Cookie Policy
Dear Visitor (hereinafter, “You” or the “User”),
This “SpeakUp” platform (hereinafter, the “Platform”) is owned by Audioboost S.r.l. with registered office in Maglie (LE), Via Scorrano, 57, 73024, VAT No. 05170040751 (hereinafter, the “Company”).
Since so-called cookies are used on the Platform for different purposes, this policy is aimed at explaining what cookies are and how they are used on the Platform.
Some cookies (so-called first-party cookies) are conveyed and controlled directly by the Company. Through these cookies, the Company collects and processes some of Your personal data. This policy, pursuant to Article 13 of the EU Regulation 2016/679 (hereinafter, “Regulation”) and Italian Legislative Decree 196/2003 (hereinafter, “Privacy Code” and, together with the Regulation, “Applicable Law”), is aimed at explaining how the Company collects this data, for what purposes and what Your rights are.
Other cookies (so-called third-party cookies), are, however, conveyed and controlled by third parties, as detailed below. In this policy You will find links to the policies published by such third parties. The Company hereby invites You to read such policies carefully.
If You are not familiar with cookies, please read carefully this policy and the Platform’s general privacy policy, in order to make Your choices consciously.
For any information related to this policy, Users may contact the Company at any time, using the following methods:
- by sending a registered letter with return receipt to the Company’s registered office in Maglie (LE), Via Scorrano, 57, 73024;
- by sending an e-mail to info@audioboost.it or to the certified e-mail address audioboostsrl@pec.it.
The Company has not identified a Data Protection Officer (DPO), as it is not subject to the designation requirement under Article 37 of the Regulation.
- What cookies are and what they are for
Cookies are small text files that the websites visited by a user send directly to its terminal (usually, to the browser), where they are memorised to be transmitted to the same websites at the following visit of the same by the same user (the so called proprium first-party cookies). During the web surfing of a website, a user may receive on its terminal also cookies of other websites or of other web servers (the so called third-parties cookies); this happens because there may be elements on the visited website, such as images, maps, sounds, links to specific web pages of other domains that are on servers other than the server on which the requested page is placed. In other words, such cookies are set up on a website other than the one that is currently visited.
Cookies may have a duration limited to a single session of navigation on the browser (the so called session cookies), and, in such event, they deactivate automatically once the browser is closed by the user; or may have a predetermined duration and, in such event, they will remain memorised and active on Your hard disk until the expiry date, thus continuing collecting information during different sessions of navigation on the browser (the so called permanent cookies).
Cookies are used for several purposes. Certain cookies are necessary in order to allow You to surf the Platform and benefit of its functionalities (the so called technical cookies). Other cookies are used in order to obtain statistical information, whether in aggregate or not, about the number of users accessing the Platform and how the Platform is used (the so called monitoring cookies or analytics). To the end, other cookies are used in order to track Your consumer profile and make You viewing advertisings that may be of interest for You, since complying with Your preferences and Your consumer habits (the so called profiling cookies).
In order to know more in details such different categories of cookies please continue reading such policy. Please discover how they works and for what use they are for, and choose freely if You want to consent to their use or prevent the same.
- The technical tools
- Technical Cookies
Technical cookies are used on the Platform for the sole purpose of making it possible for You to surf the Platform and allowing You to use its features. These are first party cookies, as they are directly conveyed by the Company on the Platform.
Some technical cookies are essential to provide You with an optimal browsing experience or to allow You to authenticate Yourself on the Platform, for example to make a purchase on the Platform or enter Your reserved area (so-called surfing cookies). Surfing cookies are normally session cookies and, therefore, once the surfing browser is closed, are automatically deactivated.
Other technical cookies are useful to allow You to memorise Your preferences (for example, Your language or Country) without setting up the same at the following visits (so-called functionality cookies). For this reason, functionality cookies are often lasting cookies, since they remain memorised on Your computer also after the closure of the surfing browser, until the scheduled expiry date or until when You decide to eliminate the same.
The following technical cookies are currently used on the Platform:
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Name of the Cookie |
Category of the cookie |
Function of the cookie |
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– first-party technical cookie |
Web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google uses the Personal Data collected for the purpose of tracking and examining the use of this Website |
- Saving User’s Preferences
As provided by the Applicable Law, Your prior consent is not required for the installation of technical cookies, as referred to in paragraph B.1 above. You are free to block the installation of technical cookies by modifying the settings of Your browser (read paragraph E, no. 1 to find out how to do this). However, please note that by blocking the installation of technical cookies, or subsequently deleting them, Your ability to access the Platform, to use all or part of it, to enable or disable certain functions or to receive certain services may be totally or partially compromised.
On the contrary, Your prior consent is required for the installation of cookies and/or other tracking tools other than technical ones (such as, for example, profiling cookies). For this reason, when You access the Platform, a special banner (also known as the Consent Management Platform; hereinafter, “CMP”) is displayed prominently, informing You that subject to Your consent, non-technical cookies are used on the Platform and that by pressing the appropriate button provided therein, You will be able to consent to the use of cookies.
Should You give Your consent to the installation of cookies in this way, the Company will keep track of Your consent by means of a technical cookie or other technical means linked to the use of CMP, which allow the Company to keep up-to-date records of Your choices. In the latter case, the Company may process, for this purpose, metadata relating to the granular choices made by the User: the possible expression of consent, the details of the granular purposes for which the User has given consent, as well as the possible choice of the User to continue browsing by maintaining the default settings by pressing the relevant button provided by the CMP.
In this way, the Company will ensure that You do not see the CMP during Your subsequent visits to the Platform and it will keep track of Your choices in line with the requirements of Applicable Law.
Please note that, if the Company uses a technical cookie or other means in order to demonstrate that it has obtained Your consent and to keep a record of Your choices up to date at all times, and You delete this technical cookie or other tool used for this purpose from Your browser in the manner set out in paragraph E, no. 1 below, the record of Your consent may be lost and, therefore, during Your next visit to the Platform the CMP may be displayed again.
- Monitoring cookies or “analytics”
Analytics cookies are used on the Platform to collect statistical information, whether on aggregate or not, on the number of users accessing the Platform and on how they visit the Platform.
Third-party analytics cookies are installed on the Platform only with Your prior consent :
You are, of course, free to withhold consent for the installation of analytics cookies as well as to object to their use at any time, without Your ability to visit the Platform and enjoy its content being impaired in any way. To find out how to do this, please carefully read the third-party cookie policies by following the links in the table above.
- How to manage cookies and oppose their use
There are several options to manage, disable and delete cookies.
- Change Your browser settings
Follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer of the browser You use to find out how to manage, disable, or delete all cookies:
- Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=it&p=cpn_cookies
Make Your choices carefully. By indiscriminately blocking the receipt of all cookies, including technical cookies, without providing a specific exception for the Platform, You may, in fact, no longer be able to browse the Platform or take advantage of some or all of its features. In addition, by deleting all cookies from Your browser, technical cookies may also be removed and, therefore, You may be able to remove preferences You have set using the Platform.
- Use interactive tools provided by third parties
To disable first-party profiling cookies, i.e., those installed directly by the Company, You can simply use the interactive button(s) highlighted in Section D of this policy. Your choice to object to the use of these cookies will have no effect on Your ability to browse the Platform and use its features, and can be revoked by You at any time anyway by using the same interactive button.
To disable third-party cookies, please consult the policies of third parties that install analytics cookies (see paragraph C above) or profiling cookies (see paragraph D above) to learn about the tools available to You to manage, disable and delete cookies and, more generally, to object to their use. Remember that by disabling third-party cookies, (i) You object to their use not only on the Platform but on all Internet sites on which such cookies are used and (ii) Your ability to browse the Platform and use its features will not be affected in any way.
- Use the website www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/
Your Online Choices is an Internet website managed by the non-profit association European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA), the Italian version of which can be found at the address www.youronlinechoices.eu. It provides information on behavioural advertising based on profiling cookies (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/about-behavioural-advertising) and allows Internet users to easily opt-out of the installation of the main profiling cookies installed by advertisers and used on Internet websites (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices). Before using this tool, we recommend that you carefully read the general terms and conditions of service of the Your Online Choices website (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/terms-conditions), as well as the frequently asked questions (FAQ) (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/faqs) and the help page (https://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/opt-out-help).
Please use Your Online Choices consciously. Indeed, notwithstanding that many of the most important marketing companies using cookies are members of the same, certain third parties installing cookies through the Platform could not be members of Your Online Choices. Therefore, the use of Your Online Choices does not guarantee that third parties cookies will be received surfing on the Platform. Please be remained that, removing all the cookies from the browser, also the technical cookies released by Your Online Choices in order to remind Your choices could be removed, thus reactivating third parties cookies.
- Use the CMP
For the processing of personal data that, subject to the User’s consent, third-party companies may put in place through cookies, the User may also use the CMP implemented on the Platform, to provide or withdraw consent by following the relevant instructions.
- Processing methods and data retention period
As highlighted under the preamble of this cookie policy, the Company collects and processes certain personal data by means of the cookies conveyed directly on the Platform (first-party cookies). The Company acts as data controller of such data, in compliance with the provisions of the Regulation. Please note that the Company will process Your data with electronic instruments only, in a much automatised manner and without any human intermediation. Therefore, the company’s employees and coworkers will never access the content of Your personal data obtained by means of cookies, meaning that they will never be able to see and/or have any direct PII (Personally Identifiable Information), that is information from which it will be possible to identify You directly.
Certain employees and coworkers of the Company, appointed as data persons in charge of the processing, could make maintenance operations on IT systems that host Your data, without the possibility to access their actual contents. The personal data could be memorised on servers managed by third parties (for example, providers of IT systems) or may be managed by online marketing specialised subjects, acting as Data Processor on the basis of a specific written appointment by the Company.
Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties Data Controller, nor will be disseminated.
Your personal data, collected by the Company by means of the technical cookies referred to in paragraph B above, will be retained for as long as is strictly necessary to fulfill the primary purposes outlined in this policy, or otherwise as necessary to protect the rights of both Users’ and the Company’s interests.
Regarding, however, the duration of the cookies themselves, including third-party cookies, and the retention period of the data collected by the third parties, please refer to the tables included in this policy.
- Transfers of personal data to a third country
The Company hereby informs You that, complying with the requirements and the guarantees provided under the law, Your data could be transferred to Countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) that could not guarantee a level of privacy and personal data protection equal to the level of protection guaranteed by the Applicable Law, but as Data Controller the Company takes the utmost account of the right to security, therefore it will process such transfers with all due care and guarantees and, therefore, it will handle such transfers with all due care and guarantees in accordance with the Applicable Law and, in particular, in accordance with articles 45 (Transfer on the basis of an adequacy decision) and 46 (Transfer subject to adequate safeguards) of the Regulation.
Specifically, for the provision of the Google Analytics service (referred to in paragraph C above), the supplier of the Company, Google Ireland Limited, may transfer pseudonymous personal data of the Users outside the EEA, under the Standard Contractual Clauses or under an Adequacy Decision: in particular, towards the United States, data will be transferred on the basis of the Data Privacy Framework certification adopted by Google LLC (further information available at the following link). In consideration of the scope of the processing, the nature of the data processed and the risks of the processing, the Company has deemed suitable the additional security measures that the supplier guarantees to adopt for the protection of personal data processed on behalf of the Company itself.
The Company would like to point out that some of the third parties indicated in the tables in this privacy policy and/or in the CMP may – as independent data controllers – process personal data collected by means of the cookies installed on this Platform from a location outside the European territory and, therefore, it recommends that You read their privacy policy carefully above for further details.
- Your rights
In order to exercise Your rights, or to obtain any other information or clarification in relation to this cookie policy, please contact the Company:
- By sending a registered letter with return receipt to the Holder’s registered office;
- By sending an e-mail to. audioboostsrl@pec.it
Pursuant to Applicable Law, Users have:
- a) the right to withdraw consent at any time, if the processing is based on their consent;
- b) the right of access to the personal data;
- c) (if it is applicable) the right to data portability (right to receive all personal data concerning them in a structured format, commonly used and readable by automatic device), the right to restriction of the processing of personal data, the right to rectification and the right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”);
- d) the right to object:
- i) in whole or in part, for legitimate reasons, to the processing of personal data concerning them, even if pertinent to the purpose of the collection;
- ii) in whole or in part, to the processing of personal data concerning them for the purpose of sending advertising or direct sales material or for carrying out market research or commercial communication;
- e) if they believe that the processing that concerns them violates the Regulation, the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority (if a European citizen, in the Member State in which they usually reside, in the one in which they work or in the one in which the alleged violation has occurred). The Italian Supervisory Authority is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, located in Piazza Venezia n. 11, 00187 – Rome (http://www.garanteprivacy.it/).
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The Company is not responsible for updating all links that can be viewed in this cookie policy. Therefore whenever a link is not functional and/or updated, Users acknowledge and accept that they must always refer to the document and/or section of the websites referred to such link.