The Legislative Decree n. 196 dated 30.6.2003 (concerning personal data protection) confirms an individual's right to personal data protection (art. 1) and guarantees that these be treated according to the respect of the individual's fundamental rights and freedom as well as his/her dignity, with specific reference to privacy, personal identity and the right to having personal data protected (art. 2). By guaranteeing that personal data will be used as least as possible (art. 3), pursuant to Art. 11 and Art. 13, Tirrenia di Navigazione S.p.A. has to inform clients, who benefit from the services offered on its site, that "the required personal data is treated in a legal and correct way; this is collected and registered so that each client can benefit from the services offered and that does not exceed the goals set by Tirrenia. This data is kept for the period necessary for the company to perform the service offered. Personal data treated in violation of the law pertaining to the treatment of personal data cannot be utilized. Tirrenia also guarantees that:

• the required personal data is exclusively directed to the use of services offered by Tirrenia which collects and classifies these through a computerized system;
• granting the use of personal data is mandatory in order to benefit from the services offered by Tirrenia;
• refusal to answer or denying to lend the consensus to personal data treatment prevents Tirrenia from physically organizing its own services and guaranteeing its efficiency; as a consequence, refusal to the treatment of personal data implies the impossibility to book the service and to bring the contract to a successful conclusion;
• personal data will not be communicated to third parties nor can they be object of dissemination; the sole owner of the treatment is Tirrenia di Navigazione S.p.A., whose Offices are in Naples, Italy, at Rione Sirignano no. 2, with Dr. Ugo Masciocchi in charge of the service;
• the client is entitled, at any time, to access his/her own personal data and may do so by sending a registered letter, telefax or email to the Company Headquarter in order to exercise his right to access his/her personal data and any other right described in Art. 7 of the Legislative Decree n. 196.

In compliance to Art. 16 in case a treatment is, for any reason, suspended the data is kept for exclusively personal uses and will not be assigned to systematic communication or to their being disseminated.

In compliance to Art. 10 of Legislative Decree n. 185 dated 22 .5.1999 (Distance Contracts), we wish to inform our clients that Tirrenia is authorized to communicate any type of information pertaining to its contractual relationship through means such as the telephone, electronic mail or with any other automated communication system.

We wish to further reassure our clients that our site does not use cookies to transmit personal information, nor does it use any type of "persistent cookies" and that is to say systems enabled to trace the activity of individuals using our site. "Session cookies" on the other hand are not memorized in a persistent manner on the user's computer and disappear when the browser is closed. We do utilize the latter but in a limited way and exclusively to transmit session identification, which data is necessary in order to ensure an efficient and safe exploration of the site. As a result, "session cookies" utilized on this site do not allow personal data acquisition identifying the user.