Privacy Policy

Who we are

Berco S.p.A., with registered office at Copparo (FE), 44034, via I Maggio, 237, (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”), in carrying out its activity, pays great attention to security and confidentiality of its customers’ personal data.

The Company is therefore the Controller of personal data collected on this web site.

Your personal data that may be collected

The following categories of personal data about you can be collected:

• Contact details – information on the name, place and date of birth, tax code, address, telephone number, mobile telephone number, email address.
• Use of the web site – information on how you use the web site, how you open or forward our communications, including information collected through cookies (you can find our privacy notice on Cookies here which governs any details thereof).

How we collect your personal data

The Company collects and processes your personal data in the following circumstances:

• if you register with our web site to use its functions;
• if you contact us to request after-sales services;
• if you respond to our marketing campaigns and enter your data in our website.

If you provide any personal data on behalf of other subjects, first of all you shall make sure that data subjects have acknowledged this Privacy notice.

We invite you to help us keep your personal data up to date, and inform us of any change thereof.

Purposes for which your personal data can be used

Personal data processing shall be legitimated by any of the legal conditions provided for by current regulations on protection of personal data as specified below.

• Compliance with requests legally binding to fulfil any legal, regulatory or judiciary measure requirements, and to defend any rights in court.a) Operating management and purposes strictly connected thereto for accessing the website.
  The Company collects your Contact details and Data on Use of the web site to enable you to access your Personal Area and download documents relating to the services you have purchased in your Personal Area.
  Basis for processing: fulfilment of contractual obligations.
  Providing your Data is mandatory to meet your requests; failure to do so will prevent us from meeting your requirements.
• Marketing to meet your requirements.
  The Company may process your Contact details for marketing and advertising communication purposes, aimed to inform you of sales promotion initiatives or market research and statistical surveys, where you give us your specific consent and within the limits set out in the related contact formula.
  Basis for processing: consent; failure to give your consent shall not affect contractual relationships.
  You may choose to withdraw your consent at any time, by sending an email to the following address noauthorization.berco@thyssenkrupp.com.
• Compliance with requests legally binding to fulfil any legal, regulatory or judiciary measure requirements, and to defend any rights in court.
  The Company collects your Contact details to fulfil any legal obligations and/or defend any of its rights in court.
  Basis for processing: law obligations, which the Company is required to fulfil.

How we keep your personal data safe

The Company adopts a wide range of security measures to improve protection and maintain the security, integrity and availability of your personal data.

All your personal data is stored in our safe servers (or safe hard copies) or in those of our suppliers or business partners, and can be accessed and used on the basis of our standards and security policies (or equivalent standards of our suppliers or business partners).

How long shall your data be retained

We retain your personal data for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was collected or for any other legitimate purpose connected thereto. Therefore if personal data is processed for two different purposes, we shall retain such Data until the purpose with the longer term shall be achieved, however we shall no longer process personal data for those purposes whose retention period no longer applies.
We limit access to your personal data solely to those who need to use it on legitimate grounds.
Your personal data which is no longer necessary, or for which no legal grounds for retention exist anymore, is irreversibly anonymised (and in that form it can be retained) or safely deleted.

Data Retention Period is reported below on the basis of the different purposes stated above:

a) Fulfillment of contractual obligations, operating management purposes and purposes strictly connected thereto for access to the website: Data processed to fulfil any contractual obligation may be retained for the entire term of the agreement or else for no longer than 10 years thereafter.

b) Marketing purposes: Personal Data processed for marketing purposes may be retained for 24 months after the date on which we have received your last consent for that purpose (unless you objected to receiving further communications).

c) In the case of disputes: where it is necessary for us to defend from, act or raise claims against you or third parties, we might retain your personal data for the time we shall deem reasonably necessary for those purposes, for the entire period in which any such claims can be pursued.

With whom your personal data can be shared

Your personal data can be accessed by employees duly authorised, and by appointed external providers, if necessary, in charge of processing, which provide support with the provision of services.

We invite you to contact us at the e-mail address bercoprivacy@thyssenkrupp.com, if you wish to view the list of data processors and other parties to which your Data is disclosed.