WEB SITE PRIVACY POLICY

THE PURPOSE OF THIS NOTICE: This page describes the means of management of this site as concerns the treatment of personal information of the users who consult it.

Information on this point is provided, also pursuant to art. 13 of Legislative Decree 196/2003 - Code on the protection of personal information, to those who interact with the Brawo Brassworking S.p.A.'s internet services, accessible from the website: http://www.brawo.it corresponding to the home page of the Brawo Brassworking S.p.A.'s official website. The informative is provided solely for the www.brawo.it site and not for any other sites which may be consulted by the user via links.

This document also considers Recommendation 2/2001 adopted, on May 17, 2008, by the European Authorities for the protection of personal information, called in the Group instituted by the art. 29 of the Directive nr. 95/46/CE, to identify the minimum requirements for the on-line collection of personal information, and, in particular the modalities, the time and the nature of the information that the owner of the personal data handling must provide to the users when they connect to web pages, independently of their purposes.

THE “OWNER” OF THE PERSONAL DATA HANDLING: Following to the consultation of this web site, personal data, relating to identified or identifiable persons, can be treated. The “owner” of their treatment is Brawo Brassworking S.p.A., located in: Via XXV Aprile, 36 – 25050 Pian Camuno (Brescia) – ITALY.

THE PLACE OF THE DATA TREATMENT: Treatments connected to web services of this site are managed only by technical personnel of the office in charge of treatment, located with Brawo Brassworking S.p.A. to the above mentioned address, or by occasional maintenance workers. No information deriving from the web service is communicated or disseminated. Personal information provided by users who request documentation (i.e. bulletins, Cd-Rom, newsletters, annual reports, replies to queries, records and provisions etc.) are used for the sole purpose of providing the service or satisfying the request and are communicated to third parties only if necessary to this end.

TYPES OF INFORMATION TREATED:

SURFING INFORMATION: IT-systems and software procedures which are responsible for the functioning of this website acquire, as part of their normal exercise and for the sole period of connection, personal information whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.
Such information is not collected to be associated to identified parties, but which for its very nature may, via processing or association with information held by third parties, permit the identification of users.
This category includes the IP addresses or domains of computers used by surfers who access the site, the Uniform Resource Identifier addresses of requested resources, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the number code indicating the state of the reply given by the server (ok, error, etc.) and the other parameters relative to the operating system and the user's IT environment.
Such information is used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistics on the use of the site and to check its correct functioning and it is immediately cancelled after processing. Such information may be used to ascertain responsibilities should hypothetical IT crimes be committed to damage the site: without prejudice to this use, the information on web contacts does not persist for over seven days.

INFORMATION VOLUNTARILY PROVIDED BY THE USER: Any facultative, explicit and voluntary e-mail sent to the addresses indicated on this site entails the subsequent acquisition of the address of the sender, necessary to respond to requests, as well as any of other personal information contained in the e-mail.
Specific summaries will be progressively provided or visualised in the site's pages prepared for particular services which may be requested.

COOKIES: No personal information of users is acquired by the site as concerns this point.
Cookies are not used for the transmission of personal information and no so-called persistent cookies of any type nor any other systems to trace users are used.
The use of so-called session cookies (which are not memorised in a persistent way on the user’s computer and dissolve when the browser is closed) is strictly limited to the transmission of session identification information (made up of random numbers generated by the server) necessary to enable the secure and efficient surfing of the site.
So-called session cookies used in this site are an alternative to the use of other IT-techniques which may prejudice the confidentiality of the surfing of users and do not permit the acquisition of the user's personal identification.

OPTIONAL DATA CONFERRING: Apart from what stated for the surfing information, the user can freely leave the personal data indicated on the application forms sent to Brawo Brassworking S.p.A. or indicated in any kind of contact with the Office, to request informative material or in any other communications. Failure to provide the data may make it impossible to fulfil the request. For completeness it is necessary to remind that only in few cases (which are not part of the ordinary management of this site) the Authority can request news and information as per art. 157 of Legislative Decree 196/2003, in order to supervise the personal data treatment. In these cases the confirmation of the data is obligatory, against administrative sanctions.

MEANS OF TREATMENT: Personal information is treated with automated instruments for the sole time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which it has been collected.
Specific security measures are complied with to prevent the loss of information, illicit or unfair uses and unauthorised accesses.

RIGHTS OF INTERESTED PARTIES: Persons whose personal information is treated have the right at any time to obtain the confirmation of existence or not of personal data and to know its content and origin, verify exactness or request integration, update or correction (art. 7 of Legislative Decree 196/2003).
Pursuant to the same article, interested parties have the right to request the cancellation, transformation in anonymous form or blockage of information treated in violation of the law, as well as to oppose, in any case, for legitimate reasons, to its treatment.
Requests must be made to the address info@brawo.it or sent to: Brawo Brassworking S.p.A., located in: Via XXV Aprile, 36 – 25050 Pian Camuno (Brescia) – ITALY.
Everything possible will be made in order to make the functionalities of this site as much as possible interconnected with the automatic privacy control mechanism available in some products used by the users. Considering that the improvement phase of the automatic control mechanisms does not make them exempt from errors and dysfunctions, please note that this document, also available on the address: www.brawo.it/en/3-privacy.php is the “Privacy Policy” of this web site and it will be subject to further updates (different versions are available at the same address).

MODIFICATIONS TO THE PRIVACY POLICY: Brawo Brassworking S.p.A. has the right to modify this document without any notice. For this reason we would suggest to check this section periodically.
Last modification June 18, 2008.