Privacy Policy

General information 

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We therefore ask you to read the following privacy policy carefully.

The purpose of this policy is to inform you about the reason for and extent to which your personal data will be processed when you visit our website. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the controller.

This website uses SSL or TLS encryption to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller).
You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://drastic.agecon.unina.it” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

Name and address of the controller 

(1) Controller within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter: “GDPR”) is:

Luigi Cembalo

Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II

Via Università 100, 80055, Portici (NA), Italy

Email: agecon@unina.it

Your rights 

(1) According to the applicable laws, you have various rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to obtain confirmation and access
  • Right to request rectification
  • Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’)
  • Right to request restriction of processing
  • Right to data portability
  • Right to object
  • Right to withdraw the given consent

If you wish to assert these rights, please send your request by e-mail or by post to the address mentioned above.

(2) You also have the right of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data with us.

Collection of personal data when you visit our website

(1) When using our website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server (so-called “server log files”). If you want to visit our website, we collect the following information that is technically necessary for us to display our website and to ensure the stability, functionality and security of our website:

  • our visited website
  • used IP address
  • date and time of access
  • Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • Access status / HTTP status code
  • the amount of data transferred in bytes
  • Website from which you accessed the site (source/reference)
  • used browser
  • the operating system used and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

(2) The legal basis is our legitimate interest in ensuring a smooth connection setup and a comfortable use of the website as well as in the possibility to evaluate system security and stability and to pursue further administrative purposes in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

(3) The data will not be passed on or used in any other way.

Cookies

(1) Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive and through which certain information flows to the institution that places the cookie (in this case the institution is Event Planet Srl on behalf of the Department of Agricultural Sciences – University of Napoli “Federico II” – Italy). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They are intended to make the website more user-friendly and effective and to enable the use of certain functions. When using this common data and information we do not draw any conclusions about the person concerned. This information is just required to deliver the contents of our website correctly. This anonymously collected data and information is therefore evaluated by us statistically and with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company to ensure an optimum level of protection for the personal data processed by us. If certain cookies process personal data, processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

(2) This website uses the following types of cookies:

  • Transient cookies (see a)
  • Persistent cookies (see b)
  • Flash cookies (see c)
  1. a) Transient cookies – in particular so-called session cookies – are automatically deleted when you close your browser. These cookies store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to a joint session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.
  2. b) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. These cookies remain on your device and enable us or our partner companies (third-party cookies) to recognize your browser on your next visit. You can delete the cookies in your browser settings at any time.
  3. c) The used Flash cookies are registered by your Flash plug-in. HTML5 storage objects are also stored on your device. These objects store the required data independently of your browser and have no automatic expiry date. If you do not want Flash cookie to process data, you must install an appropriate add-on, such as “Better Privacy” for Mozilla Firefox or the Adobe Flash killer cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by using the private mode in your browser. We also recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and your browser history manually.

(3) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse third party cookies or all cookies. You can also choose to be notified when cookies are set and you can decide individually whether you want to allow them or not. Each browser differs in the way it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how you can change your cookie settings.

You will find these for the respective browsers under the following links:

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en

Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Please note that the functionality of our website may be limited if cookies are not accepted.

E-mails

(1) If you send us enquiries via e-mail or a contact form via this website, your data will be stored for the purpose of answering the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. You will be required to provide your name and e-mail address. These data are stored and used solely for the purpose of responding to your request or for establishing contact and the technical administration. The legal basis for processing the data is our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

(2) Your data will be deleted when your inquiry has been finally clarified and if no statutory retention obligations oppose this.

Google Web Fonts

(1) In order to present our contents correctly and graphically appealing in all browsers, we use script libraries and font libraries provided by Google Web Fonts (https://www.google.com/webfonts/) on this website. Google Web Fonts are transferred to your browser’s cache to avoid multiple loading. If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts or does not allow access, content will be displayed in a default font. The legal basis for the use of Google Web Fonts is our legitimate interest in the correct graphical representation of our website in accordance with Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

(2) By activating script libraries or font libraries, a connection to the operator of the library is automatically established. In theory, it is possible – but currently also unclear whether and, if so, for what purposes – that operators of corresponding libraries collect data.

The privacy policy of the library operator Google can be found here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics (Google Inc.) 

Google Analytics helps to analyze the usage of this website by users, write reports on the website activities and users’ behavior, verify access frequency, how users find the website and which pages are visited more often.

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses Personal Data to track and examine the usage of this website, write reports, and share them with other Google services. Google might use Personal Data to contextualize and customize the advertisements of its commercial network.

Google makes available the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics at the following link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Personal Data gathered: Cookies and Usage Data

Location of data processing: USA – Privacy Policy

YouTube 

Our website uses plugins to display videos stored on YouTube, (Google Company – YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA). If you are visiting a page on our website containing a YouTube video, data will be transferred from and to a YouTube server. We do not know which kind of data is transferred and how YouTube handles your data.

If you are logged in with your YouTube profile, YouTube will store information which pages you visited and which videos you have watched. To avoid this you can logout at YouTube.

More information about the YouTube data privacy policy can be found here

Plugin Facebook and Twitter

This website includes plugin and/or buttons to facilitate content sharing on your favorite social networks. When you visit a page of our website that includes a plugin, your browser connects directly to servers of the social network from which the plugin originates. At this point, the social network can track your visit of our website and, potentially, associate it to your social account; particularly, it can happen if you are connected to the social network while visiting the website or if you have recently visited a website containing social plugins. To prevent the social network from tracking your visit on our website, you must log-out from your social account and, probably, delete the cookies that the social network has installed on your browser.

The gathering and usage of information by these third parties are regulated by their privacy policies: please refer to the following links:

Facebook: Privacy PolicyCookie Policy

Twitter: Privacy PolicyCookie Policy

Objection and withdrawal against the processing of your data

(1) If you have consented to the processing of your data, it is possible at any time to withdraw this processing for the future. As a result, your data will no longer be processed for the agreed purpose

(2) If your data are processed on the basis of a weighing of interests in accordance with the legal basis Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you can object to this if you have special reasons against processing the data.

(3) You also have the possibility to object to the processing of your data for the purpose of direct marketing. Thus, your data will no longer be processed for the purpose of direct advertising.

You can change your mind at any time, change your preferences for how we contact you. To do this please contact agecon@unina.it