PRIVACY POLICY

PRELIMINARY INFORMATION

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for your interest in the electronic services offered by the PEAPC platform. When you enter into a relationship of any kind with us, you entrust us with your information. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain to you what data we process, why we process it and what we do with it. We take your privacy seriously and never sell lists or email addresses. We are aware that your personal information belongs to you, so we make every effort to store it securely and process it carefully. We do not provide information to third parties without informing you. This information is important. We hope you read them carefully. We do not make automated decisions, including profiling, with a significant impact on you.

OTHER SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not cover other third-party applications and websites that you may reach by accessing links on the PEAPC Platform. This is not under our control. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy of any site and/or application before providing personal data.

OUR COMMITMENT

The protection of your personal information is very important to us. That is why we are committed to complying with national and European legislation on the protection of personal data, including Regulation (EU) no. 679/2016 and, in particular, the following principles:

1. Legality, fairness and transparency. We process your data legally and fairly. We are always transparent about the information we use, and we inform you accordingly.
2. The control is yours. Within the limits of the law, we offer you the opportunity to review, modify, delete the personal data you have communicated to us and to exercise your other rights.
3. Data integrity and purpose limitation. We use data only for the purposes described at the time of collection or for new purposes compatible with the original ones. In all cases, our purposes are compatible with the law. We take reasonable steps to ensure that personal data is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
4. Security. We have implemented reasonable security and encryption measures to best protect your information. However, keep in mind that no website, app, or internet connection is completely secure.
5. CHANGES. We may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time. All updates and changes to this Policy are effective immediately after we notify you, which we will do by posting on the website and/or by email.

YOUR INFORMATION

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

When you interact with us in any way, you may give us or receive from other sources information, including:

• First and last name
• Personal data
• Email address
• Interests and preferences
• Address
• Information about the electronic services used
• Banking Information

We may collect data through cookies or other similar technologies, including:

• IP address
• Web browser
• Location

WHY DO WE COLLECT THIS INFORMATION?

We collect your information for specified and legitimate purposes including but not limited to the following:

• In order to enter into or perform a contract between you and us. Please note that the provision of personal identification data is mandatory, otherwise we cannot deliver the requested services.
• To answer your questions and requests;
• For marketing purposes, but only if we have your prior consent;
• To provide and improve the services and products we offer;
• To diagnose or fix technical problems;
• To defend against cyber attacks;
• To create and/or administer accounts;
• To comply with legislation;
• To establish or claim a right in court.

WHAT ARE THE LEGAL GROUNDS FOR PROCESSING?

You have given your consent for the processing of personal data.
The processing is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between you and us. Certain information, such as your personal identification data, is mandatory for the delivery of electronic services through PEAPC.
The processing is necessary in order to fulfill a legal obligation.
In certain situations, data processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation, such as keeping invoices for 10 years.

HOW LONG DO WE STORE THE DATA?

We store personal data only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes, but no longer than 10 years from the delivery of the electronic services requested through PEAPC or from the last interaction with us. After the end of the period, personal data will be destroyed or deleted from computer systems or transformed into anonymous data to be used for scientific, historical or statistical research purposes. Note that, in certain expressly regulated situations, we store data for the period required by law.

HOW DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH OTHER PARTIES?

We may disclose your data, subject to applicable law, to service providers, the entity that manages PEAPC or other third parties. We always make reasonable efforts to ensure that these third parties have adequate protection and security measures in place. We have contractual clauses with these third parties so that your data is protected. We will inform you of the identity of these third parties before the transfer or within a reasonable time and we will ensure that any transfer is legitimate, based on your consent or other legal basis.

We may transmit the data to other parties with your consent or according to your instructions.

We will also be able to disclose your personal information to the prosecutor's office, the police, the courts and other competent bodies of the state, based on and within the limits of the legal provisions and as a result of express requests.

We will ensure, within reasonable limits, that your data does not leave the European Economic Area, but to the extent that we transfer data to countries outside the EEA, we will ensure, in all cases, that the transfers are legitimate, having based on your explicit consent or other legal basis.

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?

• The right to be informed about the processing of your data
• Right of access to data
• The right to rectify inaccurate or incomplete data
• The right to erasure ("the right to be forgotten")
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to request the transmission of the data we have about you to another operator
• The right to object to data processing
• The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling
• The right to go to justice
• The right to file a complaint with a Supervisory Authority

Note that:

• The rights listed above are not absolute. There are exceptions, therefore each request received will be analyzed in order to decide whether it is justified or not. To the extent that the request is justified, we will facilitate the exercise of your rights. If the request is unfounded, we will reject it, but we will inform you about the reasons for the refusal and about your rights to file a complaint with the Supervisory Authority and to go to court.
• We will try to respond to the request within 30 calendar days. However, the deadline may be extended depending on various aspects, such as the complexity of the request, the large number of requests received or the impossibility of identifying you within a useful period.
• If, despite our best efforts, we are unable to identify you and you do not provide us with additional information to identify you, we are under no obligation to comply with the request.

QUESTIONS, REQUESTS AND EXERCISE OF RIGHTS

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