PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
Hi there! Your privacy is very important to me. Therefore, I conduct my professional activities in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679), the “GDPR”.
This Privacy Policy has been written to provide you with information about how I process or intend to process personal information in my professional activities and how personal data are processed on this website. The language used is informal and plain on purpose to ease readability. Please read the Privacy Policy carefully to understand the practices regarding your personal data.
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy concerns personal data processed relating to visitors of this website (www.francescapichierri.com) and to actual and prospective customers of my business.
What is personal data?
Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) as ‘any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person’ (Article 4 (1) GDPR). Personal data covers information belonging to both the private and public sphere of an individual.
In simple terms, personal data is any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
What does processing mean?
Under the GDPR, ‘processing’ means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. (Art. 4 (2) GDPR).
Information processed in my professional activities and on this website
In my professional activities, I do not collect personal data about you unless you contact me. If you drop me a line, I may process your name, your email address and any other information that you choose to give me. Any personal data I may collect will only be processed in compliance with the law.
Concerning the use of this website, some data is collected automatically when you visit and enter the website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page view).
The web-hosting provider of this website is IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur (hereinafter IONOS). When you visit this website, IONOS records various log files including your IP addresses. Details can be found in the IONOS data protection declaration: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy.
This website uses the analysis services of IONOS WebAnalytics. Therefore, e.g. visitor numbers and behavior (e.g. number of page views, duration of a website visit, bounce rates), visitor sources (i.e. which website the visitor comes from), visitor locations and technical data (browser and operating system versions) are analyzed. For this purpose, IONOS stores the following data in particular:
Referer (previously visited website)
Requested web page or file
Browser type and browser version
Operating system used
Device type used
Time of access
IP address in anonymous form (only used to determine the location of access)
Generally, the data mentioned above are not collected for the purpose of identifying visitors/users but for the sole purpose of obtaining, anonymously, statistical information on the use of the website and checking its correct functioning.
IONOS states that data collection is completely anonymous so that it cannot be traced back to individual persons. Cookies are not stored by IONOS WebAnalytics.
Responsibilities
I am Francesca Pichierri and I am responsible for the processing of personal data necessary to conduct my professional activities.
These are my contact details:
Francesca Pichierri
Arndtstr. 36
70197 Stuttgart
Germany
Email address: mail@francescapichierri.com
Website: www.francescapichierri.com
The web-hosting provider of this website is IONOS. IONOS processes personal data (e.g. technical data) based on a contract with me. Details can be found in the IONOS data protection declaration: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy.
These are the contact details:
IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Str. 57
56410 Montabaur
Germany
Email: datenschutz@ionos.de
Website: https://www.ionos.de/kontakt
Uses of Personal Data
I use personal data primarily to build and maintain professional relationships with you. For example, I may use it to reply to your email, for financial management purposes, including invoicing, etc. Your data will be processed securely and in compliance with the law.
Concerning data collection on this website, part of the data is processed to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.
Data Retention
Your data will be stored for no longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your data will be stored securely. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted unless there are other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g. tax or commercial law retention periods); in the latter case, the data will be deleted once these reasons have ceased to exist.
I will store your personal data in Germany. This website will be located on the servers of the web host IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany.
Lawful Basis for Processing
The lawful basis for processing personal data in my professional activities is mainly legitimate interests in the effective delivery of information and services to you (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
Personal data is processed on the basis of Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR if your request is related to the fulfillment of a contract.
Data subject rights
Under the GDPR, you (the data subject) have a series of rights:
a) The right to be informed about the processing of your personal data.
b) The right to access your personal data.
c) The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by me is inaccurate or incomplete.
d) The right to be forgotten in certain circumstances, i.e. the right to ask me to delete any of your personal data that I may have collected.
e) The right to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
f) The right to object to processing for a particular purpose or purposes.
g) The right to data portability which allows you, in some cases, to obtain a copy of your personal data and reuse it for your own purposes across different services or businesses.
h) Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling.
You can have more information about this subject and exercise these rights by contacting me at mail@francescapichierri.com
Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority
In the event of violations of the GDPR, those affected have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged violation. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to the website operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to the website cannot be read by third parties.
Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit this website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with so-called analysis programs.
Note on data transfer to the USA and other third countries
This website may use tools from companies based in the USA or other third countries (e.g. You Tube). If these tools are active, your personal data can be transferred to these third countries and processed there. In these countries no level of data protection comparable to that of the EU can be guaranteed.
Plugins and Tools
YouTube
This website may include videos from the YouTube website. The website operator is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
If you visit a website on which YouTube is integrated, a connection to the YouTube servers will be established. The YouTube server is informed about which of the website pages you have visited.
Furthermore, YouTube can store various cookies on your end device or use comparable technologies for recognition. In this way, YouTube can receive information about visitors to this website. This information is used i.a. to collect video statistics, improve usability and prevent fraud attempts.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
YouTube is used in the interest of an attractive presentation of my professional offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information on handling user data can be found in YouTube’s data protection declaration at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.
Google Web Fonts
This website uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to display text and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the Google servers. This gives Google knowledge that this website was accessed via your IP address.
Google WebFonts are used on the basis of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, namely there is a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of the typeface on this website. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer.
For more information about Google Web Fonts, see: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
SoundCloud
Plugins from the social network SoundCloud (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, Great Britain) may be integrated on this website. You can recognize the SoundCloud plugins by the SoundCloud logo on the affected pages.
When you visit this website, after activating the plugin, a direct connection is established between your browser and the SoundCloud server. SoundCloud receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the “Like button” or “Share button” while logged into your SoundCloud user account, you can link and/or share the content of this website with your SoundCloud profile. This allows SoundCloud to associate your visit to this website with your user account. If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to this website with your SoundCloud user account, please log out of your SoundCloud user account before activating the SoundCloud plugin content.
SoundCloud is used in the interest of an attractive presentation of my professional offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Great Britain is regarded as a safe third country under data protection law. This means that Great Britain has a data protection level that corresponds to the data protection level in the European Union.
For more information, see SoundCloud’s privacy policy at: https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.
Spotify
Functions of the music service Spotify may be integrated on this website. The provider is Spotify AB, Birger Jarlsgatan 61, 113 56 Stockholm, Sweden. You can recognize the Spotify plugins by the green logo on this website. You can find an overview of the Spotify plugins at: https://developer.spotify.com. When you visit this website, a direct connection can be established between your browser and the Spotify server via the plugin. Spotify receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click the Spotify button while logged into your Spotify account, you can link the content of this website to your Spotify profile. This allows Spotify to associate your visit to this website with your user account. If you do not want Spotify to associate your visit to this website with your Spotify user account, log out of your Spotify user account.
When using Spotify, cookies are used by Google Analytics, so that your usage data can also be passed on to Google when using Spotify. Google Analytics is a tool from the Google group based in the USA to analyze user behavior. Spotify alone is responsible for this integration.
Spotify is used in the interest of an attractive presentation of my professional offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
For more information, see Spotify’s privacy policy: https://www.spotify.com/de/legal/privacy-policy/.
How to Contact Me
For further information regarding your personal data or about my approach to data protection in general please contact me at: mail@francescapichierri.com
Version 1.0 Issued 9th July 2022
This Privacy Policy has been written by me. Furthermore, I got some help from https://www.e-recht24.de and its privacy policy service