Effective October 5, 2020
VitalSignum Oy, including its affiliates (“VitalSignum”, “we”), is committed to respecting your privacy and complying with applicable data privacy laws and EU regulation 2016/679.
This Privacy Statement (“Statement”) describes how we collect and use personal data about you during VitalSignum’s data processing activities where VitalSignum is the data controller, and what rights you have in relation to such data. Personal data means information about you or another identifiable individual.
We may provide you additional privacy information that are specific to certain areas of VitalSignum’s data processing activities in other notices you may see. If there is a difference between such notices and this Statement, the notices should be considered first.
You are not required to provide the personal data to VitalSignum. If you choose not to provide your personal data to VitalSignum, we may not be able to continue the data processing with you or to respond to queries you have.
1. What Personal Data Does VitalSignum Collect and Process?
VitalSignum collects personal data directly from you as well as from other available sources to the extent relevant and permitted by applicable law. Subject to applicable law and practice, the categories of personal data that are collected and processed in the data processing context include:
2. What Will VitalSignum Do with Your Personal Data?
VitalSignum may process your personal data for the following purposes. One or more purposes may apply simultaneously.
VitalSignum processes your personal data with your consent to complete any transaction you have requested or authorized. We may also process your personal data to protect the privacy of other subjects; to maintain the security of our data processing related activities, systems, websites and services; and to protect the rights and property of VitalSignum.
3. Does VitalSignum Share Your Personal Data?
VitalSignum will not sell, lease, rent or otherwise disclose your personal data unless otherwise stated below.
4. What Steps Are Taken to Safeguard Personal Data?
Privacy and security are key considerations for VitalSignum. We have assigned specific responsibilities to address privacy and security related matters. We enforce our internal policies and guidelines through an appropriate selection of activities, including proactive and reactive risk management, security and privacy engineering, training and assessments. We take appropriate steps to address online security, physical security, risk of data loss and other such risks taking into consideration the risk represented by the processing and the nature of the data being protected. Also, we limit access to our data bases containing personal data to authorized persons having a justified need to access such information.
5. Data Quality
We take reasonable steps to keep the personal data we possess accurate and to delete incorrect or unnecessary personal data. We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Statement or otherwise communicated to you, unless a longer period is required by law.
We encourage you to access your personal data through your account from time to time to help us ensure that it is up to date. We may delete your account from our data processing management system within 3 years from the end of the year during which you have last accessed it or updated it. If your data is being used for authorized health care, VitalSignum will retain your personal data for longer periods, in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements.
6. Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding personal data that VitalSignum processes about you:
You may exercise your rights by managing your account and profile in our data processing management system or, if that is not possible, by contacting us. Especially if you withdraw your consent or wish us to delete or stop processing your personal data, we may not be able to continue the data processing process with you.
If you are not satisfied with what we provide when you exercise your rights, you can let us know by contacting us. If you are still dissatisfied, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority.
7. Who Is the Controller of Your Personal Data?
VitalSignum of Kuortaneenkatu 2, 00510 Helsinki, Finland is the controller of your personal data. You may contact us also by using contact information provided in the applicable VitalSignum websites.
In matters pertaining to VitalSignum’s privacy practices you may also contact us or our Corporate Data Protection Officer at:
VitalSignum Oy
Privacy Protection Officer
Kuortaneenkatu 2
FI-00510 Helsinki
FINLAND
8. Changes to This Statement
VitalSignum may change this Statement at any time with or without notice. However, if this Statement is changed in a material, adverse way, VitalSignum will post a notice advising of such change at the beginning of this Statement and in the data processing management system for 30 days. We recommend that you re-visit this Statement from time to time to learn of any such changes to this Statement.
I have read the VitalSignum Data processing Privacy Statement and I hereby grant my consent to VitalSignum processing my personal data in accordance with that VitalSignum Data processing Privacy statement. I have the right to withdraw my consent at any time by contacting VitalSignum.