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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 1 November 2026

Who is responsible for your data

The controller (titolare del trattamento) for the personal data processed through this website is:

Basil de Visser Period Bows

Costruzione di archetti storici e copie di archetti d’epoca
Via Capo Rossello 5, 00122 Roma (RM), Italia
Partita IVA: 16708001009

Codice fiscale: DVSBLD56C22Z126R
E-mail: basil@baroquebows.com
Telephone: +39 366 4849142

What we process, why, and for how long

Visiting the website

When you visit this website, our server records technical data such as your IP address, the date and time, the page requested and your browser type. We need this to deliver the website and keep it secure. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a working, secure website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). These records are deleted after 30 days.

Visit statistics

We count how many people view which page, with our own statistics software on our own server. No cookie is placed, your IP address is shortened before it is stored, no profile is built and nothing is shared with third parties. Individual visit records are deleted after 180 days; after that only totals remain. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in understanding what visitors are looking for (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). You may object at any time.

Contact form

If you use the contact form, we process your name, e-mail address, your telephone number if you give it, the subject and your message, in order to answer you and, if you wish, to prepare an offer. Legal basis: steps taken at your request before entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Your message is stored in our own management system on the same server within the European Union, and a notification is sent to us by e-mail through an e-mail delivery service within the European Union. The IP address from which the form was sent is kept for 30 days to prevent abuse; messages are deleted after 12 months, unless they lead to an agreement.

E-mail, telephone and messaging

If you contact us by e-mail, telephone or through the messaging link on this website, we process your contact details and what you tell us, for the same purposes and on the same legal basis as the contact form. The messaging link opens a messaging app of your choice; that app processes your data under its own privacy policy, which may include transfers outside the European Union.

Orders and invoices

If you buy a bow or use one of our services, we process your name, address and contact and payment details to perform the agreement (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and to meet our accounting and tax obligations (Article 6(1)(c) GDPR). Accounting records are kept for ten years, as required by Italian law (Article 2220 of the Civil Code).

Cookies

This website only uses technical cookies that are strictly necessary:

  • Login cookies — only for the people who manage this website; visitors do not receive them. They are deleted when you log out.

We do not use analytics, advertising or profiling cookies, and no third-party scripts are loaded on this website. Under the guidelines of the Italian data protection authority on cookies (10 June 2021), technical cookies do not require consent, which is why this website does not show a cookie banner.

Links to other websites

This website links to other websites, for example a map service, video platforms and the websites of fellow makers. Nothing from those websites is loaded until you click a link; from then on their own privacy policies apply.

Who receives your data

Your data is not sold and is not used for advertising. It is processed only by us and, on our behalf and under a data processing agreement, by our hosting provider and our e-mail delivery service, both within the European Union. We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area, except when you yourself choose to contact us through a messaging app.

Is providing your data required?

No. Providing your data is voluntary. Without a name and an e-mail address or telephone number we cannot answer your message; without the details needed for an order we cannot deliver it.

Automated decisions

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling.

Your rights

Under Articles 15 to 22 GDPR you have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict its processing, to receive it in a common format (data portability) and to object to processing based on our legitimate interest. To exercise your rights, write to basil@baroquebows.com; we will reply within one month.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian data protection authority: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Piazza Venezia 11, 00187 Roma, www.garanteprivacy.it, or with the authority in the country where you live or work.

Changes

We may update this privacy policy when our website or the law changes. The date at the top shows the latest version.