Privacy Policy
Valid from May 25, 2018
This Privacy Policy pertains to www.viivimarch.com (“Viivi March”, “this website”). When you click any external links that lead you to another website, please make sure to view their privacy policy.
By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use this website.
If you require any more information or have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact the owner of this website by email at viivi@viivimarch.com.
Definitions
Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data.
Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed.
Child – a natural person under 16 years of age.
We/us (either capitalized or not) – the owner of this website (www.viivimarch.com)
Data Subject’s GDPR rights
If you are in the European Union, you have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.
You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Send your request to viivi@viivimarch.com or use the Privacy Tools.
If you have signed up to our newsletter and want to access or erase your information, email me at viivi@viivimarch.com.
Data we gather
Information you have provided us with
This might be your email address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your customer experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to comment or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address.
Comments on blog content
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. View our Cookie Policy here.
We also collect the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. We use Akismet to block spam comments. View their Privacy Policy.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. View their Privacy Policy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Information automatically collected about you
This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your shopping cart information, your IP address, your shopping history (if there is any) etc. This information is used to improve your customer experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.
We use Google Analytics to track the use of our website such as statistics regarding the website traffic and our audience. Personally identifiable information is not transferred from this website to Google Analytics. View their Privacy Policy.
Email policy
We use Mailerlite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and to send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter.
MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletter by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each newsletter. You can also contact us directly at viivi@viivimarch.com.
When you sign up to our List to receive newsletters, you voluntarily give your consent and opt in by entering your email address. You are also asked to confirm your email address and subscription before receiving any emails.
How we use your Personal Data
We use your Personal Data in order to:
- provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other products and services that you have requested; providing you with promotional items at your request and communicating with you in relation to those products and services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services.
- enhance your customer experience
- respond to your comments
- track and analyze the use of our website and its audience.
As long as you have not informed us otherwise, we consider offering you products/services that are similar or same to your purchasing history/browsing behaviour to be our legitimate interest.
With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:
- to send you newsletters and campaign offers (from us and/or our carefully selected partners);
- for other purposes we have asked your consent for
We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.
Who else can access your Personal Data
We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your customer experience.
We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.
If you leave a comment, certain information you provide may be displayed to other users, such as your name, photo, comments and other information you choose to provide.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
How we secure your data
We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe. We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks.
Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.
Children
We do not intend to collect or knowingly collect information from children. We do not target children with our services.
If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at viivi@viivimarch.com.
Cookies and other technologies we use
We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse customer behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.
A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.
View our full Cookie Policy here.
Affiliate links
Please visit our Disclosure Policy to learn more about affiliate links and our use of them.
External links
Users should note that they click any and all external links at their own risk. This website and its owner cannot be held liable for any damages caused by visiting any external link.
Please be also aware that when you leave our website, other sites may have different privacy policies and terms which are beyond our control. Please be sure to check the Privacy Policies of these sites as well as their “Terms of Service” before engaging in any business or uploading any information.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contact Information
The owner of this website
Email: viivi@viivimarch.com
Supervisory Authority
Email: tietosuoja@om.fi
Phone: +358 10 3666 700
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy was last updated in April, 2019.
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our Privacy Policy, those changes will be posted here.
See also
Our Terms, Cookie Policy, and Disclosure Policy.