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Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Heinolan sähköalan koulutuksen klusteri ry processes personal data in connection with this website, in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Finnish Data Protection Act.

1. Introduction

We respect your privacy and process only the personal data needed to respond to you and run the association.

2. Identity of the data controller

The data controller is Heinolan sähköalan koulutuksen klusteri ry, Finland. Email info@fanuadevelopment.org, telephone +358 8 562 3800. No Data Protection Officer has been appointed.

3. Personal data collected

Data you give us when you contact us: your name, email address, the subject and content of your message, and any other details you choose to include.

4. Purposes of processing

Responding to inquiries
Handling membership, volunteering and cooperation inquiries
Association administration

5. Legal bases

Your consent when you submit a form; our legitimate interest in responding to correspondence; and, for members, the obligations arising from the association's rules and Finnish law.

6. Contact form information

The website forms do not store data on a server. Submitting a form opens your own email program, and your message reaches us as an ordinary email.

7. Membership inquiry information

Membership inquiries are used to provide information about membership and, where you apply, to process your application under the rules.

8. Communication records

We keep correspondence for as long as needed to handle the matter and for reasonable follow-up.

9. Data retention

Data is deleted when it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected, unless law requires longer retention.

10. Data sharing and processors

We do not sell personal data. Data may be handled by service providers that host our website and email, only to provide those services.

11. International data transfers

If a service provider processes data outside the EU/EEA, such transfers rely on safeguards permitted by the GDPR.

12. Data security

We limit access to personal data to people who need it for association tasks and use reasonable technical measures to protect it.

13. Your rights

Right of access
Right to rectification
Right to erasure, where applicable
Right to restriction of processing
Right to data portability, where applicable
Right to object
Rights relating to automated decision-making, where applicable (we do not use automated decision-making)

14. Withdrawing consent

You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us. Withdrawal does not affect earlier processing.

15. Right to lodge a complaint

You may lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland (tietosuoja.fi).

16. Cookies and analytics

This website uses no analytics or marketing cookies. See our Cookie Policy.

17. Children's privacy

The website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect children's data without appropriate consent.

18. Policy updates

We may update this policy. The latest version is always published on this page.

19. Contact information

Contact: Heinolan sähköalan koulutuksen klusteri ry, info@fanuadevelopment.org, +358 8 562 3800, Kansankatu 53, 90100 Oulu, Finland.