This statement describes the ways in which Forte Forte S.r.l. headquartered in Sarcedo (Province of Vicenza), Via dell’Industria n. 22/32, tax code and registered at the Vicenza Register of Companies as number: 02976310249 (hereafter referred to as the “Data Controller” or “Forte Forte”) collects, keeps and uses your personal information acquired at the moment of your purchase or registration at the www.forte-forte.com Website as well as when you subscribe to our newsletter pursuant to the GDPR (EU General Data Protection Regulation) and in compliance with every other legal provision under the European Union laws or those of Member States applicable to Privacy issues (“Privacy Policy”). When you access our Website or request our services, we presume you are 16 years of age or older and have read and understood our privacy policy and data notice on processing customer personal data and therefore have authorized us to collect and use it in the manner explained below. The processing of your personal information will be carried out appropriately, lawfully and with transparency. We will inform you should our method of managing personal data or this policy undergo changes.

The data Controller of your personal information is Forte Forte S.r.l. headquartered in Sarcedo (Province of Vicenza), Via dell’Industria n. 22/32, tax code and registered at the Vicenza Register of Companies as number: 02976310249.

Forte Forte S.r.l. processes your data for the following purposes:

• To perform a contract or carry out activities requested by the customer in order to stipulate or enter into a contract
• To promote the Website and/or Forte Forte services/products through newsletters
• To propose and sell you our products
• To inform you of our events and initiatives
• To send you messages and business proposals
• To provide assistance and answer your queries
• To create internal statistics and polls
• To comply with a legal obligation
• To identify illegal behaviour and report it to the authorities

Below is a list regarding the aforementioned purposes with examples of cases in which data is processed and the legal grounds for the processing:

Forte Forte can collect your personal information through the following channels, forms or ways:

• By filling out the contact form
• By signing a contract
• By subscribing to our newsletter
• By creating a user account on the Website
• By subscribing to our Facebook page
• By signing up for events and/or presentations
• By participating in contests, extractions or promotions

Unless otherwise specified in the following provisions, the legal grounds for the processing of personal data is the GDPR Article 6 Paragraph 1b) and a) – performance of a contract and consent. Even when you don’t send it directly to us, we can collect your data indirectly. In fact, every time you visit our Website our systems record your IP address, the pages you have accessed, the browser you use, your internet provider, your operating system, the domain name, the date of access and what you have written. This information is used for the sole purpose of collecting anonymous statistical information regarding the use of the Website or to confirm its proper functioning and is memorized for the time necessary to the technical purposes for which it is acquired.

We process your personal data if you have given your consent, if you have purchased our products, if you have accepted to receive out marketing communications and if it is requested by legal authorities. Moreover, processing is in our legitimate interests as a business for conducting the promotion and sales of our products as a company. Our interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights or freedoms.

Processing personal data is necessary in order to enter and perform a contract with the customer, to carry out the activities requested by the customer for the purpose of stipulating a contract and fulfilling legal obligations. Without your personal information and your consent for us to use it, Forte Forte cannot sell you its products.
Processing is not mandatory but it is based on the express consent of the customer for all the other aforementioned purposes and especially to involve you in our marketing initiatives. Without your personal information and your consent for us to use it, Forte Forte cannot involve you in its initiatives.

Your personal data will be processed by Forte Forte internal staff who are specifically trained and authorized to process it. In carrying out the processing, the data may also be transmitted to companies belonging to the business group to which Forte Forte belongs.
Only Data Controllers or those authorized by Forte Forte or owners of third-party cookies installed on our Website (click here for more information about cookies). Forte Forte will not sell or distribute your personal information outside of the European Union and should that be the case in the future, it will only be pursuant to an existing legislation.
We are required to transmit the data in our possession if judicial authorities request it and exclusively in accordance to the law i.e. investigations or in the case of illegal activity.

Your personal information is processed and stored in both hard copy and electronic form pursuant to provided security measures. You can ask us to delete it at any time and we keep it for the period of time needed to carry out the purposes for which you have granted or according to the period indicated by law (current civil, fiscal and tax regulations). After this period, all data will be deleted. The data provided for commercial communication activities, opinion polls and marketing research: until the user’s request to interrupt the activity and, in any case, no longer than ten years. Specific security measures are observed to prevent loss of data, illegal or incorrect use and unauthorized access. The Data Controller has adopted security measures in order to reduce risks related to confidentiality, availability and integrity of the collected and processed personal information.

At any time, you have the right to: know which of your personal data is in our possession, its origin and how it is used; request an update, correction or integration and –in the cases provided for by current provisions – the cancellation, the limitation of processing or oppose its processing. If you wish, you can make a request to receive your personal data in our possession in a format that can be read by electronic devices and, when technically possible, we can transfer your information directly to the third party you indicate to us. You can also ask us to exercise your right to be forgotten and have us delete all of your data by simply writing to us at: privacy@forte-forte.com. If you have reason to believe that the processing of your personal information has been carried out illegally, you can file a complaint with one of the authorities responsible for compliance with the rules of Personal Data Protection Code. In Italy, it can be presented to the Italian Data Protection Authority (http://www.garanteprivacy.it/).

For general questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact our Data Protection Officer at the address above or via e-mail at privacy@forte-forte.com.