Privacy

This page describes the personal data processing procedures adopted for users of the website www.mac-group.it. This information is provided to visitors to the site in accordance with article 13 of the Italian Data Protection Act: Italian Legislative Decree. No. 196/2003 - "Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali" - Code regarding the protection of personal data.

The information provided applies to the MAC Group website only and not to any other websites that may be visited by following links.

THE DATA CONTROLLER Data relating to identified or identifiable persons may be processed following a visit to the website. The data controller in such cases is MAC Group S.r.l., Corso Torino, 1/7 16129 Genova - Italy.

PLACE OF DATA PROCESSING The data processing connected with the Web services provided on this site takes place at said registered office of the MAC Group and is carried out solely by the technicians of the Data Processing Office, or by the technicians responsible for any occasional maintenance operations.

TYPES OF DATA PROCESSED

Browsing data

The computer systems and software procedures used for the operation of this website obtain certain personal data during their normal operations, which is transmitted as an integral part of Internet communication protocols. This information is not collected to be associated with identified data subjects, but could by its very nature allow users to be identified through processing and association with data held by third parties. This data category includes the IP addresses or domain names of the computers used by the user to access the site, the Uniform Resource Identifiers (URLs) of the resources requested, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the server response status code number (successful, error, etc.) and other parameters regarding the user's operating system and IT environment. This data is used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the use of the site and to make sure that it is operating correctly, and it is deleted immediately after processing. The data could be used to ascertain responsibility in the event of any IT crimes against the site, but apart from in such cases web contact data is never kept for more than seven days.

Data provided voluntarily by users

Any e-mail message sent voluntarily, intentionally and optionally to the addresses provided on this website entails the subsequent acquisition of the sender's e-mail address, which is necessary to respond to their requests, together with any other personal data included in the message. Specific overview information will gradually be shown or displayed on the website pages provided for particular services and requests.

Data regarding unsolicited curricula vitae sent to the MAC Group

The personal data in curricula vitae (CVs) sent the MAC Group shall solely be used for the purposes of assessing the applicant's profile and selecting them if appropriate. The data may be provided to other MAC Group offices but shall not be provided to third parties. If the applicant is not selected, the data shall be deleted after seven days. The MAC Group may be contacted on the Fax number +39 010 8630021 to check, add to, update or correct one's personal data or to exercise any of the other rights set out in article 7 of the Italian Data Protection Act: Italian Legislative Decree. No. 196/2003 - "Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali" - Code regarding the protection of personal data. Any sensitive data provided (relating in particular to racial or ethnic origin, religious, philosophical or other convictions, political opinions or membership of parties, trade unions, associations or organizations with a religious, philosophical, political or trade union nature, as well as any personal data able to reveal health or sex life) shall be deleted immediately in the absence of a written declaration of consent signed by the data subject, permitting the MAC Group to process such data.

COOKIES The MAC Group informs users that the website uses "cookie" technology. Cookies contain information that an end user's browser may store on their hard disk in order to track their browsing on the site, with the consequence that every time users visit the site again they may be identified immediately together with any preferences shown during a previous visit. These files allow one to personalize a website, provide users with easier browsing and - through a quantitative analysis of the individual web page hits - improved presentation of the most popular information. The cookies used by the MAC Group contain anonymous information and do not therefore allow one to process personal data. In addition, the cookies can be used to store a user's login data, thereby enabling them to be recognized automatically (and making it unnecessary for them to enter their username and password). Most browsers currently used accept cookies automatically, but users can configure their browsers to refuse, to ask permission before accepting and to delete cookies. It is, moreover, always possible to change one's browser settings to deactivate cookies, but this could slow down or prevent access to certain parts of the site.

PROVISION OF OPTIONAL INFORMATION Excepting the provisions relating to browsing data, users are free to provide the MAC Group with personal data when requesting information or other communications. Not providing such data may make it impossible to comply with the request.

PROCESSING PROCEDURES Any personal data shall be processed by the MAC Group on paper or using automatic means solely for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was obtained. Excepting the provisions relating to browsing data, the personal data provided by users contacting the addresses published on this site for information or recruitment to jobs at the MAC Group shall solely be used to send the information requested or to assess the applicants and shall not be provided to third parties, apart from cases where this is required by law or is strictly necessary to comply with the request concerned. Special safety measures are followed to prevent data loss, illegal or improper use and unauthorized access.

RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS The data subjects whose personal data and information obtained through this website is processed by the MAC Group have the right at any moment to request confirmation of the existence or otherwise of said data and to know the content and origin, as well as to check that the data is correct or to request that it be added to or updated or corrected (article 7 of Italian Legislative Decree No. 196/2003). Also in accordance with said article, data subjects have the right to request that data processed in breach of the law be deleted, anonymized or blocked, as well as to object to the processing of the data for legitimate reasons. Such requests should be sent by fax to MAC Group S.r.l. at the following number: +39 010 8630021