When you visit this website We, like many companies, automatically collect the following information:

* technical information, including the type of device you’re using, the IP address, browser and operating system being used to connect your computer to the internet. This information may be used to improve the services we offer.

* information about your visit to this website, for example we collect information about pages you visit and how you navigate the website, i.e. length of visits to certain pages, products and services you viewed and searched for, referral sources (e.g. how you arrived at our website).

* We collect and use your personal information by using cookies, little text files that are stored in your browser, on our website – more information on cookies can be found under the ‘Use of Cookies’ section below.

Contact Information: You may use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to customize your account or enable certain account features, for example, login verification.

Topics, shared links, comments: That’s the content that you share at Newspek.

Cookies: We use Google Analytics to get data about how people use the service. That data is not shared with anyone else and we are looking into making it anonymous. Apart from that we use only one cookie: it lets us know if you have previously visited the site.

Information about use of Newspek: We receive information when you use Newspek. The information we collect is your followed topics, created topics, posted links and recommended articles. That information is connected to your user profile.

Who has access to your information?

We do not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

Service Providers: We use the third-party service provided by Microsoft Azure to help us provide our website and mobile application. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand and improve the use of our Services.

We disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the services and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and prevents them from using it for their own direct marketing purposes.

Newspek, Inc. complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield principles regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal information from the European Union.

Your Rights

Under European Union General Data Protection Regulation, you have certain rights over the personal information that we hold about you. Here is a summary of the rights that we think apply:

Right of acces

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You have a right to request access to the personal data that we hold about you. You also have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you, and we will provide you with this unless legal exceptions apply. If you want to access your information, please send a description of the information you want to see and proof of your identity by post to the address provided below.

Right to have your inaccurate personal information corrected

You have the right to have inaccurate or incomplete information we hold about you corrected. You can edit your information at account settings I

Right to restrict use

You have a right to ask us to restrict the processing of some or all of your personal information if there is a disagreement about its accuracy or we’re not lawfully allowed to use it.

Right to be forgotten

You may ask us to delete some or all of your personal information and in certain cases, and subject to certain exceptions; we will do so as far as we are required to. In many cases, we will anonymise that information, rather than delete it. You can also permanently delete your Newspek account. You can contact Newspek staff via email: info (at) newspek.com.

Right for your personal information to be portable

If we are processing your personal information (1) based on your consent, or in order to enter into or carry out a contract with you, and (2) the processing is being done by automated means, you may ask us to provide it to you or another service provider in a machine-readable format.

Right to object

You have the right to object to processing where we using your personal information (1) based on legitimate interests, (2) for direct marketing or (3) for statistical/research purposes.

Right to complain

You have the right to complain to the Finnish data protection agency

If you want to exercise any of the above rights, please email us at info (at) newspek.com.

Please note that exceptions apply to a number of these rights, and not all rights will be applicable in all circumstances.

Keeping your information safe

When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that appropriate technical and organisational controls are in place to protect it.

Passwords are encrypted using ASP.NET identity tehchonogy.

Use of 'cookies'

Like many other websites, this website uses cookies. 'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by an organisation to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit. It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences.

Changes to this policy

Any changes we may make to this policy in the future will be posted on this website so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. If we make any significant changes we’ll make this clear on this website.

Review of this Policy

We keep this policy under regular review. This policy was last updated in June 2018.