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RCS Sport S.p.A. and RCS Mediagroup S.p.A with their registered office in Milan, Via A. Rizzoli 8 are co-controllers and SSD RCS Active Team a.r.l. with its registered office in Milan, Via A. Rizzoli 8 is the autonomous Controller of personal data gathered on this site in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)

This Privacy Disclosure is revised as at 15 May 2018

In accordance with the effort and care that RCS Sport S.p.A., RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. and SSD RCS Active Team a.r.l. (hereafter the Controllers) dedicate to the safeguard of personal data, we hereby inform you about the procedures, purposes and scope of communication and disclosure of your personal data and about your rights, in accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR.

1. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED BY THE DATA CONTROLLER

To offer you the services provided by their own Websites, the Controllers, in their capacity as Data Controllers, shall process some personal data necessary for the performance of the services.

These 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 controllers 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 SSD Active Team a.r.l exclusively with methods and procedures necessary to allow you to participate in sports initiatives and receive communications relating thereto and by RCS Sport S.p.A. and RCS Mediagroup S.p.A. to send you newsletters.

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

Also with your consent, the data may be used for purposes of profiling carried out automatically gathering information about the browsing you carry out when accessing and utilising the services and, by means of statistic correlation algorithm, they tie them 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, your systems will necessarily be able to offer you contents that are closer to 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 read this Disclosure, the Controllers use the profiling data to aggregate marketing profiles, to manage relations with advertisers and improve their campaigns, to infer patterns of utilisation of our products and services and to assist 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, humanitarian and charitable organisations which may contact you as Controllers of autonomous 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 performance of the service to third parties (as third party technical service providers, postal couriers, hosting providers, IT companies), appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Controllers for the technical or organisational tasks that are instrumental for the performance of the services.

Access to the data is also allowed to categories of the Controllers 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 Data Controllers.

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 Data Controllers 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 gathered to technical systems and services managed in clouds and 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 adopted, 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. DURATION OF THE PROCESSING AND RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA

In accordance with Article 5.1 e) of the GDPR, the Controllers shall process your data “for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed; personal data may be stored for longer periods insofar as the personal data will be processed solely for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) subject to implementation of the appropriate technical and organisational measures required by this Regulation in order to safeguard the rights and freedoms of the data subject”.

The data provided by you shall be processed throughout the time of execution of the required services and shall be stored for the 12 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 starts.

7. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT

The Controllers hereby guarantee to you that you may exercise, at any time, the rights specified by Article 12 of the GDPR. In particular, you have the right:

• to know whether the Controllers hold and/or process 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 in the Controllers’ possession if one of the reasons specified by the GDPR applies (Right to erasure, Article 17);
• to ask the Controllers to limit 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 Controllers, 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”)

These rights may be exercised by communication to the Data Controllers/Data Protection Officer whose addresses are indicated in the dedicated section of this disclosure.

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 Controllers have 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 and/or RCS Sport S.p.A. and/or RCS Mediagroup S.p.A. and/or SSD RCS Active Team a.r.l.- Via A. Rizzoli 8, 20132 Milan, Italy
• Privacy Data Protection Officer and/or RCS Sport S.p.A. and/or RCS Mediagroup S.p.A. and/or SSD RCS Active Team a.r.l..- Via A. Rizzoli 8, 20132 Milan, Italy
• or by sending an email to the address: privacy@rcsdigital.it

9. LATEST REVISION

This Privacy Disclosure is revised as at 15 May 2018

To make your visit of our Website more convenient, we use cookies for the presentation of our product assortment. Cookies are small text aggregates recorded locally in the temporary memory of your browser, and hence in your computer, for periods of time that may vary according to the need, generally between a few hours and some years, with the exception of the profiling cookies, whose maximum duration is 365 calendar days.

Using the cookies, it is possible semi-permanently to record information about your preferences and other technical data that allow for easier browsing and greater ease of use and effectiveness of the site itself. For example, cookies can be used to determine whether a connection between your computer and our sites has already been carried out, to highlight changes or maintain log-in information. For your protection, only the cookie stored on your computer is identified.

1. TYPES OF COOKIES

This site or product can use four different types of cookies:

1. Essential technical cookies

These cookies are necessary for the correct operation of the site. They allow users to browse through the pages, to share our contents, to store your access credentials to make entry into the site faster and to keep your preferences and credentials active while browsing. Without these cookies we could not perform the services for which users access the website.

This category includes the essential cookies for the operation of the website or of the product, such as the technical cookies for access to the website or for communication between the parties and the services that comprise it. This category also includes cookies of third parties’ products supplemented by the Controllers for the execution of a specific functionality. In detail:

• Google DFP limited to the provision of non-profiled advertising [GOOGLE DISCLOSURE LINK] [GOOGLE PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• …

2. Essential technical cookies for statistics and performance analysis

These cookies enable us to know in what way visitors use the website and thus be able to assess and improve the operation and promote the production of contents that better meet our users’ information needs. For example, they allow us to know which pages are the most and least visited. They take into account, inter alia, the number of visitors, the time spent on the website by users on average and the manner in which the users are arrived. In this way, we can know what works well and what we need to improve and we can ensure that the pages are loaded quickly and are displayed correctly. All the information gathered by these cookies is anonymous and unconnected to the user’s personal data. To carry out these functions in our websites, we use the services of third parties that anonymise the data making them impossible to connect to single individuals (“single-in”). When services that are not fully anonymised are provided, you will find them listed among the third party cookies for which consent can be denied, to guarantee your privacy.

This category includes duly anonymised analytical cookies. This website, in particular, uses the following products:

• Nielsen NetRatings (Audiweb) for official access statistics [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• Adobe Omniture for internal access and traffic statistics [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• Chartbeat for instantaneous access and traffic statistics for internal use [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• …

3. Cookies for user profiling directed at advertisement targeting, for the performance of external features integrated in the website

These cookies allow us to offer notices about the user and the respective interests. They are also used to limit the number of visualisations of a same advertisement and to assess the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

They are inserted by the Controllers by means of partner technical platforms of their advertising circuit and they contribute to our investment in the Websites, enabling them adequately to finance the maintenance of the services and their technological evolution. They can also be utilised to show the user pertinent ads on other visited Websites.

These cookies are integrated in the pages and in the products by the Controllers which, in compliance with current regulations, offer in this Disclosure the instruments and instructions to exercising the right to selective objection to their use.

Specifically, the Controllers use

• Salesforce KRUX (Data Management Platform) for profiling the users of the products and services, directed at the definition of the digital strategies, of the performance of profiled advertising campaigns and of the analysis of the audience marketing [ OPT-IN/OPT-OUT] [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• Unidad Editorial DMP (Data Management Platform) for profiling the users of the products and services, directed at the definition of the digital strategies, of the performance of profiled advertising campaigns and of the analysis of the audience marketing [ OPT-IN/OPT-OUT] [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• Google DFP and its aggregate platforms (LIST OF PARTIES MANAGED BY GOOGLE) limited to the delivery of profiled advertising [OPT-IN/OPT-OUT] [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• Facebook limited to the features of social log-in, “like” and sharing RCS contents on the Facebook social network [OPT-IN/OPT-OUT] [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK] Facebook limited to the features of social log-in, “like” and sharing RCS contents on the Facebook social network [OPT-IN/OPT-OUT]    [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• Twitter limited to the features of social log-in and sharing RCS contents on the Twitter social network [OPT-IN/OPT-OUT] [DISCLOSURE LINK] [PRIVACY POLICY LINK]
• …

4. Functional and third party profiling cookies

This category includes both cookies provided by parties that are partnered with the Controllers and known to them, and cookies provided by third parties that are not directly controlled or controllable by the Controllers.

The cookies that come from our partners enable us to offer advanced features, as well as additional information and personal functions. This includes the possibility of sharing contents through the social networks, of accessing video streaming services and the CDNs on which we host our contents. These services are mainly performed by external operators engaged or knowingly integrated by the Controllers. If a user has an account or uses other parties’ services on other Websites, the other parties may be able to know that the user has visited our own sites. Use of the data gathered by these external operators through cookies is subject to the respective privacy policies and therefore these cookies are identified with the names of the respective parties set out in the cookie management instrument available in the dedicated section of this Disclosure.  These include the cookies recorded by the main social networks, which allow you to share our websites’ articles and to publicly show that you like our work.

Cookies that do not come from the Controllers partners are cookies delivered without the control of the Controllers, by third parties that are able to intercept the user during his/her browsing also outside the Controllers’ websites. These cookies, which are typically profiling cookies, are not directly controllable by the Controlelrs which therefore cannot provide guarantees with regard to the way third party controllers use the information gathered. Opposition to the use of these cookies, therefore, can either take place through external instruments or through your direct action on your browser preferences. For details, please refer to “COOKIE MANAGEMENT” section.

1. COOKIE MANAGEMENT

If you have any doubts or concerns with regard to the use of the cookies, you can always intervene to prevent them from being set up and read, for example changing the privacy settings in your browser to block certain types of cookies or using the web instrument that the Controllers makes available to you in this Disclosure.

Since browsers – and oftentimes even different versions of the same browser – differ even markedly from each other, if you prefer to act on your own using your browser preference, you can find detailed information about the necessary procedure in your browser guide. For an overview of the procedures for the most common browsers, please visit

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

Advertising companies also allow users to opt out of receiving targeted ads, if they so desire. This does not prevent cookies from being set up, but it does interrupt the utilisation and collection of some data by these companies.

For additional information and the possibility to opt out, please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/

To simplify your decisions and in compliance with current regulations, the Controllers provide you with a management tool for the selective activation and deactivation of any cookies you do not like among those controlled or controllable by the Controllers.

In the instrument you will find, listed in categories, all the cookies we manage or knowingly host.

[ACTIVATE THE COOKIE MANAGEMENT TOOL]

1. ACCEPTANCE OR REJECTION OF THE COOKIES

Continuing to browse on this website, closing the disclosure tab or clicking in any part of the page or scrolling through it to highlight additional content, you provide manifest, explicit acceptance of the Controllers’ Cookie Policy and the cookies you have not rejected will be set up and gathered. If you do not accept the cookies by leaving the site, any cookies already recorded locally in your browser will remain recorded therein but will no longer be read or used by the Controllers until you indicate your acceptance of the Policy. You can always remove these cookies at any time with the procedures explained in the websites mentioned in “Cookie management” or using the tool made available by the Controllers.

1. DURATION OF THE PROCESSING

Cookies managed by the Controllers have a maximum duration of 365 days, barring any voluntary renewals you carry out by reiterating consent.

The profiling cookies managed by the Controllers are anonymous and remain within statistical systems and profiling platforms exclusively for statistical purposes even if they can no longer be connected to your browser.

Cookies management by third parties have the durations indicated in the respective Cookie Policies.

1. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT

You can exercise your right to object to the use of all cookies by leaving this site, thereby also refusing use of the essential technical cookies that are necessary for its operation.

If instead you intend to reject the use of one or more non-essential cookies, you may deny your consent for the cookies managed by the Controllers or by their partners directly from this disclosure with the “refusal” selectors next to the name of the cookie or of its supplier.

To refuse third party cookies not controlled by the Controllers, instead, you can proceed according to the indications available from the website http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/.

Any request for information or clarification or for exercising rights can be sent to the Data Processor at the following addresses:

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

• Office of the Data Protection Officer and/or RCS Sport S.p.A. and/or RCS Mediagroup S.p.A. and/or SSD RCS Active Team a.r.l.- Via A. Rizzoli 8, 20132 Milan, Italy
• Privacy Data Protection Officer and/or RCS Sport S.p.A. and/or RCS Mediagroup S.p.A. and/or SSD RCS Active Team a.r.l..- Via A. Rizzoli 8, 20132 Milan, Italy
• or by sending an email to the address: privacy@rcsdigital.it

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

This Privacy Disclosure is revised as at 15 May 2018