The protection of our site visitor's privacy and its members is of utmost importance to illagomaggiore.com. For this reason we make every effort to respect the following rules:

• We only know the data you provide us with
• All information that is linked to a single person is not communicated to third parties, unless that single person authorises us to do so.
• Statistical information regarding our visitors or members of the community in its complex (the way of visiting the site, demographic data) can be provided in collective form to partners of illagomaggiore.com, provided that connections to single persons can not be established.

The following describes the handling methods of the Lake Maggiore's website with regards to the treatment of users' personal data.
It is based on a briefing rendered according to article 10 of the Italian Law dated 31st December 1996 n.675 and of the Legislative decree dated 30th June 2003 n.196 "Code with reference to the protection of personal data" for those who interact with the web services of illagomaggiore.com in order to protect their personal data, accessible via internet at the address www.illagomaggiore.com , which corresponds with the home page of the official Lake Maggiore portal.

The briefing is rendered exclusively for the site in question and excludes the other web sites that may be consulted by the user through our external link system.
The briefing also complies with Recommendation n. 2/2001 adopted by European authorities for the protection of personal data, reunited in the Group instituted by art. 29 of Directive n.95/46/CE, on 17th May 2001 in order to underline some of the minimum requirements for gathering on-line personal data, and, in particular, the ways, time and nature of the information that the data handlers must supply to users when they connect to a web page, regardless of their reasons for the connection.

The handling proprietor

Following Consultation of the site, data regarding identified and non-identified persons may be handled.

The proprietor of the data handling is illagomaggiore.com, which is property of the Verbano Cusio Ossola Artisan and Agricultural Industry Chamber of Commerce.

Location of data handling

Data handling linked to the web services of this site is located at Strada Cavalli 42, 28831 Baveno (VB) and is accessed solely by Office technical personnel employed for handling, or those employed for any necessary occasional maintenance work.

No data taken from the web service is diffused or communicated.

The personal data supplied by users that send requests for information is used solely to carry out the services or work requested and is communicated to third parties only when deemed necessary.

Handling Types

Navigation Data

The information systems and software procedures set up for use on this web site acquire, in normal working mode, some personal data which is transmitted implicitly in the use of Internet communication protocols.
This is information that is not gathered in order to be linked to identified persons, but due to its nature could, through elaboration and association with data held by third parties, permit identification of users.

This category of data includes IP addresses or domain of the computer used by the users connecting to the site, URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier) of resources requested, the time of the request, the number code indicating the state of the answer given to the server (successfully completed, error, etc) and other parameters connected to the operative system and information environment of the user.

This data is used solely to gather anonymous statistical information regarding the use of the site and to control its correct functioning and is cancelled immediately after its elaboration.
This data may be used to confirm responsibility in the case of information technology crimes committed against the site: apart from this possibility, the data on web contact remains for no more than seven days.

Data voluntarily supplied by the user

The optional, explicit and voluntary sending of e-mails to the indicated addresses on this site lead to the acquisition of the sender's address, required in order to answer requests, as well as any other data included in the communication.

Specific summary reports are reported or visualised within the pages of the site set up for particular requested services.

Cookies

None of the user's personal data is intently acquired by the site.
As a matter of fact, our cookies do not contain personal information, but allow illagomaggiore.com to guide every user in the use of the site based on the information that the user him/herself has explicitly supplied.

Cookies are not used for the transmission of personal information, and persistent c.d. cookies - user tracing cookies - of any kind are not used.

The use of c.d. session cookies (that are not memorised in persistent mode on the user's computer and disappear when the browser is closed) is strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers (constituted by random numbers generated by the server), deemed necessary to ensure safe and efficient navigation of the site.

The c.d. session cookies used on this site eliminate the need for additional computer techniques that could be potentially damaging for navigation privacy on the part of users and do not consent the acquisition of identifiable personal data of the user.

We would like to remind you that you can configure your browser so that it avoids the recording of cookies on your hard disk.

Publicity Agencies

IlLagoMaggiore.com may request the services of agencies in order to obtain publicity on its site. These agencies could record "cookies" on your hard disk in order to monitor visits. Under no circumstances will illagomaggiore.com reveal to the publicity agency personal information or information associated to single persons.

Other personal data handling situations

IlLagoMaggiore.com may ask you additional personal information on different occasion to those mentioned above, such as on-line voting, games, surveys, product or service offers or for uncountable other reasons depending on the activity of the site.
Again, in these cases it is the user to decide whether or not to supply this information.

Option to confer data

Apart from when specified for navigation data, the user is free to supply personal data reported in illagomaggiore.com data request sheets or indicated when contacting the Office when requesting informative material or other communications.

Should the required data not be conferred, sending the information requested may not be possible.

To round this subject off please remember that in some cases the Authorities can request news and information in accordance with art. 32, comma 1, of Italian law n. 675/1996 (Art.157, D.Lgs. 30th June 2003 n.196 "Code on the matter of the protection of personal data") in order to check the handling of personal data.
In these cases compliance is compulsory and can lead to administrative sanctions if not carried out.

Information on Contributions

Should you decide to take part in the initiatives or competitions, or use the services on this site by offering your contribution via the sending of written texts, images and/or films (hereby, for brevity "Contributions"), you assume all responsibility, direct or in direct, civil or penal linked to the publication and reproduction of such Contributions, ensuring to keep ilLagoMaggiore.com free from all prejudices that may occur due to the publication and divulgence of these Contributions.

More importantly, by the sending of a contribution you declare and guarantee that the contribution itself is of your own property, not against the law and does not violate any intellectual property rights, moral rights, author's rights, image rights, personal identity and third party privacy rights or rights concerning the protection of third party personal data and publication rights. By sending the Contribution you therefore declare and guarantee to have previously obtained all required consent and authorisation required by the current laws and regulations, including the practice of privacy protection D.lgs 196/2003 for the use, transmission, diffusion and publication of the Contribution from all persons portrayed or parental consent in the case of under age citizens and/or directly or indirectly involved in the Contribution.

By sending the Contribution, therefore, you expressly guarantee full legitimacy of the Contribution itself and its eventual publication by ilLagoMaggiore.com, manager and/or owner of the internet site in the area where the Contributions are accessible and available.
ilLagoMaggiore.com guarantees that your contribution will not be used for any means other than those declared for services and competitions, apart from the possible promotion of these services and competitions; in any case, the publication and divulgence of the Contribution does not lead to any rights of payment for you or the persons cited or portrayed in your Contributions.

As a matter of fact, by sending the Contribution, you expressly accept to surrender and pass over to ilLagoMaggiore.com the right and license, not subject to any payment and therefore completely free of charge and not exclusive, to use, adapt, publish, distribute, reproduce and carry out without territorial and/or time limitations these Contributions, and in general, to exercise all rights - direct or in direct - of use, even financial, of this Contribution.
In order to take part in the services and initiatives, you expressly accept to surrender, in the name of and on behalf of all persons cited or portrayed in your Contribution, all requests connected to and deriving from the use and publication of your Contribution, including financial, to ilLagoMaggiore.com.

Handling methods

Personal data is handled with automated tools for the time deemed necessary to complete the tasks for which the data has been gathered.

Specific security measures are observed in order to prevent the loss, illegal or incorrect use of data and unauthorised access.

Rights of those concerned

Subjects to whose personal data is referred have the right in any given moment to obtain the confirmation of its existence and to know its content and origin, to verify its correctness and to request integration, updating , or rectification (art. 13 Italian law n. 675/1996 - Art.7, D.Lg. 30th June 2003 n.196 "Code on the matter of the protection of personal data").

According to this article you have the right to request the cancellation of this data, as well as the transformation into anonymous data or the blocking of data handled in violation of the law. You may also oppose, for legitimate reasons, data handling.

Requests can be sent to: privacy@illagomaggiore.com