Privacy Policy

Personal data provided while browsing the Site will be managed in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 679/2016 GDPR). Please read this policy carefully.
For any clarifications please contact the owner of the data. This information is provided in compliance with art. 13 of the GDPR.

Data owner

The Owner of personal data collected on this Site is Karen Elaine Whittle (hereafter the Owner), registered office Via Roma, 14 – 50025 – Montespertoli (FI) , telephone number +39 339 7690908 and email address: info@whittletranslations.com .

Those visiting the Site have the right to access their personal data and related information. Any request regarding personal data must be addressed to the Owner.

Data collected during navigation

Some data may be requested during Site navigation or registration or emailing. The provision of data is optional.
Emails sent to the Site addresses involve the acquisition of the sender address as well as any other data cointained therein.
The User’s personal data are recorded and stored, protected and managed with appropriate security measures, also by associating them with other information. Restrictions to the Site navigation may occur if data are not provided. Some information may be automatically incorporated during access to the Site. This information might allow visitor identification, through processing with data held by third parties. It is however possible to visit the Site anonymously.

Data management purpose

The processing and recording of personal data are aimed at achieving the following purposes:

• to provide services offered by the Owner through the Site;
• to communicate with Site users and respond to their requests;
• to carry out market and statistical surveys;
• to evaluate the use of the Site and its contents in order to improve usability;
• to send communications, also for marketing purposes, advertising materials and/or promotions of goods and services.

User’s Rights

• The User has the right to access personal data and receive information about:
• purposes of data processing;
• categories of personal data;
• subjects or categories of subjects to whom the data may be communicated or who may become aware of them;
• data retention time or criteria used to determine this time;
• data sources if not provided directly by the User;
• presence of profiling functions, logic used and expected consequences on personal data.
• the right to ask the Owner to modify or delete personal data (right to be forgotten) or to limit the handling of personal data without undue delay;
• the right, in the event of a violation of rights, to contact the supervisory authority;
• the right to data portability;
• the right to be informed in the event of transfer of data to a third country or to international organizations, and of the guarantees adopted.

Upon request, the Owner must provide a copy of the personal data. In the event requests for further copies, the Owner may charge an administrative fee based on administrative costs. The right to obtain a copy must not affect the rights and freedoms of others.

Data retention

Personal data is kept for the entire period necessary to provide the services. At the end of this time period, the data will be deleted.

Data consensus and approval

In the majority of cases, approval is requested for data processing by the Owner; otherwise, consensus is derived from the actions and behaviour of the Site user.
In some cases Users may be required to provide further consensus if their personal data are used for purposes not present in this Privacy Policy. Without this consensus, may not be possible to provide certain services / information.

Data location

Data related to the services provided by this Site is processed at the Owner’s registered office.

Data dissemination

The data are processed by the Owner or by coworkers who have undertaken to maintain their confidentiality (Article 28).
When strictly necessary, data may be made available to third parties and used by them for the sole purpose of providing the services requested by the user.
Upon request of the authories, the data could be made available to the judiciary or police forces to establish responsibility.

Type of data

To offer the personalized services conveyed through the Site, the Owner must be able to process certain types of data. Personal data considered in this Privacy Policy are information or parts of information that may allow the identification of the User, such as: name and surname, address, social security number, email address and telephone numbers.

Navigation data

During normal operations, the computer systems and technical software used for this Site to work collect some personal data whose transmission is implicit in Internet mechanisms and protocols.
The access data is stored every time the User accesses this Site and every time he or she accesses or requests information. Stored data contain information such as:

• Internet site from which the page is reached;
• IP address;
• date and time of the request or access;
• browser, its technical and functional characteristics and the operating system used;
• request made by the User’s browser or other client, as URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) notation;
• technical code of the http response obtained from the server;
• amount of data sent.

These data may be used by the Owner for anonymous statistical information on the use of the Site only, e.g., such as preferred pages in order to provide more suitable content and check that the Site works correctly.

Links to other websites

The Site may include links to other websites and / or third-party applications that may offer information or services to visitors. This privacy policy only applies to these sites if the same sites do not have their own specific privacy policy.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file saved on the visitor’s computer or mobile device. Thanks to cookies, the site remembers the actions and preferences of the browser (e.g. login, language, font size and other display settings).

What are technical cookies?

Technical cookies are used for the sole purpose of “transmitting a communication over an electronic communications network, or to the extent strictly necessary for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide this service” (see Article 122, paragraph 1, of the Privacy Code D.lgs. n. 196/2003).
They are not used for other purposes and are normally installed directly by the Owner or manager of the website. They can be divided into navigation or session cookies, which guarantee the normal navigation and use of the website (allowing, for example, to make a purchase or authenticate access to restricted areas); analytics cookies, similar to technical cookies when used directly by the site operator to collect information, in aggregate form, on the number of Users and how they visit the site; functional cookies, which allow the User to browse according to a series of selected criteria (for example, language, products selected for purchase) in order to improve the service provided to the same.

What are profiling cookies?

Profiling cookies are used to track User browsing on the web and to create profiles on the User’s tastes, habits, choices, etc. With these cookies, advertising messages can be transmitted to the User’s terminal in line with the preferences already expressed by the same User in the online navigation. This Site does not use these cookies.

Which cookies are present on this site?

Is it possible to disable all cookies?

Through your browser setting, it is possible to block the use of cookies and delete those already present in your computer. Some services, or certain functions of the Site, may not be available if the cookies are blocked.