In order to be able to do what we do, we need to deal with personal information. We want to keep your personal information protected and use it as little as possible. We comply with the EU's general data protection regulation (GDPR) and the Finnish legislation related to personal data. In practice we are talking about the World Coaching Organization customer and marketing database.  

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR HANDLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION? 

World Coaching Organization Ltd Oy, Espoo, Finland. Our business ID is 3421790-2. Our contact person related to personal data is Pauliina Hallama, contact@worldcoaching.com.  

WHY DO WE HANDLE YOUR PERSONAL DATA? 

We deal with customer, marketing, and personal information that is essential to our company's operations. We only save information that is essential to the planning of our operations.  

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT? 

We collect and store, on a case-by-case basis, the following personal information about our customers:  
  • Name 
  • E-mail address 
  • Mobile or other phone number (in as few occasions as possible) 
  • Organization and position 
  • Mailing address of the organization or person for invoicing/billing (in as few occasions as possible) 
  • Details of the services ordered by the customer, their delivery and billing. 

WHEN AND WHY DO WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA? 

  • We collect your personal information in the following situations:  
  • When you become our customer (you order a service from us) 
  • When you subscribe to our newsletter  
  • When you attend to one of our free events 
  • When you download material from our website 
  • When you get in contact with us through our website 
  • When you contact us by email 
  • When you become a member of our community 

We can also collect personal information from publicly available sources on the internet and other public sources. Reference sources are specified if they belong to any other than the above mentioned sources.  
 
We store your personal information in order to: 
  • provide you with information about your order 
  • deliver your order 
  • charge you for your order 
  • meet legal requirements (such as the Accounting Act and the Consumer Protection Act) 
  • keep track of your certification and confirm your participation in our training 
  • identify users in social media who may be interested in our services 
  • send targeted offers and information to you in our newsletters 
  • conduct customer inquiries and surveys regarding our services 
  • analyze your purchasing behavior so that we can make more targeted offers by customer profiling. 
 
WHERE DO WE HAND OVER OR TRANSFER YOUR PERSONAL DATA? 

We will not disclose the personal data of our customers to outsiders, except when required by the Finnish authorities.  

We treat your personal information mainly within the EU and the EEA. Only in a situation where we use a third-party IT or software system vendor (such as Microsoft or similar), can we pass your personal data outside the EU or the EEA when processing data in these vendors’ software programs. In this case, we will ensure that the software vendor is committed to comply with the EU Privacy Policy, for example by being a member of the Privacy Shield Framework. 

WHO HANDLES YOUR PERSONAL DATA? 

We treat your personal information mainly in various electronic services (IT systems and payment service providers), whereby these electronic service providers have access to personal data as a processor. In this case World Coaching Organization is responsible for ensuring that the data provided to these services is processed in accordance with the Data Protection Regulation, correctly and with care. 

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA? 

A) Manual material: We store the participant lists gathered from our trainings safely for a minimum of five years from the date of the event to keep track of our participant numbers over the years. Every five years these lists will be reviewed, and all unnecessary information will be disposed of.  
 
B) Information handled through IT: Personal data is kept confidential. The computer network and hardware of the registrar and its potential IT partners are protected by a firewall and other necessary technical measures. The registrar shall ensure that only the employees of the registrar and the employees of companies operating under the registrar have access to the required information to carry out their duties.  
 
World Coaching Organization processes the information in software that is used to be able to offer our services as promised. This software includes: Ukko.fi and Holvi that are systems for bookkeeping and billing, and Microsoft software services that belong to the Privacy Shield Framework. 
 
COOKIES 

We use cookies on our website to help you improve your customer experience with targeted offerings.  
 
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA? 

We will only process your personal information as long as 1) it is required by applicable legislation, 2) you are a member of the community, or 3) you are in a customer relationship with us. We go through our customer information annually and immediately remove the personal data of customers who wish us to do so, in case other legislation allows data deletion. 
 
HOW CAN YOU USE YOUR RIGHTS AS A REGISTERED PERSON? 

As a registered person you have the right to know what personal information we are using and correct or delete your personal information (unless the law requires certain personal data to be stored for a certain period of time). Please contact us if you have any questions regarding your personal information: contact@worldcoaching.com. 
 
You also have the right to make a complaint to a national supervising authority in case you feel that your personal information has been misused. 

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