Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures for collecting, using and disclosing your information when you use the Service and informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and definitions

Interpretation

Capitalised words have the meaning defined in the following terms. The following definitions have the same meaning regardless of whether they occur in the singular or plural.

Definitions

In connection with this privacy policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for you to access the Service or parts of it.

  • Related party means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50 per cent or more of the shares, participations or other securities conferring the right to vote in the election of directors or other governing bodies.

  • The Company (in this Agreement referred to as the "Company", "We", "Us" or "Our") refers to Bismegecch Oy, Perekulankuja 5, Kuopio, Finland.

    According to RODO, the company is the data controller.

  • Cookies are small files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or other device by a website and contain, among other things, information about your browsing history on that website.

  • Country refers to: Kuopio, Finland

  • According to the RODO (General Data Protection Regulation), the controller refers to the company as the legal entity which alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

  • Device means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, mobile phone or digital tablet.

  • RODO refers to the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

  • Personal data is any information about an identified or identifiable natural person.

    In RODO, personal data means any information about you, such as your name, identification number, location data, online identifier or one or more factors relating to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

  • The service refers to the website.

  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes Data on behalf of the Company. This refers to third party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the use of the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to provide services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analysing the use of the Service. According to the GDPR, service providers are considered data processors.

  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, generated by the use of the Service or from the infrastructure of the Service itself (e.g. the duration of a visit to the Website).

  • The website refers to Bismegecch Oy, which is available at https://bismegecch.com/.

  • User means the natural person who accesses or uses the Service, or the company or other legal entity on whose behalf such natural person accesses or uses the Service.

    Under RODO, you may be referred to as a data subject or as a user, as you are a person using the service.

Collection and use of your personal data

Types of data collected

Personal information

When you use our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain Personal Data that can be used to contact or identify you. Personal data may include, but is not limited to:

  • E-mail address

  • Usage data

Usage data

Usage data is collected automatically when you use the service.

Usage Data may include information such as your device's internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, pages visited on our Service, time and date of visit, time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When you access the Service via a mobile device, we may automatically collect certain information, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device used, the unique identifier of the mobile device, the IP address of the mobile device, the mobile operating system, the type of mobile browser used, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that your browser sends each time you visit our service or access it via a mobile device.

Tracking technology and cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and store certain information. The tracking technologies used are beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or browser cookies. A cookie is a small file that is placed on the user's device. You can instruct your browser to reject all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use certain parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to reject cookies, our Service may use cookies.
  • Web beacons. Certain parts of the Service and our emails may contain small electronic files called web beacons (also called clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that enable the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and other related website statistics (such as recording the popularity of a particular section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" based. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device after you have logged off, while session cookies are deleted immediately when you close your browser.

We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes described below:

  • Necessary cookies

    Type: Session cookies

    Managed by Nas

    Purpose: These cookies are necessary to provide the services available through the website and to enable the use of some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent user account fraud. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided and we only use these cookies to provide those services.

  • Cookie policy / Notification Acceptance of cookies

    Type: Persistent cookies

    Managed by Nas

    Purpose: These cookies show whether users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.

  • Functional cookies

    Type: Persistent cookies

    Managed by Nas

    Purpose: These cookies enable us to remember the choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or your language preferences. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalised experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences each time you use the website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookie Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of your personal data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • Toprovide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the use of our Service.
  • User account management: managing your registration as a user of the Service. The personal data you provide may give you access to various features of the Service that are available to a registered user.
  • To fulfil the contract: to develop, comply with and perform the contract for the purchase of products, goods or services purchased by you, or any other contract entered into with us through the Service.
  • To contact the user: To contact the user via email, phone calls, SMS messages or other similar forms of electronic communication, such as push notifications for mobile applications about updates or information messages relating to features, products or agreed services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable to implement them.
  • Provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events offered by us that are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about, unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  • Handling of user requests: Handling and administration of user requests to us.
  • Provide you with targeted advertising: We may use your information to develop and serve content and adverts (and work with third party providers to do so) that are tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure their effectiveness.
  • For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or effect a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, either as part of a going concern or as part of a bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding in which the assets being transferred include personal data we hold about users of our Service.
  • For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as to analyse data, identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing and user experience.

We may share your personal data in the following situations:

  • Service Providers: We may share your Personal Data with service providers to monitor and analyse your use of our Service, to advertise to you on third party websites after you have visited our Service, and to contact you.
  • In the event of business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal data in connection with or during negotiations for a merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or part of our business by another company.
  • Affiliated companies: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to comply with this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
  • With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners in order to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
  • With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be seen by all users and may be publicly disseminated externally.
  • With your consent: We may disclose your personal data for other purposes with your consent.

Storage of your personal data

The Company will only retain your Personal Data for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage data will normally be retained for a shorter period of time, except where the data is used to improve the security or enhance the functionality of our service, or where we are legally obliged to retain the data for a longer period.

Transfer of your personal data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operational offices and at other locations where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that the information may be transferred to and stored on computers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from the laws of your jurisdiction.

The User's consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by the transfer of such information, constitutes the User's consent to such transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organisation or country unless there are appropriate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal data.

Deletion of personal data

You have the right to delete or ask us to help you delete your personal data that we have collected.

Our Service may give you the option to remove certain information about yourself from the Service.

You can update, correct or delete your information at any time by logging in to your account, if you have one, and going to your account settings to manage your personal information. You can also contact us to access, correct or delete your personal data.

However, please note that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or basis to do so.

Disclosure of your personal data

Business transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. The Company will notify you before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Compliance with legal obligations
  • Protection and defence of the company's rights or property
  • Prevention or investigation of possible offences related to the service
  • Protect the personal safety of service users or the public
  • Protection against legal liability

Security of personal data

The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but we recognise that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we endeavour to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Detailed information about the processing of your personal data

The service providers we use may have access to your personal data. These third-party service providers collect, store, use, process and transmit information about your activity on our Service in accordance with their privacy policies.

Email marketing

We may use your personal data to contact you to send you newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You can choose not to receive any or all such communications from us by using the unsubscribe link or instructions in emails we send you, or by contacting us.

We may use email marketing service providers to manage and send emails to you.

Behavioural remarketing

The Company uses remarketing services to advertise to you when you access or visit our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies and other technologies to help us recognise your device and understand how you use our Service so that we can improve our Service to reflect your interests and show you ads that may be of greater interest to you.

These third-party service providers collect, store, use, process and transfer information about your activity on our service in accordance with their privacy policies and to enable us to

  • Measuring and analysing traffic and browsing activity on our service
  • show you adverts about our products and/or services on third party websites or applications
  • Measure and analyse the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns

Some of these third-party providers may use technologies other than cookies, which may not be affected by browser settings that block cookies. Your browser may not allow you to block such technologies. You can use the following third-party tools to reject the collection and use of information to show you interest-based advertising.

Users can opt out of all personalised ads by enabling privacy features on their mobile device, such as Limit ad tracking (iOS) and Opt out of personalised ads (Android). See the help system on your mobile device for more information.

We may share information with these third-party vendors, such as encrypted email addresses (if available) or other web-based identifiers collected from our Service. This enables our third-party vendors to recognise and deliver ads across different devices and browsers. To learn more about the technologies used by these third-party vendors and their capabilities on different devices, please see the privacy policy of each vendor listed below.

Privacy policy RODO

Legal basis for the processing of personal data in accordance with RODO

We may process personal data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent to the processing of personal data for one or more specified purposes.
  • Performance of the contract: The provision of personal data is necessary to fulfil the contract with the user and/or pre-contractual obligations.
  • Legal obligations: The processing of personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
  • Vital interests: The processing of personal data is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the user or another natural person.
  • Public interest: The processing of personal data relates to a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
  • Legitimate interests: The processing of personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.

On a case-by-case basis, the Company will be happy to help clarify the specific legal basis applicable to the processing, and in particular whether the disclosure of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your rights under RODO

The Company undertakes to preserve the confidentiality of the User's personal data and guarantee that the User can exercise their rights.

You have the right, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the law, if you are located in the EU, to

  • Request access to your personal data. The right to access, update or delete the information we hold about you. Where possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your personal data directly from your account settings. If you are unable to do this yourself, you should contact us for assistance. This way you can also get a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Request correction of the personal data we hold about you. You have the right to correct any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you.
  • Object to the processing of your personal data. You have this right where the legal basis for our processing is legitimate interest and your particular circumstances make you wish to object to our processing of your personal data on this basis. You also have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
  • Request for erasure of personal data. You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data if there is no legitimate reason to continue processing it.
  • Request for transfer of your personal data. We will provide you or a third party of your choice with your personal data in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated data that you have originally consented to the use of or where we have used the data to fulfil a contract with you.
  • Withdrawal of consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of your Personal Data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain features of the Service.

Exercise of data protection rights in accordance with RODO

You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and objection by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you submit a request, we will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority in relation to our collection and use of your personal data. If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA for more information.

Children's privacy

Our service is not directed to persons under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal data from persons under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and know that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from persons under the age of 13 without verifying parental consent, we will take steps to remove that data from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis to process your data, and your country requires parental consent, we may require consent from your parents before collecting and using your data.

Links to other websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be redirected to that third party's website. We strongly recommend that you read the privacy policy of each website you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites or services.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will inform you by email and/or a prominent notice on our Service before the change takes effect and we will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

We recommend that you check this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective when they are posted on this website.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us: