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Privacy Policy

Updated September 2026

This Privacy Policy helps you better understand what data we collect, why we collect it and how we use it. This is important information, and we hope you will read it carefully before submitting any personal information and/or filling in any electronic form on the website.

This notice is also provided pursuant to Article 13 of GDPR 679/2016 - General Data Protection Regulation – to those who visit the LAPS Foundation website and use its web services starting from the address www.lapsonlus.org.

The website www.lapsonlus.org is owned by the LAPS Foundation and managed by doppiozero srl, which ensures compliance with the legislation on the protection of personal data (GDPR 679/2016).

Privacy policy

Our users’ privacy matters to the LAPS Foundation, so all LAPS Foundation users, whether new or long-standing, should be aware of our practices.

In explaining our policies we try to use clear and simple language. If you are not familiar with terms such as cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, feel free to contact us with any questions.

Our Privacy Policy explains:

  • What data we collect and why.
  • How we use that information.
  • The choices we offer, including how to access your data.

1. Data we collect

We collect data to provide better services to all our users – for example, to understand basic things such as the language a user speaks, or more complex things such as which ads may be most useful or which content could be created based on the user’s interests.

The personal data collected through the website, directly or through third parties, include: usage data, phone number, email, first name, last name, postcode, company name, address, country, city, business sector, website, username, gender, date of birth, geographic location, profession, picture and profile picture.

Data provided by the user

For example, through the website’s forms. When you fill in a form, we ask for personal information such as your name, email address or phone number.

Data we collect through Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics technology to collect data and store information when the website is visited, which may involve the use of cookies or similar technologies to identify the user’s browser or device. We also use these technologies to collect and store information when the user interacts with our website.

Google may use cookies that allow demographic data to be segmented, and may use the data collected to contextualise and personalise advertisements, sharing them with other services developed by Google.

For more information, please see the following links:

You can prevent Google Analytics from using this data by downloading and installing a browser add-on.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text strings that a website sends to the user’s device in order to optimise browsing and the services offered, and to improve the features and usability of the website. Cookies are used to manage authentication, monitor sessions and store user preferences.

Cookies can be saved on the device and remain active for a variable period of time, or be deleted when the browser is closed.

Some cookies are essential because they support core functions of our website, such as setting up the user session.

In addition to browsing (or session) cookies, this website also uses functionality cookies, which remember the choices made by the user (such as language or country of origin) and offer an enhanced, personalised service.

We also use technical cookies to keep track, in accordance with current legislation, of the user’s consent to receive cookies.

Managing cookies

By default, almost all web browsers are set to accept cookies automatically.

Users can choose to disable cookies or limit their functions by customising their browser settings. Browser preferences also make it possible to delete cookies installed in the past. Please note that disabling, blocking or deleting cookies may negatively affect the user experience and the functionality of our website.

Disabling third-party cookies may also interfere with the proper functioning of the website.

Instructions on how to manage cookies in the various browsers can be found at the following links:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Internet Explorer
  • Safari
  • Opera

Google Ads

Google Ads is used to manage campaigns and ads with the aim of attracting new visitors to the website, increasing online sales, receiving more phone calls or building customer loyalty. To keep track of sales and other conversions generated by an ad, Google Ads places a cookie on the computer of users who click on the ad.

For more information and to block certain ads, please see the following link:

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

2. How we use the data we collect

We use the data collected through cookies and other technologies, such as pixel tags, to improve the user experience and the overall quality of our services. One of the products we use for this purpose is Google Analytics.

Data processing is carried out using IT procedures and electronic means.

The LAPS Foundation processes personal information on its own server located in Germany. We may process personal information on a server in a country other than the one in which the user is located.

In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases the Data may be accessed by categories of staff involved in running the website (for example: administrative, sales, marketing and legal staff, system administrators) or by external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, postal couriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communication agencies) appointed, where necessary, as Data Processors by the Data Controller.

The up-to-date list of Data Processors can always be requested from the Data Controller.

Optional provision of data

Apart from what is specified for browsing data, users/visitors are free to provide their personal data. Failure to provide it may only result in the impossibility of obtaining what was requested.

Place of data processing

Processing related to the web services of the above website takes place at the registered office of the LAPS Foundation, c/o Centro Uffici Direzionali Palazzo Galileo, Via San Quintino 28, 10121 Turin (TO), Italy and/or at the premises of the hosting and/or website management company, and is carried out only by technical staff of the Office responsible for processing, or by persons in charge of occasional maintenance operations.

No data deriving from the web service is communicated or disclosed. Personal data provided by users who request information material are used solely to perform the requested service and are disclosed to third parties only where this is necessary for that purpose.

Data Controller

The Data Controller for personal data is the LAPS Foundation, represented by its Secretary General.

3. User rights

Under the GDPR and national legislation, the User may exercise the following rights:

  • Request access to their personal data and information on the logic, methods and purposes of its processing;
  • Receive their data in a readable electronic format;
  • Request that their data be updated, corrected, supplemented or deleted;
  • Object to certain processing activities or request the restriction of processing in cases of inaccuracy or unlawful processing;
  • And, more generally, exercise all the rights granted to them by applicable law.

Users may submit their requests at any time by contacting the Data Controller at: LAPS Foundation, c/o Centro Uffici Direzionali Palazzo Galileo, Via San Quintino 28, 10121 Turin (TO), Italy.