Cookie Policy

The website www.evocagroup.com (“Site”) uses cookies. Cookies are text strings created by a server and stored on the hard disk of a computer or on any device used to access the Internet (smartphone, tablet, etc.). The cookies are then retransmitted every time the user accesses the Internet.

Cookies collect information about how users navigate the Site. For example, cookies remember language and currency preferences for purchases, and will automatically propose those options during the user's following visit to the Site. Cookies can be permanently memorised on a user’s computer or device and have a variable duration (i.e. persistent cookies), or they can disappear when the browser is closed and have a limited duration (i.e. session cookies). Cookies can be installed by the Site being visited (i.e. first-party cookies) or can be installed by other websites (i.e. third-party cookies). This Site uses first-party cookies, third-party cookies and other analogous technologies described hereafter.

 

OWNER OF PROCESSING

Evoca S.p.A., with registered offices in Via Tommaso Grossi 2, 20121, Milan, Italy, fiscal code and VAT number 05035600963, phone number: +39.035.606111, email info@evocagroup.com (hereafter also “Company”).

 

RESPONSIBLE FOR DATA PROTECTION (DPO)

Partners4Innovation S.r.l., with registered offices in Via Copernico 38, 20125 Milan, fiscal code and VAT number 0484183096 in the Milan Registry of Enterprises.

 

1- PURPOSE OF PROCESSING

1.1 - Technical cookies for Site navigation and functionality: This Site utilises first-party, session and persistent cookies to ensure safe efficient navigation and use of the Site, as well as to improve service.

For example, these cookies recognise the language selected by the user and the country from where the user is connecting. The language and country do not need to be chosen during every subsequent visit, as the cookies recognise the user upon access. Thus, they improve the user’s navigation experience.

 

1.2 - Analytical Cookies: The Site utilises Google Analytics to collect information about how the Site is used.

Google Analytics settings allow data to be shared with Google for the following purposes: i) Benchmarking, i.e. to collect anonymous data in order to analyse data trends, ii) Technical Assistance i.e. to receive technical help from Google, and iii) Account Experts, i.e. to allow Google’s marketing experts to suggest configuration and analysis improvements.

For further information, visit the supplier's page here https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1011397.

For predefined settings, analytical cookies utilise the entire Site user's IP address to provide general geographic data in reports.

Google Analytics cookies can be disabled by downloading a specific browser plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

 

2 - LEGAL ASPECTS OF DATA PROCESSING

2.1 - Technical cookies for navigation and functionality: execution of the agreement to which the user is a party (use of the Site).

2.2 – Analytical Cookies: legitimate interests.

 

3 – DATA STORAGE PERIOD

3.1 - Technical cookies for navigation and functionality and analytical cookies: for the entire duration of the session navigating the Site and persisting after the session ends.

Upon the expiry of the above mentioned storage terms, the user's personal data shall be destroyed, erased or made anonymous, in compliance with technical erasure and backup procedures.

 

4 - COMPULSORY DATA CONFERMENT

The moment any page of the Site is accessed, a Banner appears which provides a brief notification. Closing the Banner or continuing to navigate the Site by accessing other areas or clicking on elements within it (e.g. an image or link) constitutes the user's consent to the cookie policy. The consent to the use of cookies is recorded by a “technical cookie”. For more information and to discover how to disable third-party cookies, click on the link in the table outlining the cookies used on this page.

 

5 - SUBJECTS AUTHORIZED FOR DATA PROCESSING

Without prejudice to point 8 of the INFORMATION ON PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING, users may prevent the registration of cookies on their hard disk by configuring their browser and disabling the cookies. Below are the ways to do so for the most common browsers:

After these steps, however, some areas of the Site may not function correctly.

 

6 – CHARACTERISTICS AND PURPOSES OF COOKIES USED ON THE SITE

Navigation and session cookies

To guarantee normal navigation and use of the Site (e.g. To enable a purchase or to authenticate identity to access a reserved area).

Cookie analytics

To collect aggregate information on the number of users and how they use the Site.

Functionality cookies

To allow the user to navigate the Site with a set of chosen criteria applied (e.g. language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve service.

 

7 - TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA IN COUNTRIES NOT BELONGING TO THE EUROPEAN UNION

The data collected using Google cookies may be transferred outside the European Union, and may be transferred to the United States of America.

We have the faculty to transfer personal data outside the European Union exclusively to those countries deigned able by the European Commission to offer a suitable level of protection (on the following site you can find a list of these countries: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm), or where the Evoca Group has arranged adequate measures to preserve data privacy (for which we usually adopt one of the forms of data transfer contracts approved by the European commission of which you can find a copy at: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/transfer/index_en.htm).