Privacy & Cookie Policy

Dear Visitor or Client, this page details how PhD Eng. Enrico Flamigni - Industrial & Energy Engineering Consulting Firm collects and processes your personal data through this website and within our technical circulars and newsletters, in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR - EU Regulation 2016/679).

1. Data Controller

The Data Controller is:
PhD Eng. Enrico Flamigni
Industrial, Energy, and Metallurgical Consulting Firm
Address: Via Grazia Deledda, 2 - 47841 Cattolica (RN) - Italy
VAT No.: IT04727280408 • Registered in the Order of Engineers of Rimini No. 432 A
Privacy contact email: eflamigni@gmail.com

2. Categories of Data Collected and Purposes

We only process data strictly necessary for legitimate professional purposes:

• Contact Form ("Let's Talk About Your Project"): Full name, email address, company name, and your technical message. This data is exclusively used to respond to technical inquiries, provide quotations, and carry out pre-contractual or contractual requests.
• Technical Circulars & Newsletters: Email address, contact/company name, and sector of interest (e.g., Transition 5.0, Industry 4.0, Energy Efficiency, EU Directives & ISO/UNI Standards). Used to send technical updates, regulatory deadlines, grants, and industrial engineering circulars.
• Browsing and Aggregated Analytics Data: We use Google Analytics 4 with IP anonymization to gather aggregated data on website usage to improve navigation and user experience.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

Data processing is grounded on the following legal bases (Articles 6 and 13 GDPR):

• Inquiries and Contract Performance: Performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures taken at your request (Art. 6.1.b GDPR).
• Technical Circulars to Existing Clients (Soft-Opt-in): Legitimate interest of the Data Controller in keeping clients informed about relevant regulatory updates and similar engineering services (Art. 6.1.f GDPR), subject to the recipient's right to opt out at any time.
• Newsletter Subscription: Explicit consent provided by the user (Art. 6.1.a GDPR).
• Statistical Analytics Cookies: Explicit consent given through the cookie banner (Art. 6.1.a GDPR).

4. Data Retention

Contact inquiry data is retained for the time required to manage the request and comply with legal and tax retention requirements (up to 10 years for contractual/tax documentation). Newsletter and circular recipient data is kept until an unsubscribe (opt-out) request is received or the service is discontinued.

5. Data Recipients & Processors

Personal data is never sold or transferred to third parties for unauthorized marketing. Data may be processed by technical service providers acting as Data Processors (Art. 28 GDPR):

• Brevo (Sendinblue SAS): Email dispatch and newsletter delivery platform located in the European Union (France), compliant with GDPR standards.
• Supabase Inc.: Secure cloud database infrastructure hosted within the European Union (EU region).
• Google Ireland Limited: Google Analytics 4 service provider (active only upon user consent).
• Formspree Inc.: Secure contact form notification gateway.

6. Data Subject Rights & Unsubscribe (Opt-Out)

Under Articles 15-22 of the GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data and obtain a copy.
• Request correction, updating, or rectification of inaccurate data.
• Obtain erasure of your data (Right to be forgotten).
• Restrict or object at any time to the processing of your data for newsletters and circulars.
• Withdraw previously given consent at any time without affecting prior lawful processing.

7. Cookie Policy

Our website strictly respects visitor privacy:

• Technical Cookies: Necessary for site operations and remembering your cookie consent choice locally. No profiling data is gathered.
• Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics 4): Loaded only with your explicit consent via the cookie banner ("Accept all").

You can reset or change your cookie choices at any time by clearing your browser cache or `localStorage` for this domain.