Marco Testa Los Angeles cares about the privacy and personal data of its users. The following privacy policy is meant to inform you on how we process your personal data when you use our services.
INFORMATION PURSUANT TO ART. 13 OF THE EU REGULATION N. 679/2016 (“GDPR”)
This Policy explains which of your personal data are collected by Marco Testa Los Angeles Inc. (hereinafter “we” or “MTLA“), for which purposes and how they are processed. You can also find below the necessary information to enforce your rights provided for by GDPR.
Generally, we collect your personal data when you email us or send us a message, when you use our website, apps and social media. We infoPrivacy rm you that the personal data collected during such processes will be used in order to reply to your queries, to carry out marketing activities and to carry out analyses in order to ensure you have a customized user experience on the website and the app, as specified below.
1. Who processes your data – Data Controller
Marco Testa Los Angeles Inc., with registered office in 6525 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, is the Data Controller of the processing of your personal data, necessary to provide you with the services and products of MTLA and, upon your consent, for marketing purposes, consistently with the purposes and modalities indicated below.
2. Which data we use – type of processed data
During normal use, the electronic systems and software procedures enabling this Site to operate, acquire certain personal data; transmission of same is implicit in the use of internet communication protocols.
The category of data could be listed as follow: (i) IP addresses of computers used by users connecting to the Site, (ii) addresses in URI (uniform resource identifier) notation for resources requested, (iii) the time of request, (iv) the method used to submit the request to the server, (v) the dimension of the file obtained in response, (vi) the numerical code indicating the status of the response given by the server (success, error etc) and (vii) other parameters regarding the user’s operating system and the IT environment.
These data are recorded in special log and could only be communicated to the Judicial Authority, in case of relevant information security events.
Otherwise are deleted from the system no later than one working week.
When you spontaneously provide your personal data (as name, surname, email address) by sending an email message to the address indicated on the website.
3. Where we collect your data – Data collection methods
Directly from you. For example, if you send us a query via email, if you browse on our website. If you do not communicate your data we would not be able to provide you with a very limited service either.
Through the use of the website and the app. We use cookies and other analysis tools, to improve the functionalities of the website and the app and make their use more efficient. To learn more, please see our Cookie Policy.
4. Why and for how long we process your data – Purpose and legal basis of processing – Data retention period
To allow you to request information. Through the email, you may request information. The legal basis of this processing is the user’s consent, to be provided when the terms and conditions of use of MTLA services are accepted. The retention period of your data is equal to the period of activity of your account for the use of MTLA’s services according to the terms and conditions of use that you accepted. Without your consent we cannot enable your interactions with other users and, in particular, your comments and your shares.
To prevent or assess unlawful conducts, to protect and enforce our rights. For example, we may use your data to prevent or prosecute infringements, including of our – and third parties’ – intellectual/industrial property rights, or to prevent or prosecute cybercrimes or crimes committed through the internet. The legal basis of such processing is the legitimate interest of MTLA to protect its rights and to prevent criminal offences. The retention period of your data is equal to the time reasonably necessary to enforce our rights from the moment we become aware of the offence or of its potential commission.
To obtain information on the use of the website. When you browse our website, even when you do so without being registered or having logged in, the software procedures and the computer system controlling the functioning of the web applications acquire, during their normal operation, some data whose transmission is implicit in the use of Internet communication protocols.
This information is not collected to be associated with identified data subjects, but due to their very nature they could, through processing and associations with data held by the Data Controller or by third parties, allow users to be identified.
In case of unregistered users, geographical location data and data related to how the website is used will only be used in an anonymous form that does not in any way allow, even in combination with the Unique Device Identifier (UDID), the MAC address, the IMEI or IMSI codes or other customer codes, to trace, directly or indirectly to your identity, unless you allow us to use your data at the moment of registration with explicit consent. In such case, we shall connect your browsing data used in an anonymous form in the previous 30 days to your identity.
This category of data includes IP addresses or domain names of the devices used by users connecting to the application, the addresses in URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) of the requested resources, the time of the request, the method used to submit the request to the server, the size of the file obtained in response, the numerical code given by the server indicating the status of the response (successful, error, etc.), the visited sections of the website, the type of device used, the country from which you connect and other parameters related to the operating system and the user’s computer environment. MTLA uses this information solely to allow navigation on its websites and to process the operations normally related to the use of the website. The legal basis of this processing is the legitimate interest of MTLA to communicate with the public through telematic networks. The retention period of the information that could potentially allow the identification is 30 days from access to the website.
5. Cookies
What are cookies. Cookies are small text files that the websites visited by users send to their terminals, where they are stored before being re-transmitted to the same websites during subsequent visits.
Cookies used by MTLA’s website and their purpose.
The website uses cookies which have the functionality of enabling the proper functioning of some sections, for example to access to the reserved area of the website (“technical cookies”), to ensure some customization functionalities (“functional cookies”), to improve the browsing experience (“analytical cookies”) and to help us providing you with customized offers of products you might like (“profiling cookies”).
The first time you will visit the website, you will be asked to accept (or not accept) the cookies through a banner. You may refuse to accept all or some of the cookies or you may modify, also in the future, your computer settings in order to know when you receive cookies or to be able to deactivate the function of automatic acceptance of the cookies.
The website uses the following cookies categories:
• Technical cookies (or browsing cookies), which contribute to the functioning of the website, for example to allow to browse through the pages and access the reserved area of the website; the legal basis of the processing underlying the use of these cookies is MTLA’s legitimate interest in providing efficient and well-functioning services to its customers; the retention period of these cookies starts from the date of the first access to the website until they are disabled.
| Cookie Name | Purposes | Duration |
| PHPSESSID | Php native cookie for session status purpose. | Browser session |
• Analytical cookies, which allow the acquisition of statistical information in aggregate and anonymous form, in relation to the navigation modalities; the legal basis of the processing underlying these cookies is MTLA’s legitimate interest in providing efficient and well-functioning services to its customers; the retention period of these cookies starts from the date they are enabled to the website until they are disabled. The user can accept and disable –at their convenience – these cookies at any time by using the cookies consent tool.
| Cookie Name | Purposes | Duration |
| _ga | Collects statistics on use and performance of the Site. | 2 years |
| _gat | Collects statistics on use and performance of the Site. | 1 minute |
| _gid | Collects statistics on use and performance of the Site. | 1 day |
How to deactivate technical cookies.
You can refuse the consent to use cookies by means of specific settings of your browser. Some functionalities of the website might not work properly if you refuse to use the cookies.
Here below you will find the links that explain how to deactivate the cookies from the most common browsers (for other browsers, if used, we suggest you to search for this option in the help section of the software, normally available through the F1 key):
Internet Explorer: click on the Settings button, then on Internet Option. Click on the Privacy tab and, in the settings, if you move the settings bar to the very top all the cookies will be blocked.
Google Chrome: click on the menu in the toolbar of the browser. Select Settings, click on advanced settings. In the “Privacy” tab, click on the Content Settings button. Deselect the button “Allow sites to save and read cookie data”.
Mozilla Firefox: click on the menu button and select Options. Select the Privacy tab. In History Settings: select “use personal settings”. To activate the cookies, mark “accept cookies from sites”; to deactivate the cookies, remove such mark.
Safari: click on the menu toolbar on “Safari”, then in “Preferences”. Now click on “Privacy”, then on “Details” to select the website, then select “Remove”.
Alternatively, you can disable only the cookies of Google Analytics, by using the opt out extension provided by Google for the main browsers https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=it
6. Where are your data processed – Transfer of data
The data will be processed and stored at our offices in 6525 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028.
As anticipated, for internal administrative and organizational purposes and to provide you with customer assistance, we may communicate your data to companies belonging to the MTLA’s group, operating in Europe and which have entered into with MTLA agreements in compliance with art. 28 GDPR with standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission.
Your data may also be stored in the United States by MTLA’s suppliers, in particular Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC to whom the data are transmitted on the basis of agreements in compliance with art. 28 GDPR with standard data protection clauses in accordance with the decision of the European Commission concerning the data protection clauses and by virtues of an adequacy decision of the European Commission on the level of data protection (Privacy Shield). The updated list of third party suppliers, operating as data processors pursuant to art. 28 GDPR, is available by sending a request info@ittvfestival.com
7. With whom we share your data – recipients of the personal data
With service providers. MTLA uses third-party services (clouds, customer care, analysis, profiling, research, hosting, browsing functionalities, use of the app and of the website and components of MTLA’s products and services) that operate as data processors pursuant to agreements in compliance with art. 28 GDPR. When such providers operate from a third country, they do it on the basis of standard contractual clauses in compliance with the decision of the European Commission relating to the data protection clauses or by virtue of an adequacy decision of the European Commission on the level of data protection (Privacy Shield). These subjects acquire only the personal data necessary to fulfil their functions and may use them only for the purpose of performing these services on our behalf or to comply with the law. The updated list of third-party suppliers, operating as data processors pursuant to art. 28 GDPR, is available by sending a request to info@ittvfestival.com
With other companies belonging to the MTLA’s Group. Your data may be shared with other companies belonging to MTLA’s group either for internal administrative and organizational purposes or to provide you with the services you have requested or with customer assistance. Up-to-date data on MTLA companies’ recipients of your data are available by sending a request to info@ittvfestival.com
With judicial or administrative authorities. Where we believe we have to do so to comply with an order from the judge or from an authority, or to comply with legal obligations or in order to protect us or third parties judicially, we may disclose your data to the Judicial Authority or to a Governmental Agency in Italy or the European Union.
8. Minors
MTLA does not process the personal data of minors under the age of 16. In the event that MTLA becomes aware that it has collected personal data from users under the age of 16, it will take the necessary steps to delete such information as soon as possible.
9. Your rights
In addition to managing your preferences on processing of your personal data in accordance with the previous paragraphs, you can contact MTLA to request access to your personal data, rectification, erasure of the same or restriction of the processing, to object to the processing and ask for the portability or the copy of your data; you can also revoke the consent at any time (this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent given before the revocation).
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Authority for the Protection of Personal Data and to ask to the data controllers, at any time, information about the data processors and the persons authorized by the data controllers to process your data.
You can exercise your rights by contacting MTLA via email at info@ittvfestival.com or by writing to the address indicated above.
10. What do we do if we change this policy – update of the privacy policy
We may introduce changes to our privacy policy. We will notify you in relation to these changes by publishing an updated version on our website and by notifying you via email and with other messages that may be available on the website. The new privacy policy will have a different date than the one shown below. Please visit the website periodically for updates.
Version updated as of 01/08/19