Privacy Policy

Privacy notice of the Nordic Female Business Angels Network

Your privacy is important to us, and it is our priority at the Nordic Female Business Angels Network (NFBAN) to keep our business contacts informed on how we process their personal data. We are engaged to process any data reliably, securely, and in a transparent manner. The controller of your personal data, as described here, is Miraflo Ventures Oy. Please contact Ms. Florence Korhonen, the Managing Director, should you have any questions related to the processing of your personal data.

How We Collect Data

As a private limited company, we regularly receive and process various types of personal data in connection to our operations. However, we only process personal data that we obtain from you directly, for example when you send emails to us or communicate with us through other channels, when you sign up for newsletters or other marketing materials, or when you sign up for an event organized by us.

How We Use Your Data

We collect and process your data for the following purposes:
(i) the management and administration of our business relationship with you and/or your organization, such as the management of business contacts and provision of services, including the processing of payments, accounting, auditing, billing, and collection as well as related support services;
(ii) marketing and communications, such as announcements, newsletters, events, training, maintaining our contact lists and complying with any legal obligations imposed on NFBAN in relation to its activities.

 

Legal Basis for the Collection of Personal Data

When processing your personal data for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, we collect and process your data primarily on the basis of your consent or, other, based on our legitimate interest in maintaining the business relationship between us. Our view is that your participation in our activities or otherwise communicating with us creates a meaningful business relationship between us as well as a legitimate interest for us to process your personal data for general communication and marketing purposes.

 

Sharing and Transferring Personal Data

We do not sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise make your personal data available to any third party for marketing purposes. We solely process personal data on servers within the European Union and/or European Economic Area. We will always ensure that your personal data is adequately protected as required by applicable laws and regulations. We take appropriate technical measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data, and regularly check our security policies and procedures to ensure our systems are secure and protected. Only the personnel who need to process your personal data for the purposes mentioned above have access to your personal data.

 

Storing of Personal Data

We retain the personal data for the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Notice for as long as we have a meaningful business contact and it is necessary for the purposes we have collected it for, or if we are required to store that data for longer periods to comply with applicable laws. When the processing of your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes they were collected, we will delete or anonymize the personal data relating to you in a secure manner.

 

Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data

You have the right to ask us to tell you what data we at any given time we store about you. Subject to local applicable laws you also have the right to:
(i) request us to correct incorrect personal data relating to you and erase your personal data
(ii) request us to restrict our use of your data or object to our uses of your personal data;
(iii) where you have given us your consent to process your personal data, you may have the right to withdraw that consent in accordance with applicable laws.

In addition, you have an express right to ask us not to send you marketing related communications. Please note that we will review such requests and execute them in the fullest extent possible in accordance with applicable laws.

Should you consider that your rights under the applicable data protection laws have been undermined or violated in any way, you may also lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority such as Tietosuojavirasto in the Finnish context.

 

Updates

This Privacy Notice has been updated in January 2019. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changing legal requirements or our practices in processing data. We will keep you informed of such updates.