This Privacy Policy is provided in accordance with Article 13 of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 – Personal Data Protection Code – and complies with Recommendation no. 2/2001 adopted by the European authorities for personal data protection. This recommendation was established on May 17, 2001, to identify minimum requirements for the collection of personal data online. It specifies the methods, timing, and nature of the information that data controllers must provide to users when connecting to web pages. This information pertains solely to the website www.lombricolturasiciliana.it and not to any external pages linked through links.

Data Controller:
Following the consultation of this site, data related to identified or identifiable individuals may be processed. The data controller is LOMBRICOLTURA SICILIANA Soc. Agr. a.r.l., located at Via Milano, 40 – 94013 Leonforte (En). 

Location of Data Processing:
Processes related to this site’s web services take place at the mentioned location and are handled by technical staff or occasional maintenance personnel. No data derived from the web service is communicated or disclosed. Personal data provided by users submitting requests for informational material (newsletters, information requests, leaflets, brochures) is used only to perform the requested service and is communicated to third parties only if necessary. 

Types of Data Processed:
Navigation Data: During the normal operation of the website, the computer systems and software procedures acquire certain personal data, the transmission of which is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols. This information is not collected to be associated with identified individuals, but due to its nature, it could allow identification through processing and association with data held by third parties.

Voluntarily Provided Data: The optional, explicit, and voluntary sending of emails to the addresses indicated on this site, or the completion and submission of forms, involves the subsequent acquisition of the sender’s address, necessary to respond to requests, as well as any other personal data entered in the message or form. 

Cookies:
Like all websites, this site uses cookies, small text files necessary to improve the site’s functionality, simplify navigation, and analyze usage. No personal user data is acquired by the site. Session cookies (which are not stored persistently on the user’s computer and disappear when the browser is closed) are strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers (consisting of random numbers generated by the server) necessary for safe and efficient site exploration. These session cookies avoid the use of other potentially prejudicial computer techniques for user navigation privacy and do not allow the acquisition of the user’s identifying personal data. 

Google Analytics:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web data analysis tool that helps understand how visitors interact with the site. Google Analytics uses proprietary cookies to monitor visitor interactions. These cookies store information such as the time of the current visit, any previous visits by the same visitor to the site, and the site that referred the visitor to the web page. Further information on the use of cookies by Google is described on the Google Analytics Cookie Usage on Websites page. 

Optional Data Provision:
Apart from what is specified for navigation data, users are free to provide the personal data reported in request forms or indicated on the Contacts page to request information or communications. Failure to provide them may result in the impossibility of obtaining what is requested. It should be remembered that in some cases (not related to the ordinary management of this site), the Authority may request information and details under Article 157 of the Personal Data Protection Code for the purpose of checking the processing of personal data. In these cases, the response is mandatory under penalty of administrative sanction. 

Data Processing Methods:
Personal data is processed using automated tools for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was collected. Specific security measures are observed to prevent data loss, illegal or incorrect use, and unauthorized access. 

Rights of Data Subjects:
Individuals to whom the personal data refers have the right at any time to obtain confirmation of the existence or otherwise of such data and to know its content and origin, verify its accuracy, or request its integration or updating, or correction (Article 7 of the Personal Data Protection Code). Pursuant to the same article, individuals have the right to request the deletion, transformation into anonymous form, or blocking of data processed in violation of the law, as well as to oppose its processing for legitimate reasons.

Requests should be addressed to LOMBRICOLTURA SICILIANA Soc. Agr. a.r.l., located at Via Milano, 40 – 94013 Leonforte (En): 

• By mail to the address: Via Milano, 40 – 94013 Leonforte (En)
• By email to the address: info@lombricolturasiciliana.it
• By phone at the number: (039) 339 546 1489