PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes how we process and protect the information we collect through this website https://independentideas.it (hereinafter, the “Website“).
If you have any questions about Independent Ideas Website collection of your information, please contact the Data Protection Officer at privacyofficer@publicisgroupe.com
Introduction
Any information collected through the Website, including Personal Data, will be used only to maintain and improve the Site. Once collected, Personal Data will not be processed in any incompatible manner without your consent or other legal authorization to do so.
Company Independent Ideas S.R.L. is the data controller, with registered office Milan, Viale Jenner 19, P. IVA 09599540011, is regarded as the Data Controller (here “Independentideas”).
We take the protection of information privacy very seriously. All Personal Data collected through the Website will only be used in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. Applicable data protection regulations will be fully respected.
We may include links on this Website to other websites, including social media platforms. This Privacy Policy covers and extends to how we process Personal Data, but does not extend to or describe how data is processed on those other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy notices available on those websites when you visit them. However, this Privacy Policy does apply to how your Personal Data is captured through our websites or social media profiles, to the extent applicable, and the term “Website” should be understood to include such social media profiles.
Purposes of Data Collection
The purposes for which we collect and process your Personal Data include:
- To offer and keep the Website available, attend to the contact forms and attend to any request made by the user.
- Communicate your Personal Data to other Publicis Groupe companies, so that they can send you directly their corporate communications (as described in the previous point – section “b.”). -.
- To carry out analytical and tracking actions on the deliveries made, such as, for example, measuring the number of openings, readings, or redirection to content offered, which is done through the use of cookies and similar data retrieval technologies.
- To analyse data on website traffic in order to improve the website.
- To ensure the security and maintenance of the website, in relation to which we will use information on a statistical basis where possible.
- Comply with any legal obligations applicable to Independentideas.
What personal data do we collect and process?
Personal Data includes any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (e.g. name and surname).
We collect the following Personal Data through the Website
Data that you have provided to us in the contact forms or when you contact us through any form on the Website:
- Identification data: name and surname.
- Contact details: e-mail address, mobile phone number.
- Employment/professional data: sector and job position.
- Communication data: other data that you may have provided during subsequent communications, by email or other channels such as those provided through surveys, walls, social networks or conversational interfaces made available to you.
- Data collected and derived from your use of the Site
- Data obtained and derived from the statistical measurement of the corporate mailings we send you (e.g. commercial communications and invitations to events).
- Data from LinkedIn
- Identification data: Name and surname.
- Contact details: e-mail address.
Legal basis for the processing
We process your Personal Data based on your consent for purposes c. d. and e. described in section I of the Privacy Policy (Purposes of data collection).
For purposes a. and f. described in section I., we rely on the performance of the relationship that binds us to you as a user of the Website and/or upon your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions of Use.
For purpose g., we rely on the fulfilment of legal obligations.
For purpose b., we rely on the Independentideas’s legitimate interest in promoting the reception, by the various interested parties who have previously had a relationship with us and with whom a previous relationship has been maintained (arising from the acceptance of the Terms and Conditions applicable in each case, as well as from the contracting and/or request for services or content), of communications and notices about the Independentideas’s latest news, in terms of its corporate activity (actions carried out, studies carried out, invitations to events, content offered, etc.) and to keep the owner of the data updated in this regard. In any case, the owner of the data will have the right to request his or her opposition to the processing.
Who processes the Personal Data?
Independentideas may share your Personal Data with third parties such as IT service providers or other companies that collaborate with us in the provision of the Website service. For information provided by third party cookies, we may share your Personal Data with such third parties, such as Google Inc. Your information may also be shared with authorized resellers and social media platforms.
In some cases, we may also be required to share your information with public authorities or other third parties in connection with audits, legal proceedings or similar situations.
If you consent, we may also share your information with other Independentideas companies.
Finally, we may need to share your information in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution, sale or transfer of Independentideas’s corporate assets in order to safeguard our legal interests in any event or dispute.
We will not disclose your Personal Information to any other third party under any circumstances, except as stated in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise required by law. We will not sell your Personal Data to any third party.
Accessing, editing, updating and deleting your Personal Data
Please contact the Data Protection Officer (DPO) at privacyofficer@publicisgroupe.com if you wish to access the Personal Data that we store in our records. We will comply with your right to access your Personal Data in accordance with applicable privacy legislation. If you believe that any Personal Data collected through the Website is incorrect, misleading or incomplete, please contact the DPO. You may also ask us to delete your information, object to and limit our processing of it, or request its portability.
We will use Google Analytics to measure user interaction with the Site. To learn more about how Google uses data when you use the Site, please see “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
Personal Data will be stored and retained in accordance with our corporate data retention requirements and policies. Your Personal Data will be retained until the cookies that store it expire. You can check the expiry dates for each cookie in our Cookie Policy.
Security
We employ various methods, such as firewalls, intrusion detection software and manual security procedures, to secure your information against loss or damage and to help protect the accuracy and security of your Personal Data by preventing any unauthorised access or use. If you believe that the Site or any Personal Data is not secure or that there has been any unauthorised access to the Site or your Personal Data, please contact the DPO immediately.
Data Transfers
Your Personal Data may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (for example, to the United States), which do not provide a similar level of protection as the European Union. However, we will ensure that all transfers are made in compliance with applicable legal requirements (for example, by reaching corporate agreements with appropriate contractual protections or by relying on standard contractual clauses). If you would like to know more about how we protect information or to request a copy of the standard contractual clauses, please contact privacyofficer@publicisgroupe.com.
Use of cookies, other tracking technology, social media and social media plug-ins
We use cookies and other tracking technologies on the Site. For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.
If you follow us on social media (for example, through our LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or Instagram accounts), we will also collect Personal Data about you to better understand our followers and how people respond to our products and services. We may use this information to contact you, send you marketing information that we think may be of interest to you, or conduct social listening to identify and assess what is being said publicly about us to better understand industry trends and market sentiment. The contact described above will only be made in accordance with applicable law (for example, if you have asked us to contact you on the basis of a specific consent, where required).
Social media
Our website also uses plug-ins from the LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube and Vinted social networks.
When you access our website, which contains a plug-in, your browser will create a direct link to the server of the social networking platform. The social network platform will receive information about you, about the fact that you have visited our website, your IP address and information about whether you have interacted with the plug-in on our Website. This information may be stored by the social network company in territories outside the European Union, including the United States (for more information, please see the terms and conditions of that platform). The social network company will receive information about whether or not you are a user of the social network platform.
You can prevent the loading of social network plug-ins by using an anti-scripting and ad-blocking extension, which you can download to your browser.
We have no influence on the collection or processing of your personal data by social media platforms.
You can find more information about the processing of your data by these platforms by clicking on the following links:
LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_es/howyoutubeworks/user-settings/privacy/
Vinted: https://www.vinted.es/privacy-policy
Facebook: https://es-la.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
Update notifications
In the event that we wish to change this Privacy Policy, if you have provided us with Personal Data through this Website, we will contact you to inform you of the new privacy policy where reasonably possible and, in certain circumstances, we may need to obtain your consent to the changes. In any event, such changes to the Privacy Policy will be communicated early on this page, and we encourage you to check the Privacy Policy again to see if there have been any changes.
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More information
If you believe that we are not abiding by this Privacy Policy or if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact privacyofficer@publicisgroupe.com.
You may also lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. In Italy, the competent supervisory authority is the Garante per la Protezione Del Dati Personali.

