Privacy Policy

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The 1000Apparel online store, which can be accessed from the website http://shop.1000scientists.com


With your express consent, which you may give to 1000Apparel in the 1000Apparel privacy policy section, information willingly provided by the user or lawfully acquired by 1000Apparel, both in the role of independent Data Controller and the role of Data Processor for the purposes specified as follows.

The present conduct guidelines concerning privacy (the “Privacy Policy”) are applicable for the website http://shop.1000scientists.com, dedicated to e-commerce (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Site”) and refer to the processing of personal data carried out by 1000Apparel during Site navigation and user interaction with the services and features offered through the Site. The Privacy Policy has been drawn up in accordance with Recommendation 2/2001, adopted on 17 May 2001 by the Working Group for the Protection of Personal Data, Art. 29, in relation to the minimum requirements for the collection of online data within the European Union and, furthermore, provides information to interested parties regarding Article 13 of Italian Legislative Decree No. 196 of June 30 2003 (the Italian “Personal Data Protection Code”). The Privacy Policy specifies the identity of the data controller that controls and manages the personal data collected and processed through the Site, and indicates which personal information is to be collected, the purposes and ways of processing and communicating to third parties the user’s personal data, the security measures adopted in order to protect said data and the ways in which the user may check the data processing regarding his person and exercise the rights recognised by the Personal Data Protection Code.

1000Apparel as the owner of dominion names including those at the address http://shop.1000scientists.com, uses the Site not only as a means to inform users about products belonging to the 1000Apparel co. but also as a tool for the collection of personal data. Therefore, in accordance with the provisions established in the Personal Data Protection Code, 1000Apparel, in the capacity of Data Controller (hereinafter the “Controller”) provides the following information concerning the processing of personal data both of users who only consult the Site (traffic data) and those who freely send their information via email and/or by filling in specific forms in order to access reserved sections within the Site or receive the Controller’s newsletter.
This information is provided solely for the Site and the activities carried out by the 1000Apparel, also via its data processors, and does not extend to other websites which the user may be able to consult via a link and/or activities offered by third parties.



1000Apparel Privacy Policy

1. Types of data processed

1.1 Traffic data
The computer systems and processing programs required to run the Site log, during their normal operation, certain data whose acquisition is automatic and inevitable (whenever Internet protocols are used) and which may, in combination with other information, enable users to be identified. Such data shall be used with the sole aim of obtaining statistical information regarding the use of the Site and to check that it is operating correctly.
Where expressly requested, such data may be used to determine responsibility in the case of computer crime against the Site and/or third parties, in compliance with the relevant procedures of the appropriate authorities.

1.2. Data provided voluntarily by individual users
Personal information provided voluntarily by individual users via email, user interaction with the Site’s features, requests for services offered by the Site, completion of specific forms to access reserved sections of the Site.

The processing shall be limited in any event, for both above categories, to common data.


2. Processing methods and purposes

Data shall be processed manually or with the aid of electronic tools for the following purposes:
  • operations management of Site navigation and relevant access data;
  • data security and Site security management;
  • market research and statistical processing;
  • staff recruitment and selection
Furthermore, with the user’s voluntary and optional permission, the Controller may process information for the purpose of establishing individual or group profiles (user profiling) and for marketing purposes such as notification, via newsletters, emails or text messages, of the Controller’s products or of initiatives and events organised by the Controller and by 1000Apparel, or with which said subjects are involved, including invitations to aforementioned initiatives or events. The user has the possibility of opposing this last processing purpose at any time, and request to no longer receive promotional and commercial material or information.


3. Data storage

Personal data collected will be stored and processed via an electronic system managed by 1000Apparel located in the 1000Apparel head office.


4. Data communication

Subjects receiving the user’s personal data may process it as Data Controller, Data Processor and/or Persons in Charge of Processing Data according to the circumstance.
The complete list, updated by the Data Processors, is available from 1000Apparel upon request. No data will be subject to diffusion.


5. Automatic data collection tools

The Site uses session cookies and permanent cookies.
Session cookies are temporary and are eliminated after every visit to the Site.
“Permanent” cookies remain on the user’s hard disk until they are eliminated. The cookies are used to enabling full use of the Site and to track visits to the various pages/sections of the Site. Cookies are not and will not be used to obtain personal data or information relating to the user’s navigation of other sites.
The information collected through cookies will be used purely for statistical purposes. The user may disable cookies at any time by selecting the appropriate setting in the web browser, although this may impede some functions of, or interaction with, the Site.


6. Data submission

With the exception of traffic data (which is collected automatically by the system) the submission of data by the user is necessary to subscribe to the Site and to access the services and features offered by the Site and in the reserved areas. The non-submission of data will prevent the user from accessing and using said services and features.
The submission of data for marketing purposes is always voluntary and optional. Any non-submission of data for such activities will have no consequence on the user’s possibility to use the services and features offered by the Site.


7. Data subject’s rights

The interested party may exercise the rights recognised in Article 7 of the Personal Data Protection Code including, but not limited to, the right to obtain a copy of processed data, their updating, modification, integration, cancellation and block. Requests for access to data pursuant to article 7 of the Privacy Code can be sent to 1000Apparel, 7368 Yonge Street, Suite #312, L4J 8H9, North York, Ontario or via email to [email protected] . Specifically, the interested party may at any time withdraw his permission, given previously during the sending of promotional and informational material, including the newsletter.


8. Data Controller

The data controller is 1000Apparel, legally based in Toronto, Ontario. Any communication should be sent to the following email address: [email protected] .