This Privacy and Cookie Policy ("Policy"), dated June 2018, replaces our previous policies. Please take the time to read it before continuing to use our products and services.
This Policy applies to all information you provide to us, including through websites, mobile apps, email and social media communications, telephone, and in person. It also covers all information we receive from third parties.
By using our products and services, including browsing our websites, registering, or logging in, you agree that we may use your information as described in this Policy.
If you do not want your information to be used in accordance with this Policy, you should not use our products and services and should not otherwise provide us with your information.
Information you have provided us with
In line with industry best practice guidelines, we maintain a central database where we compile and store all the information we hold about our customers. In the industry, this is often referred to as a "single customer view."
By using our websites, apps, and other products and services, you agree that we may collect, store, use, or otherwise process your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with such products and services and developing our business, which will include (but is not limited to):
If you have registered on our websites or apps, you may receive personalized recommendations, newsletters, and marketing communications. These are tailored based on your registration data and other information you provide to us, your browsing history, interactions with our emails, and information we receive from our trusted partners and data companies to help us understand what may be of interest to you. This also includes information you provide to us from social media sites when you choose to sign in or log in to our websites or apps using your social media account, or when you link your registration with us to your social media account. This information may be collected using cookies and similar technologies. Demographic information derived from your registration may be used by us for personalized advertising. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy below.
Our websites may offer message boards, blogs, and other user-generated content. Anything you share will become public information. You should always exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
You may only share another person's data with us if you have their explicit permission.
Where we provide services that use your device's location, such as local offers, your location will be determined by searching your IP address in a "GeoIP" database that lists information provided by your ISP (usually the nearest city or neighborhood) or by your exact location directly from your device (e.g., via GPS or Wi-Fi on mobile devices), if you have authorized us to access this location information. If you have authorized us to use your location, we may use it for marketing and advertising purposes.
When you install one of our apps on your mobile device, push or in-app notifications may be used. These notifications are used for a variety of reasons. For example, push notifications may be used to trigger the automatic download of new content (such as a new edition) or to send you an update message. For more information on the use of notifications, please refer to the download or installation page for each app. Within the app, you may be able to choose to receive only certain types of notifications. If you order a product or service from us, we may ask you for information such as your name, email address, delivery and billing address, credit or debit card number, and expiration date. Sometimes we may ask for your phone number to forward to the carriers who may deliver your order. This data allows us to process your orders efficiently.
If you participate in a contest or promotion, we may ask you for your name, address, email address, or phone number. This allows us to administer the contest effectively and notify you if you win.
We are proud to offer our readers high-quality online content free of charge. As part of this content, we offer advertising related to event delegates, sponsors, and/or other participants. Some advertisements are "contextual," meaning they are displayed based on the specific web page you are viewing. Other advertisements, known as "online behavioral advertising," are shown to you based on your likely interests, as inferred from your device's browsing history. This information is collected through the use of cookies and similar technologies. You can opt out of online behavioral advertising at any time. For more details, please see our Cookie Policy. Sometimes we allow advertisers to show their ads directly on our websites and apps, tailored based on information they have obtained, such as your browsing history on their websites. Other times, we will arrange for our customers to be shown advertisements on our websites or other apps. These advertisements are tailored based on information we have obtained from your browsing on our websites and apps, and information about your likely interests that we obtain from our partners and specialized data companies, where they have your consent to share such information with us, in accordance with their privacy policies. When we arrange for the display of advertisements for our customers, we use technological and contractual mechanisms to protect your cookie data and to ensure that your browsing data used for advertising is not used by advertisers or other website owners for other purposes, such as linking online behavioral advertising data with your contact details, unless you have given the advertiser or other websites your explicit consent to do so. If you have registered on our websites or apps, we may analyze the information we hold about you in aggregate with that of our other customers to improve our advertising systems. When you are shown an advertisement, our advertising systems do not know who you are or your contact details (such as your name, address, or email address). Demographic information derived from your registration on our websites and apps (such as your age, gender, and city) may be used to personalize the advertising we organize for you. Your demographic information is not shared with advertisers. Where you have given us, our advertising partners, or data processing companies permission to access your device's location, this location information may be used to personalize the advertising you receive, including showing you certain advertisements when you are near a particular location.
We may target advertising on social media to specifically include or exclude customers who have signed up for our products and services. For example, customers who have an outdated version of our app may see an ad for the latest version, or customers who have already signed up for our newsletters may not see ads for those newsletters.
When you purchase goods or services from us, we may work with specialized companies to fulfill your order. We usually remain the data controller for your data, and the other companies only process the data according to our instructions and cannot use it for their own purposes. We will do everything we can to ensure that these third parties process your data securely. We sometimes offer promotions from other companies. In this case, the other company will use your information as the data controller, in accordance with its own privacy policies. We may also use your information for marketing purposes as the data controller. We will inform you of the specific methods at the time you provide your personal data. We may share information about you with suppliers we engage to help us provide services and/or features, such as online payment processing. As mentioned above, we may share your personal information with other companies in the FCE GROUP. We may also share your personal information with third parties if you have given us your consent or if the third party can confirm that it has received your consent. We may also provide third parties with certain aggregated statistical data about our customers' use of our websites and apps, which may include demographic data such as the age range and/or geographic location of groups of our customers. This aggregated data does not include contact details (such as the customer's name, address, or email address). We may transfer, sell, or assign any information described in this Policy to third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of control, transfer of assets, or reorganization of our business. We may also share your information as required by law and as provided for in the Italian Personal Data Protection Code and other data protection laws.
We have taken measures to protect the security of your personal information from unauthorized access or use, for example by using encryption technologies. We comply with the Personal Data Protection Code and related data protection laws. For more information on the Personal Data Protection Code and your related rights, please visit the website of the Italian Data Protection Authority www.garanteprivacy.it/home_it/legislazione-italiana.
Our websites, apps, and other products and services are not directed at children. We do not target, intend to collect, or knowingly collect or otherwise process information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide us with your information and do not use our websites and apps. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13, please contact us if you are aware that your child has used our websites or apps or otherwise provided us with their information without your consent. In addition to the "your choices" described in this Policy, we will delete or otherwise cease processing your child's personal data within a reasonable period of time. If you are 13, 14, or 15 years old, we ask that you obtain permission from a parent or guardian before providing us with your information or using our websites or apps.
Please note that our websites, apps, and other products and services may not function properly (or may not function at all) if you change your preferences. For your cookie choices, please see the Cookie Policy below.
You can unsubscribe from a specific marketing campaign or newsletter by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in each email. You can unsubscribe from marketing text messages by replying "STOP." In accordance with industry best practice guidelines, we may retain your information (including your unsubscribe choice) for a reasonable period of time to ensure that we do not contact you in the future.
You can choose whether to provide us with your exact location from your device via the "Help" menu of your browser or via the "Location" or "Location Services" options in the "Settings" section of your mobile device.
You will be asked to choose whether to receive push notifications the first time you run each of our apps, and you can update your preferences at any time via your device's Settings.
Please note that when you use our websites and apps, we may collect information using cookies or similar technologies. When you visit our social media pages or other websites, the social media site or other website may also use cookies in accordance with its own cookie policies.
Cookies are small files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Your browser sends these cookies to the website each time you visit the site again, so that it can recognize you. This allows websites to personalize what you see on your screen.
Our websites, apps, and emails often contain small invisible images known as "web beacons" or "tracking pixels." These are used in a similar way to cookies, to understand when a particular part of a web page, email, or app is viewed. Our apps often use device identifiers in the same way that cookies are used on web browsers. A device identifier is a unique number on your device that allows us to remember it. We use these similar technologies on websites, emails, and apps for the same purposes and in a very similar way to how we use cookies on websites. Below, we will use the terms "cookies" and "websites" as shorthand for "cookies and similar technologies" in "websites, emails, and apps."
Cookies are an important part of the Internet. They make websites much more user-friendly and influence many of their useful features. Cookies have many different uses, but they can be divided into four main groups:
Some cookies are essential to enable you to browse our websites and use their features. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided. These cookies do not collect information about you that could be used for marketing purposes or to remember your browsing history. For example:
These cookies allow our websites to remember choices you make, such as your language or region, and provide enhanced features. For example:
We want to keep track of which pages, links, and sections of our apps are popular and which are less used, to help us keep our sites relevant and up to date. It is also useful to be able to identify trends in how people navigate (find their way around) our sites and whether they receive "error messages" from web pages. We may use analytics tools that record how our readers interact with the content on our pages and their click/tap, movement, scrolling, and keystroke activities. We use cookies, often called "analytics cookies," to collect this information. These cookies do not store your contact details (such as your name, address, and email address). However, we may combine the information collected by analytics cookies with other information you provide to us. For example, if you have registered an account with us, we may combine your contact details and other information you provide with your device's browsing history collected by analytics cookies (including data collected before you registered and when you log out). We use this information to provide you with personalized content recommendations and marketing communications. We may also use this combined information to improve our products and services. For example, we may analyze this information in aggregate form to improve our advertising systems.
Some advertisements, known as "online behavioral advertising" or "OBA," are tailored to your needs and use information collected from proprietary and third-party cookies. For more information on how we use online behavioral advertising, please see our Privacy Policy above. We also use cookies to track how many ads we serve, how many times they are clicked or hovered over, how many ads we show to a particular user, and how many actions these ads generate. We also use cookies on our sites and those of advertisers to understand which customers reach a sales or action page on an advertiser's site. This allows us to track how many sales or actions we generate for an advertising customer and, as a result, how effective our advertising is. To protect our advertisers' brands, we often use technology that analyzes the page to ensure that it is free of vulgar, sensitive, and potentially brand-damaging topics before we place an ad. This process is called "ad verification." We and our advertisers may use information on our web pages to determine whether you have activated an ad blocker. This information may be stored or associated with your device (including through the use of cookies) to reinsert advertisements on our websites and to understand how our customers use ad blockers. Re-displayed ads may include those on ad blocker "whitelists" or those promoting our products and services. Our websites do not respond to "Do Not Track" (DNT) browser settings. To change your preferences for advertising and analytics cookies, click here to read our Privacy Policy and Cookie FAQ. Some of our web pages will contain promotional links to other companies' websites. If you follow one of these links and then register or purchase something from that other website, a cookie is sometimes used to tell that other website that you came from one of our websites. That other website may then pay us a small fee for the successful referral.
Please note that our websites, apps, and other products and services may not function properly (or may not function at all) if you change your preferences. For example, you may not be able to purchase products through our websites. However, you may still be able to place an order through our telephone line. Please refer to our websites for more details. You can choose not to receive cookies by changing your web browser settings. For more information on how to do this, click here to read our Privacy Policy and FAQs about cookies. You can usually prevent web beacons from working by changing your web browser's cookie settings and advertising choices, or, for those in emails, by disabling images in your email client or viewing emails using only the "text" view (rather than the "HTML" view). Please refer to the "Help" section of your email client for instructions. When you use our apps, technologies similar to cookies are used for analytics. At this time, it is not possible to disable these similar technologies. If you do not wish to be included in our analytics or analysis, please do not use our apps.
When using a mobile device, you can opt out of receiving online behavioral advertising by selecting "Limit Ad Tracking" in the Settings on your Apple iPhone or iPad, or "Opt Out of Interest-Based Ads" in the Settings on your Android device. You can also reset the unique identifier used for online behavioral advertising (called "Ad ID") in the Settings of your Apple or Android device. You can change your advertising preferences on social media within the social media site. For example, on Facebook, you can select "Hide All from This Advertiser" to no longer see ads from a particular advertiser.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy and Cookie Policy, please contact us at info@fcegroup.it. If you would like to review or receive a copy of your personal data in our possession, or further information about how we manage your data, please write to us at:
Data controller
FCE GROUP srl
viale Sabotino 4
20135 Milan, Italy
E: info@fcegroup.it.
Where permitted by law, we may charge a small administrative fee (not exceeding the maximum permitted) for processing a request for access to personal data.
We reserve the right to make changes to our Privacy and Cookie Policy at any time. If changes are made, we will post the updated version of the Policy here with the updated effective date. Your continued use of our websites, apps, or other products or services constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
