Terms and Conditions & Privacy Policy

Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions set out the legal rules applicable to the EBTA Conference 2019. Participants shall be bound by these terms and conditions upon registering for the Conference and are advised to read and understand these terms carefully before registering. The Organizer will not accept any conditions contradictory to or deviant from these general terms and conditions.

Organizer

Responsible for the organization of the EBTA Conference 2019 is:

Fondazione Franceschi Onlus
Vice president: Dr. Andrea Leonardi
Via San Gallo 40, 50129, Florence, Italy
Tax code: 05943510486

Phone/Fax: +39 055 4328878
E-Mail: segreteria@fondazionefranceschi.org

Legal Entity by Decree of the President of the Region of Tuscany No. 4629, dated 28/09/2009

Registration

Registrations will be considered in their order of arrival.

Registration to the EBTA Conference 2019 conference must be done through the online registration system. Participants will receive an automatic confirmation of the registration details.
After the payment you will receive an e-mail message that the transaction was successful. All payments are made in Euro and include VAT.

If you do not obtain anything, please send an email to info@ebta2019florence.org to make sure that the organizer has received your booking. Registration will only be effective on receipt of the registration fee. Please notify any corrections to your registration immediately.

Cancellations and refunds

All cancellations must be received in writing or by email by July 30th. Refunds will be provided minus a handling and transaction charge of €50.

No refund of any kind, for any reason (including medical emergencies) will be given for cancellation requests received after July 30th.

Substitutions from the same organization are welcome at no additional fee. If a substitution is necessary, please email info@ebta2019florence.org ahead of time or bring a written statement/email from the person who will not be attending to the on-site registration counter. This will help simplify the transfer process and expedite registration.

No-shows are liable for the entire conference fee.

EBTA Conference 2019  reserves the right to cancel the event or substitute speakers. In the unlikely event that EBTA Conference 2019  should have to cancel the conference, attendees will be refunded for the amount paid for the conference, but EBTA Conference 2019  is not responsible for any attendees’ other related expenses, including hotel and travel.

Refunds will be issued within 30 business days after the scheduled conclusion of the conference. Sorry, EBTA Conference 2019  cannot, and does not, make exceptions to this policy.

All cancellations and changes must be submitted in written form – with indication of full name, invoice number and bank details for reimbursement – to: info@ebta2019florence.org

Liability

The Organizer does not accept liability for the up-to-dateness, correctness and completeness in respect to conference documentation and content.

The Organizer will not assume any responsibility whatsoever for any damage or injury to persons or property during the EBTA Conference 2019.

Photographs, video-streaming, etc.

The Organizer may free of charge and without the further consent of the participants use and release video, pictures and shots taken of the participants and/or their works (such as excerpts of presentations or lectures) during the Conference, for reports of the Conference and announcement of events in future.

Privacy Policy

All personal data provided to the Organizer for registration will be treated as confidential. The data shall be used and stored for further processing and documentation purposes. The information will not be re-used for an incompatible purpose. Data shall be delivered to assigned service providers, as deemed necessary for the successful performance of the Conference. The Organizer will only disclose information to third parties if that is necessary for the fulfillment of the purpose(s) identified above. For more information about the Privacy Policy, please see (link pagina della Privacy)

Severability Clause

If any provision of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid, the invalidity of that provision will not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms and Conditions, which shall remain in full force and effect.

Disputes

All agreements between the Organizer and the Participant and all disputes which may arise between the Organizer and the Participants shall be exclusively subject to Italian law. Court of jurisdiction shall be Florence, if not otherwise required by the Italia Consumer Protection Act.

Privacy Policy

WHY THIS NOTICE

Dear Visitor,

Thank you for accessing the website www.ebta2019florence.org and taking your time to read the privacy statement concerning its use. This privacy policy is regularly updated according to the regulations in force in terms of privacy.

This page describes the management mode of the  website www.ebta2019florence.org

regarding the processing of personal data of users who consult it.

This policy is provided pursuant to art. 13 of the legislative decree n. 196/2003 – Code regarding the protection of personal data (hereinafter ‘Code’) and art. 13 of EU Regulation 679/2016 (hereinafter ‘Regulations’). The information is also based on the Recommendation n. 2/2001 that the European Authorities for the protection of personal data, gathered in the Group established by the art. 29 of the directive n. 95/46 / EC, adopted on 17 May 2001 to identify certain minimum requirements for the collection of personal data online, and, in particular, methods, timing and nature of the informations that the holders of the treatment must provide to the users when they connect to web pages, regardless of the purposes of the link.

The provided data will be processed in compliance with the aforementioned rules, respecting confidentiality and legitimacy requirements which the Holder is inspired by and for the strictly necessary time for which they were collected. This document represents the Privacy Policy of this website and can be modified due to updates. The policy is provided only for the website http: // www.ebta2019florence.org owned by Fondazione Franceschi Onlus and not for other websites that may be consulted by the user through links.

The holder of the treatment

Following the consultation of this site, data relating to identified or identifiable persons may be processed. The holder of the treatment is the Fondazione Franceschi Onlus based in Via San Gallo 40, 50129, Florence, Fiscal Code 05943510486. The person in charge for the treatment is Leopoldo Franceschi (Fisc. Code FRNLLD58H10D612C) domiciled for the performance of the assignment at the headquarters in via San Gallo 40, 50129, Florence.

DATA PROCESSING PLACE

Navigation data. The data provided in relation to the Web services of this site are processed at the headquarters of Fondazione Franceschi Onlus and are processed only by technical personnel involved in the processing, or by any person in charge of occasional maintenance operations. No data deriving from the web service is communicated or diffused. The personal data provided by users who request the sending of informative material (such as newsletters, etc.) are used only to perform the service or the required performance.

Data voluntarily provided by the user. The optional, explicit and voluntary sending of e-mails to the addresses indicated on this website involves the subsequent acquisition of the sender’s address, necessary to respond to requests, as well as any other personal data included in the message. Data voluntarily provided by users who register at the EBTA 2019 conference, will be communicated to the EBTA secretariat.

TYPES OF DATA PROCESSED

The computer systems and software procedures necessary for the correct operation of this Website acquire, during their normal functioning, some personal data whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.

It is about information that is not collected to be associated with identified interested parties, but which by their very nature could, through processing and association with data held by third parties, allow users to be identified. This category of data includes IP addresses or domain names of the computers used by users connecting to the site, the addresses in the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) notation of the requested resources, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (success, error, etc.) and other parameters relating to the operating system and the user’s computer environment. These data are used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the use of the site and to check its correct functioning. The data could be used to ascertain responsibility in case of hypothetical IT crimes to the detriment of the site only at the request of the supervisory bodies in charge. The legitimacy of the processing is based on EU Regulation 679/2016. The data are processed by the Holder for the purpose of requesting some services indicated on the site or to process (any) requests for information and / or contact by the interested party.

As well as for purposes connected to obligations established by laws, regulations and Community legislation, provisions given by authorities to this legitimate and supervisory and control bodies.

The treatment could use means of contact by electronic or telematic methods (such as e-mail).

Method of treatment

Personal data are processed using automated and telematic tools, for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected. Appropriate security measures are observed to prevent data loss, illicit or incorrect use and unauthorized access. The treatments connected to the web services are carried out at the headquarters of the Holder.

It should be noted that on the web pages of the website www.ebta2019florence.org may be present images, videos, forms, specific links to web pages of other domains that reside on servers other than the one on which the requested page is located, totally independent from the Website www.ebta2019florence.org itself.

Duration of treatment

The duration of treatment is determined as follows: the personal data of the Interested Party will be kept for temporal terms as indicated in accordance with art. 13, paragraph 2 of the GDPR 2016/679 and for the obligations established by law. In particular, until deemed necessary for the provision of performances and services requested and will subsequently be deleted. The interested party can oppose this treatment at any time.

Communication and diffusion of data (Main Purposes)

Personal data collected by the Holder will not be “widespread”, i.e. they will not be made aware of indeterminate subjects; instead, such data may be “communicated”, i.e. they will be made aware of one or more specific subjects, as specified below:

• collaborators or employees of Fondazione Franceschi Onlus as persons authorized to process personal data in the areas of competence;

• EBTA secretariat, for the management of registration or renewal of membership in the association;

• public entities that can access your data under the provisions of law or regulation, within the limits set by these rules;

Transfer of personal data to countries outside the European Union.

We inform you that your personal data will not be transferred to non-EU countries.

Exercise of rights by the interested party.

Pursuant to articles 13, 15, 18, 19 and 21 of EU Regulation 679/2016, we inform you about the obligations that the Holder has towards you.

• You have the right to ask the Holder to access personal data, correct or delete them, integrate data or limit the processing of your data or to oppose their processing in the cases required.

• You have the right to propose a complaint to the Control Authority (Privacy Authority) if you believe that your data have been treated illegitimately, which can be found at www.garanteprivacy.it.

• The Holder guarantees that any corrections or cancellations or limitations of the processing performed at the request of the interested party, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort – will be communicated by the Holder to each of the recipients to whom the personal data have been transmitted. The Holder of the treatment informs the interested party of these recipients if the interested party requests it.

• At any time the interested party may also revoke the consent given for the purposes indicated above, both main and secondary.

• The exercise of the rights is not subject to any form constraint and will be provided with a reply within the time provided for by the law in written form (except for your specific request for oral reply).

To exercise these rights you can contact the “Holder” (Principal Finality) or the Data Processor (Secondary Purposes), which is Fondazione Franceschi Onlus, Via San Gallo 40, 50129, Florence.

Navigation data

The Holder informs you that 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 to be associated with identified data subjects, 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 IP addresses or domain names of the computers used by users connecting to the site, the addresses in the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) notation of the requested resources, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (success, error, etc.) and other parameters relating to the operating system and the user’s computer environment.

These data are used for the sole purpose of obtaining anonymous statistical information on the use of the site and to check its correct functioning and are deleted immediately after processing. The data could be used to ascertain responsibility in case of hypothetical IT crimes to the detriment of the site: apart from this possibility, at present the data on web contacts are not permanently stored.

For any access to the site, regardless of the presence of a cookie, the following information is recorded: type of browser (eg Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera), operating system (eg Windows, Macintosh), host and the URL of the visitor’s origin, in addition to the data on the requested page.

These data may be used in aggregate and anonymous form for statistical analysis of the use of the site.

Finally, the use of so-called session cookies (which are not stored permanently on the user’s computer and disappear when the browser is closed) is strictly limited to the transmission of session identifiers (consisting of random numbers generated by the server) required to allow the safe and efficient exploration of the site.

COOKIES INFORMATION

(pursuant to the Provision of the Guarantor of May 8, 2014 published in G.U. n.126 on June 3, 2014, transposing Directive 2002/58 / EC and 2009/136 / EC)

The website www.ebta2019florence.org uses cookies and similar technologies to guarantee the correct functioning of the procedures and to improve the experience of using online applications. This document provides detailed information on the use of cookies and similar technologies, on how they are used by Fondazione Franceschi Onlus and on how to manage them.

Definitions

Cookies are short fragments of text (letters and / or numbers) that allow the web server to store on the client (the browser) information to be reused during the same visit to the site (session cookies) or later, even after days (persistent cookies). Cookies are stored, according to user preferences, by the single browser on the specific device used (computer, tablet, smartphone).

Similar technologies, such as, for example, web beacons, transparent GIFs and all forms of local storage introduced with HTML5, can be used to gather information on user behavior and use of services.

In the following of this document we will refer to cookies and all similar technologies simply by using the term “cookies”.

Types of cookies

Based on the characteristics and use of cookies we can distinguish different categories:

• Strictly necessary cookies. Our site does not use cookies strictly necessary. Even with their deactivation it remains normally usable.

• Analysis and performance cookies. These cookies are used to collect and analyze the traffic and use of the site anonymously. These cookies, even without identifying the user, allow, for example, to detect if the same user returns to connect at different times. They also allow to monitor the system and improve its performance and usability. The deactivation of these cookies can be performed without any loss of functionality.

• Profiling cookies. These are permanent cookies used to identify (anonymously or not) user’s preferences and improve their browsing experience. Our site does not use cookies of this type.

Third-parties cookies

By visiting a website you may receive cookies from both the visited site (“owners”) and from sites managed by other organizations (“third parties”). An example is the presence of plugins for YouTube, owned by Google Inc. These are parts of the page visited, generated directly from the above sites and integrated into the page of the host site. The most common use of plugins is aimed at sharing content.

The presence of these plugins involves the transmission of cookies to and from all sites managed by third parties. The management of information collected by “third parties” is governed by the relevant information to which reference is made. To ensure greater transparency and convenience, the following are the web addresses of the various information and how to manage cookies.

Google information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=gb

Google (configuration): https://policies.google.com/technologies/managing?hl=gb

Duration of cookies

Some cookies (session cookies) remain active only until the browser is closed. Other cookies “survive” when the browser is closed and are also available in subsequent visits by the user.

These cookies are called persistent and their duration is set by the server when they are created. In some cases a deadline is set, in other cases the duration is unlimited.

Fondazione Franceschi Onlus does not use persistent cookies. However, by browsing the pages of this website, you can interact with websites managed by third parties that can create or modify permanent and profiling cookies

Cookies management

The user can decide whether or not to accept cookies using the settings of his browser.

The disabling of “third-parties” cookies does not affect the navigability in any way.

The setting can be defined specifically for different websites and web applications. In addition, the best browsers allow you to define different settings for cookies “owners” and those of “third parties”.

As an example, in Firefox, through the menu Tools-> Options -> Privacy, you can access a control panel where you can define whether or not to accept the different types of cookies and proceed with their removal.

Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-GB

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Opera: http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/en/cookies.html

Safari: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201265

Update of the information

Fondazione Franceschi Onlus will keep this information constantly updated.

FINAL PROVISIONS

For information and regulatory updates it is advisable to consult the website of the Italian Data Protection Authority for the Protection of Personal Data of the Italian Government.

In addition, for those wishing to exercise their rights regarding the protection of personal data, it is possible to use the form developed by the aforementioned Guarantor and forward it to segreteria@fondazionefranceschi.org