Processing personal data at the City of Vantaa Business Development Services

Pursuant to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, a person must be informed if some of their personal data are entered into a person register. Personal data consist of, for instance, name and address information. The registered person must also be told the purpose of processing personal data, the parties the data are disclosed to, and the registered person’s rights.

This page describes handling of personal data at the City of Vantaa Business Development Services. Business Development Services' operations entail several tasks related to developing businesses, their operating environments, as well as more comprehensively developing the city’s vitality. In addition, Business Development Services regularly carries out various business development projects.

Purpose and handling of data

Data on the client will only be collected to the extent required for providing the service. These data are either gained from the client or the Vainu database (https://vainu.io) whose data are based on public registers (such as YTJ, the Business Information System) or personal data of business owners or personnel openly available on the Internet.

Necessity of proving data

The client has the right to restrict use of their personal data or to ask that they be removed. In case handling and storing of the data are based on a legislative obligation, the data will only be removed after termination of the legal deadline.

Disclosing information to a third party

If there is no legislative grounds for disclosure of information, the data will only be disclosed with the client’s consent. Personal data may be disclosed to such actors, outside the City of Vantaa, from whom Vantaa buys services, or with whom Vantaa conducts various cooperation projects. In these cases, the same data protection principles that the city has will be applied. Data will not be further disclosed without consent from the outside actor to parties other than the City of Vantaa. Your data will never be disclosed for marketing purposes.

Protection of data

Only the employees that need the data in the register to perform their work are allowed to handle the data. As a general rule, the only personal data collected consist of those personal and contact data that are in principle public, unless the client has defined them to be confidential. As far as confidential and sensitive data are concerned, every employee is bound by professional secrecy.

Electronically stored data are technologically protected. Businesses’ and their representatives’ client information are stored in a client register maintained by Hakosalo Software Oy(http://hakosalo.fi/). In addition to Business Development Services, only selected employees at the City of Vantaa's other units, such as Employment Services, have access to the client register. If data are stored elsewhere, they will be handled according to the same principles.

In case of personal data breach

It is possible that, despite encryption, your data may in exceptional cases end up in the wrong hands. In such a situation, the City of Vantaa will take immediate action to amend the situation. The City of Vantaa will inform the persons concerned of the matter immediately or, at the latest, within 72 hours from the time the breach was noticed, if the security breach causes significant disadvantage to the rights of the concerned parties. If the security breach applies to many people, the security breach can also be informed in a general announcement.

Data storage period

Data in the register can be used for providing, planning, and assessing activities and services, as well as for statistics. Personal data will be stored for only as long as required for providing the service, or stipulated by legislation. After termination of the data storage period, the data will be deleted. Other client data will be deleted at the latest after ten (10) years from the last contact, or by request.

The right to access, correct, or remove data

The client has the right to check their own data saved in the person register. You can primarily see your own data in a client service situation. The registered person has the right to have any erroneous or defective data corrected or supplemented.

The client is entitled to receive a copy of their data free of charge once a year. Submit a written request to the body maintaining the register. In case of registers maintained by the City of Vantaa, submit the request at the city's Registry or Vantaa Info. Your identity will be verified. Add information about the register in question to your request.

The client has the right to restrict use of their personal data or to ask that they be removed. In case handling and storing of the data are based on a legislative obligation, the data will only be removed after termination of the legal deadline.

Profiling

The data will not be used for profiling.

Submitting a complaint

If you suspect that data protection legislation has been breached when handling your data, you have the right to submit the matter to be handled by the data protection officer.

You will find the data protection officer's up-to-date instructions and contact information online at: tietosuoja.fi

 

Further information on data processing and contact persons

You can request a more detailed report of handling your data at Vantaa Info.

Further information on data processing and storage is available on the addresses below. Please keep in mind that email is not a safe tool for handling personal data. Do not, for example, send your identity number or any delicate information by email.

Contacts

elinkeinopalvelut@vantaa.fi

Data protection officer

tietosuojavastaava@vantaa.fi

tel. 040 071 3358

Controller       

Vantaan kaupunki                                                       

Business ID: 0124610-9                                                                

Asematie 7, 01300 Vantaa

Registry 

Registry's contact information

 

Information document updated on December 13, 2022.

You will find the City of Vantaa’s information documents online at: Henkilötietojen käsittely Vantaan kaupungilla

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