Content Licence – Site & Privacy Policy

Site & Privacy Policy

Last Updated: September 2, 2014

Disclaimer: Everything posted on this blog is Andrea Vascellari’s personal opinion and does not necessarily represent the views of his employer or its clients.

Andrea Vascellari is committed to protecting your privacy. This Statement applies to the AndreaVascellari.com Site and governs data collection and usage. The Site is the property of Andrea Vascellari. By using the AndreaVascellari.com Site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

BY SUBMITTING ON THIS SITE ANY “PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION” THROUGH, BUT NOT RESTRICTED TO, WEB FORMS OR OTHER SIMILAR TOOLS THAT UTILIZE INPUT FIELDS, YOU AGREE TO THIS POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS POLICY, DO NOT SUBMIT ANY “PERSONAL IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION”.

Changes to this Statement

Andrea Vascellari reserves the right, at his sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Policy, at any time. When such a change is made, Andrea Vascellari will update the “Last Updated” date above. It is your responsibility to check this Policy periodically for changes. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes will mean that you accept and agree to the changes. As long as you comply with this Policy, Andrea Vascellari grants you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited privilege to enter and use the Site.

Collection of your Personal Information

The Site AndreaVascellari.com collects “personally identifiable information”, such as but not restricted to your e-mail address, name, home and/or work address and/or telephone number, ZIP code, company name, work position. Through specific web forms and online questionnaries AndreaVascellari.com also collects more insightful information related to your company, projects, strategy and objectives. By submitting any “personally identifiable information”, you agree to this policy.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by AndreaVascellari.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by AndreaVascellari.com for the operation of the services, to maintain quality of the services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the AndreaVascellari.com website.

In the event that you contact us for customer support through the Site, we may also request that you provide additional User Information relevant to the support requested by you. Users are under no obligation to provide such information. However, we cannot guarantee that we can provide customer support in the event that relevant information related to the use of our products or services is withheld. We may retain communications relating to customer support, and/or information drawn from such communications, for statistical and/or reference purposes.

WARNING! Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through AndreaVascellari.com’s blog, public message boards or forums, Linkedin, Facebook or other social networks, or via Twitter with public updates directed to Andrea Vascellari (@vascellari), this information may be collected and used by others.

Andrea Vascellari is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the AndreaVascellari.com Site.

Use of your Personal Information

AndreaVascellari collects and uses your personal information to operate the AndreaVascellari.com Site, contact you or deliver the services you have requested. AndreaVascellari may also:

  • contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services.
  • contact you via email using direct and/or personal email messages or email service providers like, but not restricted to, MailChimp.

Andrea Vascellari does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Andrea Vascellari may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party.

In addition, Andrea Vascellari may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. Such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Andrea Vascellari, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the AndreaVascellari.com. When you click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages.

Andrea Vascellari keeps track of the pages you visit within AndreaVascellari.com, in order to determine what services and content are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within AndreaVascellari.com to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Andrea Vascellari will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the AndreaVascellari.com site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Andrea Vascellari (including enforcing this agreement); and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of AndreaVascellari.com, or the public.

Security of your Personal Information

No method of safeguarding information is 100% secure. AndreaVascellari.com uses security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. AndreaVascellari.com secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Disclosure

  • Andrea Vascellari will disclose any potential conflict-of-interests that may be contained in any post. These could include current clients and their competitors or any organizations Andrea Vascellari is involved with personally. If Andrea Vascellari has worked with any organizations in the past, he will likely disclose that fact as well if it seems relevant.
  • If you think Andrea Vascellari haven’t been transparent in any post, leave a comment and he will address it. There is always the possibility that he forgot or didn’t know.
  • While Andrea works for Edelman, he is not writing on its behalf. These opinions are his and his alone, and do not reflect the views or policies of his employer.

Comments

  • All comments will be posted as long as they make it through the spam filter.
  • Stand behind your comment. Anonymous or pseudonymous comments are not welcome, especially if provocative or critical. Andrea Vascellari will decide the fate of anonymous/pseudonymous comments on a comment-by-comment basis.
  • Be nice, keep it clean, stay on topic, no spam. Comments that don’t respond to these requirements may be moved or removed.
  • Racist, sexist, or intollerant comments or those with excessive profanity may be edited or removed completely.

Content

  • The content of this site is relevant at the time of writing.
  • The work published on Andrea Vascellari’s blog is licenced under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons Licence. Creative Commons License may not apply to images used within posts and pages on this website – see links and attribution associated with each image for licensing.

Feedback and Information

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact us at andrea@andreavascellari.com. Andrea Vascellari welcomes your comments, feedback and suggestions regarding this Statement.