Cookie Policy
With regard to the processing of personal data collected through the following cookies or other tracking tools, we hereby declare that the sole Data Controller is North Star Srl (hereinafter referred to as “North Star” or “the Data Controller”) with registered office in Reggio Emilia, via Brigata Reggio, 27, with the exception of essential technical cookies for navigation, for which both North Star Srl and Dalla Costa Alimentare Srl, with registered office in Castelminio di Resana, via della Fornace, 131, act as independent Controllers (in this case, collectively referred to as “the Controllers”).
Therefore, with regard to any requests to exercise rights (provided for in Articles 12 et seq. of the GDPR) concerning cookies other than technical cookies, the user may contact the sole Data Controller, North Star Srl, using the relevant contact details.
In order to make your visit to our website as convenient as possible, we use cookies to present our product range. These are small text files stored locally in your browser’s temporary memory, and therefore on your computer, for periods of time that vary depending on the need and generally range from a few hours to a few years, with the exception of profiling cookies, which have a maximum duration of 365 calendar days. Cookies allow us to record information about your preferences and other technical data in a semi-permanent manner, making navigation easier and the website more user-friendly and effective. For example, cookies can be used to determine whether a connection has already been made between your computer and our websites, to highlight new features, or to retain login information. For your security, only the cookie stored on your device is identified.
A. TYPES OF COOKIES
This site or product may use four different types of cookies:
1. Essential technical cookies for navigation. These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They allow you to browse the pages, share the owners’ content, store your login credentials to speed up access to the website, and keep your preferences (e.g., language selection) and credentials active while browsing. Without these cookies, the Owners will not be able to provide the services for which users access the site. This category includes cookies that are essential for the functioning of the site or product, such as technical cookies for accessing the site or for communication between the parties and the services that comprise it. In accordance with the Guidelines of the Italian Data Protection Authority, these cookies do not require consent.
2. Essential technical cookies for statistics and performance analysis. These cookies allow the Data Controller to know how visitors use the site, so that it can evaluate and improve its functioning and prioritize the production of content that best meets the information needs of our users. For example, they allow us to know which pages are most and least visited. They take into account, among other things, the number of visitors, the average time spent on the site by users, and how they arrived there. In this way, the Data Controller can know what works well and what needs improvement, as well as ensuring that the pages load quickly and are displayed correctly. All information collected by these cookies is anonymous and not linked to the user’s personal data. To perform these functions on the site, the Data Controller uses third-party services that anonymize the data, making it impossible to trace it back to individuals (so-called “single-in”). Otherwise, where services are not completely anonymized, you will find them listed among the third-party cookies for which consent is required, to guarantee your privacy. Appropriately anonymized analytical cookies belong to this category. This site, in particular, uses the following products:
Google Analytics cookies
a The website uses third-party performance cookies from Google Analytics (a service offered by Google, Inc.) to allow the Data Controller to collect anonymous data and examine visitor behavior while using the site, and to improve its usability and user experience. Through the use of the Google Analytics panel, the Data Controller can understand whether visits were made by new or returning visitors by checking how they navigated the pages (entry and exit links, movements between pages, time spent on the site, geographical origin, etc.).
For further information about Google Analytics, please visit the following websites:
https://www.google.it/policies/privacy/partners/
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
È possibile disabilitare l’azione di Google Analytics attraverso gli strumenti forniti da Google. Per informazioni a riguardo consultare il sito:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
3. Cookies for user profiling aimed at advertising targeting, for the provision of external features integrated into the site. These cookies allow us to offer advertisements related to the user and their interests. In fact, with your optional, free, and express consent, your personal data may be used for profiling purposes by collecting information about your browsing habits while accessing and using the services, combined, through statistical correlation algorithms, with the same information from third parties, in order to identify common traits and group similar ones into homogeneous classes of interest. By assigning your browser to a class of interest, our systems will subsequently be able to offer you content that is closer to your preferences and will present personalized advertising that better meets your needs. They are also used to limit the number of times the same advertisement is displayed and to evaluate the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are inserted by the Data Controller through technical platforms that are partners of the Data Controller’s advertising circuit and contribute to the Data Controller’s investment in the website, allowing for adequate financing of the maintenance of services and their technological evolution. They can also be used to show the user relevant ads on other websites visited. These cookies are integrated into the pages and products by the Data Controller who, in compliance with current regulations, offers in this Policy the tools for the selective opposition to their use. The Site does not use profiling cookies for advertising targeting for the provision of external features integrated into the site.
4. Functional and profiling cookies from third parties. This category includes cookies provided by partners of the Data Controller and known to it, as well as cookies provided by third parties not directly controlled or controllable by the Data Controller. Cookies from the Data Controller’s partners allow us to offer advanced features, as well as more information and personalised functions. This includes the ability to share content through social networks, access video streaming services and CDN networks on which we host the Data Controller’s content. These services are mainly provided by external operators engaged or knowingly integrated by the Data Controller. If you have an account or use the services of these entities on other websites, they may be able to know that you have visited the site. The use of data collected by these external operators through cookies is subject to their respective privacy policies and therefore these cookies are identified with the names of the respective entities listed in the cookie management tool available in the appropriate section of this Policy. These include cookies recorded by the main social networks that allow you to share articles from the Data Controller’s website and publicly express your appreciation for the Data Controller’s activities. Cookies that do not come from the Data Controller’s partners are cookies conveyed without the Data Controller’s control by third parties who are able to intercept the user during their browsing, even outside the Data Controller’s websites. These cookies, typically profiling cookies, are not directly controllable by the Data Controller, who therefore cannot guarantee the use that third-party owners make of the information collected. Opposition to the use of such cookies is therefore delegated to external tools or direct action on your part on your browser preferences. For details, see the COOKIE MANAGEMENT section.
Specifically, the Data Controller uses:
- Social widget cookies
Some widgets provided by social networks (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps, etc.) may use their own third-party cookies. Disabling them does not compromise the use of the site, except in sections where widgets may be installed (e.g. for video or map integration) and, in some cases, the ability to quickly share content or comment on certain areas of the site.
Facebook – Policy:https://www.facebook.com/help/cookies/
Facebook – Configuration: log in to your account. Privacy section.
Google+ – Policy: http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/cookies/
Google+ – to change your consent: http://www.google.it/intl/it/policies/technologies/managing/
ShareThis – Policy: http://www.sharethis.com/legal/privacy/
ShareThis – To change your consent: http://www.sharethis.com/legal/privacy-manifesto/ - Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies are installed to show visitors to the site content related to their preferences. They can therefore be used to show advertising content targeted to the interests of the individual. Cookies of this type work in collaboration with third-party websites and can track past browsing on pages on different domains. Cookies of this type usually track the user’s IP address as well as other information, some of which may be personal.
Google AdWords – Policy: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Google AdWords – To change your consent: https://www.google.it/settings/ads/onweb#display_optout
ScoreCardResearch – Policy: https://www.scorecardresearch.com/privacy.aspx
ScoreCardResearch – To change your consent: https://www.scorecardresearch.com/preferences.aspx
Datalogix (Nexac) – Policy: https://www.datalogix.com/privacy/
Datalogix (Nexac) – To change your consent: https://www.datalogix.com/privacy/#opt-out-landing
B. COOKIE MANAGEMENT
If you have any doubts or concerns about the use of cookies, you can always take action to prevent them from being set and read, for example by changing the privacy settings in your browser to block certain types of cookies or by using the rejection buttons provided by the Data Controller in this Policy. Since each browser—and often different versions of the same browser—differ significantly from one another, if you prefer to act independently through your browser preferences, you can find detailed information on the necessary procedure in your browser’s help section. For an overview of how to do this for the most common browsers, you can visit
C. ACCEPTANCE OR REFUSAL OF COOKIES
By continuing to browse this website, closing the information banner, clicking anywhere on the page, or scrolling to view further content, you are implicitly accepting cookies. In any case, you will always have the option to remove these cookies at any time through the methods described on the websites mentioned in the paragraph “Cookie management” or through the website http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/ for those not controlled by the Data Controller.
D. DURATION OF TREATMENT
Cookies managed by the Data Controller have a maximum duration of 365 days, unless you voluntarily renew them by reiterating your consent. Analytical cookies collected to produce aggregate statistics, as they are anonymous, remain within the statistical systems for the same exclusive statistical purposes even if they are no longer traceable to your browser. Cookies managed by third parties have the durations indicated in their respective Cookie Policies.
E. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECT
You can exercise your right to object to the use of cookies by leaving this website and thus also refusing the use of essential technical cookies necessary for its operation. If you wish to refuse the use of one or more non-essential cookies, you can deny consent for cookies managed by the Data Controller or its partners directly from this Policy using the “refuse” selectors next to the name of the cookie or its provider. You can opt out of third-party cookies not managed by the Data Controller by following the instructions available on the website http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/it/. Any request for information or clarification or to exercise your rights (including the rights of access, rectification, erasure, withdrawal of consent, etc.) can be addressed to the Data Controller’s contact person (and in the case of essential technical cookies for navigation, to both Data Controllers) at the following addresses:
For North Star Srl
- Privacy Office c/o North Star Srl via Brigata Reggio, 27, 42124 – Reggio Emilia (RE)
- or by sending an email to: privacy@northstaritaly.com
For Dalla Costa
- Ufficio Privacy c/o Dalla Costa Alimentare Srl via della Fornace, 131, 31023 – Castelminio di Resana (TV)
- or by sending an email to: privacy@dallacostalimentare.com
Furthermore, you always have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority, which can be contacted at garante@gpdp.it or via the website http://www.gpdp.it.