Privacy Statement

General
Last updated: 5/24/2018

This website is maintained by Hunajayhtymä Oy.

Data protection is important to us, and to protect your privacy, we adhere to the principles set forth in this privacy policy. We always process your personal data in a trustworthy manner and are committed to acting with transparency and openness. We ask you to familiarize yourself with this privacy policy, where we explain how and what personal data we collect and what we do with it.

We comply with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) and other applicable and currently in force legislation and authority guidelines related to the processing of personal data and data protection.

2. Who collects your personal data?
Honey Cooperative Ltd, Business ID 0204045-2
Kojonperäntie 13
32250 Kojonkulma
Phew. 0207 769 680
hunaja@hunaja.fi

3. How do we collect your personal data?
We primarily collect your personal data from you directly (for example, when you purchase our products from our online store or interact with us via email). We may also collect your personal data concerning the use of our website. If you do not provide the personal data we request, we may not be able to provide the product, service, or action you require. In the aforementioned cases, the processing of your personal data is based on your consent or another legal basis for processing under personal data legislation.

In some cases, it may be necessary for us to collect your personal data from a third party. For example, we may collect your personal data from your employer if your employer is our customer. Collecting data from a third party is relevant, for instance, if it is necessary to fulfill our legitimate interests or those of a third party, such as your employer.

In some cases, processing of your personal data may be necessary to comply with our legal obligation.

4. What personal data do we process?
As a general rule, we only collect personal data that users visiting our website voluntarily provide and that is necessary for the purposes for which the data is collected. Some data is necessary to enable the use of our website and the features present on it (this includes cookies).
The personal data we collect includes:

The name, address, phone number, and email address of persons purchasing from the online store;
Website visitor IP address;
Other information regarding website usage: time of visit, pages visited, browser type, the web address from which the user came to the website, the server from which the user came to the website, and the domain from which the user came to the website;

We may ask you for various contact details if you wish to receive our news or marketing materials, or if you are interested in our products or wish to register as a contract producer. In such cases, the personal data we collect may include your name, address, email address, phone number, and the company you represent.
We do not collect information belonging to special categories of personal data on our website.

5. For what purposes do we collect your personal data?
We process your personal data only for the purposes stated in this privacy policy, unless you have given separate consent for processing for other purposes.
Hunajayhtymä Oy collects and processes personal data for various purposes, such as:

To offer our products;
For the purpose of raw material procurement;
To respond to your contact request or other inquiry and to receive your feedback;
To enable us to communicate with our customers, producers, and partners and keep them updated on our services and current affairs;
For recruitment purposes;
To fulfill our statutory obligations;
To improve the usability and functionality of our website;
To collect and analyze our website visitor data;
In order to profile users of our website based on consent;
To target direct marketing to individuals based on their website visit; and
For other business-related purposes.

6. Automatic collection of personal data
We and our service providers automatically collect certain types of information from your visit to our website and use of our services, utilizing cookies and other technologies. Collecting this information helps us provide you with the best user experience and measure the effectiveness of our website and marketing activities.

6.1 Cookies and Web Analytics
Cookies are small files that are stored on the user's terminal device. They help identify browsers using services and improve the user's experience. Cookies do not harm users” computers or files. We use cookies on our website. Cookies help us collect website visitor statistics and analyze this data. Our cookies may remember choices you make on our website, such as language selection, which are intended to improve your user experience on our website.

We use third-party analytical tools to analyze the use of our website. This allows us to improve the content of our website to better meet your needs. One such tool is Google Analytics. Google Analytics sets a tracking cookie on the user's computer. The cookie can be used to track whether a user is returning to the site.

6.2 Sharing on Social Media
We use third-party social media applets or buttons so you can share our website's content on social media websites. Using these applets and buttons may set a cookie on your device to improve your experience with third-party services. We recommend familiarizing yourself with each service provider's privacy statements before using their services. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or privacy terms of such third-party service providers.

7. Personal Data and Third Parties
We do not transfer your personal data to third parties (with the exception of transfers to subcontractors mentioned below) unless the transfer is permitted and required of us by applicable legislation.

We process your personal data ourselves and utilize subcontractors who process personal data on our behalf and for us, to whom your personal data may be transferred, taking into account our obligations regarding the processing of personal data.

We do not sell or otherwise provide your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes.

8. Information Security and Retention Period
We have appropriate technical and organizational measures and practices to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Such measures and practices include, for example, firewalls and security programs.

We store your personal data in electronic and paper formats. We store personal data in locked premises, and databases are only accessible with usernames and passwords.

We have restricted access and authorizations to information systems and other storage platforms so that only individuals necessary for the lawful processing of data can view and process it. Our employees and other individuals processing personal data have committed to observing confidentiality and keeping secret the information received in connection with the processing of personal data.

We retain your personal data only for as long and to the extent necessary in relation to the original or compatible purposes for which the personal data was collected or until we are asked to delete the data (if requested earlier). We take all reasonable steps to ensure that inaccurate, incorrect, and outdated personal data is deleted or corrected without undue delay.

9. Your rights
You have registered the rights described below:

The right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed, and where that is the case, access to the personal data;
The right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal;
The right to require us to rectify inaccurate and incorrect personal data concerning you without undue delay, and the right to have incomplete personal data completed;
The right to have your personal data deleted without undue delay, if the conditions of applicable data protection legislation are met;
The right to restrict processing if the conditions of applicable data protection legislation are met;
Right to object to the processing of your personal data;
The right to receive your personal data that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and the right to transmit such data to another controller without hindrance from us, if the conditions of applicable data protection legislation are met;
The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.

Requests concerning the exercise of your rights should be addressed to our contact person mentioned at the beginning of this privacy policy. If you wish to unsubscribe from our mailing list, you can use the unsubscribe link provided with each email.

10. Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites managed by the Honey Association. We recommend that you review the privacy policy of each website separately before providing your personal data there. We try to link to sites that adhere to privacy obligations as well as we do, but we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices of other websites.

11. Changes to the Privacy Policy
We will review this privacy policy regularly and may change it by updating the information contained therein at our discretion as needed. If we make any updates to the privacy policy, we will record the date on which the update was made. The updated privacy policy will come into effect concerning you and your personal data from that date. We recommend that you review this privacy policy regularly to be informed of any updates that may be made to it. This privacy policy was last updated on May 24, 2018.

Contact us
If you have any questions, comments, or remarks regarding the processing or protection of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer.
Aapo Savo
050 330 8592
sp.aapo.savo@hunaja.fi
See also: customer register yes contract producers to our privacy policy