Privacy policy

Introduction
We value the privacy of those visiting our website and are committed to protecting it. This privacy policy explains how we use your personal data. By agreeing to the use of cookies when you first visit our website, you also agree to the use of cookies during each future visit.

This privacy policy applies to the website of Sievi Hyvinvointitilat, www.sievihyvinvointitilat.fi, hereinafter referred to as the “website”.

Controller
Sievi Hyvinvointitilat
Alasintie 10B,
90400 Oulu, Finland

Tel. +358 50 445 5900

Purpose of processing personal data
Personal data stored in the register is processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act in order for Sievi Hyvinvointitilat to carry out customer relations work. Among other things, Sievi Hyvinvointitilat builds and sells care housing facilities, day care centers and housing units for young people. It also provides other related services. The grounds for the processing of personal data include the related customer relationships, customer consent, commissions from customers and other appropriate reasons, authorized by a customer.

Sievi Hyvinvointitilat uses personal data in general for carrying out and developing customer relations, customer communications, planning and targeting marketing efforts, developing customer services, monitoring payments, and developing its services and business operations. Sievi Hyvinvointitilat also uses personal data for the purpose of distance selling and direct marketing, as permitted by the Data Protection Act.

In addition to this, the data controller’s partners may, subject to certain limitations, have the right to use the data for the above purposes in connection with their own business operations, including the development and provision of various shared services, concepts and business models, as well as marketing. The data contained in the register may be temporarily transferred, for example, for the purpose of sending marketing communications to a system whose data security has been ensured by Sievi Hyvinvointitilat and any partner.

Information in the register
The following types of information can be collected, stored and used:

information about your device, including the IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;

information about your visits to and use of the website, including the referring source, the length of the visit, the pages viewed, and the navigation paths on the website;

information such as your email address, name or other contact information that you may have provided when using our website;

information that you provide when using our website’s services, including company name, business ID, contact person, and company address and contact details (street, zip code, city, email address, telephone number, and URL).

information generated through the use of our website, including the usage times, frequency and conditions;

purchase information, such as product, price, offer, and delivery and invoicing information;

information on marketing authorizations (phone call, printed direct marketing, text message, email, and targeted digital advertising);

information on the communication history during a customer relationship (e.g. emails and phone records), complaints;

any other information that you submit to us.

Before submitting another person’s data to us, you must obtain permission from that person for the submission and processing of their personal data in accordance with this privacy policy.

Regular data sources
Personal data is collected from the data subjects as part of the controller’s activities during customer communications, for example over the phone, via an online service, at customer events, and during customer meetings. Personal data may also be collected, stored and updated through companies and authorities that provide updating services, where appropriate and permitted by the Data Protection Act.

Use of your personal data
Personal data submitted to us via our website is used for the purposes described in this privacy policy and on the relevant pages of our website. We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

to maintain our website and business operations;

to personalize the user experience on our website;

to enable the use of the services on our website;

to create and send project plans through our website, and maintain contact in connection with this;

to send calculations, invoices and payment reminders, and receive payments;

to send email notifications linked to our projects;

to deliver marketing messages related to our business operations or the business operations of specifically selected third parties that we deem to be useful to you, either internally through the website or, if you have agreed to it, via email or similar means (you can notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);

to provide third parties with statistics on our users (in such a way that prevents these third parties from identifying individual users);

to handle questions and complaints regarding our website that you have submitted or that concern you;

to protect our website and prevent fraud;

to ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of the use of our website (including monitoring the messages sent through the forms on our website);

for other purposes.

If you disclose your personal data to be published on our website, we will publish and use this data according to your consent.

Without your express consent, we will not disclose your personal data to third parties for direct marketing or further disclosure.

Regular disclosure of information
Information may be disclosed to the authorities and the partners of Sievi Hyvinvointitilat within the scope of existing legislation. Information may be disclosed to the authorities if required by law or regulations, for example to investigate irregularities. Furthermore, the data controller may transfer information containing marketing consent in the register within the framework of the Data Protection Act to its direct marketing registers once a customer relationship and appropriate connection have ended.

Data transfer outside the EU or the EEA
No data will be disclosed outside the EU or the EEA without the customer’s consent. The servers required for the use of the programs are located either in the EU or the EEA, or in countries outside the EU and the EEA, as specified in the Data Protection Act, in which the level of data security has been deemed to be adequate by the European Commission.

Protection principles of the register
All personal data contained in the register is kept confidential. The data controller’s organization has issued guidelines for the use of the register, and access to it has been restricted so that the register’s data, stored in the system, can only be accessed and may only be used by employees who have the right to do so due to their role and who require this data to carry out their duties. All staff members processing personal data are bound to maintain secrecy.

In order to access the system, a register user must enter their username and password. In addition to this, the controller’s data network and equipment in which the register is located are protected by a firewall and other technical measures. Material that contains personal data is erased in a data-secure manner.

Storage of personal data
This section describes our data storage practices and procedures, which are intended to ensure that we comply with our statutory obligations regarding the storage and erasure of personal data.

Personal data collected for any purpose or purposes will not be stored for longer than necessary.

Unlike the other definitions in this section, we store documents that contain personal data (including electronic documents) as follows:

in accordance with legal obligations;

if we believe that the documents are relevant to ongoing or potential legal proceedings;

to establish, exercise and defend our legal rights (including disclosure of data connected to the prevention of fraud and mitigation of credit risk).

Security of personal data
We take reasonable technical and organizational actions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data.

We store all the personal data that you have submitted to us on our secure servers (protected by passwords and a firewall) or local drives with limited access.

You are aware that transmitting information via the internet is inherently unsafe; we are unable to guarantee the security of information transmitted via the internet.

Your rights
You can request that we disclose any of your personal data that we have collect. We can disclose the personal data once you have submitted an appropriate identity document (for example, a photocopy of a passport together with a document confirming a street address, such as an electricity bill).

Data subject’s verification right
By request, a customer has the right to know what type of information has been recorded about them, what the register’s regular information sources are, what the information is used for, and to whom it be may disclosed. This information will be submitted to the customer in an understandable format and, if necessary, in writing. Data checks are free of charge once a year. Requests should be made in person with a signed letter to Sievi Hyvinvointitilat: Uusitie 81, Teknotalo 1B, 86600 Haapavesi, Finland.

Right to request rectification of data
The data controller will rectify, erase or amend any personal data in the register that is inaccurate, unnecessary, incomplete or outdated for the processing purpose, either proactively or by request from the data subject. In addition to this, personal data may be erased if a customer misuses the service or carries out criminal or otherwise prohibited activities through the service. In order to have data rectified, a data subject must contact the controller. Requests should be made in person with a signed letter to Sievi Hyvinvointitilat: Uusitie 81, Teknotalo 1B, 86600 Haapavesi, Finland.

Other rights pertaining to the processing of personal data
A data subject also has the right to prohibit the controller from processing data concerning them for the purposes referred to in this privacy policy, unless otherwise agreed between the data controller and the data subject. Requests for correction of information concerning marketing bans (calls, printed direct marketing, text messages, and email) are to be sent by a personally signed letter to the address Sievi Hyvinvointitilat Oy, Uusitie 81, Teknotalo 1 B, 86600 Haapavesi, Finland.

Amendments
We update our privacy policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should visit this page periodically to make sure that you understand the changes made to the privacy policy.

Third-party websites
Our website may contain information about third-party sites and hyperlinks to them. We cannot influence and are not responsible for the data protection practices of third parties.

Updating data
Please let us know if you want to verify the accuracy of your personal data that we have and, if necessary, correct or update it.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookies is a file that contains an identifier (a series of letters and numbers) that the server sends to the browser and the browser stores. The identifier is sent back to the server whenever the browser requests the page from the server. Cookies can be either “persistent” or “session-based”: A persistent cookie is stored by the browser and remains valid until a specific date, unless the user deletes it A session-based cookie, on the other hand, is only valid for the duration of the session, i.e., until the browser is closed. Cookies typically do not contain any information that can be used to personally identify a user, but the personal data we store may be linked to the information in cookies. We use both session-based and persistent cookies on our website.

Most browsers allow cookies to be disabled –for example, in Chrome (v92) you can disable all cookies by going to the “Customize and control” menu from the icon in the upper right corner of the browser, and clicking “Settings”, “Privacy and security”, and “Cookies and other site data”, and then selecting “Block all cookies”.

Disabling all cookies will have a negative effect on the usability of most websites. If you disable cookies, you will not be able to use all the features of our website.

You can delete cookies previously stored on your device. Please note that deleting or disabling all cookies will have a negative effect on the usability of our website.

The names and purposes of the cookies we use on our website are described below. The list is updated every time we remove or add cookies. We also kindly ask that you update your cookie settings every time we update the cookies that we use.

Google Fonts
Marketing/Tracking
Consent to service google-fonts

HubSpot
Marketing/Tracking, Preferences
Consent to service hubspot

Google Analytics
Statistics, Functional
Consent to service google-analytics

Google Adsense
Marketing/Tracking
Consent to service google-adsense

Complianz
Functional
Consent to service complianz

Miscellaneous
Purpose of use being assessed
Consent to the service miscellaneous