PRIVACY POLICY FOR VISITORS OF THE SITE
This Privacy Policy is intended to describe the management of this site, with reference to the processing of personal data of users / visitors who consult it.
This is an information that is also provided pursuant to art. 13 D.Lgs. 30.6.2003 n. 196 (hereinafter, “Privacy Code”) and art. 13 EU Regulation n. 2016/679 (hereinafter, “GDPR”).
Personal Data Protection Code – to those who connect to the Semantic Sounds website and make use of the relevant web services starting from www.semanticsounds.com
The information is provided only for the site mentioned above and not for other websites that may be consulted by the user through special links.
The website www.semanticsounds.com is owned by Semantic Sounds, managed by Semantic Sounds which guarantees compliance with the law on the protection of personal data.
Users / visitors must read this Privacy Policy carefully before submitting any personal information and / or completing any electronic form on the site.
TYPE OF DATA PROCESSED AND PURPOSE OF THE TREATMENT
1) Navigation data
The Holder processes personal data, identification (for example, name, surname, address, e-mail) – hereinafter, “personal data” or even “data”) communicated by you for the services offered by the Data Controller.
The computer systems and software procedures used to operate this site acquire, during normal operation, some personal data.
These data are used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the use of the site, to check its correct functioning, for marketing activities and will be deleted after five years from the act of their formation.
The data could also be used to ascertain responsibility in case of hypothetical computer crimes against the site.
2) Data provided voluntarily by users / visitors
Your personal data are processed:
A) without your express consent (Article 24 letter a), b), c) Privacy Code and art. 6 lett. b), e) GDPR), for the following Service Purposes:
– fulfill the obligations established by law, by a regulation, by
Community legislation or an order of the Authority (such as in anti-money laundering matters);
– exercise the rights of the owner, for example the right to defense in court;
B) Only subject to your specific and distinct consent (Articles 23 and 130 of the Privacy Code and Article 7 GDPR), for the following Marketing Purposes:
– send you via e-mail, newsletter, mail and / or sms and / or telephone contacts, commercial communications and / or advertising material on products or services
offered by the Owner and surveying the degree of satisfaction with the quality of services;
– send you via e-mail, post and / or sms and / or telephone contacts commercial and / or promotional communications of third parties.
Please note that if you are already a customer, we can send you communications
commercial services related to services and products similar to those of which it already has
used, subject to your disagreement (Article 130 paragraph 4 of the Privacy Code).
If users / visitors, connecting to this site, send their personal data to access certain services, or to make requests in email, this involves the acquisition by Semantic Sounds of the address of the sender and / or other possible personal data that will be processed exclusively to respond to the request, or for the provision of the service.
Personal data provided by users / visitors will be communicated to third parties only if the II communication is necessary to comply with the requests of the users / visitors themselves.
3) Data communication Without the need for express consent (pursuant to Article 24 letter a), b), d) Privacy Code and art. 6 lett. b) and c) GDPR), the Data Controller may communicate your data for the purposes referred to in art. 2.A) to Supervisory Bodies, Judicial Authorities, as well as to those subjects to whom the communication is mandatory by law for the accomplishment of said purposes.
These subjects will process the data in their capacity as independent data controllers.
Your information will not be disseminated.
4) Cookies Policy
With this cookie policy, we wish to inform you about the use of cookies or similar storage technologies (hereinafter “cookies”) on this website.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your device to save certain information or image files, such as pixels. The next time you visit our website on the same device, the information saved in the cookies will subsequently be transmitted either to our website (“First Party Cookie”) or to another website to which the cookie belongs (“Third Party Cookie”).
Through the information saved and returned, the respective website recognizes that you have already accessed and visited it with the browser you use on that device. We use this information to be able to design and display the website in an optimum way in line with your preferences.
In that respect, only the cookie itself is identified on your device. Beyond this extent, your personal data will only be saved upon your express consent or if it is strictly necessary to be able to use the service offered to and accessed by you accordingly.
CONSENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES
Cookies that are not strictly necessary to make the services available on our website are only used when you provide us with your consent. As soon as you actively accept the use of cookies via the cookie banner on our website, you consent to the use of cookies.
You can, of course, customize your cookie settings at any time, for example by activating or deactivating individual cookie categories.
You can find out how to deactivate or delete cookies in general (i.e. including the essential cookies) in your browser under the last point of this Cookie Policy.
LEGAL BASIS
Where you have provided consent to the use of cookies on the basis of a notice (Cookie banner) displayed on our websites (“cookies banner”), the legality of this data processing is governed by Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. Where consent is not requested, the legal basis for the use of these functional cookies is a legitimate interest (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of the website and services) within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
COOKIE CATEGORIES
We divide the cookies we use into the following categories based on their purpose and function:
Strictly Necessary Cookies;
Functional Cookies;
Performance Cookies; as well as
Marketing / Third Party / Consent Based Cookies
STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES
Strictly necessary cookies guarantee functions without which you cannot use this web page and service as intended. These cookies are used exclusively by this website and are therefore first party cookies. This means that all information stored in the cookies will be returned to this website.
The following strictly necessary cookies are used on our website:
Name Purpose Term
lduser This cookie is required to deliver the appropriate features. 30 Days
Strictly necessary cookies cannot be activated or deactivated individually. However, you can adjust your cookie preferences via the Cookie Settings or deactivate all cookies in your browser at any time (see below ”Deactivation or deletion of all cookies”).
FUNCTIONAL COOKIES
Functional cookies enable our website to store information already provided (such as registered name or language selection) and to offer you improved and more personalized functions based on this information. These cookies collect and store only anonymous information.
This website does not use Functional Cookies.
You can opt out of using Functional Cookies at any time by adjusting your Cookie Settings accordingly.
PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Performance cookies collect information about how our websites are used in order to improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. These cookies help us, for example, to determine whether and which subpages of our website are visited and in which content you are particularly interested. In particular, we record the number of visits to a page, the number of subpages accessed, the time spent on our website, the order of the pages visited, which search terms led you to us, the country, region and, if applicable, the city from which access has been made, and the proportion of mobile devices accessing our websites. The IP address of your computer, that is transmitted for technical reasons, is also automatically anonymized and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about you, as an individual user.
You also have the right to object to the processing of personal data that is used for statistical purposes in accordance with Art. 89 para. 1 GDPR for reasons that arise from your particular situation. In order to exercise the aforementioned and other data subject rights, the affected party may, at any time, contact the site owner via the contact address provided in the imprint or privacy policy.
MARKETING / THIRD PARTY COOKIES
Marketing / Third Party Cookies originate from external advertising companies (among others) and are used to gather information about the websites visited by you, in order to e.g. create targeted advertising for you.
Our website does not use Marketing / Third Party / Consent Based Cookies.
You can withdraw your consent to the use of Marketing / Third Party Cookies individually and at any time with effect for the future by adjusting your Cookie Settings accordingly.
DEACTIVATION OR DELETION OF ALL COOKIES
You can set your web browser in such a way that cookies are generally prevented from being saved to your device and/or that you are asked each time whether you are in agreement with cookies being enabled. You can also at any time delete cookies that have been enabled again. You can find out how all this works in detail via your browser’s help function.
Please note that generally deactivating cookies may lead to functional restrictions on our website.
5) Processing methods
Personal data are processed with automated tools for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected.
Specific security measures are observed to prevent data loss, illicit or incorrect use and unauthorized access. Optional supply of data apart from that specified for navigation data, users / visitors are free to provide their personal data.
Failure to provide such data may entail the impossibility of obtaining what is requested.
6) Data controller
The owner of the processing of personal data is Semantic Sounds.
7) Rights of the interested parties
The subjects to whom the personal data refer have the right at any time
obtain confirmation of the existence of the same data and to know the data
content and origin, verify its accuracy or request its integration, updating or rectification (Article 7 of Legislative Decree 196/03). According to the same article, you have the right to request cancellation, transformation into anonymous form or blocking of data processed in violation of the law, as well as to oppose in any case, for legitimate reasons, to their treatment.
Requests should be forwarded to the Data Controller at the addresses indicated above.
This website uses etracker technology (www.etracker.de) by which anonymous data is collected and saved for marketing and optimisation purposes. All visitor data is saved using an anonymous user ID to aggregate a usage profile. Cookies may be used to collect and save this data, but the data is not personally identifiable. The data will not be used to identify a visitor personally and is not aggregated with any personal data. The collection and storage of data may berefused at any time, with effect for the future.
In our product pages we have inserted Facebook buttons in this way we give visitors the opportunity to connect to Facebook through our pages.
When you click on the relevant buttons, the data is sent to Facebook.
When you click on the relevant buttons the data is sent to Meta.
This site uses the Meta pixel for tracking Meta Ads conversions.
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING DATA PROCESSING IN CONNECTION WITH GOOGLE ANALYTICS™
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. If the entity responsible for the data processing via this website is located outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland, the corresponding data processing by Google Analytics is carried out by Google LLC. Google Ireland Limited and Google LLC. hereinafter referred to as “Google”. Regarding the use of Google Analytics, the data processing in this sense is technically provided by WordPress. In this regard, please refer to the WordPress Privacy Policy. WordPress and the operator of this website share joint responsibility for data processing in connection with Google Analytics on this website.
Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files saved on the site visitor’s computer, to help the website analyze site usage. The information generated by the cookie (including the truncated IP address) on the use of the website is normally transmitted to and stored by Google.
On behalf of WordPress and the site operator, Google will use the information collected to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other website and Internet-related services to WordPress and the site operator. (art. 6 (1 )(f) GDPR). The legitimate interest in data processing lies in the optimization of this website, the analysis of website usage and the adaptation of the content, which is made possible by the provision of the statistics function of Jimdo. The interests of users are adequately protected by the pseudonymisation of their data.
Google LLC has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and thus provides a guarantee to comply with European data protection law. The data sent and linked to Google Analytics cookies, e.g. User IDs or Advertising IDs will be automatically deleted after 50 months. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached is done automatically, once a month.
The website visitor can refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in their browser. They can also object to the future collection and storage of their IP address and data generated by cookies at any time by downloading this browser plug-in and installing it: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
The website visitor can prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics on this website by clicking here. An “opt-out cookie” will then be applied which will prevent any future collection of site visitor data whilst visiting this website.
Further information on Google’s terms of use and privacy can be found in the Google Analytics terms and conditions or in the Google Analytics overview.
According to the relevant legislation and the GDPR, site visitors have certain rights in relation to their personal data processed through this Google Analytics data processing system. In particular, they have the right of access, rectification, data portability and/or deletion of their data. The site visitor also has the right to object to certain processing of their data. To exercise these rights in connection with data processing via Google Analytics on this website, a data subject (site visitor) can contact WordPress or the owner of this website at any time.