Privacy Policy

Effective date: Dec. 28th 2022
This privacy notice describes how Agostoni Chocolate Ltd collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. It also tells you about the rights and choices you have with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions. This privacy notice is provided according to General Data Protection Regulation – in particular art. 13 GDPR – (hereinafter “GDPR”), as well as the relevant US privacy provisions (e.g. Federal “Telephone Consumer Protection Act” – TCPA; “California Consumer Privacy Act Notice” – CCPA) and the best practices (e.g. recommendations for businesses and policy makers “Protecting Consumer Privacy in an era of rapid change” released in 2012 by the Federal Trade Commission).

This notice shall not to be considered valid for other websites attainable trough links and data processor shall not be held responsible for third parties web pages.

1. DATA CONTROLLER

Agostoni Chocolate Ltd (hereinafter “Agostoni”), a company with registered address at 5301 Beethoven Street, Suite 170 Los Angeles, California 90066, duly represented by its legal representative. The contact email is: sales@agostonichocolate.com.

2. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED

This privacy notice covers the “personal information” that Agostoni obtains about you by browsing the present website. When we use the term “personal information” we are referring to information that identifies, relates to, describes or can be associated with you.

An identifiable natural person is one who “can directly or indirectly be identified, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, a location data, an online identifier or to one or more specific factors to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity” (article 4 par. 1.1 GDPR).

The personal data that we collect for the purposes mentioned here below are specifically:

• browsing data;
• data provided voluntarily by the user when filling the contact form.

Please note that the abovementioned list refers to personal information that we have collected directly from you within the last 12 months (according to CCPA).

3. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: PURPOSES OF PROCESSING, LEGAL BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING AND DATA RETENTION PERIOD

4. DATA RECIPIENTS

We share your personal information as specified in par. 2 of this Privacy Notice with employees and/or staff acting under the Data Controller’s authority (duly instructed for the former purposes), as well as third parties contractually linked to Agostoni, in order to fulfill contractual obligations and achieve one or more of the aforesaid purposes of processing. Precisely, personal data will be communicated to:

• companies within the Group to which Agostoni belongs for administrative/internal purposes;
• subjects providing services for the management of the information system and telecommunication network (including email as well as mailing list/newsletter services);
• Studies or companies in the context of assistance and consultancy relationships;
• Competent authorities for compliance with legal obligations and / or provisions of public bodies, upon request.

You can request a complete listing of processors by writing to sales@agostonichocolate.com.

5. TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA TO THIRD COUNTRIES AND/OR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Our website is hosted in the European Union. Personal data will be also transferred to extra EU countries (e.g. US in order to ensure a direct contact). In that case, they will be processed according to article 44 et seq. GDPR in order to carry out the purposes of processing, as described in paragraph 3. of this privacy notice. For more details on such transfers, please contact the Data Controller at sales@agostonichocolate.com.

6. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING PERSONAL DATA

GENERAL INFORMATION
Agostoni is committed to protecting your rights. In order to exercise them, as described here below, please contact us at sales@agostonichocolate.com.
You have the right, at any time, to obtain from Agostoni the access to your personal data (article 15 GDPR), request their rectification (article 16 GDPR), their erasure (article 17 GDPR) or restriction of their processing (article 18 GDPR). Furthermore, you have the right to object anytime to your personal data processing (article 21 GDPR). Finally, you have the right to data portability, if applicable (article 20 GDPR). Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant Supervisory Authority.
You are also entitled to exercise some of the abovementioned rights (e.g. right of access, deletion, rectification, data portability) in accordance with the existing relevant US national law/provisions (mainly: according to your US country of residence).
If you need any further information regarding your rights and how to exercise them, please contact us at sales@agostonichocolate.com.

INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS UNDER “California Consumer Privacy Act Notice” – CCPA
You have the right to request that we disclose to you (i) the categories of personal information we collected about you and the categories of sources from which we collected such information; (ii) the personal information we collected about you; (iii) the business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information about you; and (iv) the categories of personal information about you that we shared or disclosed and the categories of third parties with whom we shared or to whom we disclosed such information in the preceding 12 months. You also have the right to request that we delete personal information we collected from you subject to certain exceptions. You also have the right not to be discriminated in pricing and services because you exercise any of your rights under the CCPA.

HOW TO WITHDRAW THE CONSENT PREVIOUSLY GIVEN
To stop receiving direct marketing (both automated and traditional means) you can write an e-mail at any time to the address sales@agostonichocolate.com with the subject “unsubscribe from direct marketing” or use our automatic unsubscribe systems (only for email) and you will no longer be disturbed.

Last update: December 28th 2022

Data Controller
Agostoni Chocolate Ltd