This Privacy Notice was last updated on 2.12.2021
This Privacy Notice applies to our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of the personal data in connection with PrivacyDesigner. We may update this Privacy Notice due to changes in our processing operations or in applicable legislation. An updated privacy notice will be available here on our website and all other contact points where we obtain personal data directly from you.
If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices, this Privacy Notice or you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact us at heikki.tolvanen@privacyant.com.
We are PrivacyAnt Ltd., a company established in Finland with a registered address at Franzeninkatu 21 A, 00500 Helsinki. In privacy matters, you can contact our Chief Legal Engineer Heikki Tolvanen at heikki.tolvanen@privacyant.com.
When you interact with us, we are collecting your personal data. Depending on the interaction, you might provide personal data to us by your self, or we can collect it automatically. We have listed below the most common situations where we obtain your personal data:
As a business, we use your personal data for mainly three main purposes: to provide our services, finding new customers and to conduct our marketing activities. We will make sure that these activities are conducted in ways that you would be reasonably expecting. We have no interest of participating the surveillance capitalism activities and therefore decided not to use any tracking on this website. After all, our mission is to help companies with their privacy challenges, not to create new ones for them.
To provide our services and keep PrivacyDesigner running.
For example, in order for you access our website or other services, we need to
process your IP-address. We process certain log information in order to analyse,
report and improve our services and to diagnose potential issues with our
servers. In addition, we need to process your login credentials for ensure your
access to PrivacyDesigner. If you subscribe to PrivacyDesigner, we
naturally store and process your contact details along with some details about
your employer.
Lawful bases: We believe we have
legitimate interests to process your personal data to provide the services you
have requested. When you subscribe to PrivacyDesigner, the processing of your
personal data is necessary to perform the contract between us to take steps
prior to entering into such contract.
To conduct normal day-to-day business activities. As a
business, we have commercial interests to grow and make PrivacyDesigner the #1
tool for privacy. Therefore you might receive a cold email, phone call or other
message from us. Naturally this means that we will process your contact details
in order to communicate with you.
Lawful basis: We
believe we have legitimate commercial interests to conduct normal day-to-day
business activities including sales. We have made sure that these activities
will have as minimal impact as possible to your privacy.
Newsletter and marketing. As we believe we have created
something great, we want the world to know about it. This means you might see
our advertisements on different channels such as social media. We do not share
any personal data with our advertisement partners, but we use certain criteria
to target our advertising, for example to people with a job title as “data
protection officer”. We also want to keep you updated on our latest developments
and features unless you have indicated you wish to opt-out from such
communication.
Lawful basis: We believe we have
legitimate commercial interests to conduct normal day-to-day business activities
including sales. We have made sure that these activities will have as minimal
impact as possible to your privacy.
As a general rule, your personal data will be deleted once we don’t need it for the purposes it was collected, unless there is a legal obligation for us to retain it for longer periods.
Please note that we might anonymize certain personal data in a shorter periods of time than listed above, if we don’t any reason to retain it in a form that enables us or any 3rd party to identify you.
We have put a great effort to limit the number of our service providers to what is strictly necessary for providing our services to you and to keep your information under our full control. As we can’t do anything by ourselves, we have to use a limited number of 3rd parties that we share your information with in connection with the services. We have made contractual arrangements with these companies to ensure they will process your personal data only on our behalf and never for their own purposes. At the moment, the following third parties are used in the processing of your personal data:
UpCloud Oy. We use UpCloud as an infrastructure provider. We
use their data centres and servers to host our IT-systems and store your
personal data.
Location: Finland
CRM Service Oy. We use CRM Service to provide us with the
CRM. They host the CRM system in their own data center in Finland.
Location: Finland
Montel Intergalactic Oy. Montel provides us with external
help for software development and IT-system maintenance.
Location: Finland
In addition, your personal data will be shared with 3rd parties in the following situations:
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have certain rights relating to the processing of your personal data and below we have summarised those rights. Please be aware that some of these rights are not absolute and there are certain limitations when they apply. For any questions or information about this Privacy Notice or your rights as a data subject, please contact us at heikki.tolvanen@privacyant.com.