RCS Sports & Events S.r.l., with registered office in 20132 Milan Via A. Rizzoli no. 8 is the autonomous Data Controller of the personal data collected on this site pursuant to and for the purposes of EU Regulation 679/2016 (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”).

This Privacy Policy is updated as of 09/05/2023.

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In accordance with the commitment and care that RCS Sports & Events places on the protection of personal data, we hereby inform you of the methods, purposes and scope of communication and disclosure of your personal data as well as your rights, in compliance with art. 13 of the GDPR.

1. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED BY THE DATA CONTROLLER

To offer you the services provided by its own Websites, RCS Sports & Events, in its capacity as Data Controller (hereafter, for brevity, the “Controller”), shall processes some personal data necessary for the performance of the services.

Such data can be provided implicitly by the instruments you use to access and use the services, or they can be provided explicitly by you.

The Controller may process the following categories of personal data of the users:

• technical browsing data pertaining to the IP address, to the identifying codes of the devices employed by the user to utilise the website or the services, to the characteristics of the browser and to the access times;
• browsing data directed at profiling provided indirectly through utilisation of the service and obtained and analysed with the user’s consent;
• common identifying data provided by the user (e.g. name, surname, email, telephone number, etc.) for the utilization of the products and of the services;

2. PURPOSES AND LEGAL BASES OF THE PROCESSING

The data and the cookies received from you shall be processed by RCS Sport & Events with the necessary methods and procedures to provide the services you have required or signed up for (Contractual purposes), and to fulfil any additional purposes you have agreed to.

Specifically, RCS Sports & Events will process your data to send you the newsletter(s) issued by the Controller to which you have subscribed.

Only with your express consent may your data be used to carry out statistical analyses, market surveys by or on behalf of third parties, promotional activities through social media and to send commercial information about the products and about the promotional initiatives of the Controller (Direct marketing purposes).

Also with your consent, the data may be used for purposes of automated profiling carried out by collecting your browsing information when you access and utilise the Services provided by the Website. By means of statistic correlation algorithms, such information will be matched to the same information coming from other users to identify the common traits and group together similar ones within interest classes. By assigning your browser to an interest class, our systems will then be able to offer you contents that better suit your tastes and will present advertisements that better meet your needs and better address the interests of the advertisers, reducing the level of interference with utilisation.

On the date you are reading this Policy, the Controller uses the profiling data to aggregate marketing profiles, to manage relations with advertisers and improve their campaigns, to infer patterns of utilisation of its products and services, and to assist the sales departments in the development of digital strategies (Profiling purposes).

Lastly, with your explicit consent, your data may be provided to other Companies operating in the publishing, financial, automotive insurance, energy, basic commodities industries, as well as to humanitarian and charitable organisations, which may contact you as Controllers of independent initiatives – the updated list is at your disposal and it may be requested from the Data Processor at the address provided below – for statistical analyses, market surveys and transmission of commercial information about the products and promotional initiatives. (Third party marketing purposes).

Communications for market surveys or commercial information about the products and the promotional initiatives may be carried out by postal mailing, email, telemarketing, SMS, MMS.

We hereby inform you that some activities may be carried out through suppliers, specifically appointed as Data Processors, who may reside outside the European Union.

The legal bases of the purposes described above are the execution of your request as data subject and the consent you have expressed.

4. DISCLOSURE, COMMUNICATION AND PARTIES ACCESSING THE DATA

Your personal data shall not be disclosed, but they may be communicated when necessary for the provision of the service to third parties (such as third party technical service providers, postal couriers, hosting providers, IT companies), appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Controller to fulfil any technical or organisational tasks that are instrumental in the provision of the services.

Access to the data is also allowed to categories of the Controller appointees involved in the organisation for data processing (administrative, sales, marketing, customer service personnel, system administrators).

The updated list of Data processors may always be requested from the Controller.

We shall retain the right to communicate the data to third parties if you have given your specific, optional consent.

5. TRANSFER OF DATA ABROAD

Your personal data shall be processed by the Controller within the territory of the European Union. If technical and/or operational issues make it necessary to rely on parties located outside the European Union, or if it becomes necessary to transfer some of the data collected to cloud-based technical systems and services located outside the area of the European Union, the processing activities shall be regulated in accordance with the provisions of Chapter V of the Regulation and authorised on the basis of specific decisions by the European Union.  Hence, all precautions necessary to assure the most comprehensive protection of personal data shall be taken, basing said transfer: a) on decision of adequacy of the recipient third party countries expressed by the European Commission; b) on adequate guarantees expressed by the recipient third party in accordance with Article 46 of the Regulation; c) on the adoption of Corporate binding rules.

6. PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING AND RETENTION PERIOD

In accordance with Article 5.1 e) of the GDPR, the Controller shall process your data for no longer than is necessary for the provision of the services for which the personal data are processed and shall be stored for the 6 following months for the completion of the administrative activities, as well as for the time necessary to fulfil legal obligations.

If you have authorised the profiling treatment, the anonymous data observed from time to time shall be erased 12 months after processing has started.

7. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT

The Controller guarantees to you that you may exercise, at any time, the rights granted by Article 12 of the GDPR. Specifically, you have the right:

• to know whether the Controller holds and/or processes personal data about you and to access them in full, also obtaining copies thereof (Article 15 Right of access by the data subject),
• to the rectification of inaccurate personal data or to the completion of incomplete personal data (Article 16 Right to rectification);
• to the erasure of personal data held by the Controller if one of the reasons specified by the GDPR applies (Right to erasure, Article 17);
• to ask the Controller to restrict processing only to some personal data, if one of the reasons specified by the Regulation (Article 18 Right to restriction of processing);
• to request and receive all your personal data processed by the Controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request transmission to another controller without hindrance (Article 20,Right to data portability);
• to object to all or part of the data processing for the purposes of transmitting advertising material and market surveys (“Consent”) (Article 21 Right to object);
• to object to all or part of the data processing in automatic or semiautomatic mode for profiling purposes (“Consent”)

You may exercise these rights by communicating to the Data Controller/Data Protection Officer whose addresses are indicated in the dedicated section of this policy.

Moreover, you always have the right to file a complaint with the Italian Authority for the Protection of Personal Data, at the address garante@gpdp.it or through the Website http://www.gpdp.it.

8. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

The Controller has identified and appointed a Data Protection Officer, in accordance with Article 37 of the GDPR, and has established an office for the management of requests pertaining to the privacy of their users and customers.

To exercise your guaranteed rights, you may contact us at the following addresses:

• Office of the Data Protection Officer – RCS Sports & Events S.r.l. – Via A. Rizzoli 8, 20132 Milan, Italy;
• Privacy Office – RCS Sports & Events S.r.l. – Via A. Rizzoli 8, 20132 Milan, Italy;
• or by sending an email to the address: privacy@rcs.it.

9. LATEST REVISION

This Privacy Policy is revised as of 08/04/2021

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Cookies are small aggregates of text stored locally in the temporary memory of your browser, and thus in your computer, for varying periods of time depending on the need and generally ranging from a few hours to a few years, with the exception of profiling cookies, whose maximum duration is 365 calendar days.
Cookies can be used to semi-permanently record information concerning your preferences and other technical data to enable easier navigation and greater usability and effectiveness of the website itself. By way of example, cookies can be used to determine whether a connection has already been made between your computer and our sites to highlight new features or maintain “login” information. For your protection, only the cookie stored on your computer is identified.
In order to make your visit to our website as comfortable as possible as well as for the showcasing of our product range, we use cookies or equivalent computer codes. We also employ usability analysis tools that track user actions to enable us to understand how our sites are used and to improve their functionality and design.

1. TYPES OF COOKIES

There are two families or types of cookies:

• THOSE INSTALLED BY THE OWNER/PROCESSOR OR CONTROLLER OF THE WEBSITE, REFERRED TO AS FIRST-PARTY COOKIES;
• THOSE INSTALLED BY THIRD-PARTY CONTROLLERS, KNOWN AS THIRD-PARTY COOKIES.

The responsibility and management of first-party cookies is assumed directly by the Controller.
Instead, the responsibility and management of third party cookies falls to the respective owners and operators who must provide appropriate opt-out mechanisms in their privacy policies.
Six different types of cookies may be present on this website or product:

1. Technical, session and analytics Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website and allow to manage access operations (so-called login) to the sites, to record configuration preferences where available or to integrate plug-ins necessary to display certain content.
Cookies used for statistical and performance analysis are also considered technical cookies, as long as they are configured to collect data in aggregate and anonymous form that provide a general picture of the performance of the sites and content.

2. Traffic and performance analysis cookies

These cookies provide insight into how visitors use a website, what content they access and what geographic regions they come from, so as to evaluate and improve the site’s performance and prioritise the production of content that best meets users’ information needs. These cookies are subject to the users’ consent and refusal can be expressed directly to the respective operators.

3. Profiling cookies for marketing and advertising purposes

These are cookies used to deliver advertising content within a website or application. They are used, for instance, to track the location of the advertisement and check whether a user has already seen the advertisement, but also to follow the user as he or she browses in order to profile the user and present him or her with advertisements linked to personal interests and socio-demographic data.

4. Widgets and other tools for interconnection with external sites and functions

These are cookies, often associated with a graphic element of the website such as an action button or a specific logo (e.g. the Facebook “like” button), used to integrate the functionalities of other sites within the one you are browsing. The responsibility for these cookies lies with the respective operators and users may object to their application directly on the information pages of the respective operator.

5. Tracking pixels or web beacons

These are application codes (scripts) and/or images that do not interfere with the aesthetics of the website but allow a third party to track traffic trends. For instance, they are used by advertisers to independently measure the progress of an advertising campaign and directly collect information that is otherwise unavailable. These cookies are also subject to the user’s consent and opting out of them is possible within the information notices of the respective operators.

6. Usability tools

These are functions written in application code and enable the site operator to analyse the way in which users interact with the content and functionality in order to check the user-friendliness, design quality and plan improvement changes. These scripts are configured so as not to capture elements typed by the users which would undermine their privacy and are subject to explicit consent. Consent refusal, when present on the pages of this site, is handled directly by the Controller/Owner of the website.

1. WHICH COOKIES ARE INSTALLED ON THIS SITE?

The Controller limits the use of cookies to what is strictly necessary to provide you with the services of this and their other sites and products. In particular, we feature the cookies outlined below.

1. COOKIES NOT SUBJECT TO CONSENT

1. Technical, session and analytics cookies

• Nielsen NetRatings (Audiweb) for official access statistics
• Nielsen NetRatings (Audiweb) mobile for public access statistics
• Adobe Omniture for internal access and traffic statistics
• Google Analytics for internal‑use access and traffic statistics

1. COOKIES SUBJECT TO CONSENT

The cookies referred to in this paragraph are subject to your consent.
You can consult the list of cookies and express your consent in a simplified manner as indicated in the information banner that you were shown on your first visit to this website, or in a selective manner by clicking on the button below:

We shall not use any category of cookies other than those strictly necessary for the fulfilment of the purposes set out in the cookie policy and for the operation of the website, in strict compliance with the consents you have given, and we shall pass on your wishes and choices, expressed by accepting or refusing your consent, to our business partners so that they may comply with them when you navigate on this website.
For all cookies installed by third parties not known to the Data Controller who, with your consent, may also process personal data through this site, you may exercise your right to object by accessing the following website http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/

Should you have further doubts or concerns about the use of cookies, you can always take action to prevent them from being set and read, for example by changing the privacy settings within your browser.
Since each browser – and often different versions of the same browser – may differ significantly from one another, should you prefer to act independently via your browser’s preferences, you can find detailed information on the necessary procedure in your browser’s help section.
For an overview of action modes for the most common browsers, please visit

http://www.cookiepedia.co.uk/index.php?title=How_to_Manage_Cookies

1. DURATION OF DATA PROCESSING

The cookies managed by the Controller have a maximum duration of 365 days, unless renewed voluntarily by you by reiterating your consent.
The profiling cookies managed by the Controller are anonymous and, once expired, remain within the statistical systems and profiling platforms in aggregate form and cannot be traced back to your browser for general statistical purposes only.
The cookies managed by third parties have the durations indicated in their respective Cookie Policies.

1. FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE EXERCISE OF YOUR RIGHTS

Any request for information or clarification or for the exercise of rights may be addressed to the Data Processor at the following addresses:

– UFFICIO DATA PROTECTION OFFICER C/O RCS SPORTS & EVENTS S.R.L. – VIA A. RIZZOLI 8, 20132 MILAN;

– UFFICIO PRIVACY C/O RCS SPORTS & EVENTS S.R.L. – VIA A. RIZZOLI 8, 20132 MILAN;

– OR BY SENDING AN E-MAIL TO: UFFICIO.PRIVACY@RCS.IT

Furthermore, you shall always be entitled to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority, which can be contacted at garante@gpdp.it or through the Website http://www.gpdp.it.

This Privacy Policy is updated as of 01/10/2020

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