Privacy and cookie notice
Last updated: 29 October 2026
This notice explains how personal data is processed on worldteacompetitionmilan.com under Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).
Controller and contact
The data controller is International Tea Industry Confederation (ITIC). For information or to exercise your rights, use the contact form.
Data collected
- To prevent abuse of the contact form, the website uses an identifier derived from the IP address, without storing the IP address in plain text in the form archive.
- Contact form data: role, organization or company (optional), organization or company website (optional), full name, email address, phone number (optional), country, subject and message. Language, request reference, submission date, acknowledgment of this notice and notification status are also recorded.
- Correspondence: email address, message content and information you voluntarily provide to the secretariat.
Required fields are needed to handle your request; the form cannot be sent without them.
Purposes and legal bases
- Answering requests and handling communications about participation: steps requested by the individual (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR); for company representatives, the legitimate interest in managing professional relationships concerning the competition (Article 6(1)(f)).
- Operating the site and preventing abuse: the legitimate interest in service security and reliability (Article 6(1)(f)).
- Meeting applicable legal obligations: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)).
The form does not subscribe you to a newsletter, and data is not used for advertising or profiling. The checkbox acknowledges that you have read this notice; it does not request consent for promotional purposes. No decisions with legal or similarly significant effects are made solely by automated processing.
Recipients and services
Submitted data is stored in a server-side archive and forwarded by email to authorised website managers. The website is hosted by Aruba S.p.A.; email services are used to deliver communications. Data access is restricted to people responsible for managing the website and requests. Form data is not published on the website.
Retention
Personal data is retained for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and to meet any applicable legal obligations.
Cookies and external content
The website does not use cookies or tracking tools that require consent; therefore no cookie consent banner is displayed.
The website does not use advertising cookies, analytics tools or tracking pixels. Fonts, images and logos are served locally without loading external services. External links open independent services governed by their own privacy notices.
Your rights
You may request access, correction, deletion, restriction of processing and, where applicable, data portability. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests for reasons relating to your situation. Use the contact form; the controller normally responds within one month, subject to the extensions allowed by the GDPR.
You may also lodge a complaint with the Italian data protection authority (Garante) or the competent supervisory authority in the country where you live or work.