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Report on the processing of personal data pursuant to the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (679/2016).

Controller

Flowa Oy

Business ID: 2629647-9

Address: Kampinkuja 2, 00100 HELSINKI

Communication regarding privacy matters

  • Juha Heimonen
  • tel. +358 40 5255 995
  • email address: juha.heimonen@flowa.fi

We request that data subjects contact the person listed hereinabove for all questions related to the processing of personal data and situations related to the exercising of your rights.

Basis and purpose of processing personal data

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is:

  • The consent to the processing of personal data provided by the data subject
  • The contractual relationship between the data subject and controller
  • Fulfilment of the controller’s statutory obligations
  • The controller’s legitimate interest based on the customer relationship between the data subject and the controller and/or the employment relationship between the data subject and the controller

The purposes of processing personal data include delivery of digital products, marketing questionnaires and marketing communication.

Regular data sources

The personal data to be processed is regularly received from the following sources:

  • The data subject themselves
  • third party providers, such as LinkedIn and Twitter, may be used for prospecting purposes when personal information there is publicly available
  • usage information from flowa.fi website is used when the data subject has subscribed an email marketing campaign from the controller

Personal data being processed

The controller only collects personal data concerning the data subjects that is essential and relevant for the purposes explained in this privacy statement.

The following data concerning the data subjects is processed:

  • Name (first and family name)
  • email address
  • name of the organisation
  • location of the organisation
  • identifiers related to marketing events and campaigns
  • historic data (newsletter and marketing campaign subscriptions)
  • usage data of the Flowa Oy websites, in cases where the data subject has subscribed to email marketing campaigns

Disclosure of personal data

Personal data will not be disclosed to third parties, unless the law imposes an obligation to do so. Data may, therefore, be disclosed in exceptional cases, such as to the authorities when so required by law.

Transfers of personal data to third countries

As a rule, personal data will not be transferred outside of the EU and the European Economic Area. However, if this is done for a special reason, the transfer will be implemented in accordance with the European Commission’s decision on the adequacy of privacy protection.

Retention period for personal data

The controller will process the personal data for 5 years. At the end of this period, the controller will delete or anonymise the data within 2 years in accordance with the deletion processes it follows.


The controller may have an obligation to process some personal data belonging to the filing system for longer than stated above in order to comply with the legislation, authority requirements or to fulfill the data subject's orders and controller's outstanding business relationships with the data subject.

Rights of the data subject

Right to request access to personal data

The data subject has the right to receive confirmation regarding whether personal data concerning them is being processed and, if it is, the right to receive a copy of their personal data.

Right to rectification

The data subject has the right to request that inaccurate and erroneous personal data concerning them be rectified. The data subject also has the right to supplement incomplete personal data by submitting the required additional information.

Right to erasure

The data subject has the right to request erasure of personal data concerning them if

a. the personal data is no longer required for the purposes for which they were collected;

b. the data subject withdraws their consent which the processing of personal data was based on, and no other legal basis exists for the processing; or

c. the personal data has been unlawfully processed.

Right to restriction of processing

The data subject has the right to restrict the processing of personal data concerning them if

a. the data subject contests the accuracy of their personal data;

b. the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of its use instead; or

c. the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but it is required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Right to object

The data subject has the right to object, on grounds relating to their particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning them.

The controller shall no longer process the data subject’s personal data unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, the data subject has the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning them for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.

Right to withdraw consent

The data subject has the right to withdraw the consent they have provided for the processing, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Right to data portability

The data subject has the right to receive the personal data concerning them, which they have provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit this data to another controller.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

The office of the Data Protection Ombudsman, operating under the Ministry of Justice, is the national supervisory authority for personal data matters. You have the right to bring your case to the supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you is in violation of applicable law.