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Pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data of users who visit the Office of Papal Charities or its website www.elemosineria.va. Here below you will find the information about how we collect, use and transfer your personal data, or rather, any information that can be used to identify or contact you.
The controller of the data is the Office of Papal Charities, based at Cortile Sant’Egidio, 00120 Vatican City, (switchboard: +39 06.69871100).
Most of the information we collect comes directly from you: you provided them voluntarily or it has been found they were necessary for the provision of our services. The Office of Papal Charities processes your personal data in different ways and according to different needs in order to carry out its role and ensure the management, the development and the improvement of the services offered.
We collect and process data for the following purposes:
We use the data for the following reasons:
In most cases the provision of data, which are used exclusively for the purposes listed above, is elective; however, the refusal to provide data and the absence of consent of their processing prevent the Office of Papal Charities from performing a correct service.
The data collected are processed by people expressly authorised by the Office of Papal Charities, which act on the basis of specific instructions and in compliance with the confidentiality and security of the data and in relation to the services provided. Persons authorised to processing, employees of the Office of Papal Charities, or third parties in charge of the maintenance and development services of the systems used for the computerised management of data, may become aware of the data only for purposes related to the exercise of their functions.
The processing of data takes place with computer systems or software procedures that acquire, during their normal operation, personal information whose transmission is implicit in the use of the Internet communication protocols.
The data processed include personal information that allows us to identify you, such as:
The Office of Papal Charities tries to limit the use of this information as much as possible and undertakes to use it exclusively for the services for which it was provided.
Where possible, we use information that does not identify you individually (for example, for the collection of statistical data on our website surfing, we use services such as Google Analytics, which make your IP anonymous).
The data whose conservation is necessary for the correct provision of the services of the Office of Papal Charities are stored in electronic and / or printed format.
The Office of Papa Charities reserves the right to share personal data with the Vatican security authorities where necessary for the security or protection of people or goods.
Data related to the use of web services are also processed for the following purposes:
We do not disseminate or communicate the collected data to third parties, except for the purposes related to the shipment of the Scrolls, for which some data are transmitted to our supplier DHL Express Srl, which is the external Responsible for the processing.
The Office of Papal Charities uses session cookies (not persistent) strictly limited to what is necessary for the safe and efficient web surfing on the site.
The Office of Papal Charities is not officially present on social platforms.
The Office of Papal Charities preserves the personal data collected, in an accurate, complete and updated way, as long as they are necessary for the provision of the services. We can guarantee that all the necessary steps have been taken to ensure the security of your personal data once they have been collected, through the use of limited access information systems and the use of protected storage solutions.
You have the right to obtain from the Office of Papal Charities, in the foreseen cases:
Requests for copies, access, rectification, erasure or restriction of the processing of data must be submitted by contacting the Office of Papal Charities (switchboard: +39 06.69871100, pagamenti@elemosineria.va or by post). We point out that we can refuse to respond to requests that we should consider futile, harmful to the privacy of others, difficult to meet or contrary to a legitimate use of data if aimed at ensuring the safety of people, environments or goods.
The following policy on cookies is prepared by the Office of Papal Charities (Elemosineria Apostolica) to describe the types of cookies used on the site www.elemosineria.va, which comprises every extension of that domain (the “Site”) and its related platform, with the objective of stating the motives and the conditions of the use of the same. The optimal use of the Site or its Services goes with the use of some cookies meant for the user’s device. Therefore, to proceed with navigation [on the Site] is an automatic authorization given to the Office of Papal Charities to determine some of the appropriate cookies for use. However, it is possible to cancel and avoid the use of some specific types of cookies, as well-laid out in the browser configuration setting in the successive paragraph on “Disabling the Use of Cookies”.
Cookies are text files used for automatic authentications, tracking of sessions and keeping of specific information regarding users’ access to the server of the Office of Papal Charities. Therefore, they are actually strings of text, small in dimension, sent from the server of the Office of Papal Charities to the web client (usually to a browser of the user) and then returned from the client’s (browser) to the sever (without modifications), whenever the same section of the same web domain is accessed by the user. A cookie is, therefore, a little file which requests the user’s permission to be remembered on the hard disk of the latter. Once consensus is reached on the stated modalities, the file is added subsequently; the cookie helps to analyse the user’s web traffic, authorizing the knowledge of their visit to a particular internet site. In this way, the web application can rightly be adapted to the operational needs and/or likes of the user while memorizing and saving information pertinent to the user’s preferences.
The Office of Papal Charities employs the following types of cookies:
The Office of Papal Charities uses the following third party cookies:
Most browsers are, for a start, configured automatically to accept cookies. It is possible, nonetheless, to modify these settings and block the use of cookies using the browser settings. The management of cookies come in varied forms. We do ask the user to turn to the help screen on their browser to find out about browser regulation and modification in the browser settings. Disabling the use of technical cookies and/or those operational ones can cause malfunctioning of the Site and/or limitation of services offered by the Office of Papal Charities.