Privacy Policy
LAST MODIFIED: 22.5.2018
We at Honka (Honkarakenne Oyj and our affiliates) are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to our website www.honka.com and it’s subdomains (Websites), and our Subscription Service (the Subscription Service).
This Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing and usage practices. By using the Websites or the Subscription Service, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Websites or the Subscription Service.
You are free to explore the Websites without providing any information about yourself. We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party.
1. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version online. You should check this page occasionally to review any changes.
2. DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR AND CONTACT INFORMATION
2.1.Database name and administrator
Marketing Database
Honkarakenne Oyj, Hongantie 41, FI-43500 Karstula, Finland
2.2 Contact information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of the information you provide us, please write to us by email or by mail to:
Honkarakenne Oyj
Sanna Huovinen
P.O. Box 31
FI-04401 Järvenpää, Finland
Attention: PRIVACY
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect information from you when you use our Websites, register to our Subcription Service or enter information on our site. The lawful basis for processing this data is gained through your consent. The registered data includes:
- Name and contact information (First and last name, email address, phone number, street address, postal code, post office and country)
- The user’s role, company name and job title
- The customer’s interests
- Project information given by the customer
- The customer’s consent and/or objections to marketing
- Information given by the job seekers
We also may collect information about your computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and pages viewed. Please see the Navigational Information section below.
4. NAVIGATIONAL INFORMATION
4.1. Cookies
We use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web server. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you register for the Subscription Service, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.
Honka keeps track of the Websites and pages you visit within Honka in order to determine what portion of the Honka Website or Subscription Service is the most popular or most used. This data may be used to deliver customized content and promotions within the Honka Website and Subscription Service to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
We may partner with a third party ad network to manage our advertising on other sites. We may collect non-personally identifiable information about your activities on this and other Web sites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Subscription Service or Websites you visit.
4.2. Log Files
We may collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences and interests using log files that are not associated with your name or other personally identifying information.
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by us. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used to provide general statistics regarding use of the Honka Website and to maintain the quality of the Subscription Service. For these purposes, we may link this automatically-collected data to Personal Information such as name, email address, address, and phone number.
5. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We use the information we collect only in compliance with this Privacy Policy. Customers who subscribe to our Subscription Services are obligated through our agreements with them to comply with this Privacy Policy.
5.1. How we use personal information
We use customer profiling to improve the quality of service and the targeting of our marketing. We use personal information to:
- Improve your browsing experience by personalizing the Website and to improve the Subscription Service
- We may contact you and send information to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means
- Send you marketing communications relating to the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you.
5.2. How we use navigational information
We use Navigational Information to operate and improve the Websites and the Subscription Service. We may also use Navigational Information alone or in combination with Personal Information to provide you with personalized information about Honka.
5.3. We never sell personal information
We will never sell your Personal Information to any third party. We may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, we do not transfer your unique Personal Information to the third party.
5.4. Service Providers
We employ other companies to provide services to visitors to our Websites, our customers, and users of the Subscription Service and may need to share your information with them to provide information, products or services to you. In all cases where we share your information with such agents, we explicitly require the agent to acknowledge and adhere to our privacy and customer data handling policies.
5.5. Social Media Features
Our Websites include Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button and Widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on our sites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy and other policies of the companies providing them.
5.6. External Websites
Our Websites provide links to other websites. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other websites.This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.
5.7. Retention of Personal Information
We retain Personal Information that you provide for five (5) years and then we securely delete the information. We will delete this information from the servers at an earlier date if you so request, as described in “Opting Out and Unsubscribing” below.
5.8. International Transfer of Information
To facilitate our global operations, we may transfer and access Personal Information from around the world. This Privacy Policy shall apply even if we transfer Personal Information to other countries. We have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your Personal Information will remain protected.
5.9. Corporate Events
If we (or our assets) are acquired by another company, whether by merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or otherwise, that company would receive all information gathered by Honka on the Websites and the Subscription Service.
6. HOW TO ACCESS AND CONTROL YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6.1. To Unsubscribe From Our Communications
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of our e-mails, or by contacting us directly (see contact information on this page, 2.2).
6.2. Reviewing, Correcting and Removing Your Personal Information
If you provide us with your Personal Information, you have the following rights with respect to that information:
- To review the user information that you have supplied to us
- To request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in user information that you have supplied to us
- To request that your user information not be used to contact you
- To request that your user information be deleted from our records
- To opt out of being solicited by Honka or third parties
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us directly (see contact information on this page, 2.2). We will promptly change, correct, or delete your information and notify you of the action we have taken.