustrial.com
The Data Controller will provide information on action taken on a request under Articles 15 to 22 to you without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. The Data controller will inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.

COOKIES

COOKIES PRIVACY NOTICE
Pursuant to Art. 13 of Regulation UE 2016/679 on the Protection of Personal Data, we inform you that information may be collected through “Technical Cookies” and “Third-party Analytical Cookies with reduced identification power” (for further information in this regard, refer to the section “Categories of Cookies” given below).

What are Cookies?
Cookies are made up of portions of code installed within the browser that help the Data Controller deliver the service, based on the purposes described.
Through Cookies, the website retains certain information that may later be retransmitted when you return to the website or navigate from one page to another. Cookies are also usually used to store anonymous information regarding the navigation of the pages (entry and exit links, time spent on the page), monitoring and analysing the performance, operation and effectiveness of the Website in order to be able to improve and optimise it.
Some of the purposes of installing Cookies could, moreover, require the consent of the user.

Data Controller
Data Controller is VORTICE S.p.A. (hereinafter “Company”), with headquarter in Via Brugnoli 3, 37063 Isola della Scala (VR).

Categories of Cookies – Data Processing Purposes
Technical cookies

These cookies aid navigation or provide a service requested by the user. They are not used for additional purposes and are usually installed directly by the Data Controller of the website.
Without using these cookies, certain operations could not be carried out or would be more complex and/or less secure, such as, for example, the activities for which cookies are indispensable to enable the identification of the user to be carried out and maintained during the session.
This type of cookie is strictly necessary for the proper operation of some sections of the Website. There are two categories:

1. persistent: once the browser is closed, they are not destroyed but remain until the preset expiry date
2. session: they are destroyed every time the browser is closed.

These cookies, always sent by our website, are necessary to properly display the website and for the technical services offered. They will therefore always be used and sent, unless the user changes the settings in their browser (thereby affecting the display of the pages of the website.

First-party analytical cookies
Cookies in this category are used to collect information on the use of the website.
These cookies, which collect information in aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the website, are used for the purpose of optimising the website directly by the website’s Data Controller.

Third-party analytical cookies with reduced identification power
Cookies in this category are used to collect information on the use of the website.
They are cookies created and made available by Third Parties merely for statistical purposes that adopt suitable tools to reduce the identification power of the analytical cookies that are used (for example, by masking significant portions of the IP address).

Third-party analytical cookies without reduced identification power
Cookies in this category are used to collect information on the use of the website.
They are cookies created and made available by Third Parties merely for statistical purposes that do NOT adopt suitable tools to reduce the identification power of the analytical cookies that are used (for example, by masking significant portions of the IP address).

First-party profiling cookies
These are cookies used by the website provider to track the user’s navigation on the internet and create profiles on their tastes, attitudes, choices etc. Through these cookies, advertising messages can be transmitted to the user's terminal in line with the preferences already displayed by the same user in their online navigation.

Third-party profiling cookies – Purpose of the Processing
These are cookies used by third parties to track the user’s navigation on the internet and create profiles on their tastes, attitudes, choices etc. With these cookies, advertising messages can be transmitted to the user's terminal in line with the preferences already displayed by the same user in their online navigation.

Cookies used by the Website
Our website does not in any way use the following Cookies:

First-party analytical cookies
Third-party analytical cookies without reduced identification power
First-party profiling cookies
Third-party profiling cookies

However, our website does use the following Cookies:

Technical cookies – the website uses technical cookies for its proper operation.
Third-party analytical cookies with reduced identification power – the Google Analytics system is used to track user navigation data for statistical purposes. A mechanism for reducing the identification power is used to preserve the user's privacy.

In order to decide whether to accept or reject the use of cookies, a description is given below of the various types of those potentially used on our website:

Name	Expiration	For first-party cookies: indication of the method of blocking the cookies For third-party cookies: link to the website of the third party for the information briefing and an indication of the method to block the cookie
*Third-party analitic cookies* with reduced identification power**
_ga _gid _gat	2 years 24 hours 1 minute	For more information, consult: the information briefing on privacy of Google Analytics at the address: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ the information briefing on the use of the cookies by Google available at the address: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ http://www.google.com/intl/it/policies/technologies/cookies To disable the cookie, click here depending on the browser used: Firefox; Safari; Chrome; Explorer; Opera
Technical Cookies
ASP.NET_SessionId	End of session	To disable the cookie, click here depending on the browser used: Firefox; Safari; Chrome; Explorer; Opera

How can I control the installation of Cookies?
In addition to what is indicated in this document, the user can manage their preferences regarding Cookies directly within their own browser and prevent - for example – third parties installing them. Through the browser’s preferences, it is also possible to eliminate Cookies installed in the past, including Cookies for which the consent to the installation of Cookies by this website may have been saved.
It is important to note that, by disabling all Cookies, the operation of this website could be compromised.
The user can find information on how to manage Cookies by viewing the information in the last column of the table above.

Data Processing Nature and Legal Basis of Processing
In order not to consent the data processing related to the use of cookies, it is necessary to disable them.
The consent of personal data through cookies is optional, but some services, should cookies be disabled, could be unusable or difficult to use.
Lawfulness of processing is based on purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller, which means the website technical operation of the Website and on consent to the processing of data subject’s personal data for purposes described in this privacy notice.

Data Processing Modalities
The Data Controller stores and processes personal data with electronic tools. Data will be stored both on digital media and on paper, organised in databases, in compliance with security measures pursuant to Chapter II (Principles) and Chapter IV (Data Controller and Data Manager) of the Regulation.

Recipients or Categories of Recipients of Personal Data
Data collected are processed by Company’s personnel under the authority of the controller according to instructions provided by the Controller pursuant to Art. 29 of Regulation.
Data could be communicated to third parties appointed as Data Processor pursuant to Art. 28 of Regulation, for purposes described in this Privacy Notice:

qualified subjects that provide the Company with supplies or services instrumental to the purposes referred to above, subjects and companies that may be called upon to manage and/or take part in the management and/or maintenance of our internet sites and the electronic and/or digital transmission tools, appropriately appointed as External Data Processor pursuant to Article 28 of the Regulation through specific appointment clauses defining data processing and data retention security measures to be implemented;
parent companies, subsidiaries and/or affiliates for accounting administration purposes;
any other subject to which the data may have to be communication on the basis of an express legal measure.

The completed list of Data Processors is available sending a request via e-mail to the address privacy@vorticeindustrial.com

Transfer of Personal Data
The management and retention of the personal data shall take place on servers, located within the European Union, of the Data Processor and/or third-party companies duly appointed as Data Managers.
The data are not currently subject to transfer outside the European Union. In any event, it remains understood that the Data Controller, should it be necessary, shall have the right to change the location of the servers within the European Union and/or to countries outside the EU.
In this case, the Data Controller guarantees henceforth that the transfer of the data outside the EU shall take place in compliance with articles 44 and subsequent of the Regulation and the applicable legal measures stipulating, where necessary, agreements that ensure an adequate level of protection.

Data Retention Period
The data concerning you shall be retained in accordance with the following criteria:

for a period of time no longer than that necessary to attain the purposes for which they are processed. Should you refuse to give consent to any cookies, your data shall be deleted;
for a period of time no longer than necessary to fulfil regulatory obligations.

The purposes of the processing;
The categories of personal data concerned;
The recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
The period for which the personal data will be stored;
Where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
The existence of automated decision-making, and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic;
The appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 of the GDPR relating to the transfer.

(b) Moreover you have the right of the:

Access, update, rectification, integration or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
Obtain the data portability;
Withdraw consent to the processing of personal data, if applicable;
To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

	CUSTOMER INFORMATION			SUPPLIER INFORMATION

Terms of Use

The website www.vorticeindustrial.com (the "Site") is administered by VORTICE S.p.A. (the "Administrator”). The Administrator is an Italian company with registered office in via Bernardino Brugnoli 3 - 37063 Isola della Scala (Verona), Tax code and VAT number 02531520233 – REA PU n. 0244599 – Company Register VR n. 37897 – Capital stock € 10.400,00 vat

The Administrator provides web-based services for collecting, storing, organising, processing and generally handling data, including data of a personal nature, within a database accessible via the Internet via the Site (the "Database").

The contents and conditions relating to the processing of personal data of visitors to the Site can be found at PRIVACY POLICY.

Some of the data collected, stored and processed on the Site concern the user's personal data and aspirations assessed on the basis of a special questionnaire.

The conditions and terms specified below apply to the content of the entire Site and, together with any page or document to which these conditions and terms may refer, constitute the terms and conditions on the basis of which the Administration allows the use of the Site.
Use of the Site is conditional on carefully reading and accepting these Terms of Use of the Site (the "Terms"). Use of the Site implies full acceptance of the Terms. If you do not intend to accept these Terms, you may not use the Site.

1. INTRODUCTION

Many sections of this Site can be accessed without the need for registration. Other sections, however, require the User to register. By frequenting any section of this Site, the User implicitly accepts and adheres to all the terms and conditions of use specified in the Terms.
The Administrator reserves the right to change the Terms and Conditions set forth below at any time, simply by updating this legal notice page. Therefore, interested parties are invited to periodically check the most updated version of these Terms. It is also emphasised that some of the terms and conditions specified below may be derogated and superseded by specific provisions in other sections of the Site.

2. LICENCE CONDITIONS

Unless otherwise stipulated in these Conditions or in other sections of the Site, all copyrights and any other intellectual or industrial property rights or any other rights of any nature in any of the contents or aspects of the Site belong to the Administrator or its licensors. These works are protected by local laws and international treaties, and the rights to them are expressly reserved. Any use of the Site content that is not expressly permitted by these Terms is prohibited. In case of violation of any of the Conditions, the Administrator reserves the right to prohibit access to the Site and to demand the immediate return or destruction of any material printed or downloaded from the Site.
The User is permitted to print or download extracts from the Site limited to strictly personal use and provided that::
- no document or graphic element of the Site is modified in any way;
- no graphic element of the Site is used separately from the reference text;
- the copyright declaration and trademark declarations, together with the mention of this licence, are attached to each copy taken from the Site.
- Any copy, whether paper or digital, of the materials downloaded or printed from the Site may not be modified in any way, and no images, photographs, video, audio, graphics or other use may be made separately from the text or credits (i.e. copyright statements) relating to them.
- The position of the Administrator, or the person(s) indicated by him/her, as the author of the material published on the Site must always be attested.
- Except as stipulated in Section 2.2, no part of the Site may be reproduced or stored on any other website or included in any information storage and retrieval system or service delivery system without the prior written consent of the Administrator.
- Any other rights or authorisations not expressly mentioned in these conditions are expressly reserved.

3. SITE ACCESS

The Administrator will use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Site is accessible at all times. However, the Administrator shall not be liable if, for any reason, the Site may be unavailable for certain periods of time.
Access to the Site may be temporarily suspended, even without prior notice, in the event of system errors, need for assistance or maintenance, or for any other reason beyond the reasonable control of the Administrator.
The user is personally responsible for the activation and maintenance of all agreements and services enabling access to the Site.

4. BEHAVIOUR AND MATERIAL OWNED BY THE USER

The Administrator will process the user's data according to the Privacy Policy. By using the Website the interested party consents to the uses described therein and guarantees that the data provided is accurate.
With the exception of data of a personal nature that will be processed in accordance with the above, any material, content, etc. transmitted or posted on the Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Therefore, the Administrator assumes no obligation with respect to such information and materials and shall be deemed to be authorised to copy, transmit, disclose, use such materials, whether for commercial or other purposes.
The User undertakes not to post or transmit in or from the Site any material:
- that is intimidating, defamatory, obscene, indecent, seditious, offensive, pornographic, abusive, liable to incite racial hatred, discriminatory or discriminating, threatening, scandalous, inciting, blasphemous, violating obligations of secrecy, damaging to privacy or likely to cause annoyance or harm in any way;
- for which the necessary licences or approvals have not been obtained;
- that represents or encourages conduct that could be considered a form of crime, that could give rise to the liability of anyone, that is in any way contrary to law, public order or morality, or that infringes the rights of third parties anywhere in the world;
- causing damage (including, without limitation, computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, defective components, corrupted data or other software with harmful content or capable of causing damage).
The User may not abuse the Site (including but not limited to hacking).
The Administrator shall actively cooperate with public authorities in charge of conducting investigations and comply with any court order requiring or ordering the Administrator to disclose the identity or identify individuals who transmit or post material that does not comply with the above..

5. WEBSITE REGISTRATIONS

Each registration on the Site is valid for one user only. Any identification code, password, username or other, are a constituent part of the security systems and procedures activated by the Administrator to protect the system and data stored on the Site. Therefore, they cannot be disclosed to anyone, not even within a specific group. The Administrator reserves the right to disable the identification code, password and/or user-name related to any user of the Site if, in the Administrator's unquestionable opinion, there has been a violation of any of these Terms.
Responsibility for the confidentiality and use of the password rests solely with the user, who bears all risks..
The User's personal data will be processed in accordance with the information presented and accepted at the time of registration.

6. LINKS TO or FROM OTHER SITES

Links to third-party websites on the Site are proposed only to facilitate the User of the Site. By using them, the User abandons the Site. The Administrator has not carried out any verification activities on the websites that are linked from the Site and does not control and is not responsible for how these websites are operated, their content and availability for use. Therefore, the Administrator does not guarantee or make any statements regarding them, or any material that may be found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If the User decides to access them by linking from the website, he does so under his own exclusive responsibility and at his own risk.
If the User wishes to create his own link to the Site, he may do so only on condition that an actual link is created to the homepage of the Site, and that the content of the Site is not replicated, and on condition that:
the dimensions or characteristics of the VORTICE S.p.A. mark and its logo are not removed, deformed or in any other way altered;
no frame is created and/or no other browser or setting is inserted around the Site;
such link does not imply, even indirectly, that the Administrator is promoting the products or services of third parties;
not attempt to represent, even surreptitiously, any form of relationship between the Administrator and the User, nor attempt to convey false, biased or distorted information about the Administrator;
thereby not attempting to use any trademark or logo reproduced on the Site without the prior express written consent of the Administrator;
such link is not implemented from a site not administered by the User;
the User's website does not contain content that is distasteful, offensive or controversial, infringes any intellectual property right or any other right of a third party, or in any other way violates any law, regulation, public order or morality.
The Administrator reserves the right at any time to revoke the User's right to create a link to the Website or to take any other measure that is deemed necessary or appropriate if even one of the terms specified in this section is violated.
The User shall indemnify the Administrator for any loss or damage suffered by the Administrator due to the breach of any of the conditions stipulated in this section.

7. IMPORTANT WARNINGS

The Administrator will ensure that the information published on the Website is correct at all times, however no guarantee is hereby given in any way regarding the accuracy and completeness of the data on the Website. The Administrator may at any time change the Website and its content, i.e. change the description of products and/or services and, if necessary, their prices, without prior notice. It is understood that the Administrator does not assume any commitment or obligation to update the material published on the Website.
Everything published on the Site is produced without any guarantee, condition or other. Likewise, with the sole exception of the mandatory legal limits, the Administrator allows the User to use the Site on the express assumption that no declaration, guarantee, condition or other limitation (including, without limitation, the implicit guarantees of good quality, suitability for the proposed use and respect for the diligence of a good family man or the qualified diligence of a professional that, except for what is excluded by the present condition, could have effect with regard to the contents of this Site) have effect.

8. RESPONSIBILITY

The liability of the Administrator, or any other party acting on its behalf (whether or not involved in creating, producing, maintaining or delivering the Site), or any other company in the Administrator's group, any of their directors, managers, employees, partners or agents, for any amount and for any kind of damage whatsoever that may be caused to the User or any third party (including but not limited to any direct, indirect, consequential, loss of profit damage to business goodwill, loss of data, contractual or non-contractual damage, revaluation, interest or otherwise, arising out of or in any way connected with the interruption of business, including due to mere omission or negligence contractual liability or non-contractual liability) in any way connected with the operation of the Site or in any way connected with the use, inability to use or the results of use of the Site, or dependent upon any other website which is linked to the Site or the material on such websites, including, without limitation, loss or damage due to the spread of viruses that may infect the User's electronic equipment (computer or otherwise), software, data or other property used in accessing, using or browsing the Site by the User or used to download materials from the Site or other sites linked to the Site.
This limitation of liability is not intended to exceed the mandatory limits of the law or for cases of wilful intent or gross negligence.

9. CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE SITE

The User assumes all burdens and responsibilities for any adaptation of his or her hardware, software or other equipment or the repair, maintenance or correction thereof that is necessary in order to use the services provided by this Site.

10. APPLICABLE LAW

These conditions are subject to Italian law.

11. WHISTLEBLOWING

VORTICE S.p.A provides a Whistleblowing system that guarantees the confidentiality of the identity of the reporting person, of the person involved and of the person in any case mentioned in the report, as well as the content of the report and the relevant documentation, in accordance with the provisions of Legislative Decree no. 24/2023 ("Whistleblowing").
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GDPR

NEWSLETTER

REGISTRATION

COOKIES

1. INTRODUCTION

2. LICENCE CONDITIONS

3. SITE ACCESS

4. BEHAVIOUR AND MATERIAL OWNED BY THE USER

5. WEBSITE REGISTRATIONS

6. LINKS TO or FROM OTHER SITES

7. IMPORTANT WARNINGS

8. RESPONSIBILITY

9. CONDITIONS FOR USE OF THE SITE

10. APPLICABLE LAW

11. WHISTLEBLOWING