Privacy & Cookies

Welcome to the privacy page. With the entry into force of the GDPR now every user will have an interest in reading it or at least consulting it.

With reference to the provisions of Legislative Decree No. 196 of June 30, 2003, containing provisions for the protection of privacy in the processing of personal data, we wish to inform you that:

  • the personal data you provide, or otherwise acquired within the scope of our activity, may be processed using the Information System with or without the aid of electronic means in compliance with the aforementioned legislation for the institutional purposes of our company and in particular for:
    – execute a service or one or more contractually agreed operations
    – the execution of obligations under laws or regulations
    – the protection of our rights in court
  • the conferment of your data to our company is strictly functional to the execution of the contractual relationship
  •  in relation to the processing of data on our part you have the right to exercise the rights of Legislative Decree no. 196/03 reported below
  •  the data controller is HPF Srl. These will be kept in via A. Marcuzzi 2/5, 33034 Fagagna, Udine – Italy
  •  the data will be kept for the time prescribed by the law
  • the processing of data provided or otherwise acquired within the scope of our activity may also be carried out by persons who are granted the right to access your personal data by law or secondary and / or community regulations
  1. Lgs. N. 196 of 30 June 2003, EU Regulation 2016/679 GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rights of the interested party:

1. In relation to the processing of personal data, the interested party has the right:
a) to know, through free access to the register referred to in article 31, paragraph 1, letter a), the existence of data processing that may concern him;
b) to be informed of what is indicated in article 7, paragraph 4, letters a), b) and h);
c) to obtain, by the owner or manager, without delay: 1. confirmation of the existence or not of personal data concerning him; even if not yet registered, and communication in intelligible form of the same data and their origin, as well as the logic and purposes on which the treatment is based; the request can be renewed, save the existence of justified reasons, with an interval of no less than ninety days;
2. the cancellation, transformation into anonymous form or blocking of data processed unlawfully, including data whose retention is unnecessary for the purposes for which the data were collected or subsequently processed;
3. updating, rectification or, if interested, integration of data;
4. the test that the operations referred to in numbers 2) and 3) have been brought to the attention, also with regard to their content, of those to whom the data have been communicated or disseminated, except in the case where this fulfillment is prove impossible or involve a use of means manifestly disproportionate to the right of the protected person; d) to object, in whole or in part, for legitimate reasons, to the processing of personal data concerning him / her, even though they are relevant to the purpose of the collection; e) to object, in whole or in part, to the processing of personal data concerning him / her intended for the purposes of commercial information or the sending of advertising or direct sales material or for carrying out market research or interactive commercial communication and be informed by the owner, no later than when the data are communicated or disseminated, of the possibility of exercising this right for free.

For each request referred to in paragraph 1, letter c), number 1), the interested party can be asked, if the existence of data concerning him is not confirmed, an expense contribution, not higher than the costs actually incurred, according to the methods and within the limits established by the regulation referred to in Article 33, paragraph 3

The rights referred to in paragraph 1) referred to personal data concerning deceased persons may be exercised by anyone interested in it

In exercising the rights referred to in paragraph 1) the interested party may confer, in writing, delegation or power of attorney to individuals or associations

The rules on the professional secrecy of the journalist profession remain firm, limited to the source of the news.

Method of treatment

The Data Controller processes the Personal Data of Users by adopting appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification or destruction of Personal Data.

Processing is carried out using IT and / or telematic tools, with organizational methods and with logic strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may have access to the Data subjects of the persons involved in the organization of the site (administrative, commercial, marketing, legal, system administrators) or external subjects (as suppliers of third party technical services, postal couriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communication agencies) also appointed, if necessary, Data Processors by the Data Controller.

Purpose of the treatment

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, Advertising, Hosting and backend infrastructure, Interaction with external social networks and platforms and Displaying content from external platforms.

The types of Personal Data used for each purpose are indicated in the specific sections of this document.

In particular, the Navigation Data are exclusively processed:

  • for the operational management of navigation;
  • for the processing of statistical data on accesses and consultation;
  • for the management of data security.

As for the Personal Data voluntarily given by the User, they are processed for the following purposes, in addition to those indicated below:

  • for the processing of anonymous and aggregate usage statistics;
  • protection or defense of rights in court;
  • fulfillment of obligations under current laws or regulations, including accounting and tax matters;
  • satisfaction of the specific purposes for which such Data have been provided by the User (e.g. provision of a service, reply to specific queries sent by means of contact form, requests for assistance, etc.);
  • management of the User’s registration and / or access to any reserved areas available on the site;
  • sending newsletters to the User, subject to the latter’s consent;
  • User’s participation in initiatives, in compliance with the rules governing these activities or any regulations published on the site.

In order to pursue the treatment purposes described above, HPF Srl avails itself of the following services, listed for processing purposes.

Hosting and backend infrastructure

This type of service has the function of hosting data and files that allow brandsoda.it to work, allow distribution and make available an infrastructure ready to use to provide specific features of hpfgroup.it.

  • Some of these services work through geographically dispersed servers in different locations, making it difficult to determine the exact location where Personal Data is stored.

Interaction with social networks and external platforms
This type of service allows interaction with social networks, or with other external platforms, directly from the hpfgroup.it pages.
The interactions and information acquired by hpfgroup.it are in any case subject to the User’s privacy settings related to each social network.

If an interaction service with social networks is installed, it is possible that, even if the Users do not use the service, the same collect traffic data relating to the pages in which it is installed.

+1 button and Google+ social widgets (Google Inc.)
The +1 button and Google+ social widgets are services for interacting with the Google+ social network, provided by Google Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Like button and Facebook social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
The “Like” button and Facebook social widgets are services of interaction with the social network Facebook, provided by Facebook, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Tweet button and Twitter social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
The Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are services of interaction with the Twitter social network, provided by Twitter, Inc.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Advertising

This type of services allow you to use the User Data for commercial communication purposes in various forms of advertising, such as banners, videos, etc. This does not mean that all Personal Data is used for this purpose. Data and conditions of use are indicated below.

Statistics
The services contained in this section allow the Data Controller to monitor and analyze traffic data hpfgroup.it uses this service in order to perform aggregated analysis on its Users anonymously and, thus, improve the performance of the hpfgroup.it site.

All statistics services are used by brandsoda.it through an integration that makes anonymous the IP address of the User.

Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Inc.)
Update 18/07/2022
Google Analytics is now disabled.

YouTube Video Widget (Google Inc.)
YouTube is a video content visualization service managed by Google Inc. that allows hpfgroup.it to integrate such content on its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Instagram Widget (Instagram, Inc.)
Instagram is an image visualization service managed by Instagram, Inc. that allows hpfgroup.it to integrate such content within its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Google Maps widget (Google Inc.)
Google Maps is a map visualization service managed by Google Inc. that allows hpfgroup.it to integrate such content within its pages.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.
Place of processing: USA – Privacy Policy

Further information on Personal Data

Functionality of sharing through social networks
The sharing function via social networks is available on hpfgroup.it. This feature allows users to send invitations, news or other type of communications and / or the sharing of content or actions taken by the same User (eg sharing comments etc.) on the site in use, through the use of social external networks to hpfgroup.it (eg Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc.). In such cases, the User must be aware that any Personal Data may be processed even by third parties who own these social networks according to their privacy policy and without any possibility for the Owner to exercise any type of control or influence on such subsequent processing methods.

The User is invited to read and accept the privacy policies of these third parties available for consultation at the links in the section dedicated to each of these services in this document.

Rights of the interested party

The User, as an interested party, may contact the Data Controller at any time via the email address privacy@hpfgroup.it, without any formalities, to assert his rights, as provided for in Article 7 of the Privacy Code, which for convenience of reading the User is reported below in its entirety:

  1. The interested party has the right to obtain confirmation of the existence or not of personal data concerning him, even if not yet registered, and their communication in intelligible form.
  2. The interested party has the right to obtain the indication:
  • the origin of personal data;
  • of the purposes and methods of processing;
  • of the logic applied in case of treatment carried out with the aid of electronic instruments;
  • of the identifying details of the holder, of the responsible and of the designated representative according to article 5, paragraph 2 (of the Privacy Code);
  • of the subjects or categories of subjects to whom the personal data may be communicated or who can learn about them as appointed representative in the territory of the State, managers or agents.

3. The interested party has the right to obtain:

  • updating, rectification or, when interested, integration of data;
  • the cancellation, transformation into anonymous form or blocking of data processed unlawfully, including data whose retention is unnecessary for the purposes for which the data were collected or subsequently processed;
  • the attestation that the operations referred to in letters a) and b) have been brought to the attention, also with regard to their content, of those to whom the data have been communicated or disseminated, except in the case in which this fulfillment proves impossible o involves a use of means manifestly disproportionate to the protected right.

4. The interested party has the right to object, in whole or in part:

  • for legitimate reasons, the processing of personal data concerning him, even if pertinent to the purpose of the collection;
  • to the processing of personal data concerning him for the purpose of sending advertising or direct sales material or for carrying out market research or commercial communication.