Privacy and Cookies Policy

This web page describes how and why the personal data of users (hereinafter, also ‘users’) visiting the website www.governo.it (hereinafter, also the ‘Website’) are processed.

Pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, the ‘General Data Protection Regulation’ (hereinafter, ‘GDPR’), and Italian data protection laws (Italian Legislative Decree no. 196/2003 and subsequent amendments, in particular those introduced by Italian Legislative Decree no. 101/2018), this privacy policy is provided to users who access the Website via the address www.governo.it, and does not refer to other external websites that may be linked thereto.

Personal data processing means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, even if said data are not recorded in a database, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, processing, selection, blocking, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

1. Data Controller

The Data Controller is the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Within the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, data controller duties are performed by staff appointed by the President of the Council of Ministers’ decree dated 25 May 2018, published in the Official Journal of the Italian Republic.

Data collected via the information request form are processed at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers’ Institutional Communications and Media Relations Office, by data processing staff. Said data are processed by electronic means, using adequate security measures.

2. Data Protection Officer (DPO)

The role of the Data Protection Officer is provided for by Article 37 of the GDPR.

The DPO cooperates with the Italian Data Protection Authority and acts as point of contact for all matters concerning personal data processing, also vis-à-vis data subjects (Articles 38 and 39 of the GDPR); the DPO also coordinates the implementation and keeping of data processing records (Article 30 of the GDPR).

As required by Article 37(7) of the GDPR, please find below the contact details of the Data Protection Officer:

3. Legal basis for data processing

The personal data indicated on this page are processed for the purpose of performing tasks of public interest or that are in any case linked to exercising public powers.

After visiting this Website, data relating to identified or identifiable persons may be processed. Data freely provided by users on a voluntary basis shall be acquired and processed in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and shall only be used for institutional purposes.

The Presidency of the Council of Ministers undertakes to respect and protect your privacy by processing the personal data you provide in compliance with legal provisions aimed at ensuring that data are secure, accurate, up to date and pertinent to the purposes stated. Personal data provided by users who submit requests are only used to reply to the requests in question; such data are only disclosed to third parties if this is strictly necessary and functional for said purpose, in compliance with EU and Italian legislation. Data are processed by specifically authorised staff and only if data processing is necessary for them to perform their assigned tasks.

4. Processing methods

Personal data are processed electronically for the amount of time that is strictly necessary to fulfil the purposes for which they have been collected.

Specific security measures are applied in order to prevent any loss, illegal use or misuse of data, as well as any unauthorised access thereto.

5. Type of data and the purpose of processing

All personal data provided through the Website shall be lawfully and correctly processed for the purpose of providing the requested services and to reply to users’ communications and questions; data are always processed for the institutional purposes of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, as provided for by law.

6. Cookies

Cookies are small text files that websites send to users’ devices after being visited; they are then stored on users’ devices and sent back to the same websites when users next visit them.

This Website uses:

Technical cookies are not used for profiling activities.

Users may choose whether to allow or disable cookies by altering their browser settings, following the instructions provided by the relative suppliers available from the links below: