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Privacy Policy of Monster Meetings

 

 

Last updated: April 30, 2020
 

1. Privacy Statement

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This privacy statement is intended to provide you information of how Monster Meetings processes personal data. As we acknowledge the importance of your privacy, we would like to inform you of your rights regarding your personal data.

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Monster Meetings Oy (business ID FI31224111) processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including GDPR. Monster Meetings does not share, sell, rent or trade personal data with third parties.

 

2. Data Controller Information

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Monster Meetings Oy

Itälahdenkatu 8 A 9

FI-00210 Helsinki

Finland

 

e-mail: support@monstermeetings.com

 

3. Principles for processing personal data

 

Our principles for processing personal data are:

 

  • Fairness and lawfulness. When we process personal data, the individual rights of the Data Subjects must be protected. All personal data must be collected and processed in a legal and fair manner.

  • Restricted to a specific purpose. The personal data of Data Subject must be processed only for specific purposes.

  • Transparency. The Data Subject must be informed of how his/her data is being collected, processed and used.

 

4. What information we collect?

 

Monster Meetings will only process personal data, which is needed for the purposes mentioned in section 5. Depending on the purposes of processing, the following information may be collected:

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  • basic information such as name, company/organisation, title, position and profession, address, e-mail address, phone number

  • records of purchases and downloads;

  • all created, shared, imported or posted content in video, audio, text and images and other media and related meta information;

  • information regarding the use of the products and services;

  • records of person’s consents, preferences and settings relating to, for example, marketing and sharing of personal data;

  • records automatically created when a person visits online products or websites, such as IP-address, traffic source, pages visited, the links and features used, interactions, the content viewed or requested, device information, browser or application type and access times;

  • records of person’s participation in Monster Meetings events; and/or

  • other personal data provided by the data subject.

 

5. Purposes of processing personal data

 

Sales and marketing:

 

  • providing the products and services;

  • developing existing customership, customer management and care;

  • managing customer data and providing technical and user support;

  • operational and contract management, administration, analysis and categorisation;

  • informing of changes, informing upon critical alerts and other such notices relating to our products and/or services;

  • targeting of customer communication and marketing;

  • communicating about Monster Meetings products and services, enhancing sales and conducting market research;

  • registration to Monster Meetings events; and/or

  • direct marketing.

 

Internal purposes and product development

 

  • stakeholder communications (suppliers, job applicants and other cooperation partners);

  • analysis, reporting, development and personalisation of internal operations, products and services;

  • improving and developing security, products and services;

  • ensuring the quality and safety of the products and services;

  • statistical analyses; and/or

  • development and reporting related to the business operations.

 

Other purposes

 

  • fulfilling the rights and obligations of Monster Meetings and the data subject;

  • processing of personal data of website visitors for the purpose of ensuring and developing the functionality and security of our website;

  • preventing fraudulent activities;

  • fulfilling the obligations based on law and orders from authorities; and/or

  • removing or prohibiting sharing of illegal or infringing material.

 

6. Legal basis for collecting and processing personal data

 

The legal basis for collecting and using the personal data described in this Data Protection Policy depends on the personal data we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:

 

  • Monster Meetings needs to perform a contract with you

  • You have given Monster Meetings permission to do so

  • Processing your personal data is in Monster Meetings legitimate interests

  • Monster Meetings needs to comply with the law

 

7. How we process personal data on our website and social media channels

 

By using our websites e.g. www.monstermeetings.com and social media channels (e.g. Facebook), you agree that cookies are used as shown below. We track service usage and behavior on our web pages (use cookies) for service development and to offer you better service and customer experience. We also utilize the data for marketing and internal development.

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Website

 

Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve the websites and our services. We also utilize the data for marketing purposes. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your device's hard disk. Monster Meetings may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with the website, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic on the site, and to improve the site and related services. A session cookie enables certain features of the site and is deleted from your device when you disconnect from or leave the site. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.

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We may also use other third party data analytics service providers. These service providers may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the services. Analytics service providers enable us to collect, monitor and analyze data regarding the use of the services, in order to understand how users use the services and to increase the functionality and user-friendliness of the services, as well as to better tailor the services to users’ needs. Accordingly, some automatically collected data is shared with third party service providers, who have their own privacy notices/policies applicable to their operations.

 

Social media channels and targeted advertisement

 

Using these cookies allows us to make the content of the website as individually customized as possible, and thereby show e.g. targeted advertisement and content based on the user’s prior behavior. Monster Meetings uses advertisement cookies managed by third parties in order to present its products both on its own website and on the sites of third parties. You can disable some of the third party advertisement cookies from their site settings.

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The Monster Meetings website may include links and connections to third party websites, products and services as well as so-called community plug-ins of third parties (such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter). Third party plug-ins integrated into the Monster Meetings website are loaded from third party servers and thus the third party may install their own cookies on the user’s device. The third party services and applications offered on the Monster Meetings website are subject to the privacy policies or notices of such third parties. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with those third party privacy policies or notices.

 

8. The rights of the data subject

 

You have the right to inspect the personal data stored in the register concerning yourself and the right to demand rectification or erasure of the inaccurate, outdated, unnecessary and unlawful data. If you have access to your data, you may edit the data yourself. Insofar as the processing is based on consent, you also have the right to withdraw or change your consent. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal of the consent.

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You have the right to object or to demand restriction of the processing of your data and to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.

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On grounds relating to your particular situation you also have the right to object other processing activities when the legal basis of processing is legitimate interest. In connection with your request, you shall identify the specific situation, based on which you object to the processing. We can refuse the request of objection only on legal grounds.

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at support@monstermeetings.com

 

9. Privacy policy updates

 

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

 

10. Questions and your contact information

 

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at support@monstermeetings.com

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