Welcome to BPK’s Privacy Policy

Hi, we’re BPK s.r.l. and welcome to our privacy policy. This policy sets out how we handle personal information. It covers the company BPK s.r.l. that owns bpkpackaging.com and its wholly owned subsidiaries, and applies across all of BPK’s businesses.

What type of personal information do we collect?

We collect certain personal information about visitors and users of our Sites. The most common types of information we collect is e-mail.

How we collect personal information

We may collect personal information directly when you provide it to us, automatically as you navigate through the Sites or when you use services associated with the Sites.

When you provide personal information to us via the Sites you’re consenting to us collecting and using that information in line with this policy and the user terms of each of the Sites. You are likely to provide personal information when you complete e-mail subscription and submit feedback, enter a contest, fill out a survey, or send us a communication.

If you choose not to provide personal information, we may not be able to provide you with our services and you may not be able to carry out transactions or access the full range of features available through our Sites.

Personal information we collect about you from others

Although we generally collect personal information directly from you, we may on occasion also collect information about you from using tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons and other web analytics software or services.

How do we use personal information?

We may use your personal information in order for us to:

1. operate the Sites and provide you with services described on the Sites, like to verify your identity when you sign in to any of our Sites, to facilitate and process transactions that take place on the Sites, to respond to support tickets and to help facilitate the resolution of any disputes
2. customize our services and websites, like advertising that may appear on the Sites, in order to provide a more personalised experience
3. update you with operational news and information about our Sites and services like to notify you about changes to our Sites, website disruptions or security updates
4. provide you with information that you request from us or, where we have your consent to do so, provide you with marketing information about products and services which we feel may interest you
5. carry out technical analysis to determine how to improve the Sites and services we provide
6. monitor activity on the Sites, like to identify potential fraudulent activity and to ensure compliance with the user terms that apply to the Sites
7. manage our relationship with you, like by responding to your comments or queries submitted to us on the Sites or asking for your feedback or whether you want to participate in a survey
8. manage our legal and operational affairs
9. train BPK staff about how to best serve our community
10. provide general administrative and performance functions and activities.

When may we disclose your personal information?

We may disclose personal information to people like:

1. companies that are in the BPK group of companies
2. subcontractors and service providers who assist us in connection with the ways we may use personal information (as set out above)
3. our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc)
4. regulators and government authorities in connection with our compliance procedures and obligations
5. a purchaser or prospective purchaser of all or part of our assets or our business, and their professional advisers, in connection with the purchase
6. other people where we are authorised or required by law to do so.
7. We use a network of global subcontractors and service providers in order to ensure that we maintain the best possible service standards. Some of the subcontractors and service providers to whom we may disclose your personal information, like service providers who provide us with cloud storage solutions, are based outside of EU. In order to protect your information, we take care where possible to work with subcontractors and service providers who we believe maintain an acceptable standard of data security compliance.

How do we store your personal information?

We store personal information on secure servers that are managed by us and our service providers, and occasionally hard copy files that are kept in a secure location. Personal information that we store is subject to security and access controls, including username and password authentication and data encryption where appropriate.

How can you access your personal information?

You the right to make a request to access information we hold about you and to request corrections of any errors in that information. You may also delete your data that we collected here. To make an access or correction request, contact our privacy champion using the contact details at the end of this policy.

Choices regarding control of your personal information

Where we have your consent to do so (e.g if you have subscribed to one of our e-mail lists or have otherwise indicated that you are interested in receiving offers or information from us), we may send you marketing communications about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. You can ‘opt-out’ of such communications if you would prefer not to receive them in the future.

If your e-mail address has changed and you would like to continue to receive our e-mails, you will need subscribe again.

If we send e-mails with commercial content we will generally include an “unsubscribe” facility that you can use to opt-out of further communications – to opt-out, just follow the instructions in the e-mail. You also have choices about cookies, as described below. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies some parts of our Sites may not work properly in your case.

Cookies and web analytics

Generally speaking, when you visit our Sites, there’s certain information that’s recorded which is generally anonymous information and may not reveal your true identity. information could be associated with your account. We’re talking about the following kinds of details:

1. your IP or proxy server IP
2. basic domain information
3. your Internet service provider is sometimes captured depending on the configuration of your ISP connection
4. the date and time of your visit to the website
5. the length of your session
6. the pages which you have accessed
7. the number of times you access our site within any month;
8. the size of file you look at
9. the website which referred you to our Sites
10. the operating system which your computer uses.
11. Occasionally, we may use third party advertising companies to serve ads based on prior visits to some Sites. These advertising companies use cookies to anonymously collect data. No personally identifiable information is collected by these cookies. The anonymous data they collect is kept separate from the personal information about you as a user.

Core site cookies

These are require cookies which are used for the core functionality of our site.

Cookie name	Purpose	Party	Expires / Max age
anps_popup	Used to open the popup window if the user refreshes the page.	Anpsthemes	1 hour
anps-cookies-analytics	Used to check if the user accepted the analytics cookies.	Anpsthemes	2 years
anps-cookie-notice	Used to close the cookie notice.	Anpsthemes	2 years

 

Advertising (3rd party) Cookies

These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site.

Cookie name	Party	Expires / Max age
_ga	Google Analytics	2 years
_gid	Google Analytics	24 hours
_gat	Google Analytics	1 minute

 

Information you make public or give to others

If you make your personal information available to other people, we can’t control or accept responsibility for the way they will use or manage that information. There are lots of ways that you may find yourself providing information to other people, like when you post a public message on a comment section, share information via social media, or make contact with another user via our Sites. Before making your information publicly available or giving your information to anyone else, think carefully. If giving information to another user via our Sites, ask them how they will handle your information. If you’re sharing information via another website, check the privacy policy for that site to understand its information management practices as this privacy policy will not apply.

When we need to update this policy

We may need to change this policy from time to time in order to make sure it stays up to date with the latest legal requirements and any changes to our privacy management practices. When we do amend the policy, the changes will be effective straight away. We’ll usually publish information about changes to be made to this policy on our Sites – but please be aware that it is your responsibility to check in and make sure you keep up to date with any changes to this policy.

How can you contact us?

If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please contact our privacy champion on info@bpkpackaging.com. If you have any concerns about how we have been managing your personal information, or if you think we have not been complying with EU or Italy privacy law, you can make a complaint in writing to our privacy champion. We will consider your complaint and contact you to resolve the matter.

BPK s.r.l. Via Caboto 23, 34147 Trieste, Italy