1.1 beyondfinland ("Company," or "we," or "us," or "our") is committed to safeguarding the
privacy of our website and service users ("users," or "you").
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to your personal data, in
other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal
data.
1.3 Terms of Service. Use of the Company Service is subject to the terms of our Terms of Service through
our online form, which is hereby incorporated and made part of this Privacy Policy. By using the Company
Service, you agree to be bound by our Terms of Service.
1.4 Your use of the Company Service is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy
Policy (the "Privacy Policy").
1.5 We continually strive to find new ways to enhance your experience with the Company Service and we
may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices. You are
encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically and to check the "Last Updated" date at the top of
the Privacy Policy for the most recent version. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will
notify you here, by email, or by means of notice through the Website, the Application, or any other part
of the Company Service.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE COMPANY SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR
TERMS OF SERVICE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO SUCH TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE COMPANY
SERVICE.
Company collects two types of information about you:
2.1 Personally Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable Information is information that
identifies a specific person.
2.2 Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that
does not identify a specific person.
3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out:
the general categories of personal data that we may process if you register for an account;
the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may
include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral
source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the
timing, frequency and pattern of your service use]. The source of the usage data is our analytics
tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analyzing the use of the website
and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our legitimate interests, namely
monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.3 We may process your account data ("account data"). The account data may include your name and email
address. The source of the account data is you. The account data may be processed for the purposes of
operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services,
maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is
your consent or our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and
services.
3.4 We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website ("profile data").
The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures,
gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment
details. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our
website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our legitimate interests,
namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.5 We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services
("publication data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such
publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is your
consent or our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and
services.
3.6 We may process information contained in any inquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services
("inquiry data"). The inquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling
relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our
legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.7 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us
("correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata
associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications
made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of
communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or our
legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.8 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the
establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative
or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the
protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of
others.
3.9 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this
Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests
or the vital interests of another natural person.
3.10 GDPR Compliance: This Privacy Policy is intended to comply with the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR). If you are located in the European Union (EU), you have certain rights under the GDPR
regarding your personal data. These rights include the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal
data, the right to restrict or object to the processing of your personal data, and the right to data
portability. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. We will process
your personal data in accordance with the GDPR and any applicable national laws.
3.11 PIPEDA Compliance: This Privacy Policy is also intended to comply with the Personal Information
Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) of Canada. If you are located in Canada, you have
certain rights under PIPEDA regarding your personal information. These rights include the right to
access, correct, or delete your personal information, the right to know how your personal information is
being used, and the right to withdraw your consent for the collection, use, or disclosure of your
personal information. We will process your personal information in accordance with PIPEDA and any
applicable provincial privacy laws.
3.12 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us unless we prompt you to do so.
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to third-party service providers that we use to
support our business, such as web hosting providers, analytics providers, and customer support services.
These third parties are only permitted to use your personal data to the extent necessary to perform
their services for us, and they are required to protect the confidentiality and security of your
personal data.
4.2 We may use Third Party Service Providers to serve ads when you participate in the Company Service.
These companies may use Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your visits and use of the Company
Service, and visits to other websites or locations to provide, through the use of network tags,
advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
5.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is
sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to
the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
5.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored
by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the
expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the
web browser is closed.
5.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal
information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from
cookies.
5.4 We may use cookies for the following purposes:
authentication - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our
website.
status - we use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website.
personalization - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the
website for you.
security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts,
including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services
generally.
advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you. This
site/app is affiliated with Freestar for the purposes of placing advertising on the site/app, and
Freestar will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Freestar's data
usage, click here.
analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services; and
cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more
generally.
6.1 We may use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers
information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is
used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at:
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
6.2 Common ID Cookie This site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies such as the Common ID
cookie to provide its services. Cookies are important devices for measuring advertising effectiveness
and ensuring a robust online advertising industry. The Common ID cookie stores a unique user id in the
first party domain and is accessible to our ad partners. This simple ID that can be utilized to improve
user matching, especially for delivering ads to iOS and MacOS browsers. Users can opt out of the Common
ID tracking cookie by clicking here. They can also opt out of cookies set by our advertisers, and also
find out more information by clicking here.
6.3 Advertising Privacy Settings FOR EU USERS ONLY: When you use our site, pre-selected companies may
access and use certain information on your device and about your interests to serve ads or personalized
content. You may revisit or change consent-choices at any time by clicking here.
Under the GDPR, you have the right to receive a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You can request a copy of your personal data by contacting our customer support team at [email protected].
If you believe that we have not complied with data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority in your country of residence. You can find the contact information for your local data protection authority on the European Commission's website.
beyondfinland shall not be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of or related to your use of our Services or this Privacy Policy, even if beyondfinland has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
10.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods
for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain
up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);
http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
10.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
10.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
We continuously improve our websites and our products, and we utilize different third-party
web analytics tools to help us do so. We are interested in how visitors use our websites, our desktop
tools, our mobile applications, what they like and dislike, and where they have problems. Our products,
desktop tools and mobile applications use analytical tools to understand feature usage patterns, to
enhance and improve your product experience and offer you specific usage tips and guidance. In
connection with normal business operations, as well as to increase functionality and enhance your user
experience, this usage information may be linked to personal information that we have about individual
users. We maintain ownership of this data and we do not share this type of data about individual users
with third parties.
This information is used solely to assist us in maintaining a more effective and useful websites and
products for our customers. This data will not be shared with third parties without your prior consent
or unless required by law.
12.1 In this Section we have summarized the rights that you have under data protection law.
Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries.
Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full
explanation of these rights.
12.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
the right to access;
the right to rectification;
the right to erasure;
the right to restrict processing;
the right to object to processing;
the right to data portability;
the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
the right to withdraw consent.
12.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we
do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional
information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data
concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not
affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of
charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by
visiting your profile when logged in.
12.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into
account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you
completed.
12.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay,
and at the latest within one month of receiving your valid request. Those circumstances include: the
personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or
otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing
under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes;
and the personal data have been unlawfully process. However, there are exclusions of the right to
erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for exercising the right of
freedom of expression and information; for compliance with a legal obligation; or for the establishment,
exercise or defense of legal claims.
12.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those
circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful, but you oppose
erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require
personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and you have objected to
processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this
basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with
your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; for the protection of the
rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
12.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your
particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the
processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the
exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by
us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information
unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your
interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal
claims.
12.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes
(including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to
process your personal data for this purpose.
12.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical
research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the
processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public
interest.
12.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is consent or that the
processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take
steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, and such processing is carried out by automated
means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and
machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights
and freedoms of others.
12.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws,
you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data
protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the
place of the alleged infringement.
12.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you
have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of
processing before the withdrawal.
beyondfinland is committed to taking all reasonable precautions to safeguard the privacy of
personal information which has been provided by its users. We use technical, contractual, administrative
and physical security steps to protect your personal information. Security measures such as locked
cabinets, restricted access and the use of passwords and encryption have been adopted to protect your
personal information against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or
modification. Our employees have been trained to respect your privacy at all times and those employees
with access to your personal information shall use your personal information strictly in accordance with
the beyondfinland Privacy Policy. We will protect your credit card information by using industry
standard encryption technology.
Please be aware that no data transmission over the Internet or via e-mail is completely secure and
therefore we cannot guarantee protection of all personal information in all cases. For example, we
cannot guarantee protection against interception, misappropriation, misuse, or alteration, or that your
information will not be disclosed or accessed by the unauthorized acts of others. Consequently, we
cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own
risk. If you provide us with your credit card number, you should not send it electronically unless the
email is encrypted or your browser indicates that the access to our website is secure. Materials posted
to online forums such as bulletin boards or chat rooms are public, not secure, and may be viewed by
anyone. Any personal information you post may be collected and used by anyone and may result in
unsolicited messages from other parties.
The Company Service are not directed to people under the age of eighteen (18). If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at the email address listed below. If we become aware that a child under eighteen (18) has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.
15.1 This Section 15 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed
to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of
personal data.
15.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall be kept until such time as we
receive a request for deletion from you.
15.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 15, we may retain your personal data where
such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order
to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights under the
California Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). As
required by COPPA and CCPA, we will provide you with the categories of Personally Identifiable
Information that we collect through the Company Service and the categories of third party persons or
entities with whom such Personally Identifiable Information may be shared for direct marketing purposes
at your request. California law requires us to inform you, at your request, (1) the categories of
Personally Identifiable Information we collect and what third parties we share that information with;
(2) the names and addresses of those third parties; and (3) examples of the products marketed by those
companies. COPPA and CCPA further require us to allow you to control who you do not want us to share
that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email or physical mail to
the address found below. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what
Personally Identifiable Information you do not want us to share with our marketing partners. The request
should be sent to the attention of our legal department and labeled "California Customer Choice
Notice."
Please allow 30 days for a response. Also, please note that there is no charge for controlling the
sharing of your Personally Identifiable Information or requesting this notice.
For additional inquiries about the privacy of your information, you can contact us by
emailing us at:
[email protected]
