Privacy policy.
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you about how your data is handled by us, and what are your rights in regards to you data.
LAUMA Growth Group Oy (“LAUMA”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is a company registered in Finland (company number: 3258442-6). For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), we are the controller in relation to your data. We are responsible and committed to protecting and respecting your privacy / personal information as per applicable law.
This policy is the basis of processing any personal data we collect from you, or any data which is provided by you to us. Please read the following carefully to understand how we will treat your personal data. By visiting www.laumagrowthgroup.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.
What personal data we collect?
We collect personal data as defined by applicable data protection law (‘personal information’).
The personal information we might collect include: name, email address, postal address, telephone number, the company you work for and the industry you work in. (see also Cookie policy below).
How do we collect data?
We obtain personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, send or receive an email, ask a question or otherwise provide us with personal information.
We also gather general information about the use of our website, such as views per visit, and most interesting services. We may use this information to make improvements on our websites to ensure we provide the best service for you.
Wherever possible we use aggregated or anonymous information which does not identify individuals.
Our website is hosted on the Squarespace.com platform. Squarespace.com provides us with the online platform, that allows us to offer our services to you. Your data may be stored through Squarespace.com’s data storage, databases and the general Squarespace.com applications. They store your data securely in tier 3 data centers, and use he European Commission’s model clauses for data transfers.
Why do we collect this data?
We collect such information for the following purposes:
To provide and operate the Services;
To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;
To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages;
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
The lawful basis for which we process your information is:
your consent;
processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party. If you fail to provide this information we may be unable to perform the contract;
processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations;
processing is necessary for the purpose of the legitimate interest pursued by us, except where your rights as a data subject override our legitimate interest.
Our website platform service provider (SquareSpace) may protect and improve their Services through analysis of our customers (your) use of our site in anonymized, pseudonymized, de-personalized and/or aggregated form, if applicable law requires. (More information on Privacy Policy – Squarespace).
How do we use this data?
We will use your personal information:
to provide you with the services, products or information you have requested;
to contact you about services we offer and resources we provide; and
for administration purposes.
As part of this, we may analyze the personal information we collect to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you in the most appropriate way and with the most relevant information.
We will only use your personal information for electronic marketing purposes if we are allowed to do this by law or if we have your consent. If you agree to us providing you with marketing information, you can always opt out at a later date. If you do not wish to receive such messages please let us know by contacting us using our Contact Form.
Your choices
You have a choice about whether you want to receive information about our services. We will not use your personal information for marketing purposes or share your information with any third party if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted in this manner. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us using our Contact Form. Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Disclosing your personal data to third parties
We may pass your information to our data processors, agents and associated organizations for the purpose of providing services to you and for the other purposes listed above. Where we use data processors we will make sure there are appropriate controls in place.
We may also need to disclose your information if required by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or if we have your permission to do so.
We will not sell any information about you or your web browsing activity.
We transfer your information to the USA, through our service providers SquareSpace and Google. All third parties involved in our service delivery use the European Commission’s model clauses, as per required by the law.
How long do we keep your data for?
We keep your information for no longer than is necessary, as required by data protection law. We will retain your information for any period required by law. Where we are not under a legal obligation to retain your information, we will determine what is necessary by reference to the lawful basis for processing set out above and our legitimate interests.
How do we protect your personal data?
We partner only with known service providers that have the processes in place required by law. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.
You should be aware that the use of the Internet is not entirely secure and although we will do our best to protect your personal data we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal information which is transferred from you or to you via the Internet. Any transmission is at your own risk.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy describes how LAUMA Growth Group Oy (hereinafter referred as “we” or “LAUMA”) and our selected third parties use cookies and similar technologies to provide, customize, evaluate, improve and promote and protect our services.
Cookies are small pieces of data sent to your browser when you visit a site. They are typically used to keep track of the settings you have selected and actions you have taken on a site, in order to enable the site functioning correctly. Some of these Cookies are necessary for the site functioning (functional and required cookies), whereas others are related to the visitor interaction with our site (analytics and performance cookies). The latter we only use according to your consent.
You can consent to the use of such technologies by using the “Accept” button. By closing this notice, you continue without accepting.
We use cookies for important reasons, such as:
To help our site run effectively
To provide a great experience for our visitors and customers.
To identify our registered members (users who registered to our site).
To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of our services.
We use the following cookies:
SquareSpace (essential cookies & analytical / performance cookies) - used for enabling our website performance and following our site’s usage pattern.
Google Analytics (analytical / performance cookies) - used to estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
Google Adwords (analytical / performance cookies) - used to track sales and data capture arising from use of Google Adwords advertising
Facebook (analytical / performance and targeting cookies)- used to track sales and data capture arising from use of Facebook advertising, and show target ads on Facebook to site visitors.
More information about Squarespace Cookies: The cookies Squarespace uses
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable your usage of our website.
Analytical/performance cookies
They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies
These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language).
Targeting cookies
These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Your rights and our rights
You have a right to ask us to confirm whether we are processing information about you, and to request access to this information (‘ right of access ’). You also have the right to be informed of the safeguards we have in place relating to any transfers of your information to another country or to an international organization.
You may ask us, or we may ask you, to rectify information you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information which is inaccurate or complete information which is incomplete (‘ right to rectification ’). If you inform us that your personal data is inaccurate, we will inform relevant third parties with whom we have shared your data so they may update their own records.
We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. If any of the information that you have provided us with changes, for example if you change your email address, name or payment details, please let us know using the Contact Form.
You have a right to obtain your personal data from us and reuse it for your own purposes, perhaps for another service, without hindering the usability of the data (‘ right of portability ’). This right does not apply where processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us.
You have a right to seek the erasure of your data (often referred to as the ‘ right to be forgotten ’). You may wish to exercise this right for any reason, for example where it is no longer necessary for us to continue holding or processing your personal data you may withdraw your consent. You should note that we are entitled to and reserve the right to retain your data for statistical purposes. This right is not absolute, as we may need to continue processing this information, for example, to comply with our legal obligations, or for reasons of public interest.
You have a right to ask us to restrict our processing of your information (‘ right to restriction ’) if:
you contest its accuracy and we need to verify whether it is accurate
the processing is unlawful and you ask us to restrict use of it instead of erasing it
we no longer need the information for the purpose of processing, but you need it to establish or defend legal claims
you have objected to processing of your information being necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, or for the purposes of our legitimate interests. The restriction would apply while we carry out a balancing act between your rights and our legitimate interests.
you exercise your right to restrict processing, we would still need to process your information for the purpose of exercising or defending legal claims, protecting the rights of another person or for public interest reasons.
You have a right to prevent us from processing your data for the purposes of marketing.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights above, please let us know using the Contact Form. We will act in accordance with your instructions as soon as reasonably possible and there will be no charge.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. If you wish to exercise these rights, contact us using our Contact Form.
Prohibited use of our services
You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.
You also agree:
Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site.
Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
any part of our site;
any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
any software used in the provision of our site; or
any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
Changes to this Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.