Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

1. Data controller

This policy is provided under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”) and describes how we process the personal data of visitors to www.agar.com.

2. Personal data we process

Browsing data. The systems that run this website automatically collect some data whose transmission is implicit in the use of internet protocols, such as IP addresses, domain names, URIs of requested resources, the time of the request, the size of the response, server response codes and parameters of the user’s operating system. These data are used only to obtain anonymous statistics and to check that the site is working correctly, and are deleted immediately after processing.

Data you provide voluntarily. When you write to us by email or through our contact form, we process the data you provide (such as first and last name, company, email address, phone number, country and the content of your message) in order to reply to your request.

3. Purposes and legal basis

• Answering your requests and providing the information, samples or quotations you ask for (pre-contractual measures and legitimate interest).
• Managing commercial relationships and fulfilling legal obligations.
• Ensuring the security and correct functioning of the website.
• Sending news about B&V, only if you have given your consent.

4. Retention

Personal data are kept only for the time strictly necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected, in line with the principles of data minimization and storage limitation, and in any case for the periods required by contractual and legal obligations.

5. Recipients

Personal data are not sold or exchanged with third parties without your explicit consent. They may be shared, where necessary, with providers of IT and website maintenance services, consulting firms, external service providers and competent authorities.

Requests sent through the contact form on this website are delivered to us by Formspree, Inc. (United States), the form service we use, which processes them on our behalf as a data processor.

6. Transfers outside the EU

The data you enter in the contact form are transmitted to Formspree, Inc. in the United States in order to be delivered to us. This transfer takes place in compliance with Chapter V of the GDPR, on the basis of the safeguards provided for by it (such as an adequacy decision or the Standard Contractual Clauses adopted by the European Commission). If you prefer, you can write to us directly at info@agar.com. Apart from this, personal data are not transferred to countries outside the European Union.

7. Your rights

You may at any time request access to your personal data, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, withdrawal of consent and object to processing, by writing to info@agar.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Italian Data Protection Authority (Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, www.garanteprivacy.it).