Privacy Policy

The entity that owns and manages this website is the Parma Ham Consortium, with head office in Largo Calamandrei, 1/A – 43121, Parma and registration number with the Business Registry (VAT) corresponding to the following: 00252820345 (hereinafter also referred to as the “Consortium” or “the entity”). For any further information, the Consortium may be contacted by telephoning 0521.246211 or faxing 0521 243983, or by using the “contacts” area on this site or by sending an email to info@prosciuttodiparma.com.

The owner and person responsible for the processing of personal data that may be collected through this site is the Parma Ham Consortium as identified above. For any information regarding the ownership and responsibility for the data it is possible to contact the Parma Ham Consortium by telephone +39.0521.246211, or fax +39.0521.243983, or by using the “contacts” area on this site or by sending an email to info@prosciuttodiparma.com.

The processing operations connected to the web services of this site take place at the registered office and are carried out only by technical personnel of the Office in charge of processing, or by persons in charge of periodical maintenance operations. No data deriving from the web service is communicated or disseminated. The personal data provided by users who request dispatch of informative material (bulletins, answers to questions, various acts, etc.) are used solely for the purpose of performing the service or provision requested.

Navigation data
The computer systems and software procedures used to operate this website acquire, during their normal operation, some personal data whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols. This information is not collected in order to be associated with identified interested parties, but by its very nature could, through processing and association with data held by third parties, allow users to be identified. This category of data includes the IP addresses or domain names of the computers used by users connecting to the site, the URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) notation addresses of the resources requested, the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (successful, error, etc.), and other parameters relating to the user’s operating system and IT environment. This data is used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the use of the site and to check its correct operation, and is deleted immediately after processing. The data could be used to ascertain responsibility in the event of hypothetical computer crimes to the detriment of the site.

Data provided voluntarily by the user
The Parma Ham Consortium collects personal data exclusively following the consent of its users. In detail, information is collected through registration in the specific sections “Corriere del Gusto”, “Reserved Area”, “Press Area” (the latter two reserved to certain categories of users), or by filling in the contact form or sending e-mails to the Consortium’s e-mail addresses. In this regard, it should be noted that registration in these areas, as well as the use of the contact section and the sending of e-mails, presupposes the reading, knowledge and acceptance of what is set out in this information notice, as well as in the conditions of use of this site (link), and implies express consent to the processing of data. It will therefore be the user’s responsibility to read the above before proceeding to provide data.

The processing carried out on personal data may include the following activities: collection, recording, organisation, storage, processing, communication, deletion and destruction (the list of these activities is reproduced for purely illustrative purposes). The purpose of the processing is exclusively to be able to provide the services offered on the website and to enable the necessary management. In addition, with the above-mentioned registrations and activities, users give their explicit consent to the use of their data for the purposes specified from time to time, such as the sending of ad hoc newsletters, the processing of market research and the drawing up of statistics.

The user guarantees that he or she belongs to the categories authorised to access the relevant sections at the time of provision, as well as the authenticity and up-to-dateness of the data provided. In this sense, he/she undertakes to keep the data up-to-date. The Consortium reserves the right not to accept the registration request, particularly in the event that the applicant does not belong to the categories authorised to access the relevant areas.

We reiterate that the voluntary sending of e-mail messages to the addresses indicated in the Contacts section of this site, or the filling in of the contact form itself, presupposes the complete and full knowledge and acceptance of the provisions set forth in this Information Notice and implies consent to the acquisition and processing of the data provided in such communications in the manner and for the purposes described above. Consent to processing will be given through a specific form.

Personal data are processed by 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 unauthorised access. The Consortium undertakes to treat the data collected with extreme diligence and guarantees the utmost confidentiality at any stage of processing.

The subjects to whom the personal data refer have at any time the right to request access to and rectification of the data, their deletion, restriction of processing, the right to object to their processing, as well as the right to data portability; they also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Supervisory Authority. Requests should be addressed to the Data Controller by writing to: info@consorziodelprosciutto.it

The controller reserves the right to change, update, add or remove parts of this privacy policy at its own discretion and at any time. In order to facilitate such verification, the notice will contain the date of update.

The e-mail address provided by interested users during the registration process for the “Corriere del Gusto” area will be used by the Parma Ham Consortium to send newsletters containing information and news related to the contents of the area itself, as well as the contents of the Consortium’s website. Users may at any time revoke their consent to the sending of newsletters to their e-mail address by calling 0521.246211, or Fax 0521 243983, or by sending an e-mail to info@prosciuttodiparma.com, indicating as subject “personal data – revoke consent to the sending of newsletters”.

This website uses cookies to ensure the proper functioning of the procedures and to improve the user’s experience of using the applications and browsing; in this sense, browsing this site, or selecting an element of it, entails the contextual and implicit provision by the user of consent to the use of such cookies.

With regard to the way cookies are used, please refer to the additional and specific “extended information notice” published on this website and drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the Order of 8 May 2014 issued by the Italian Data Protection Authority, which supplements and completes this document.

8.1 What are cookies

What are cookies? Cookies are small text files sent by a server to a user’s device (usually the Internet browser) when the user accesses a page on a website. Cookies allow the web server to store information for reuse during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later (persistent cookies). Cookies make it easier to navigate around the site and allow the storage of visited pages and other specific information, such as frequently consulted pages, connection errors, etc. Cookies are stored, according to user preferences, by the individual browser on the specific device being used (computer, tablet, smartphone). Browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari etc.) are often set to automatically accept cookies. However, users can change the default configuration to disable or delete cookies with the consequence, however, that the optimal use of certain areas of the Site may be precluded. Therefore, for optimal use of this Site, it would be advisable for users to configure their browser to accept the receipt of such cookies. In the course of browsing, moreover, the user may also receive on his or her terminal equipment cookies from different websites (so-called “third party” cookies) set directly by the operators of said websites and used for the purposes and in the manner defined by them.

8.2 Types of cookies
According to the characteristics and use of cookies, the following categories can be distinguished:

a) Technical cookies: these are cookies that are necessary for navigating on a website and using its functionalities, such as for example to allow pages to be displayed correctly or access reserved areas. Therefore, disabling such cookies does not allow these activities. They are not used for any further purposes and can be divided into:

• navigation or session cookies: they ensure normal navigation and use of the website;
• analytics cookies: these can be assimilated to technical cookies only if they are used for site optimisation purposes directly by the site owner, who may collect information in aggregate form on the number of users and how they visit the site.
• functionality cookies, which allow the user to navigate according to a set of selected criteria (e.g. language) in order to improve the service rendered to the user.

b) Performance cookies: these collect information on the efficiency of a website’s responses to user requests in an anonymous form, for the sole purpose of improving the website’s functionality; for example, which pages are most frequently visited by the user, and whether there have been any errors or slowdowns in the delivery of web pages.

c) Profiling cookies: these are designed to create profiles of the user and are used to send advertising messages in line with the preferences expressed by the user when surfing the web.

In this regard, it should be noted that this site does not use profiling cookies, but only technical cookies: Matomo Analytics in aggregate form and session cookies.

8.3 Third Party Cookies
When visiting this Website you may also receive cookies on your device from sites operated by other organisations (so-called “third party cookies”). This happens because the Website may contain elements such as, for example, specific links to web pages of third party websites or web services . These cookies may be sent to the user’s browser by third-party companies directly from their own websites, which can be accessed by navigating from this same site and clicking on the relevant links.

For the purposes of information transparency, below is a list of third party services present on the site, their purpose and links to the information pages of the various services:

a) the site uses Matomo, an open source web analytics software adopted to address compliance with data protection regulation – GDPR. To analyze the points of greatest interest of the sites visited by the user, Matomo uses cookies for statistical purposes and collects information in aggregate form only, without associating the user’s browsing IP address with any other previously collected data. Tools are in place to reduce the identifying power of cookies by masking significant portions of the IP. A privacy policy can be found on Matomo’s website https://matomo.org/privacy.

The controller reserves the right to change, update, add or remove parts of this privacy policy at its own discretion and at any time. In order to facilitate such verification, the notice will contain the date of update.

If the user has not already done so, he/she is invited to read the conditions of use of the site, which can be consulted in the appropriate area, or by following this link.

If the user has not already done so, he/she is invited to read the candidate information for the establishment of an employment relationship by following this link.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to read the customer information notice by following this link.

f you have not already done so, we invite you to read the supplier policy by following this link.

If the user has not already done so, he/she is invited to read the website navigator’s notice by following this link.

If you have not already done so, we invite you to read the members, associates, subscribers and specialists, notice by following this link.