Privacy Policy

  • Identity of the data controller.

  • Categories of data collected โ€” account data, payment data, organizer documents (possibly ID/business docs), staff member data. etc.

  • Purposes & legal basis (contract performance, legal obligation, legitimate interest, consent).

  • No sale of personal data to third parties โ€” explicit statement, plus clarify if you share data with processors (payment gateway, hosting, email service) since that's technically different from "selling."

  • Data retention periods.

  • Data subject rights under GDPR (access, rectification, erasure, portability, objection, complaint to Garante Privacy).

  • International transfers (if hosting/payment provider is outside EU).

  • Security measures.

  • Contact details / DPO if required.

  • Codice del Consumo (Legislative Decree 206/2005) โ€” Italian consumer protection law, governs your relationship with customers.

  • GDPR + Codice Privacy (Reg. EU 2016/679 + D.Lgs. 196/2003 as amended) โ€” data protection.

  • D.Lgs 70/2003 โ€” Italian e-commerce regulations (info obligations for online service providers).

  • Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali guidelines specifically on cookies (2021 update).

  • Right of withdrawal exception โ€” Art. 59, comma 1, lett. n) of the Codice del Consumo exempts "servizi relativi ad attivitร  del tempo libero se il contratto prevede una data o un periodo di esecuzione specifici" (leisure services tied to a specific date) from the standard 14-day cooling-off withdrawal right. This means you're not legally required to offer refunds for tickets to events that go ahead as scheduled โ€” which matches your rule. But this exemption doesn't override your own promised refund terms for postponed/cancelled events, since once you state a policy, it becomes contractually binding.

  • Jurisdiction for B2C disputes โ€” under EU rules (Brussels I Regulation recast + Codice del Consumo Art. 33/66-bis), you generally cannot force an Italian consumer to waive their right to sue in their own place of residence. So your T&C should state Italian law applies, but note that mandatory consumer-protection rules of the customer's own EU country may still apply if you sell cross-border, and jurisdiction defaults to the consumer's domicile for B2C claims. Don't write an exclusive "Verona courts only" clause โ€” it's unenforceable against consumers and could get flagged as an abusive clause (clausola vessatoria).