Privacy Policy

LINEALIGHT Srl with registered office in Via Della Fornace 59, 31023 Castelminio di Resana TV Italy, takes the protection of your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy is intended to define your rights and answer all your questions concerning the management of your personal data.

To receive more information, contact: privacyteam@linealight.com

Our policy and procedures on personal data processing have been developed in line with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (effective as of 25 May 2018).

1. What information do we collect?

We collect and process personal data about you in response to a request to receive our newsletter, which you entered via the web using the appropriate Form of the linealight.com website. Some data relating to web browsing can also be collected, as specified below.

The personal data we process include:

• your e-mail address;
• information relating to the browser or the device used to access the company’s website;
• the internet browser and the operating system;
• recordings of calls made to our customer service and/or
• other information provided.

2. How do we use this information and what is the legal basis for using it?

We process the personal data specified in paragraph 1 for the following purposes:

• to send out our periodic newsletter;
• to monitor the use of our websites and online services. We may use your information to monitor, improve and protect our products, content, services and websites, online and offline, according to our legitimate interests;

3. With whom and where will we share your personal data?

We may share your personal data with the various companies in the group (Eral Solution Srl, Minulamp Srl)

The company may also share your personal information with the third parties listed below:

• our professional consultants such as auditors, accountants, legal counsels and financial consultants;
• marketing and communications agencies that have agreed to process users’ personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
• companies that deal with market research;
• our suppliers, business partners and subcontractors; and/or
• search engines and web analytics.

Personal data may be shared with government authorities and/or law enforcement officers if necessary for the purposes specified above, if required by law or if necessary to ensure the legal protection of the legitimate interests of the company, in accordance with the legislation in force. Personal data may be shared with third party service providers who will process them on behalf of Linea Light S.r.l. for the purposes indicated above.

Such third parties include, but are not limited to, website hosting service providers, maintenance, call centre activities and control of identification data.

In the event that our business or a part thereof is sold or integrated with another company, the relevant information will be disclosed to our consultants and to those of the future buyer and will be transferred to the new owners of the business.

4. How long are my personal data stored?

The company will not store your personal data for longer than necessary, whatever the purpose, and will retain only the personal data necessary for that purpose. Furthermore, we are required to retain certain information as required by law and for a reasonably necessary time to meet legal requirements, resolve disputes, avoid fraud and abuse and implement our terms and conditions.

As this is data collected in response to your request, we will retain your data until you decide to no longer receive any communications from the company, by sending it to us via e-mail at the address privacyteam@linealight.com, or using the function “unsubscribe” present on all communications that we send. Upon receipt of your request to cancel the service, the information will be deleted within 3 months from the request.

5. Where are my data stored?

Your personal data collected by the company are stored on servers from which the web service providers in use provide their services in our favour. These servers are located within the European Economic Area (EEA), but could be transferred and stored outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). In addition, said data may be processed by staff outside the EEA operating on behalf of the company or one of its suppliers; in this case, the European Commission will have to have approved the third-country data protection legislation or, else, other adequate protection measures. Further information may be requested from the privacy policy team.

6. What are my rights concerning my personal data?

You have the right to ask that your personal data not be processed for marketing purposes.

You can exercise your rights to avoid such processing by ticking off certain boxes on the forms which we use to collect your data, or by selecting the “unsubscribe” button on any communication we send to you, or by contacting the company by e-mail at privacyteam@linealight.com.

In the event that you have consented to the use of your personal data by the company, you may withdraw this consent at any time.

If the information that the company has in your regard is inaccurate or incomplete, you can notify us and ask that these data be corrected or modified.

You also have the right, with some exceptions and qualifications, to ask that we provide a copy of your personal data in our possession.

In the event that you have provided your data and these data were processed by automated means, you may request that such data be provided to you in a structured, computer-readable format.

If you wish to file a complaint on the manner in which we have processed your personal data, you may ask us to limit the use thereof until such dispute is resolved.

In some circumstances, you may request the erasure of your personal data

(a) by withdrawing the consent granted to the company for the use of such data;

(b) if it is no longer necessary for the company to use your personal data;

(c) if you oppose the use of your personal data and the company has no valid reason to continue the use thereof;

(d) if we have not handled your personal data in accordance with our obligations.

7. Where can I find more information on the processing of my personal data by Linea Light S.r.l.?

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, on the processing of your personal data by Linea Light S.r.l., or if you intend to exercise your rights, you can contact the privacy policy team of Linea Light S.r.l. using the following e-mail address: privacyteam@linealight.com. If the answer obtained is not satisfactory, you can contact the supervisory authority, which for Italy is the Data Protection Official (www.garanteprivacy.it)

Cookies

This website uses cookies or markers which, technically, are packets of information sent by a web server (in this case, by this website) to the Internet browser of the visitor/user and automatically stored on the personal computer and automatically sent to the server at each subsequent access to the website. Therefore, for full use of this website it is advisable to configure the browser so that it accept cookies.

By default, most web browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. Visitors/users can still change the default configuration. As pointed out above, the disabling or deletion of cookies could prevent optimum use of some areas of the site or compromise the use of the services under authentication.

If users/visitors wish to decide each time whether to accept cookies or not, they can also configure their browser to generate a message whenever a cookie is saved.

The cookies used are either persistent (they remain stored until they expire, on the hard disk of the personal computer of users/visitors) or session (they are not permanently stored on the computer of users/visitors and disappear when closing the browser).

Cookies are used to facilitate navigation within the site and its correct use, to facilitate access to services that require authentication (saving users from having to re-enter authentication credentials at each access to the services), for statistical purposes, to know which areas of the site were visited and, in some cases, for optimum management of the pages and advertising spaces or to deliver content and advertising in line with the choices made by users.

Session cookies are used for transmitting the session identifiers required to enable safe and efficient website browsing. The session cookies used on this website avoid recourse to other information technologies that could compromise the privacy of users/visitors, and are also used to improve the delivery of services.

Cookies may also be specific to the website (for example, to know the number of pages viewed within the site) or third-party (created by other websites to deliver content on the site being visiting). This site may use anonymous third-party cookies for the purpose of managing the delivery of ads in a dynamic and advanced way. The most popular browsers allow the blocking of third-party cookies, accepting only those of the website. Also, some companies that create cookies on other sites offer the possibility of disabling and/or inhibiting only their own cookies in a simple and immediate way, even when they are anonymous or do not involve registration of personal identification data (e.g. IP address).

We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices (in particular device’s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar’s privacy policy by clicking on this link.

You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar’s storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar’s use of tracking cookies on other websites by following this opt-out link.