Trinseo: fuelling sustainable mobility through innovative materials
07/07/2023
Thermoplastic elastomers
Trinseo’s Chief Technology Officer, Han Hendriks, has clear ideas about the urgency of the transition towards more sustainable mobility and the contribution Trinseo can make. Sustainable Plastics asked him to talk in a little more depth about Trinseo - ‘a company in transformation’ - and the company’s role as a materials provider.
Before diving into the topic of mobility, can you first explain a bit about what sustainability means to Trinseo?
Hendriks: Sustainability is intrinsic to all operations at Trinseo and runs through our culture. We recognise our responsibility as a materials provider, to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.
That's why Trinseo has set ambitious sustainability goals for 2030, including reducing our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 35% and achieving 75% landfill-free operations. We also aim to ensure that 100% of our suppliers adhere to the Trinseo Supplier Code of Conduct, which includes requirements for ethical and sustainable practices.
Consideration of the interconnectedness of social, environmental, and economic factors and the commitment to creating value for all stakeholders through sustainable business practices are essential for successful sustainability.
That's why Trinseo is dedicated to driving positive change in all operations and the broader industry. We regularly report on our progress towards sustainability goals and are committed to transparency.
We also know that a sustainable future is dependent on the networks we build today. Trinseo values collaborative opportunities to solve major issues facing our industry.
Our global partnerships are key to our sustainability strategy, as they are the foundation for building a circular economy and innovating to produce sustainably-advantaged materials.
We collaborate with peers through several networks (for example, Styrenics Circular Solutions, Plastics Europe) designed to enhance environmental stewardship, innovate to develop more sustainable products, promote responsible operations, and journey ever closer toward decarbonisation.
So, how do you see the development of ‘sustainable mobility’?
The development of sustainable mobility is a crucial aspect of achieving a more sustainable future. The end goal for sustainable mobility is to be CO2-neutral and closed-loop, meaning that at the end of a vehicle’s life, all of its components are fully reused or recycled, and the consumer is using fully green energy to power their vehicle with zero emissions.
Although this end goal is still some way off, the industry has been taking steps towards achieving it. One example is reducing the vehicles’ weight and the shift towards electrifying propulsion.
Material providers are also playing a crucial role in the development of sustainable mobility. To help achieve the end goal of CO2 neutral and closed loop, they are looking into bringing more sustainable options into their feedstocks and lowering the CO2 footprint of their materials.
These efforts include exploring bio feedstocks and open and closed-loop recycling from non-automotive sources.
As a materials manufacturer, how do you define sustainable materials?
As a materials manufacturer, defining sustainable materials is a crucial aspect of our commitment to sustainability. Our vision for sustainable materials is that they should be CO2-neutral and infinitely 100% recyclable, which means that they can be recycled repeatedly without any loss in performance.
However, sustainable materials must also meet performance requirements and consumer expectations. Therefore, a balance must be struck between sustainability, performance, and consumer satisfaction.
At Trinseo, we have a vision to be a global leader in sustainable materials, and are passionate about making this happen. Our R&D teams around the world are working towards this goal, exploring new options and technologies to develop materials that meet our criteria for sustainability.
Our current portfolio of environmentally advantaged materials is a reflection of the progress we have made towards our vision.
This portfolio includes bio-based materials, which are segregated from fossil-based materials, bio-attributed materials that use the mass balance approach, and recycled-containing materials.
In vehicles today, what percentage of materials used are sustainable, and where will more be used in the future?
Sustainable materials are becoming increasingly important in the automotive industry. Currently, sustainable materials are used in several applications such as exterior and interior lighting, trim pieces, dashboards, pillars, mats, and under-the-hood applications such as gaskets.
These materials include recycled PMMA and/or bio and recycled TPS, bio ABS, and bio and recycled TPE, TPU. Trinseo has even successfully commercialised recycled-containing PC/ABS for a safety-critical part, as part of the door carrier for a large German premium OEM.
The percentage of sustainable materials used in vehicles varies at the moment, but it is expected to continue increasing throughout the vehicle. OEMs are also pushing the boundaries of performance for sustainably advantaged materials, as seen in other industries like consumer electronics.
When you refer to ‘circular’, what is Trinseo’s role? Does the company actively recover materials used to produce vehicles? Is it the use of recycled materials? Do you have partnerships to enable circularity?
Circularity is an essential part of Trinseo's vision for sustainable materials, and involves going beyond just selling plastics. We have capabilities in designing parts for disassembly or recycling, enabling the use of recycled materials, and creating partnerships to enable circularity.
Trinseo has acquired Heathland, a Netherlands-based recycler, to improve our access to feedstocks. We are also developing recycling technologies that improve the yield of recycled plastics, and some of the more promising technologies – proprietary to Trinseo – are currently moving into the scale-up phase.
Trinseo also has several partnerships in place, including with JSW for the recycling of PMMA and Ineos for the depolymerisation of styrene, to support circularity. Trinseo is also working increasingly earlier and closer with strategic customers in different sectors to ensure a rapid increase in the share of sustainable materials compared to all-prime equivalents.
This collaboration is essential for driving the next leap in circularity.
In summary, Trinseo’s role in circularity involves not only the use of recycled materials but also designing parts for disassembly or recycling and developing recycling technologies.
Our partnerships and collaborations aim to create a more circular future by enabling the recovery and reuse of materials used to produce vehicles.
What about price and availability – both are still an issue when it comes to more sustainable materials. How is Trinseo working to solve those issues?
Trinseo is actively working to address issues related to the availability, price, and quality of more sustainable materials. While availability remains a challenge, particularly for recycled feedstock, Trinseo has established strong partnerships, including the recent acquisition of Heathland, to ensure access to recycled feedstock of consistent, high quality.
We seek to source locally produced recycled feedstock for sustainability reasons, but quality and performance cannot be compromised. In cases where recycled feedstock is not yet available, Trinseo is exploring bio-based alternatives to augment our offering and bridge the gap.
Trinseo is also driving physical recycling, especially for polymers with low energy impact, which significantly reduces CO2 impact compared to the production of prime materials.
The acquisition of Heathland is a first step towards ensuring a higher quantity and quality of recycled feedstock, and Trinseo is committed to continuing to develop innovative solutions to address issues related to availability and price of more sustainable materials.
Does the fact that your materials are used in mobility applications affect your Scope 3 emissions as a company?
The use of Trinseo’s materials in mobility applications can have an impact on the company’s Scope 3 emissions. As a materials manufacturer, Trinseo has a responsibility to reduce the carbon footprint of its products throughout their lifecycle, including the end-use phase.
By providing sustainable materials for mobility applications, Trinseo can help reduce the carbon emissions associated with the transportation sector. This is particularly important given that the transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.
By developing sustainable materials for mobility applications, Trinseo is contributing to the transformation of sustainable mobility, which is a market driving sustainable transformation. As such, we are working towards a future where vehicles are CO2-neutral and closed-loop, with all components fully reused/recycled, and consumers are using green energy to power their vehicles with zero emissions.
Throwing in a more personal question here: what prompted you to make the switch from Yanfeng to Trinseo? Can you talk about your vision, organisation and plans as CTO?
There were a few reasons I made the move. Perhaps the most important was my passion for sustainability, shared by Trinseo. I made sustainability a priority at Yanfeng and see similar priorities here.
The company’s ethos is that chemistry is the primary driver towards a sustainable society and that it is not solely the remit of an individual sector, for example automotive or manufacturing. Instead, chemistry is at the tip of the spear.
Trinseo has fully embraced its responsibility to drive sustainability in our material solutions, and it is a company in transformation, to become the leader in sustainable material solutions for our customers. In my role as CTO I can really make a difference.
For Trinseo’s evolving R&D organization, it is really easy to identify with the company’s mission and vision, and it is exciting to build out a strong global R&D organization with new, future-focused capabilities.
Do you envision a future where the automotive value chain has moved from a linear model to a collaborative one? What is needed for that to happen?
We are in the middle of a complex and dynamic transformation, with moving targets – e.g. new data on the state of the planet, new regulations, technological breakthroughs and evolving insights.
To accelerate towards a sustainable society, sharing knowledge is essential in this dynamic environment – full transparency of the CO2 footprint of ecosystem players, reliable data handling for every step in the value chain, and co-creation of the future of automotive interior and exterior parts, because a CO2 neutral and circular car will have a different look and feel to what we know today.
Trinseo envisions a future where the automotive value chain moves from a linear model to a more collaborative one. Collaboration is necessary for the entire value chain to transform towards more sustainable practices. This includes collaboration between materials suppliers, OEMs, tier 1 suppliers, and recyclers.
Collaboration can drive innovation, promote the sharing of best practices, and accelerate progress towards a sustainable society. It also requires transparency and reliable data handling to enable a better understanding of the CO2 footprint of each step in the value chain.
Ultimately, co-creation will be critical to designing and manufacturing sustainable automotive interior and exterior parts. A CO2-neutral and circular car will require new solutions and materials to design and construct, and achieving this requires collaboration between all players in the value chain.
Trinseo: fuelling sustainable mobility through innovative materials
07/07/2023
Thermoplastic elastomers
Trinseo’s Chief Technology Officer, Han Hendriks, has clear ideas about the urgency of the transition towards more sustainable mobility and the contribution Trinseo can make. Sustainable Plastics asked him to talk in a little more depth about Trinseo - ‘a company in transformation’ - and the company’s role as a materials provider.
Before diving into the topic of mobility, can you first explain a bit about what sustainability means to Trinseo?
Hendriks: Sustainability is intrinsic to all operations at Trinseo and runs through our culture. We recognise our responsibility as a materials provider, to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.
That's why Trinseo has set ambitious sustainability goals for 2030, including reducing our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 35% and achieving 75% landfill-free operations. We also aim to ensure that 100% of our suppliers adhere to the Trinseo Supplier Code of Conduct, which includes requirements for ethical and sustainable practices.
Consideration of the interconnectedness of social, environmental, and economic factors and the commitment to creating value for all stakeholders through sustainable business practices are essential for successful sustainability.
That's why Trinseo is dedicated to driving positive change in all operations and the broader industry. We regularly report on our progress towards sustainability goals and are committed to transparency.
We also know that a sustainable future is dependent on the networks we build today. Trinseo values collaborative opportunities to solve major issues facing our industry.
Our global partnerships are key to our sustainability strategy, as they are the foundation for building a circular economy and innovating to produce sustainably-advantaged materials.
We collaborate with peers through several networks (for example, Styrenics Circular Solutions, Plastics Europe) designed to enhance environmental stewardship, innovate to develop more sustainable products, promote responsible operations, and journey ever closer toward decarbonisation.
So, how do you see the development of ‘sustainable mobility’?
The development of sustainable mobility is a crucial aspect of achieving a more sustainable future. The end goal for sustainable mobility is to be CO2-neutral and closed-loop, meaning that at the end of a vehicle’s life, all of its components are fully reused or recycled, and the consumer is using fully green energy to power their vehicle with zero emissions.
Although this end goal is still some way off, the industry has been taking steps towards achieving it. One example is reducing the vehicles’ weight and the shift towards electrifying propulsion.
Material providers are also playing a crucial role in the development of sustainable mobility. To help achieve the end goal of CO2 neutral and closed loop, they are looking into bringing more sustainable options into their feedstocks and lowering the CO2 footprint of their materials.
These efforts include exploring bio feedstocks and open and closed-loop recycling from non-automotive sources.
As a materials manufacturer, how do you define sustainable materials?
As a materials manufacturer, defining sustainable materials is a crucial aspect of our commitment to sustainability. Our vision for sustainable materials is that they should be CO2-neutral and infinitely 100% recyclable, which means that they can be recycled repeatedly without any loss in performance.
However, sustainable materials must also meet performance requirements and consumer expectations. Therefore, a balance must be struck between sustainability, performance, and consumer satisfaction.
At Trinseo, we have a vision to be a global leader in sustainable materials, and are passionate about making this happen. Our R&D teams around the world are working towards this goal, exploring new options and technologies to develop materials that meet our criteria for sustainability.
Our current portfolio of environmentally advantaged materials is a reflection of the progress we have made towards our vision.
This portfolio includes bio-based materials, which are segregated from fossil-based materials, bio-attributed materials that use the mass balance approach, and recycled-containing materials.
In vehicles today, what percentage of materials used are sustainable, and where will more be used in the future?
Sustainable materials are becoming increasingly important in the automotive industry. Currently, sustainable materials are used in several applications such as exterior and interior lighting, trim pieces, dashboards, pillars, mats, and under-the-hood applications such as gaskets.
These materials include recycled PMMA and/or bio and recycled TPS, bio ABS, and bio and recycled TPE, TPU. Trinseo has even successfully commercialised recycled-containing PC/ABS for a safety-critical part, as part of the door carrier for a large German premium OEM.
The percentage of sustainable materials used in vehicles varies at the moment, but it is expected to continue increasing throughout the vehicle. OEMs are also pushing the boundaries of performance for sustainably advantaged materials, as seen in other industries like consumer electronics.
When you refer to ‘circular’, what is Trinseo’s role? Does the company actively recover materials used to produce vehicles? Is it the use of recycled materials? Do you have partnerships to enable circularity?
Circularity is an essential part of Trinseo's vision for sustainable materials, and involves going beyond just selling plastics. We have capabilities in designing parts for disassembly or recycling, enabling the use of recycled materials, and creating partnerships to enable circularity.
Trinseo has acquired Heathland, a Netherlands-based recycler, to improve our access to feedstocks. We are also developing recycling technologies that improve the yield of recycled plastics, and some of the more promising technologies – proprietary to Trinseo – are currently moving into the scale-up phase.
Trinseo also has several partnerships in place, including with JSW for the recycling of PMMA and Ineos for the depolymerisation of styrene, to support circularity. Trinseo is also working increasingly earlier and closer with strategic customers in different sectors to ensure a rapid increase in the share of sustainable materials compared to all-prime equivalents.
This collaboration is essential for driving the next leap in circularity.
In summary, Trinseo’s role in circularity involves not only the use of recycled materials but also designing parts for disassembly or recycling and developing recycling technologies.
Our partnerships and collaborations aim to create a more circular future by enabling the recovery and reuse of materials used to produce vehicles.
What about price and availability – both are still an issue when it comes to more sustainable materials. How is Trinseo working to solve those issues?
Trinseo is actively working to address issues related to the availability, price, and quality of more sustainable materials. While availability remains a challenge, particularly for recycled feedstock, Trinseo has established strong partnerships, including the recent acquisition of Heathland, to ensure access to recycled feedstock of consistent, high quality.
We seek to source locally produced recycled feedstock for sustainability reasons, but quality and performance cannot be compromised. In cases where recycled feedstock is not yet available, Trinseo is exploring bio-based alternatives to augment our offering and bridge the gap.
Trinseo is also driving physical recycling, especially for polymers with low energy impact, which significantly reduces CO2 impact compared to the production of prime materials.
The acquisition of Heathland is a first step towards ensuring a higher quantity and quality of recycled feedstock, and Trinseo is committed to continuing to develop innovative solutions to address issues related to availability and price of more sustainable materials.
Does the fact that your materials are used in mobility applications affect your Scope 3 emissions as a company?
The use of Trinseo’s materials in mobility applications can have an impact on the company’s Scope 3 emissions. As a materials manufacturer, Trinseo has a responsibility to reduce the carbon footprint of its products throughout their lifecycle, including the end-use phase.
By providing sustainable materials for mobility applications, Trinseo can help reduce the carbon emissions associated with the transportation sector. This is particularly important given that the transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions.
By developing sustainable materials for mobility applications, Trinseo is contributing to the transformation of sustainable mobility, which is a market driving sustainable transformation. As such, we are working towards a future where vehicles are CO2-neutral and closed-loop, with all components fully reused/recycled, and consumers are using green energy to power their vehicles with zero emissions.
Throwing in a more personal question here: what prompted you to make the switch from Yanfeng to Trinseo? Can you talk about your vision, organisation and plans as CTO?
There were a few reasons I made the move. Perhaps the most important was my passion for sustainability, shared by Trinseo. I made sustainability a priority at Yanfeng and see similar priorities here.
The company’s ethos is that chemistry is the primary driver towards a sustainable society and that it is not solely the remit of an individual sector, for example automotive or manufacturing. Instead, chemistry is at the tip of the spear.
Trinseo has fully embraced its responsibility to drive sustainability in our material solutions, and it is a company in transformation, to become the leader in sustainable material solutions for our customers. In my role as CTO I can really make a difference.
For Trinseo’s evolving R&D organization, it is really easy to identify with the company’s mission and vision, and it is exciting to build out a strong global R&D organization with new, future-focused capabilities.
Do you envision a future where the automotive value chain has moved from a linear model to a collaborative one? What is needed for that to happen?
We are in the middle of a complex and dynamic transformation, with moving targets – e.g. new data on the state of the planet, new regulations, technological breakthroughs and evolving insights.
To accelerate towards a sustainable society, sharing knowledge is essential in this dynamic environment – full transparency of the CO2 footprint of ecosystem players, reliable data handling for every step in the value chain, and co-creation of the future of automotive interior and exterior parts, because a CO2 neutral and circular car will have a different look and feel to what we know today.
Trinseo envisions a future where the automotive value chain moves from a linear model to a more collaborative one. Collaboration is necessary for the entire value chain to transform towards more sustainable practices. This includes collaboration between materials suppliers, OEMs, tier 1 suppliers, and recyclers.
Collaboration can drive innovation, promote the sharing of best practices, and accelerate progress towards a sustainable society. It also requires transparency and reliable data handling to enable a better understanding of the CO2 footprint of each step in the value chain.
Ultimately, co-creation will be critical to designing and manufacturing sustainable automotive interior and exterior parts. A CO2-neutral and circular car will require new solutions and materials to design and construct, and achieving this requires collaboration between all players in the value chain.
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Types of Data collected
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Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection. Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application. Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service. Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner. Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.
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Methods of processing
The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorised destruction of the Data. The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organisational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
Legal basis of processing
The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;
provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;
processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Place
The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.
Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.
Users are also entitled to learn about the legal basis of Data transfers to a country outside the European Union or to any international organisation governed by public international law or set up by two or more countries, such as the UN, and about the security measures taken by the Owner to safeguard their Data.
If any such transfer takes place, Users can find out more by checking the relevant sections of this document or enquire with the Owner using the information provided in the contact section.
Retention time
Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.
The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
The purposes of processing
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Analytics, Displaying content from external platforms and Tag Management.
For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.
Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
Analytics
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.
Google Analytics (Google LLC) / Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.
This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Application and interact with them. This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
Google Fonts (Google LLC)
Google Fonts is a typeface visualisation service provided by Google LLC that allows this Application to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.
This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Application in a centralised fashion. This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC.
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.
Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.
Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User's consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
Details about the right to object to processing
Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.
Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.
How to exercise these rights
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.
Additional information about Data collection and processing
Legal action
The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related Services. The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.
Additional information about User's Personal Data
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.
System logs and maintenance
For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.
Information not contained in this policy
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.
How “Do Not Track” requests are handled
This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests. To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honour the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.
Changes to this privacy policy
The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within this Application and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.
Definitions and legal references
Personal Data (or Data)
Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
Usage Data
Information collected automatically through this Application (or third-party services employed in this Application), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilised by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilised to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilised by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
User
The individual using this Application who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Data Subject
The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
Data Controller (or Owner)
The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application.
This Application
The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
Service
The service provided by this Application as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.
European Union (or EU)
Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.
Cookie
Cookies are Trackers consisting of small sets of data stored in the User's browser.
Tracker
Tracker indicates any technology - e.g Cookies, unique identifiers, web beacons, embedded scripts, e-tags and fingerprinting - that enables the tracking of Users, for example by accessing or storing information on the User’s device.
Legal information
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).
This privacy policy relates solely to this Application, if not stated otherwise within this document.
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Strictly necessary
These trackers are used for activities that are strictly necessary to operate or deliver the service you requested from us and, therefore, do not require you to consent.
Strictly necessary