Cookies Policy
(version 2.0 dated 1st October 2021)

Dear Visitor (hereinafter, “You” or the ‘”User“),
This web page (www.MainAd.com) (hereinafter, the “Page“) is owned by the company mainADV Srl, having its registered office in Via Raiale 285 P.O.Box 12, 65128 Pescara, Italy, VAT No. IT01856630684, registered with the Company Register of Enterprises of Italy under No. PE-134286 (hereinafter, “We” or the “Company“, or the “Controller”).
Our Company carries on the activity of digital advertising.
Considered the above, we are a third party in relation to the website where you are coming from (the ”Website of Origin”)
Since when you visit the Website of Origin we install profile cookies on your browser, we hereby aim at explaining to You what cookies are and how they are used.
The Company collects and processes your personal data by means of these cookies. With this document (the “Cookie Policy”) hereby explains to You how We collect such data, for which purposes and what your rights are, also pursuant to Article 13 of the Legislative Decree No. 196 of 30 June 2003 (the “Privacy Code”) and to Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”, GDPR together with the Privacy Code and any applicable data protection regulation: “Privacy Laws”).
The Controller takes the utmost account of the right to privacy and protection of personal data of its Users. For any information related to this Cookie Policy, Users may contact the Controller at any time, using the following methods:

• By sending a registered letter with return receipt to the registered office of the Controller (Privacy department at the following address: mainADV s.r.l., Via Raiale 285 P.O.Box 12, 65128 Pescara, Italy)
• By sending an e-mail to [email protected]

A. What cookies are and what they are for

The cookies are small text files that the websites visited by a user send directly to its terminal (usually, to the browser), where they are memorised to be transmitted to the same websites at the following visit of the same by the same user (the so called proprium first part cookies). During the web surfing of a website, a user may receive on its terminal also cookies of other websites or of other web servers (the so called third parties cookies); this happens because there may be elements on the visited website, such as images, maps, sounds, links to specific web pages of other domains that are on servers other than the server on which the requested page is placed.  In other words, such cookies are set up on a website other than the one that is currently visited.
The cookies may have a duration limited to a single session of navigation on the browser (the so called session cookies), and, in such event, they deactivate automatically once the browser is closed by the user; or may have a predetermined duration and, in such event, they will remain memorised and active on your hard disk until the expiry date, thus continuing collecting information during different sessions of navigation on the browser (the so called permanent cookies).
The cookies are used for several purposes. Certain cookies are necessary in order to allow You to surf websites and benefit of their functionalities (the so called technical cookies). Other cookies are used in order to obtain statistical information, whether in aggregate or not, about the number of users accessing the websites and how the websites are used (the so called monitoring cookies or analytics). To the end, other cookies are used in order to track your consumer profile and make You viewing advertisings that may be of interest for You, since complying with your preferences and your consumer habits (the so called profiling cookies).

B. Profiling cookies
The profiling cookies are used to create a user’s profile, based on the preferences and likings showed by You during the navigation on Internet and to make You display advertisings consistent with your profile. In such way, the advertisings that You will display on the Website of Origin and the other websites that host our cookies could be more of interest for You. Your prior consent s requested in order to install such cookies, as provided pursuant the current privacy law.  For such a reason, when you access the Website of Origin a specific banner is displayed, informing you that (i) profiling cookies are used on the Website of origin and that (ii) closing the banner, surfing on the home page or clicking whatever element on the home page outside the banner, You are giving your consent to the use of cookies. In some cases the Website of Origin may ask you to give an explicit consent to the storing of these cookies, for example by requesting you to click on a specific acceptance button. For further information, please read the cookie policy of the Website of Origin.
In the event that you express your consent to the use of cookies in this way, the publisher of the Website of Origin may track your consent by means of a specific technical cookie.  In this way, the publisher of the Website or Origin will avoid you displaying the cookies banner during your following visits of the Website of Origin.  Please take into account that, in the event that you remove from your browser such technical cookie with the modalities set forth under the following paragraph C, No. 1), the track of your consent would be lost and, therefore, the cookies banner will be displayed again during your following visit to the Website of Origin.
You are clearly free to block the installation of profiling cookies in any moment whatsoever and this will not compromise in any manner whatsoever the possibility to visit the Website of Origin and benefit of its contents.
Our profiling cookies are installed directly by the Company.  Such cookies are lasting ones and have a maximum duration of 12 months.  The first part profiling cookies used are the specified in the following table, together with the indication of the modalities to use in order to oppose to their installation:

Cookie’s denomination Cookie’s category
FingerPrint Unique User identifier
lasting 12 months
Product Product identification
lasting 30 days
View Banner View identification
lasting 30 days or agreed by client
Conversion Banner click identification
lasting 30 days or agreed by client
Audiance User navigation identifier
lasting 30 days or agreed by client

For disabling such profiling cookies please amend your browser’s settings (please see paragraph C, No. 1) or use the following practical interactive button: click here
Using the interactive button to block our profiling cookies, You will receive in any case a technical cookie in order to memorise your preference.  Please consider that, removing all the cookies from the browser, also this technical cookie could be removed and, therefore, you would have to express again your choice to block such cookies using the interactive button included in this Cookie Policy.

C. How to manage the cookies and oppose to their use
There are several options to manage, disable and remove the cookies. .
(1) Modify your browser settings
Please follow the instructions provided by your browser’s producer to discover how to manage, disable or remove all the cookies (technical, analytics and profiling):

Please be careful in making your choice.  Indeed, by blocking the receipt of all the cookies indiscriminately, including the technical ones, without providing a specific exception for the Website of Origin, you might be no more able to surf on the Website of Origin or to benefit, in whole or in part, of its functionalities.  Furthermore, removing all the cookies from the browser, also the technical cookies could be removed and, therefore, you could remove the preferences set up by using the Website of Origin or no more find products or services included in your basket.

(2) Use our interactive instruments
In order to disable the first part profiling cookies, which means those installed directly by us, you can simply use the interactive button that is displayed under Paragraph B of this Cookie Policy.

D. Processing methods and data retention timing
As highlighted under the preamble of this Cookie Policy, the Company collect and process certain personal data by means of the cookies.  The Company acts as data controller of such data, in compliance with the provisions of the Privacy Laws.  Please note that we will process your data with electronic instruments only, in a much automatized manner and without any human intermediation.  Therefore, our employees and coworkers will never access the content of your personal data obtained by means of cookies, meaning that they will never be able to see and/or have any direct Personally Identifiable Information (PII).  Certain employees of ours and coworkers, appointed by us as data controllers, could make maintenance operations on IT systems that host your data, without the possibility to access their actual contents.  The personal data could be memorised on servers managed by third parties (for example, providers of IT systems) or may be managed by online marketing specialised subjects, acting as external data controllers on the basis of a specific written appointment by the Company.  We hereby inform you that, complying with the requirements and the guarantees provided under the law, your data could be transferred to Countries outside the European Economic Union that could not guarantee a level of privacy and personal data protection equal to the level of protection guaranteed by Privacy Laws, but as Controller we take the utmost account of the right to security and protection of personal data of our Users, therefore we will process such transfers with all due care and guarantees. Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties, nor will be disseminated.
Users’ personal data will be kept for the time strictly necessary to carry out the primary purposes described in the Cookie Policy, or in any case as necessary for the protection in civil law of the interests of both the Users and the Controller.
As mentioned, personal data of Users will be kept for the time strictly necessary to carry out the purposes described in the Cookie Policy and, in any case, for no more than twelve (12) months.

E. Your rights
In order to exercise your rights, or to obtain any other information or clarification in relation to this Cookie Policy, please contact the Company by means of:

  • By sending a registered letter with return receipt to the registered office of the Controller (Privacy department at the following address: mainADV s.r.l., Via Raiale 285 P.O.Box 12, 65128 Pescara, Italy)
  • By e-mail (to the following address [email protected])

Pursuant to Privacy Laws, the Data Controller informs that Users have the right to obtain indication (i) of the origin of personal data; (ii) the purposes and methods of the processing; (iii) the logic applied in the event of processing carried out with the aid of electronic instruments; (iv) of the identification details of the Controllers and Processors; (v) the subjects or categories of subjects to whom the personal data may be communicated or who may come to know them as Processors.
Furthermore, Users have the right to obtain:
a) access, updating, rectification or, when interested, integration of data;
b) the cancellation, transformation into anonymous form or blocking of data processed unlawfully, including data whose retention is unnecessary for the purposes for which the data were collected or subsequently processed;
c) the attestation that the operations referred to in letters a) and b) have been brought to the attention, also as regards their content, of those to whom the data have been communicated or disseminated, except in the case where this fulfillment is it proves impossible or involves a use of means manifestly disproportionate to the protected right.
Furthermore, Users have:
a) the right to withdraw consent at any time, if the processing is based on their consent;
b) (and, if its is applicable) the right to data portability (right to receive all personal data concerning them in a structured format, commonly used and readable by automatic device), the right to limit the processing of personal data and the right to cancel (” right to be forgotten “);
c) the right to oppose:
i) in whole or in part, for legitimate reasons, to the processing of personal data concerning them, even if pertinent to the purpose of the collection;
ii) in whole or in part, to the processing of personal data concerning them for the purpose of sending advertising or direct sales material or for carrying out market research or commercial communication;
d) if they believe that the processing that concerns them violates any Privacy Laws, the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority (if a European citizen, in the Member State in which they usually reside, in the one in which they work or in the one in which the alleged violation has occurred). The Italian Supervisory Authority is the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, located in Piazza di Monte Citorio n. 121, 00186 – Rome (http://www.garanteprivacy.it/).

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The Controller is not responsible for updating all links that can be viewed in this Cookie Policy, therefore whenever a link is not functional and/or updated, Users acknowledge and accept that they must always refer to the document and/or section of the websites referred to such link.