FastFieldSolvers(tm) Privacy Information - Version 1.0.0 - 2018/05/25 ============================= Copyright (c) 2018 FastFieldSolvers S.R.L. http://www.fastfieldsolvers.com PRIVACY POLICY The following is our informative note on your rights to privacy in accordance with EU Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament (also known as GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation). We are committed to protecting your personal information when you use our services. Whenwever you provide such information we weill only use your information in line with the applicable data protection laws. Your information will be kept in a secure environment and access to it will be restricted according to the "need to know" principle. -- What information will we collect about you? When you fill up our contact or download form, we collect the related information about you as per the form fields. Note that providing your personal information is not mandatory in any way for accessing our services, software or downloads. In filling up our forms you accept the above use of your data. If you do not agree, simply do not provide any data. If you contact us by email, we will consider all the information there contained as willingly and intentionally shared, including your name and email address. We will treat this information as confidential. If you register to our Forum, we will collect your nickname and store the information you insert in the Forum for the Forum posting purposes only. We also collect information about how you access our website i.e. your IP address, which is a number that may uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the network, and the device(s) you use to access the website, according to the information provided by your device itself (e.g. browser and Operating System used). We reverse look-up your IP address, if possible, to get a human-readable network domain description corresponding to your IP address (e.g. in our case, this would be "fastfieldsolvers.com"), and store this information together with the personal data you provided. This latter information, i.e. IP address and the device(s) used to access the website, is also collected for every visitor of our website, but only in anonymous format as we do not automatically correlate it to any other information. -- How will we use the information we collect about you? Personal data are treated only for the performance of the products and services required, including fulfiling the administrative and accounting obligations. The information we collect about you is used for: 1) statistical purposes, in anonymous format, e.g. to check the download trends, the geographical areas of interest, the fields of application, the papers citing our work, etc. 2) non-automated user contact via email. We will not use this information for automated mailing, unless you explicity allow us to do that 3) responding to feedbacks, queries or complaints If you also check the relevant optional checkbox in the contact or download form, you give clear consent for using the information you provide for: 4) sending you automatically our newsletter and in general communications about our products and services, commercial information or promotional material, direct marketing campaigns, market research and other direct or indirect marketing initiatives. We also do not automatically process the Forum information and correlate it. Use of the Forum can be fully anonymous. If you decide to share in your posts any personal information, including but not only, your name, email address, etc. this is solely under your responsibility. We will not share the information you provide with third parties, nor use it for other purposes, unless explicity further authorized by you. We will keep your personal information within the company except where disclosure is required by law, for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies. We also use the information we collect for counter-measures against hacking, spamming and other software and network attacks. In case of suspected illegal activity we will use and correlate the available information to manually trace back the possible malicious user and take actions accordingly, including but not limited to, banning of the IP address and deferral to the law enforcement authorities. -- What rights do I have over my personal data? Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to: - Access your personal data by making a subject access request. - Rectification, erasure or restriction of your information - Object to the processing of your information - Data portability To exercise your rights, please simply contact us using the form at the 'Privacy' page of our web site, as per the link you can find at the bottom of our web pages, or make a request by e-mail at the address specified at the 'Privacy' or 'Contact' pages. -- How long you will keep my data? In case you subscribed to our newsletter and communications, we will continue to keep your data for the purpose to send these communications via email for a maximum of 10 years. Unsubscribing before this term can be done via the link contained in the newsletter and/or automatic communication, or with the same means you can use to exercise your GRPR rights. In case you provided your personal information but did not subscribe to our communications, we will keep the data for statistical purposes, but will anonymize it after 10 years from the last exchange of information. -- Cookies - General informations, cookie management and deactivation The 'cookies' are temporary data files which are trasmitted by the web site and stored on the client device (PC, tablet, smartphone, etc.) by the user's web browser. The cookies are then provided by the web browser as part of the subsequent requests of the web browser client to the web site, and can therefore be used to keep track of the user's activity and choices. The user can manage and delete the cookies at any time by changing the web browser internet privacy options, as offered by all major web browsers. By doing so, however, you may reduce the functionality of certain parts of the web site. As the modality to manage the cookies is different on each type of web browser, we suggest to check the user's manual, or the 'help' function, of your web browser for detailed instructions about how to delete, block or allow cookies from the web sites. You can find further privacy options and information on the web site www.youronlinechoices.com. - Cookie types According to the use a web site makes of a cookie, the cookies can be classified as either technical cookies (e.g. web site function, user's preferences and aggregated statistics) or profiling cookies (e.g. advertising, retargeting, social networking, 3rd party statistics). Our web site uses technical cookies only. - Technical cookies - Browsing technical cookies for the session, used to manage the standard browsing experience and to authenticate the user (e.g. in the Forum) - Functional technical cookies, to store user's preferences, e.g. color Our web site does not use analytics technical cookies. Such cookies would be used to analyze how the users use our web site, with the goal to evaluate and improve its behavior. - Profiling cookies. Our web site does not use profiling cookies. - Third party cookies Our web site does not use any third-party cookie (technical or profiling)