Privacy Policy of Taiga Times Ltd



Privacy Policy

We understand that the security of your personal information is extremely important. Taiga Times is committed to respecting your privacy and securing your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to you if you have purchased products from us, received services from us, participated in our events or otherwise had contact with us, including using our website, online store or communicating with us through social media.

Name of the register:

User Register of Taiga Times Ltd. Registration is based on sales and service contract between Taiga Times and the customer using our services.

Controller:

Taiga Times Ltd (“Taiga Times”)
Business ID: 2992388-8
Address: Korkeavuorenkatu 5 A 1
Phone: +358 40 560 5305
E-mail: info@taigatimes.com
Contact person: Kiia Koistinen, kiia@taigatimes.com

Personal data we collect

The customer register contains the following information:


Contact & customer information
- Name
- E-mail
- Phone number
- Country of origin
- Any other information customer provides


When you browse our websites, we might collect:
- Information about your browsing behavior on our website
- Information about the way you access our digital services, including operating system, IP address, online identifiers and browser details


When you buy our services from our webpage, we might collect:
- Your personal details, including your name, address, country of origin, email address, phone number
- Relevant medical data and any special, dietary or disability requests
- Any other information customer provides


When you contact us by email, phone, message, social media or contact form, we might collect:
- Your email address and name related to it
- Conversations between Taiga Times and the customer
- Your personal details, including your name, address, country of origin, email address, phone number you have provided us
- Relevant medical data and any special, dietary or disability requests you have provided us
- Any other information you provide us
- Information of products/ services bought


Legal basis and purpose of processing personal data

Processing of personal data is based on contract and customer relationship between a Customer and Taiga Times. Taiga Times collects data to organize and deliver services and products for customers. Data is mostly used to identify customer who has made a booking for our services. Without this data, Taiga Times is incapable of delivering a service for customer.


Data can be also used to analyse the market, customers and services for developing and improving the quality of the services. It can be used to send invoices and to manage customer relationship and communication. Some data is also used in direct marketing, advertising and to target our marketing for customers. Customer has right to forbid the use of data in marketing purposes.


Data we collect is gathered from following sources:
- Sent by email
- Talked on phone or sent by message or WhatsApp
- Making a booking through our webpage
- Making a booking through any third-party services
- Sending a message through the contact form in our webpage
- Any data collected through marketing services we use
- Using social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+)
- Meeting the customer directly
- Any other forms customer provides us information


Transfer of personal data outside of EU/EEA

Taiga Times may use subcontractors outside EU when collecting data and providing services. Personal data may be transferred outside EU only if it’s necessary for organizing and delivering services for customers. This may concern the servers we use to store our user register. If any data is transferred outside EU, our subcontractors must be approved to follow general data protection regulation of EU. We will safeguard the sufficient level of personal data protection by e.g. agreeing on matters related to the confidentiality and processing of personal data in compliance with legislation. Personal data of customers is never transferred to third parties for any sales- or marketing purposes.

Regular disclosure of data

We have made sure that all our service providers are complying with data protection legislation. For more information about our service providers, please contact us. Personal data can be transferred to officials according to current legislation and law.

Data Security and retention

Taiga Times has carried out the technical and organizational measures for securing personal data from unauthorized access or any unlawful use and processing. All the customer data is stored digitally to servers which are secured with appropriate data security methods. If any data is manually printed we have taken care of appropriate storage of the data and take care of demolishing it appropriately.
User data is accessible only by employees of Taiga Times who has justifiable reason to access and process the information. The register can be only accessed with user rights and password. All the employees of Taiga Times are required professional confidentiality when processing any data related to the company. We may also outsource the processing of personal data partly to a third party, in which case we will guarantee with contractual arrangements that personal data is processed in compliance with valid data protection legislation and otherwise appropriately. Taiga Times will retain personal data for as long as necessary to organize and provide services and products for customers. Personal data may be retained for Taiga Times marketing purposes for as long as seen necessary to maintain relationship with the customer.


User rights

1. Customer has right to receive him/her personal data from our user register and request to change or complete wrong or insufficient information.
2. Customer has the right to access the data of him/her and upon request, obtain a copy of the data.
3. Customer has right to request deletion of his/her personal data from our register. We will handle the request for deletion and proceed to either delete the data or state a justified reason for not being able to delete the data.
4. Customer has right to complain to the Data Protection Supervisor if the data subject feels that we are violating the effective data protection regulation when processing personal data.
5. Customer has the right to forbid the use of personal data for direct marketing.


Any requests related to rights mentioned above must be made in written form straight to Taiga Times. Taiga Times will answer to requests on appropriate time defined in general data protection regulation of EU.
Customer is responsible to inform Taiga Times for possible changes in personal data. If changes are not informed, Taiga Times can’t be held responsible for any delays, changes of schedule or any other service related issues caused by wrong customer details.


Cookies

Our website may use cookies to enhance the user experience. Web browser places cookies on hard drive of the user. The User may prohibit the use of cookies by changing the browser settings. This may, however, affect the user experience of the website or website might not function properly.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using any of Taiga Times services or by contacting us by any means you will accept this Privacy Policy. If you have any question related to our policy please contact us: info@taigatimes.com

Changes to this privacy policy

Taiga Times has right to update and change this privacy policy at any time. When we update our policy we always upload the latest policy in our webpage and revise the “Last update” date in beginning of this document.