The Website of BFF Bank S.p.A. uses cookie files. These files are used for purposes of improving proper support of system commands and analytic tools. Using the Website implies that the User agrees to their application. If the User does not express such an agreement, he/she may manually change setting pertaining to cookie files in the Web browser.
COOKIES
Cookies are small text files that are stored on the User's computer from the sites he/she visits. They are mainly used to allow the functioning of web sites and having them operate more efficiently, as well as of providing information to the owners of the same site.
According to Decreto legislativo 30 giugno 2003, n. 196, we hereby inform that BFF Bank S.p.A. Data Controller), located in via Domenichino 5, 20149 Milano, uses cookie files.
The following chart illustrates the cookies used by BFF Bank S.p.A.:
| Cookie | Name | Purpose | Processing |
| BFF | BFF_Cookies_Accepted | This cookie is used by the system to keep record of the express consent of the internet visitor on BFF Bank S.p.A. Website. | To revoke one's consent after having accepted this cookie, delete the same cookie from one's own browser. |
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_utmz | These cookies are used to collect information on how visitors use the Website (for example the visit time and day, possible prior visits to the Website by the same visitor, the Website of origin, etc.). Said information is used by BFF Bank S.p.A. to improve the Website. | For more information, please read Google's Privacy. |
In addition to the cookies listed in the above chart please note the presence of the so-called session cookies, namely those cookies that are not permanently saved on the User's computer and disappear when the browser is closed.
Their use is strictly restricted to the transmission of session identification data (represented by random numbers originated by the server) necessary to allow the use of a specific service and the safe and efficient Website navigation. So-called session cookies used in this Website avoid having to resort to other IT technologies potentially prejudicial to the confidentiality of Users' navigation and do not allow the acquisition of the User's personal identification data.
Cookie files will be stored for the purpose of adjusting the Website to individual needs of visitors, creating visit statistics and in order to maintain the session of a User of the Website (after logging in), thanks to which the User does not need to enter the login and password on each subpage of the Website; changes in settings pertaining to cookie files can be made at any time.
Should the User not wish to receive any type of cookie on his/her computer, nor from BFF Bank S.p.A. Website or from other sites, he/she may enhance the privacy protection level making appropriate changes in web browser settings:
BFF Bank S.p.A. reminds that, based on Decreto legislativo 30 giugno 2003, n. 196and on Article 17 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the User has the right to ask at any time those who use said solutions to delete the information collected by means of cookies.
THIRD-PARTY COOKIES
This Website contains links to access other websites. The presence of those links may entail the collection of data from and to sites managed by third parties. The management of information collected by "third parties" is governed by the respective disclosures to which reference is made.
LOCATION OF DATA PROCESSING
The processing operations connected to the web services of this site take place at the afore mentioned office of BFF Bank S.p.A. and are carried out only by the technical staff of the Office in charge of the processing, or by authorized Persons, if any, mandated with occasional maintenance operations.
OPTIONAL SUPPLY OF DATA
Except for what specified for navigation data, the User is free to provide his/her Personal data. However, the failed provision thereof may entail the impossibility to obtain the service requested.
PROCESSING MODALITIES
Personal data are processed electronically for the time strictly necessary to achieve the goals for which they were collected.
Specific security measures are observed to prevent loss of data, illicit or incorrect use and unauthorized access. Pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, BFF Bank S.p.A. has adopted all the necessary security measures to guarantee the protection of the Personal Data being processed, limiting the risks relating to the confidentiality, availability and integrity of the personal data collected and processed.
DATA SHARING, COMMUNICATION AND DIFFUSION
Data collected may be transferred or communicated to subsidiaries of BFF Banking Group for activities strictly connected and instrumental to the operation of the service, such as the management of IT systems, or for processing operations effected by the other group companies for the same purposes.
The Personal Data provided by the User requesting dispatch of informative material (brochures, informative material, etc..) are used only to perform the service or provision requested and are disclosed to third parties only if this is necessary for that purpose (companies that provide mailing services, labelling, shipping).
Besides those circumstances, data will not be communicated, nor granted to anyone, except where provided by contract or with the concerned party’s consent. In this respect, Personal data may be transmitted to third parties, but only and exclusively provided that:
- There is the explicit consent to share the data with third parties;
- There is a need to share the information with third parties to provide the service requested;
- This is necessary to comply with requests of the public security authorities.
No data deriving from the web service is disseminated.
RIGHTS OF DATA SUBJECTS
Those who the personal data refer to can exercise at any time the rights recognized to them by current legislation Decreto legislativo 30 giugno 2003, n. 196 and Articles 15 to 22 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679), including the right of access, the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing, the right to receive notification in the event of rectification or erasure of personal data, the right to data portability, the right to object and the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.
AMENDMENTS TO THESE PRIVACY POLICY
BFF Bank S.p.A. periodically reviews the content of this document to compliant to legislative, organisational or technological evolution regulation.
ENQUIRIES, COMPLAINTS AND SUGGESTIONS
BFF Bank S.p.A. has appointed a Group Data Protection Officer (DPO), reachable at the following email address: dpo@bffgroup.com
Whoever is interested in obtaining additional information, contributing with suggestions or putting forward complaints or objections about the company’s privacy policy or the way BFF Bank S.p.A. processes Personal data, may do so by writing to the above mentioned address.