Solar Foods’ Privacy Policy
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog or website?
You may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
How do we protect your information?
- – We use SSL certificate on our website.
- – We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers.
- – We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
- – We do not use Malware Scanning.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
- Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. Cookies are used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
- – Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
- – You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
- – If you turn cookies off, Some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.It won’t affect the user’s experience that make your site experience more efficient and may not function properly.
Third-party disclosure
- We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information.
Third-party links
- We do not include or offer third-party products or services on our website.
How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?
- We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
- It’s also important to note that we allow third-party behavioral tracking
Fair Information Practices
- The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
- – We will notify you via email
- – Within 7 business days
- – We will notify the users via in-site notification
- – Within 1 business day
- – We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
We collect your email address in order to:
- Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
We agree to the following:
- – Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
- – Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
- – Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
- – Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
- – Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
- – Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at
- – Follow the instructions at the bottom of each email.
- – and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
FI-53850 Lappeenranta
Finland
PRIVACY POLICY – SALES AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS
1. ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy concerns the personal data of Solar Foods Oy processed in the context of its operations relating to sales, customer relations, and other business partner relationships, where contact information or other personal data concerning those business-to-business relationships may be processed.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time also without notice so we kindly ask you to review the latest policy from our web site. This Privacy Policy version is valid starting from the date stated above. We will not make any substantial changes without prior notice.
2. CONTACT DETAILS OF CONTROLLER
Solar Foods Oy
Business ID: 2872116-8
Correspondence address: Laserkatu 6, 53850 Lappeenranta
E-mail address: pasi@solarfoods.fi
Contact person: Pasi Vainikka, CEO, +358 40 582 5987
3. PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
The types of personal data we collect and process consist of information about individuals who are employed by or are otherwise connected to the companies we engage with. Those companies could be our customers, potential customers, or other business partners.
In detail, the information includes basic identifying details such as the individual’s name, email address or other contact information as well as the title and position in the related company.
Cookies
We use various technologies to collect and store analytics data and other information about the visitors of our websites, including cookies.
Cookies are small text files sent and saved on a user’s which allows us to identify visitors of our websites and to create aggregate information of our visitors. This helps us to improve our websites and to better understand the types of individuals who may be interested in our company as well as our products and services.
Some cookies are necessary for using and running our websites. Other cookies collect statistical and analytics information about how visitors observe our websites. We may also use cookies to serve our ads on selected third-party platforms.
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4. SOURCES OF PERSONAL DATA
We receive personal data directly from you or through your employer or the company to which you are otherwise related to, or through available sources such as social media channels, our own website or internet otherwise.
With your consent or when otherwise legally allowed, we may also acquire certain information from relevant authorities or public registers.
5. THE PURPOSE AND LEGITIMATE GROUNDS OF PROCESSING
Our primary purpose is to collect information about our customers who are business entities and not individual data subjects. As part of our sales and marketing activities, we will however collect and use personal data for the purposes of being able to provide our products and services to our customers and manage our customer relations. Similarly, we also engage with other business partners and to manage those engagements we may need some personal data.
We collect and process the personal data based on our legitimate interests, such as marketing and lead generation. In some instances, we may also request your consent.
6. STORAGE PERIOD
We retain the personal data for only as long as that data is necessary for the purposes we have collected it, or if we are required to retain that data for longer periods in order to comply with applicable laws.
7. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Personal data is primarily stored within the European Economic Area.
However, in certain cases, we may transfer or access personal data outside the European Economic Area. In such cases, we provide adequate protection for the transfers of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area through a series of agreements with our service providers based on the Standard Contractual Clauses or through other appropriate safeguards.
8. THE RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL DATA
We do not share personal data with third parties outside of our company unless one of the following circumstances apply:
For legal reasons
We may share personal data with third parties outside our organization if access to the personal data is reasonably necessary to: (i) meet any applicable law, regulation, and/or court order; (ii) detect, prevent or otherwise address crime and/or security issues.
To authorized service providers
We may share personal data with authorized service providers who perform services for us. Such service providers are for example our IT service providers. Our agreements with our service providers include commitments that the service providers agree to limit their use of personal data and to comply with privacy and security standards at least as stringent as the terms of this Privacy Policy.
With your explicit consent
We may share personal data with third parties outside of our organization for other reasons than the ones mentioned above when we have your explicit consent to do so. You have a right to withdraw such consent at any time.
9. YOUR RIGHTS
Right to access
You have a right to access the personal data processed by us. This means that you may contact us and we will inform you what personal data we have collected and processed regarding you and the purposes such data are used for.
Right to withdraw consent
In case the processing is based on a consent granted by you, you may withdraw the consent at any time.
Right to correct
You have the right to have incorrect, imprecise, incomplete, outdated, or unnecessary personal data we have stored corrected or completed. You have the right to update for example your contact information or your other personal data.
Right to deletion
You may also ask us to delete your personal data from our systems. We will comply with such a request unless we have a legitimate ground to not delete the data.
Right to restriction of processing
You may request us to restrict the processing of personal data for example when your data erasure, rectification or objection requests are pending and/or when we do not have legitimate grounds to process your data.
Right to object
You may have the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interest. We will comply with such objection unless we have a legitimate ground not to.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us in a structured and commonly used format.
How to use your rights
If you want to use your rights, please send us a letter or secure e-mail.
We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive, or manifestly unfounded.
10. INFORMATION SECURITY
We do our best to keep your data safe and secure. We use administrative, organizational, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the personal data we collect and process. Our security controls are designed to maintain an appropriate level of data confidentiality and integrity.
The personal data stored under this Privacy Policy shall only be processed on a need-to-know basis. The use of personal data is protected by appropriate user rights, passwords, and rights of use. Paper documents shall be stored in locked storage.
11. LODGING A COMPLAINT
In case you consider our processing of personal data to be inconsistent with the applicable data protection laws, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the local supervisory authority for data protection. In Finland, the competent authority is the Data Protection Ombudsman (www.tietosuoja.fi ).
PRIVACY POLICY – RECRUITMENT DATA
1. ABOUT THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy concerns the personal data of Solar Foods Oy’s job applicants processed by us for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the processing of personal data carried out by Solar Foods as a data controller and only in the recruitment context.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time also without notice so we kindly ask you to review the latest policy from our web site. This Privacy Policy version is valid starting from the date stated above. We will not make any substantial changes without prior notice.
2. CONTACT DETAILS OF CONTROLLER
Solar Foods Oy
Business ID: 2872116-8
Correspondence address: Laserkatu 6, 53850 Lappeenranta, Finland
E-mail address: pasi@solarfoods.fi
Contact person: Pasi Vainikka, CEO, +358 40 582 5987
3. PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
We may process the following information relating to job applicants:
We only collect and store information that is either relevant for filling in the position in question or necessary for the rights and obligations of either party in the context of establishing an employment relationship.
In certain cases, we may also engage in candidate sourcing and headhunting to fill certain positions (“Headhunting”). In this context, we may collect and process personal data available from public sources, such as the information available on a potential candidate’s LinkedIn profile.
4. SOURCES OF PERSONAL DATA
We primarily receive personal data directly from you.
With your consent or when otherwise legally allowed, we may also acquire certain information from relevant authorities or public registers.
During a recruitment process we may, with your consent, contact a reference you have provided us with, such as your former employer. In this case, we may get some information from such a reference.
When engaging in Headhunting, we may collect personal data relating to the professional profile of potential candidates from Linkedin and other similar public sources.
5. THE PURPOSE AND LEGITIMATE GROUNDS OF PROCESSING
Personal data processed under this Privacy Policy is processed to carry out recruitment processes.
Applicant data is processed based on a pre-contractual relationship at your request in order for us to assess the potential grounds for entering into an employment contract with you.
When engaging in Headhunting we process personal data based on our legitimate interests.
We also store personal data under this Privacy Policy for a certain period based on our legitimate interest for the purpose of possible litigation, claims, or regulatory investigations.
6. STORAGE PERIOD
Personal data processed under this Privacy Policy is primarily stored for two (2) years.
With your consent, we may store personal data for future recruitment purposes for a longer period. You may at any time withdraw your consent for such processing.
7. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Personal data is primarily stored within the European Economic Area.
However, in certain cases we may transfer or access personal data outside the European Economic Area. In such cases we provide adequate protection for the transfers of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area through a series of agreements with our service providers based on the Standard Contractual Clauses or through other appropriate safeguards.
8. THE RECIPIENTS OF PERSONAL DATA
We do not share personal data with third parties outside of our company unless one of the following circumstances apply:
For legal reasons
We may share personal data with third parties outside our organization if access to the personal data is reasonably necessary to: (i) meet any applicable law, regulation, and/or court order; (ii) detect, prevent or otherwise address crime and/or security issues.
To authorized service providers
We may share personal data with authorized service providers who perform services for us. Such service providers are for example our IT service providers. Our agreements with our service providers include commitments that the service providers agree to limit their use of personal data and to comply with privacy and security standards at least as stringent as the terms of this Privacy Policy.
With your explicit consent
We may share personal data with third parties outside of our organization for other reasons than the ones mentioned before, when we have your explicit consent to do so. You have a right to withdraw such consent at any time.
9. YOUR RIGHTS
Right to access
You have a right to access the personal data processed by us. This means that you may contact us and we will inform you what personal data we have collected and processed regarding you and the purposes such data are used for.
Right to withdraw consent
In case the processing is based on a consent granted by you, you may withdraw the consent at any time.
Right to correct
You have the right to have incorrect, imprecise, incomplete, outdated, or unnecessary personal data we have stored corrected or completed. You have the right to update for example your contact information or your other personal data.
Right to deletion
You may also ask us to delete your personal data from our systems. We will comply with such a request unless we have a legitimate ground to not delete the data.
Right to restriction of processing
You may request us to restrict the processing of personal data for example when your data erasure, rectification or objection requests are pending and/or when we do not have legitimate grounds to process your data.
Right to object
You may have the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interest. We will comply with such objection unless we have a legitimate ground not to.
Right to data portability
You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us with in a structured and commonly used format.
How to use your rights
If you want to use your rights, please send us a letter or secure e-mail.
We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive, or manifestly unfounded.
10. INFORMATION SECURITY
We do our best to keep your data safe and secure. We use administrative, organizational, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the personal data we collect and process. Our security controls are designed to maintain an appropriate level of data confidentiality and integrity.
The personal data stored under this Privacy Policy shall only be processed on a need-to-know basis. The use of personal data is protected by appropriate user rights, passwords, and rights of use. Paper documents shall be stored in locked storage.
11. LODGING A COMPLAINT
In case you consider our processing of personal data to be inconsistent with the applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the local supervisory authority for data protection. In Finland, the competent authority is the Data Protection Ombudsman (www.tietosuoja.fi ).