PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

This privacy policy sets out how Ritz Lindy Hoppers uses and protects any information that you give Ritz Lindy Hoppers when you use our services.

Ritz Lindy Hoppers is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Ritz Lindy Hoppers may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 21.05.2018. If you have any concerns, please contact Ritz Lindy Hoppers at [email protected] with your questions.

Who we are?
 
The data controller in accordance with applicable data protection laws is Ritz Lindy Hoppers. Ritz Lindy Hoppers is responsible for ensuring that processing of personal data complies with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection legislation.

Contact details of the controller:
Ritz Lindy Hoppers
[email protected]
 
What information do we collect?

Ritz Lindy Hoppers collect data via forms at our Weebly (weebly.com) based site and via our Google (google.com) based forms and email, both reliable parties committed to protecting personal data.

Contacting us via our contact form or registering for our classes will give us personal data and enrol you in our newsletter. You may at any time unsubscribe from our newsletter by emailing us at [email protected].

We may collect the following information:

• Name and birth date.
• Contact information including email address.
• Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests.
• Other information relevant to our student register, class diaries required by the local authorities, customer surveys, material posted in our media galleries or on social media, reports required by national foundations, local authorities and/or the Finnish government, and/or offers.

How do we use personal information?

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Account set up and administration.
• Internal record keeping.
• Invoicing.
• Carrying out polls and surveys.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
• From time to time, we may also use your information in order to deliver marketing and event communication. We may contact you by email, phone, or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
• Legal obligations (eg prevention of fraud, reports required by national foundations, local authorities and/or the Finnish government).

What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data?

Ritz Lindy Hoppers is relying on your consent when it comes to your personal data. When filling out a form at our site you will be informed that your contact details will be stored in our register. When emailing us, your contact details will automatically be stored in our contact register. We will ask your consent before posting photos where individuals can be clearly identified to our websites, or social media.

You may manage or withdraw your consent at any time by emailing [email protected]. Continue reading this Policy to learn more about your rights in relation to personal data. 

When do we share personal data?
 
We may disclose personal data to third parties:

• When permitted or required by law.
• When our trusted service providers provide services to us on behalf of us and under our instructions.
• When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect the user’s safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

 
Ritz Lindy Hoppers does not sell personal data of users to third parties.
 
How do we secure personal data?

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How long do we keep your personal data for?

Your personal data will be retained only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes defined in this Policy. When your personal data is no longer required by law or rights or obligations by us or you, we will delete the personal data.

Children’s information

Our Service is not directed to children under 18 without parental consent. If you become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, please send us an email at [email protected].

Your rights in relation to personal data

You have a right to access personal data we hold about you. You may access, correct, update, change or remove personal data at any time. However, certain information is strictly necessary in order to fulfil the purposes defined in this Policy and may also be required by law. Thus, you may not remove such personal data.

You have a right to object for certain processing, such as profiling for marketing purposes. To the extent required by applicable data protection law, you also have a right to restrict data processing.

You have a right to data portability, i.e. right to receive personal data in a structured, commonly used machine-readable format and transmit the personal data to another data controller, to the extent required by applicable law.

How to contact us?

You can correct, delete and otherwise handle personal data via contact with our team at [email protected].

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

If you find that there is a problem with the way we are handling personal data, you have a right to file in a complaint to the user’s national data protection authority in the EU/EEA. In Finland that is the Data Protection Ombudsman. Contact details of the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman can be found through this link http://www.tietosuoja.fi/fi/.

Our contact details:
Ritz Lindy Hoppers
[email protected]
 
Use of cookies and other technologies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
 
Linking to other websites / third party content

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.