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The information notice is also the result of Recommendation no. 2/2001 which the European authorities for the protection of personal data, assembled in the Working Party set up by Art. 29 of EC directive no. 95/46, adopted on 17 May 2001 in order to identify certain minimum requirements for collecting personal data online, and, in particular, the methods, times, and the nature of the information that the owners of the processing have to provide to users when they connect to web pages, independently of the reasons for the connection. As a result of consulting this site, data relating to persons identified or identifiable may be retained. THE “OWNER” OF THE PROCESSING The “owner” of the processing of this data is Dr. MODIANO & ASSOCIATI SpA, with headquarters in Italy, in Via Meravigli no. 16, Milano. 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