Information on privacy protection

The translation of the following document about the privacy in different languages is provided as only for general information purposes. In case of discrepancies, only the Italian version of this document will be legally valid and binding and will discipline your relation with LoveCost.

Information on privacy protection for the use of the www.love-cost.com portal, updated on 01/ 09/ 2009. Please read it carefully and possibly print it.

Lovecost protects your privacy

Pig Company s.r.l. informs you that the Legislative Decree (no. 196 of 30 June 2003) of the Italian legal system (“Code for personal data protection”) provides for the protection of persons in respect of the use of personal data necessary to give an answer to your request of information.

Pig Company s.r.l., as controller of the personal data which you spontaneously provided, is responsible for their use and wishes to inform you that the use of these data by the responsible staff will follow the purposes and modalities indicated in this information.

Pig Company s.r.l. will use your personal data for the following purposes:

  1. provide the services indicated;
  2. verify the quality of the services offered;
  3. read and elaborate your request of information and give a consequent answer to it;
  4. provide information and/ or offfers on products, services or initiatives offered or promoted by Pig Company s.r.l. and/ or affiliated and/ or controlled companies, as well as business partners and outsourcers, without giving your personal data to thirds;
  5. fulfill any obligation that the laws, regulations, rules or commercial uses provide for, in particuar as far as tax compliance is concerned;
  6. monitor the relations with the interested individuals (and improve such relations);
  7. carry out market researches and statistics, as well as marketing operations and preferences for specific products;
  8. find individuals responsible for any illegal action following a specific request and on behalf of the relevant authorities.

Modality for the use of my personal data:

Your personal data will be processed mainly with informatic instruments and will be stored in the electronic databse in the servers owned by Pig Company s.r.l. to fulfill the obligations and purposes indicated in the previous paragraph entitled " Pig Company s.r.l. will use your personal data for the following purposes” of this document. The data contained in the above-mentioned electronic system are used with suitable security measures in compliance with Art. 13 of the Legislative Decree (no. 196 of 30 June 2003) of the Italian law in order to reduce to the minimum the risks of data loss or destruction as well unauthorized access or use not in compliance with the data collection purposes.

Why providing your personal data to Pig Company

To use the service offered by the website www.love-cost.com it is necessary to provide your personal data requested at the moment of the registration, followed by other “optional” data. For the person responsible for the use of these data this information are a declaration of authenticity and truthfulness about the real existence of the customer and the information itself. Such behaviour will make it easier for Pig Company s.r.l. to offer an honest and satisfactory service.

We wish to inform you that providing your data is necessary but not compulsory. Should you refuse to provide your personal data, there will be no consequences following this, but i twill be on the other hand impossible for Pig Company s.r.l. to provide the services it offers as well as answer your request of information.

Collecting and providing personal data

Every time you log in to the website www.love-cost.com you provide two types of information: the personal information you have chosen to provide and the information that www.love-cost.com collects automatically through the site.

Usually the personal data are collected by Pig Company s.r.l. on the following situations:

  • at the moment of the registration on the site
  • when a user sends us an email
  • when the user publishes his/her profile
  • when the user uses our e-commerce services
  • when the user uses our forum, blog or discussion areas

As Registered User you will have direct access your data through the codes that you chose (Username and Password). In this way you can interact, modify or delete your data at any moment and without intermediation, under your sole responsibility. From the same interface you can also manage the frequency and contents of the information provided by www.love-cost.com.

The personal data collected by Pig Company s.r.l. can be communicated to all the staff, collaborators, consultants for any purposes of the company as well as all the corporate bodies. The same data can be transmitted to companies controlled by or connected with Pig Company s.r.l. that is business partners or companies carrying out researches about the customers’ preferences, always in compliance with the purposes of the use the personal data mentioned above. 

Rights of the User Registered on/ Subscribed to a www.love-cost.com

As data subject you have the right to obtain at any moment confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you exist as well as to know their origin and contents, verify the accuracy or request the integration, update, modification or deletion. Furthermore, you can exercise all the rights recognized by Art. 7 of the Legislative Decree 196/2003 of the Italian law; among these, the right to object for legitimate reasons to the very use of the data. The text of the above-mentioned article, containing the list of rights recongnized by the Law, is reported below in ints integrity:

Art. 7. D. Lgs. 196/2003 "Diritto di accesso ai dati personali ed altri diritti"

  1. 1.    A data subject shall have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him exist, regardless of their being already recorded, and communication of such data in intelligible form.
  2. 2.    A data subject shall have the right to be informed:
    1. a.    of the source of the personal data;
    2. b.    of the purposes and methods of the processing;
    3. c.     of the logic applied to the processing, if the latter is carried out with the help of electronic means;
    4. d.    of the identification data concerning data controller, data processors and the
      representative designated as per Section 5(2);
    5. e.    of the entities or categories of entity to whom or which the personal data may
      be communicated and who or which may get to know said data in their capacity
       as designated representative(s) in the State’s territory, data processor(s) or person(s) in charge of the processing.
  3. 3.    A data subject shall have the right to obtain:
    1. a.    updating, rectification or, where interested therein, integration of the data;
    2. b.    erasure, anonymization or blocking of data that have been processed unlawfully, including data whose retention is unnecessary for the purposes for which they have been collected or subsequently processed;
    3. c.     certification to the effect that the operations as per letters a) and b) have been notified, as also related to their contents, to the entities to whom or which the data were communicated or disseminated, unless this requirement proves impossible or involves a manifestly disproportionate effort compared with the right that is to be protected.
  4. 4.    A data subject shall have the right to object, in whole or in part:
    1. a.    on legitimate grounds, to the processing of personal data concerning him/her, even though they are relevant to the purpose of the collection;
    2. b.    to the processing of personal data concerning him/her, where it is carried out for the purpose of sending advertising materials or direct selling or else for the performance of market or commercial communication surveys.

www.love-cost.com Technology and use of the Cookies

The softwares for the functioning of this site collect some personal data during their normal functioning. The transmission of these data is implied in the use of Internet communiction protocols. In the site there is a statistics system collecting anonymous data about the visits (IP, referrer, browser used, operating system, screen resolution, date, time, online permanence). The data collected are used solely to monitor the development of the site for statistic purposes, allowing u sto improve the service. To make the use of our services easier on www.love-cost.com, Cookies are employed.

A cookie i san element of data that a Website send to the browser. This places it in the system archive. It is possible to view the browser to receive a cookie, thus being able to choose if and when to accept it. www.love-cost.com uses session cookies necessary to allow the use of interactive services.

The session cookies are not constantly monitored on your computer and disappear when closing the browser. They are strictly limited to the transmission of session identification data (generated by the server) necessary for an efficient surfing of the site.

The session cookies employed by the site avoid other informatic techniques which might possibly violate the privacy of the web surfing and do not allow the collection of identity data of the user.

External links

www.love-cost.com can contain web links to webites of thirds. Pig Company s.r.l is not responsible for the policies concernine the privacy on other websites. Reading carefully the privacy policy of website of thirds falls solely within the responsibility of the user.

Safety

Pig Company s.r.l. pays a lot of attention to the safety of the personal data. For this reason we adopt the most accurate solutions to protect the information regarding our users. The information of your account are safely contained in our servers which are monitored and protected by firewalls. When you enter sensitive data (such as the credit card number or your password) such information is cryptographed by means of the SSL technology (Secure Socked Layer). Since emails and instant messaging are not considered safe, please do not send us or others private information via email or instant messages. For more details read the guide to safe dates.