Pursuant to Article 13 of EU Regulation No. 2016/679 on the protection of personal data (hereinafter 'GDPR'), Recommendation No. 2/2001 of the Working Party ex art. 29 and the General Measure of the Privacy Guarantor on the matter of cookies, no. 229 of 8 May 2014, containing provisions for the protection of persons and other subjects with regard to the processing of personal data, we inform you that the personal data maintained and disseminated through this portal called 'GeoThopica' (https://geothopica.igg.cnr.it) are processed in compliance with the above-mentioned legislation and with the confidentiality obligations to which the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources (CNR-IGG) is bound.

The Data Controller is the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7, 00185 Rome (IT) PEC: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. represented, in its internal organisation, by the Director of the Institute of Geosciences and Earth Resources addressed for the office at the CNR headquarters in Pisa, via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, and contactable at the following e-mail addresses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; PEC: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. PEC: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The CNR Data Protection Officer (also known as DPO or DPO) can be contacted at the following address:
CNR Data Protection Officer, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 7, 00185 ROMA, e- mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. PEC: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

This section contains information on how the CNR-IGG manages the processing of data of users visiting the GeoThopica portal.
This information is provided only for the portal and not for other websites that may be reached by the user through external links.
Some pages may require personal data: we inform you that failure to provide them may prevent to achieve the purposes to which the processing is related.
Pursuant to art. 13 of EU Regulation 2016/679, we inform you that the processing of personal data in this portal relates exclusively to personal data acquired in connection with the achievement of the institutional purposes of CNR-IGG, or in any case related to the exercise of public interest tasks and the exercise of public powers to which it is called, including the purposes of transparency, communication, research and scientific dissemination and analysis for statistical, educational and administrative purposes, pursuant to art. 6, paragraph 1, letter e) and, in particular, in order to provide and improve the web services being offered.

Such personal data are processed in a lawful, correct, relevant manner, limited to what is necessary to achieve the purposes of the processing, for only as long as necessary to achieve the purposes for which they were collected and in any case in accordance with the principles set out in Article 5 of EU Regulation 2016/679.
Specific security measures are observed to prevent data loss, unlawful or incorrect use and unauthorised access.
CNR-IGG does not adopt on its institutional website any automated decision-making process, including profiling, as referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) of GDPR 2016/679.

Data subjects have the right, at any time, to request to the Data Controller access to and correction or deletion of their personal data or restriction of the processing concerning them or to object to the processing in accordance with Articles 15 to 22 of EU Regulation 2016/679.
The data subject may exercise these rights by applying to the Data Controller.
Data subjects, if the conditions are met, are also granted the right to submit a complaint to the Privacy Guarantor as supervisory authority (https://www.garanteprivacy.it).
Please also note that, should it become necessary, specific information will be published for the provision of certain services.

Without precluding reference to specific information contained in the GeoThopica Portal, this Privacy Policy shall also apply to the processing of Personal Data voluntarily entered by the user in the community registration form within the portal.
Users of the portal, if they wish, can decide to become part of the community. To this end, a registration form has been set up on the GeoThopica portal, in which users must enter the following personal data: first name, surname, email address. Registration is only possible after accepting this privacy policy, which will also be re-submitted upon registration.
Registered users may at any time request the cancellation of their registration and their data by sending a communication to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Cookies are portions of code installed in the browser that assist the Controller in providing the service for the purposes described.

Technical Cookies

This portal uses technical cookies to save the User's session and to perform other activities strictly necessary for its operation. Users' prior consent is not required for their installation.
Users can block or limit the receipt of Cookies through their browser options. You can also use your browser preferences to delete previously installed Cookies, including the Cookie in which you may have saved your consent to the installation of Cookies by this website. However, if you disable cookies in your browser completely, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

Third Party Cookies

In order facilitate site navigation and the way visitors reach it, the site uses Matomo, an open source web analytics software that ensures full compatibility with European data protection laws. In order to analyse the most interesting elements of the sites visited by the user, Matomo uses cookies for statistical purposes and collects information in aggregate form only, without associating the user's browsing IP address with any other previously collected data. It is up to the user visiting the portal to refuse cookies analytics, by acting on the settings available in the browser. Disabling cookies may prevent the proper functioning of some services or the smooth access to some content.