The Crowdbooks website collects certain personal information from its Users.
The Holder of the collected data is:
Stefano Bianchi,
N2o S.r.l. – P.zza Benamozegh 17 (57123) Livorno, Italy
amministrazione@crowdbooks.com
Types of data collected
Among the data collected by the Crowdbooks website, either autonomously or by third parties, are email addresses, passwords, cookies, usage data, various types of data and telephone numbers.
Other personal Data collected could be indicated in other sections of this privacy policy or through the informative text seen at the moment of the data collection itself.
The Personal Data can be inserted voluntarily by the User, or collected automatically during the use of the Crowdbooks website.
The eventual use of Cookies – or other tracking systems – by the Crowdbooks website or on behalf of the owners of third party services used by the Crowdbooks website, when not stated otherwise, is in order to identify the User and record relative preferences for means, which are strictly tied to the distribution of the services requested by the User.
The refusal to share certain Personal Data by the User could impede the Crowdbooks website in the delivery its services.
The user assumes all responsibility for any Personal Data pertaining to third parties published or shared through the Crowdbooks site and guarantees that they have the right to communicate or share it, freeing Crowdbooks from any responsibility towards third parties.
Mode and place of elaboration of the Data collected
Mode of elaboration
The Holder will handle the Users’ Personal Data using the appropriate security measures in order to impede the access, sharing, modification and destruction of said Personal Data.
The holding will be carried out using informatics and/or telematics tools, in an organizational manner and strictly related to the purposes indicated. Other than the Holder, in some cases, some categories involved with the organization of the site (administrative, commercial, marketing and legal personnel as well as system administrators) or external entities (for example providers of third party technical services, postal couriers, hosting providers, informatics societies, communications agencies) could have access to the Data collected. These figures can be referred to, if necessary, as Handling Managers by the Holder. The updated list of managers can be requested from the Holder of the Handled Data.
Place of Holding
The collected Data is held at the Holder’s premises and in any other place where the parties involved in its holding are located. For more information, please contact the Holder.
Time of handling
The Data held for the time necessary to perform the services requested by the User, or required by the purposes described in this document. The User can always ask for the interruption of the holding or the cancellation of the Data.
Purpose of holding the Data collected
User Data is collected in order to allow the Holder to provide his services, as in the following purposes: Registration and authentication, Access to the accounts of third party services, Payment management, Statistics, to contact the User, Advertising, Management and sending of email messages, Remarketing and Behavioural Targeting, Hosting and backend infrastructure and Social features.
The types of Personal Data used for each purpose are indicated in their specific sections within this document.
Facebook permissions requested by Crowdbooks
The Crowdbooks site could ask for certain Facebook permissions to allow it to perform certain actions with the User’s Facebook account and to collect information, including Personal Data from it.
or more information about the following permissions, please refer to the documentation regarding Facebook permissions and the Facebook privacy policy.
The requested permissions are the following:
Basic information
The basic information of a User registered on Facebook, which normally includes the following Data: Facebook ID, name, images, local language and localization type and, in some cases Facebook “Friends”. If a User has made public further Data, it will also be available.
Access to friends lists
Provides access to the friends lists that the User has created.
Provides access to the User’s primary email address.
Interests
Provides access to the User’s list of interests.
Details on the holding of Personal Data
1. Access to the accounts of third party services
This type of service allows the Crowdbooks website to extract Data from your account on third party services and perform actions with it. These services are not automatically activated but need the express authorization of the User.
Access to the Facebook account (from the Crowdbooks website)
This service allows the Crowdbooks website to connect to the User’s account on the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook Inc.
Requested permissions: access to friends list, Email, Interests and publication on the User’s Wall.
Place of elaboration: USA – Privacy Policy
2. Contact the User
a) Mailing List or Newsletter (from the Crowdbooks website)
When registering on the Crowdbooks website the User’s email address is automatically inserted into a list of contacts to whom email messages containing information, even of a commercial or promotional nature, relative to the Crowdbooks site. The User’s email address could also be added to this list as a result of registration on the Crowdbooks site or after having made a purchase.
Personal data collected: email
b) Contact via telephone (for the Crowdbooks site)
The Users who have provided their phone number could be contacted for commercial or promotional purposes related to Crowdbooks, as to satisfy support requests.
Dati personali raccolti: numero di telefono.
3. Payment management
The payment management services allow Crowdbooks to process payment via credit cards, bank transfer and other means. The Data used for payment is acquired directly by the manager of the payment service used without being in any way held by Crowdbooks.
Some of these services could also allow for the programmed sending of messages to the User in the form of emails containing invoices or payment notifications.
Personal data collected: fiscal code and VAT number (only if an invoice is requested, and in any case if the recipient is a company or professional entity).
PayPal (Paypal)
PayPal is a payment service provided by PayPal Inc., which allows the User to make payments online using their own PayPal credentials.
Personal Data collected: various types of Data according to that specified in the privacy policy of the service.
4. Advertising
This type of services allow the use of the User’s Data for the purpose of commercial communication in various advertising forms such as banners, also in relation to the User’s interests.
This does not mean that all Data is used to this end. Data and its conditions of use are indicated below.
Some of the following indicated services cold use Cookies to identify the User or utilize behavioural retargeting techniques, that is, i.e. display targeted advertising based on the User’s interests and behaviour, found also outside of the Crowdbooks website. For more information regarding this, we suggest you check the Privacy information of the respective services.
Mail Chimp (The Rocket Science Group, LLC.)
Email messages provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC
Personal Data collected: email
Place of holding: USA – Privacy Policy
5. Registration and authentication
With the registration and authentication, the User allows the Crowdbooks website to identify them and give them access to the dedicated services. According to the following indications, the registration and authentication services could be provided with the help of third party services. Where this takes place, the Crowdbooks website could access some Data conserved by third party services used for registration and authentication.
Direct registration (on the Crowdbooks website)
The User registers himself by filling in the registration form and directly supplying the Crowdbooks website his Personal Data.
Personal Data collected: email and password
Facebook Authentication (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Authentication is a registration and authentication service supplied by Facebook, Inc. and linked to the Facebook social network.
Personal Data collected: various types of data according to that which is specified in the privacy policy of the service.
Place of holding: USA – Privacy Policy
6. Remarketing and Behavioural Targeting
This type of service allows the Crowdbooks site and its partners to communicate, optimise and provide advertisements based on the past use of the Crowdbooks site by the User.
This type of activity is carried out via the tracking of Usage Data and the use of Cookies, information that is transferred to partners to whom the activity of remarketing and behavioural targeting is linked.
AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)
AdWords Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioural Targeting service supplied by Google Inc. which links the activity on the Crowdbooks website with the AdWords advertising network and DoubleClick Cookies.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and usage Data.
Place of holding: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
7. Statistics
The services contained in this section allow the Holder of the held Data to monitor and analyse traffic data and serve to keep track of User behaviour.
Google Analytics with anonymous IP (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google uses the collected data for the purpose of tracing and examining the use of the Crowdbooks website, compiling reports and sharing them with other services developed by Google. The integration of Google Analytics makes your IP address anonymous. This anonymization works by abbreviating, within the confines of EU state members or those adhering to the EEC, the User’s IP address. Only in exceptional cases, will the IP address be sent to Google’s servers and abbreviated within the United States.
DPersonal Data collected: Cookies and usage Data
Place of holding: USA – Privacy Policy – Opt Out
Monitoring and conversion of Facebook Ads (Facebook, Inc.)
Monitoring and conversion of Facebook Ads is a statistics service provided by Facebook Inc., which links the data from the Facebook announcement network with the actions performed inside the Crowdbooks site.
Personal Data collected: Cookies and usage Data.
Place of holding: USA – Privacy Policy
Unique Device Identification
The Crowdbooks website can trace Users by saving an identification code that is unique to their device for the collection of statistics or to save the User preferences.
Cookie Policy
The Crowdbooks web site uses Cookies. For more detailed information you can consult the Cookies Policy.
Further information on Data holding
Legal defence
The User’s Personal Data can be used for defence by the Holder in legal matters or during the phases leading to its establishment, from abuse by the User in the use of the services or those connected.
LThe User declares that they are aware that the Holder could be asked to reveal the Data upon request from public authorities.
Specific Regulations
pon request from the User, in addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, the Crowdbooks website can provide the User with additional and contextual information regarding specific services or the collection and holding of Personal Data.
System and maintenance Logs
For necessary motives related to operation and maintenance, the Crowdbooks website, and eventual third party services used by it, could collect system Logs, i.e. files which register interactions which could also contain Personal Data such as User IP addresses.
Information not contained in this policy
Further information relating to the holding of Personal Data can be requested from the Holder of the Handled Data in any moment using the contact information provided.
Execution of rights by the User
The subjects to whom the Personal Data refers have the right, in any moment, to have confirmation of the existence of any Personal Data held by the Holder of the Handled Data, to know its content and origins, to verify the accuracy or request the integration, cancellation, update, correction, conversion into anonymous form or blocking of Personal Data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose in any case, for legitimate reasons, to its holding. All requests will be directed to the Holder of the Handled Data.
The Crowdbooks web site does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To know if any eventual third party services used support them, the User is invited to consult the relative privacy policies.
Modifications to this privacy policy
The Holder of the Handled Data reserves the right to modify the present privacy policy in any moment notifying the Users on this page. The User is, therefore, advised to consult this page regularly, taking reference from the date of modification indicated at the bottom. In the case that the User does not accept the modifications made to this privacy policy, the User must cease the use of the Crowdbooks website and can ask the Holder of the Handled Data to remove their Personal Data. Unless otherwise specified, the above privacy policy will continue to apply to Personal Data collected thus far.
Information about this privacy policy
The Holder is responsible for this privacy policy.
Legal definitions and references
Personal Data (or Data)
Personal Data refers to any information related to physical people, identified or identifiable, even indirectly, through reference to any other information, including a personal identification number.
Usage Data
This is the information automatically by the Crowdbooks web site (or by third party applications used by the Crowdbooks site), among which is: IP addresses or domain names of the devices used by the Users that connect to the Crowdbooks site, the URI notation addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method used to make the request to the server, the size of the file received in reply, the numeric code indicating the state of the reply from the server (OK, error, etc.), the country of origin, the browser characteristics and operating system used by the visitor, the various time details of the visit( for example the length of time spent on each page) and the information related to the itinerary followed inside the Crowdbooks website, with particular reference to the sequence of the pages viewed, to the parameters relative to the operating system and the informatics environment of the User.
User
The individual that uses the Crowdbooks website, which must coincide with the involved party or be approved by them and whose Personal Data are being processed.
Concerned party
The natural or legal person to whom the Personal Information refers.
The Data Manager (or Manager)
The physical or legal person, the public administration and any other organisation, association or body appointed by the Holder to the processing of Personal Data, in accordance with what is drawn up by this privacy policy.
Owner of the Held Data (or Holder)
The physical or legal person, the public administration and any other organisation, association or body who are responsible, even together with other Holders, for decisions regarding, the methods of elaboration of Personal Data and the instruments to be used, including the security profile, in relation to the operation and use of the Crowdbooks website. The Holder of the Handled Data, unless otherwise specified, is the owner of the Crowdbooks website.
The Crowdbooks website
The hardware or software tool by which the Users Personal Data is collected.
Cookies
A small amount of data conserved in the Users’ device.
Legal references
Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfilment of the obligations expected by Art.10 of Decree n.95/46/CE, as well as the requirements of Directive 2002/58/CE, as updated by Decree 2009/136/CE, regarding cookies.
This privacy policy exclusively concerns the Crowdbooks website.