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The purpose of this cookie policy is to ensure compliance with the Personal Data Protection Code and the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in relation to the use of cookies by BRUNEAU ITALIA on its Bruneau site, by providing you with comprehensive information on this matter.

1. WHAT IS THE COOKIE POLICY AND WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE

While browsing on BRUNEAU ITALIA's websites and other digital platforms, cookies may be installed on your devices (computer, tablet or smartphone), which may also be sent to your device via email or sent when installing software or an App for mobile devices.

Cookies may be sent by BRUNEAU ITALIA itself, as the publisher of the mentioned platforms, or by third parties, which may act as our suppliers or on our behalf.

This Policy sets out the essential elements of how we use cookies and their purpose, and informs you of your rights in relation to them.

As the use of cookies may involve the processing of personal data, this policy contains the elements required by Article 12 of the GDPR in relation to the transparency and information obligations required by the legislation.

The policy applies in relation to our site. The version published at any given time shall prevail over the previous versions.

This policy does not replace the privacy policy that BRUNEAU ITALIA uses for its customers and contacts, which can be consulted at the following link Privacy Policy

2. WHAT ARE COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are deposited, stored and/or read by the user's browser on the user's device's hard disk when a user visits a website, installs an application or uses software or an application for mobile devices.

This description is valid regardless of the device used, whether it is a desktop or laptop computer, tablet or smartphones. In addition, the concept of cookies and its regulation applies regardless of whether the device collects personal data, which, in practice, is normally the case.

On a technical and functional level, we distinguish between four categories of cookies

- technical cookies, which respond to your activity on the site and are necessary for the use of a service or to access a content;
- identification and 'tracking' cookies, which allow us to recognise you when you access the site and to get to know you better;
- analysis and performance cookies, which allow us to measure various things, such as the number of visitors or pages visited;
- advertising and targeting cookies, which record data that allow us to show advertising content targeted at particular users.
From a technical point of view, then, there is a huge variety of cookies, such as http cookies, flash cookies, finger printing, invisible pixels or web bugs. Obviously, this list is not exhaustive.

3. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF COOKIES

Cookies that are stored or read on your device are used for the following three functions and purposes. Here are some examples of their use:
Purpose 1 - The correct functioning of the service
- Study of technical statistics to monitor the correct functioning of the service;
- Identification of error messages to resolve possible technical problems;
- Requiring the user to authenticate again after a certain interval of time, to guarantee the security of the account.

Purpose 2 - Improvement of the customer experience
- Pre-loading of certain functionalities at each visit to improve the quality and speed of the user experience; - Optimisation of the ergonomic characteristics of the digital environment involved or of the various proposed purposes; - Setting up for the use of the digital environment based on the user's preferences, to make its browsing environment available, for example by remembering the language used; - Research on the statistics provided by the various cookies to continuously improve and adapt the service with respect to each user and thus guarantee a better experience. Purpose 3 - Economic functions
- Sending personalised advertisements, based on the searches carried out by the user;
- Checking and statistical analysis relating to the advertisements proposed;
- Studying the activities derived from the digital environment: number of daily connections, profiles connected, periods of greatest use, etc.

4. WHO IS THE DATA CONTROLLER

BRUNEAU ITALIA stores and reads cookies on your device. Insofar as this involves the processing of personal data, BRUNEAU ITALIA acts as the Controller, as defined by the regulations in force. Third-party cookies, i.e. cookies proposed by parties other than BRUNEAU ITALIA, may also be deposited during your use of our digital environment or when you click on ads that appear on it.

5. WHAT INFORMATION IS COLLECTED

The nature of cookies does not change when they collect information that can be qualified as personal data; in any case, in practice, this is what normally happens.

The cookies that may be read or deposited by BRUNEAU ITALIA or a third party on your device may involve the collection of the following personal data:

- Identification data (IP address);
- Login data (logs);
- Browsing data;
- Language used (if not the native language);
- Identity and identification (first name, last name, date of birth, user ID, session ID);
- Contact details (e-mail, postal address, telephone number, particularly when used to establish a user profile or to ensure that the user does not re-use this data on another site);
- Location data (only in certain cases)

6. HOW LONG THE INFORMATION WILL BE RETAINED

The retention period will be no longer than 13 months from the moment the cookies are deposited in the device. Accordingly,BRUNEAU ITALIA undertakes the following:
- Cookies deposited by BRUNEAU ITALIA: BRUNEAU ITALIA undertakes to delete or anonymise the personal data at the end of the retention period
- For cookies deposited by third parties, BRUNEAU ITALIA undertakes to verify that they respect this retention period, as only these third parties have control over them

7. WHO WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE DATA

Access to the data collected by BRUNEAU ITALIA through cookies is limited to the following categories of subjects:

8. WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS

Cookies have the particularity of being subject to two types of regulations: those specific to cookies and those that apply to the processing of personal data. Your rights apply at both levels.

9. WHAT ARE THE LEGAL BASES FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA

The use of cookies is based on the following legal bases:

10. HOW COOKIES CAN BE CONFIGURED

If you wish to check whether and to which cookies you have given your consent in relation to our site, or if you wish to accept or deny consent to other cookies, you can do so with our cookie manager:
by clicking here

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11. SAFETY

BRUNEAU ITALIA has taken all technical and organisational measures to prevent the unauthorised destruction, loss, alteration or dissemination of data processed through cookies in our digital environment. In the event of security incidents, BRUNEAU ITALIA is obliged to submit a notification to the Data Protection Supervisor as prescribed by the GDPR. In case of incidents that present a serious risk for the data subject, BRUNEAU ITALIA will notify all data subjects and provide them with the necessary information and/or recommendations. In case of use of third party cookies, BRUNEAU ITALIA undertakes to ensure that the parties depositing the cookies fulfil their security obligations through appropriate contractual precautions and, if necessary, through specific controls.

12. CHANGES TO THE POLICY

This policy may be modified at any time in the event of changes in the law, jurisprudence or in the measures or recommendations of the Guarantor for the protection of personal data. The new version of this policy will be made available to users by replacing the old policy with the new one.

13. QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions about this policy, you can write to us at gdpr@bruneau.it. For more specific information on data protection, you can visit the site of the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali accessible at the URL www.garanteprivacy.it.