Pursuant to the legislation applicable to the protection of personal data (“Privacy Legislation”) including EU Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) as well as the supervisory authorities’ measures on cookies, Recordati Industria Chimica e Farmaceutica S.p.A provides users (hereinafter the “Users” or in the singular, the “User”) with the following information regarding cookies installed on the following domain recordati.com (the “Website”).
Who is the Data Controller?
The Data Controller is Recordati Polska Sp. z o.o., Al. Armii Ludowej 26, 00-609, Warsaw. The Data Protection Officer of the Recordati Group (hereinafter, the “DPO”) can be contacted at the following e-mail address: groupDPO@recordati.com.
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files and numbers that are installed while browsing on a website, in the memory of the device (PC, smartphone or tablet) connected to the Internet through the browser application installed therein.
Cookies, which are usually present in substantial numbers in users’ browsers and sometimes also with wide temporal persistence, are used for several purposes such as, by way of example and not limited to, for IT authentication, for monitoring of browsing sessions, for storage of information on specific user configurations in accessing a given server, etc.
The Privacy Legislation identifies the following macro-categories of cookies:
For the installation of technical cookies, the users’ prior consent is not necessary
Moreover, cookies may be installed directly by the website visited by the user (s.c. “first party cookies”), or they may be installed by other websites (s.c. “third party cookies”).
Lastly, under the temporal prospective, cookies can be divided into: (i) “persistent cookies”, i.e. cookies that are permanently stored on the user’s device until a predetermined expiry date (minutes, days, years); (ii) “session cookies”, i.e. cookies that are automatically deleted when closing the browser.
What cookies does the Website use and for what purposes?
When the User connects to the Website, the following cookies may be installed on the User’s device:
Technical cookies
These cookies are necessary in order to allow the operation of the Website and cannot be deactivated within the Company’s systems. They are usually set only in response to actions taken by the User that constitute a service request, such as setting privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms. It is possible to set the browser so that it blocks these cookies but, as a result, some parts of the Website will not work properly. These cookies do not store any personal data.
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Cookie name | Domain | Type | Duration | Purposes | How to deselect |
be_typo_user | recordati.pl | First Party cookie | Until the browser session closes | Authorization to provide access to personal area | N/A |
_pk_testcookie_domain | recordati.pl | First Party cookie | 1 day | This cookie determines whether the browser accepts cookies | N/A |
CookieConsent | recordati.pl | First Party cookie | 1 year | Stores the user's cookie consent state for the current domain | N/A |
Analytics cookie
These first-party and third-party cookies, as far as they can be assimilated to technical cookies, allow the Company to count visits and traffic sources so that it can measure and improve the performance of the Website. They help the Company knowing which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors navigate around the Website. All information collected by cookies is aggregate and therefore anonymous.
Analytics cookie | |||||
Cookie name | Domain | Type | Duration | Purposes | How to deselect |
_pk_id# | recordati.pl | Third party cookie | 1 year | Anonymous analysis of visits and browsing performance. For further information, please refer to the third party’s privacy notice here: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/ | N/A |
_pk_ses# | recordati.pl | Third party cookie | 1 day | Anonymous analysis of visits and browsing performance. For further information, please refer to the third party’s privacy notice here: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy/ | N/A |
Please note that:
It follows that third party cookie providers are also required to comply with the Privacy Legislation. For this reason, the Users shall refer to the links to the third party’s webpages, where they can find the third party’s cookie consent forms (where necessary) and the related privacy notice.
How can the User manage and/or deactivate cookies?
When the User visits the Website for the first time, he/she will be informed about the type of cookies used by the Website by means of an information banner that appears immediately at the top of the Website. Following the display of the banner, by continuing to browse the Website, the User accepts the use of cookies selected by the Website (such as, for example, technical cookies).
However, it is always possible to modify the cookie settings at any time by following the procedures outlined in this privacy notice.
How can the User manage his/her cookie preferences through the browser?
Each browser allows the User to limit and delete cookies. The User can manage cookie preferences directly in his/her browser and prevent – for example – the installation of third-party cookies.
Please find below the procedure to deactivate the cookies directly through the configuration settings of the main browser applications:
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After these operations, however, some functions of the Website may not be performed and/or work properly.
With whom are the data collected by using cookies shared?
The data collected by using cookies may be processed by the Company’s employees, in their capacity as authorized persons pursuant to the Privacy Legislation.
Such data may also be processed by companies which carry out technical and organizational activities on behalf of the Company, including IT consultants and web agencies which develop and manage the Recordati Group’s websites and profiles on the social media in which Recordati is registered. These companies are direct collaborators of the Company and operate by virtue of a specific deed of appointment as data processors.
Personal data collected by using cookies will not be shared to third parties and will be processed exclusively within the European Union. Should the need to transfer data outside the European Union arise, the Company will ensure that such transfers are carried out only in presence of appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 et seq. of the GDPR.
Data collected by using cookies will not be disseminated.
What rights can User exercise?
The User will always have, in accordance with the law, the right to withdraw at any time his/her consent, where given, as well as to exercise, at any time, the following rights:
In the above cases, where necessary, the Data Controller will inform the third parties to whom the User’s personal data has been disclosed of the his/her exercise of rights, unless it is not possible or is too onerous and, in any case, in accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Legislation.
Where processing is based on consent, the User is also entitled to withdraw, at any time, any consent given, whereby it is understood that the withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent given prior to the withdrawal.
How to exercise your rights?
The User is entitled to exercise his/her rights at any time by using the contact details indicated in the section “Who is the Data Controller?“ above or by writing to the DPO by e-mail at the following address:
groupDPO@recordati.com.
The Data Controller hereby informs the User that, pursuant to the Privacy Legislation, he/she has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority (in particular in the Member State of User’s habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged breach), if he/she is of the opinion that his/her personal data are being processed in a way that would lead to breaches of the GDPR.
In order to facilitate the exercise of the right to lodge a complaint, the name and contact details of the European Union Supervisory Authority are available at the following link:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm