PRIVACY POLICY & COOKIES

INFORMATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 13 OF REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) ("GDPR”)

This notice describes which of your personal data is collected by Ascend di Macadam Read David (hereinafter referred to as "us"), the purposes for this and how it is processed. You will also find the information necessary to exercise your rights under GDPR. In general, we collect your data when you email us directly or through our contact form, or when you register on our site or when you call us or message us.

You are hereby informed that the personal data collected during said procedures will be processed with the sole objective to respond to your requests, and perform the tasks necessary to do this, including the transactions required for administrative and tax compliance and to provide better services, marketing and support for you and other customers, as set out above.

1. Who processes your data: data controllers

Ascend di Macadam Read David, registered at Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II 18, Tonco 14039, Asti Province of Italy with fiscal code MCDRDV83L21Z401E and tax code IT01720470051 (hereinafter “Ascend”) is the controller of your data.

In accordance with Art. 26 GDPR, you are hereby informed that Ascend is the controller of your personal data for the purposes of: processing and managing your orders, shipping the products you have bought, providing you with the necessary after-sales support, complying with taxation law and, subject to your prior consent, carrying out marketing activities, in accordance with the purposes and methods set out below.

2. Which data we process - Type of data processed

Your contact and personal data. We will retain the contact information you provide (for example, your first name, surname, address, telephone number, email, country of residence, fiscal code,) when you provide us that information for the purpose of discussing potential and or future work, projects, collaborations and the like.

Website use data.

By using ascendr.eu website, you agree that data from your browser and the device you are using, as well as your IP address (this is the number that identifies a specific device on the internet and that is needed for your device to communicate with websites) may be processed and that Ascend may be able to analyse which site you have come from, what you have done and what you have not done on our website.

3. Where we get your data - Data collection method:
Directly from you. For example if you contact Ascend.

Through the use of the website cookies may be used to collect your usage data. To find out more, please view our Cookie Policy and the Squarespace cookie policy

4. Why and how long we process your data for - Purpose and legal basis for data processing; retention period

Ascend will maintain your data simply in order to communicate with you and manage any related services

You can request Ascend to remove your data from our database at any time read@ascendr.eu

by law (in particular, fiscal, money laundering, banking and public security laws).

For marketing purposes. Subject to your consent, you may be contacted by email, text message, telephone or other means with information or offers concerning the events, products or services available. The legal basis for this processing is your explicit consent. The retention period for your data is equal to 12 months from the date on which the data was collected. Other purposes permitted by the law. In certain circumstances, we may process your data if there is a legitimate interest for Ascend, in accordance with Art. 6, paragraph 1 (f) of GDPR. For the aforementioned purposes, personal data is processed using manual, digital and online tools with software that is closely related to said purposes and, in any case, is processed in such a way that the data is kept secure and confidential in accordance with the law.

5. Cookies

What are cookies? Cookies are small text files that are sent to your computer when you visit a website. Your computer saves the cookies and sends them back to the website when you visit the website again.

Squarespace mau collect cookies from ascendr.eu. you can view the squarespace cookie policy here: https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy/

Usage Statistics

Ascend will collect general anonymous data on site usage statistics such as page access, duration of stay, browser or device type. This data is provided by default by your operating internet browser or phone carrier and is collected directly by Cookie Script or through other 3-rd party tools such as Google Analytics or Squarespace. Cookie Script also reserves the right to use usage statistics on marketing and publicly available material.

Links to other websites

The www.ascendr.eu website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Cookie Script may place a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. This cookie does not collect information that personally identifies you as an individual (other than your Internet protocol address), but merely allows us to recognize your repeated visits to cookie-script.com. We use our cookie collected information to make your visit more enjoyable. If you want to disable cookies, there is a simple procedure in most Internet browsers that allows you to turn off or delete cookies, but please remember that cookies may be required to allow you to use certain features of Cookie Script.

You can change your browser's settings to disable cookies.

Where your data is processed – data transferData will be processed and stored at the Ascend of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II 18, Tonco 14039, Asti Provice, Italy.
Who we share your data with – On the understanding that, where required by law, we will obtain your prior consent and carry out any formalities required by the law, we will share your data with the following third parties (acting as external data processors):

Our service providers. We may share your data with third parties so that they can provide us with services (for example, couriers, warehousing and logistics companies) but in this case we will enter into an agreement in compliance with Art. 28 GDPR for the purpose of protecting your data. These parties will only have possession of the data required to perform their functions and may use this data only for the purpose of providing services on our behalf or complying with the law. You can find out details of such data processors pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR by emailing read@ascendr.eu

Where we deem it necessary for complying with our legal obligations or to legally protect ourselves or third parties. Where permitted or required by the law, we may also share the data requested by a government body or by another authorised third party or organisation for the purpose of protecting or exercising our rights or those of third parties, or for the purpose of limiting or preventing fraud (including credit card fraud or other fraud that we believe may have occurred) and other illegal activities.

8. Minors

Ascend is focused towards an adult audience. If you are a parent or guardian and you think your child may have transmitted data, you can contact us.

9. Security measures

We adopt the security measures required by the law. We adopt security measures to protect your data. The standard security measures that we use depend on the type of data that we process and meet the legal requirements and the standards of European government agencies.

10. Your rights

You can contact Ascend, to request access to your personal data, modify it, delete it or limit its processing, to oppose its processing, and to request the portability of your data; you can also withdraw your consent at any time (this will not prejudice the lawfulness of the processing on the basis of the consent granted prior to the withdrawal).

When you exercise your right of access, you have the right to know whether your data is currently being processed, what the purpose of the processing is, what categories of data are being processed, who the recipients of your data or categories of recipients are (and, if they reside in a third country, what guarantees this transfer is based on), the retention period for your data (or the criteria for determining the retention period), whether automated processing is being carried out (for example through profiling), what the reason for the processing is, and the origin of the data (when not initially collected by us).

You have the right to submit a complaint to the National Data Protection Authority and, at any time, to ask the joint controllers for information about the data processors and parties that are authorised by the data controllers to process your data and the contents of the agreement between the joint controllers under Art. 26 GDPR. You can exercise your rights by contacting either Ascend (at the address stated above or by emailing read@ascendr.eu) You can withdraw your consent to receiving marketing communications.

To stop receiving marketing communications you can withdraw your consent by emailing one of the addresses stated above. You can control and disable cookies and other profiling tools. To find out how we use cookies and other profiling tools, see our Cookie Policy.

11. What happens if we change this policy

We may make changes to our privacy policy and in that case we will publish an updated version on our website. It will have a different date and version number to the one given below. Please visit the site regularly to check for updates.