Cookie Policy

Extensive information on the use of cookies. Effective from 11/09/2025

INTRODUCTION

This cookie policy is provided for the site https://ectconsulting.eu/ (Site). This document has been drafted taking into account the provisions of European Regulation 679/2016 on the protection of personal data (GDPR), the Privacy Code (Legislative Decree 30 June 2003 No. 196) and the Guidelines of the Privacy Guarantor (especially the Guidelines on the use of cookies issued on 10 July 2021).

Data Controller: Simone D’Antoni
– Via di Pratale 28 – 56127 Pisa
– Tel: +39 391 482 1572
– Email: info@ectoconsulting.it

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GENERAL INFORMATION

What are cookies and what are they for?

A cookie is a text file that a website visited by the user sends to his terminal (computer, mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet), where it is stored and then retransmitted to that site on the occasion of a subsequent visit to the site itself.

Cookies are distinguished from each other:

• based on the subject who installs them, depending on whether it is the operator of the visited site (so-called “first-party cookie”) or a different subject (so-called “third-party cookie”);

• based on the purpose of each cookie: some cookies allow better navigation, storing some user choices, for example the language (so-called “technical cookies”), other cookies allow monitoring user navigation also for the purpose of sending advertising and/or offering services in line with his preferences (so-called “profiling cookies”).

Only profiling cookies require the user’s prior consent to their use.

The Data Controller is solely responsible for the first-party cookies installed by the same on the Site.

In the “First-party technical cookies” section you can view the types of first-party technical cookies released by the Site.

The management of profiling cookies is described in the “Third-party profiling cookies” section.

In any case, you can also enable/disable cookies through your browser options:

Internet Explorer

Access the Tools menu, then Internet Options.

Click on Privacy, then on Advanced.

In the Cookies window, select your preferences.

Google Chrome

Click on the Chrome menu, corresponding to the button at the top right.

Select Settings, then click on Advanced.

In the Privacy and security section, click on the Content settings button.

Select your preferred options in the Cookies section.

Firefox

Click on Tools, then on the Options menu.

Click on the Privacy & Security settings.

Select Use custom settings for history.

Select your preferred options in the Accept cookies and site data section.

Safari

Click on Safari, then on Preferences.

Click on the Privacy section.

Go to Block cookies and select your preferred options.

First-party technical cookies

These cookies are necessary for the functioning of the Site and cannot be deactivated. They are usually defined as a response to actions taken that constitute a request for services, such as setting cookie preferences, logging in or filling out forms, browsing preferences.

• The Site releases navigation or session cookies that guarantee normal navigation and normal use of the Site.

• Technical cookies are also used that allow you to browse the Site while maintaining the choices made.

• The Site also uses cookies that maintain the choice regarding the method of displaying the Products on the Site.

• The Site also releases cookies that document your consent to the release of profiling cookies and related preferences. These cookies recognize you on the second access to the Site so as not to require again consent to the installation of profiling cookies.

• The Site Owner also uses “anonymized” Google Analytics. This means that the cookies released by Google Analytics only allow analysis of statistical data, without the possibility of identifying the individual user.

• The Data Controller also uses cookies that track the Products viewed by the user during the session on the Site.

Third-party profiling cookies

In the cookie banner that appears on the first access to the Site, you can examine the profiling cookies released by the Site and express your preferences.

List of cookies present on the site

Your rights

Pursuant to art. 13 of the GDPR, the Data Controller informs you that you have the right to:

• ask the Data Controller for access to your personal data and the rectification or cancellation of the same or the limitation of the processing that concerns you or to oppose their processing, in addition to the right to data portability

• revoke consent at any time without prejudice to the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given before the revocation

• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (e.g.: the Guarantor for the protection of personal data).

The aforementioned rights may be exercised with a request addressed without formalities to the contacts indicated in the Introduction.

Communication of data

• The Data Controller communicates/shares the data to the web agency that manages the Site.

• The Data Controller communicates the data to the company in charge of managing advertising campaigns.

• The Data Controller communicates/shares the data to the company in charge of managing advertising campaigns and/or to the web agency that manages the Site.

Retention of information

• The user’s behavioral data is kept for up to 1 year from when it was obtained from the related profiling cookie. In any case, the data is deleted earlier if there is a revocation of consent by the user.

• The data coming from technical cookies are kept for the time necessary to allow the service to which the individual technical cookie refers.

• If the Site uses profiling cookies, the user’s behavioral data is kept until the user’s consent is revoked.