At Distance Technologies we are committed to ensuring that when you use our website or enter into a business relationship with us, your personal data is processed carefully in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. We take responsibility for the personal data we collect about you, and we aim to be transparent about how we handle it, and give you control over it.

In this privacy policy we explain how we process your personal data as our business partner or as a visitor to our website, and describe what personal data we process and for what purposes, retention period of your personal data, your rights as the data subject and to whom we may disclose your personal data. We advise you to read this privacy policy carefully.

If you are applying a job at Distance Technologies, please see our recruitment privacy policy which may found here.

1. Data controller and contact details

Controller: Distance Technologies Oy
Business ID: 3410188-9
Address: John Stenbergin ranta 2, 00530 Helsinki, Finland
Email: email hidden; JavaScript is required

2. Types of personal data we process

We process the following categories of personal data:

Business partner information: We process personal data related to the contact persons of our business partners, such as investors, subcontractors, service providers and freelancers. Personal data may include name, title, email address, phone number, address and information related to the company the person is representing, such as company name, company business ID number, contact details and invoicing or payment information. We receive this information directly from you or the company you represent.

Information given through forms: We may collect personal data, such as your name, email address, when you are completing a form on our website.

Automatically collected information: We may automatically collect information on how you use our website (e.g. the duration and time of the visit, statistics around email opening and clicks). In addition, we collect technical information on your device (including but not limited to IP-address, location, browser, operator and operating system).

3. The purpose of use and legal basis of processing

Personal data is used for the following purposes:

• to manage the relationship with you or the company you represent, including managing orders, invoicing or making payments;
• to send information or marketing communication, by email or other means, which we think may be of interest to you;
• to improve your browsing experience;
• to develop our business operations; and
• to ensure data security.

Processing of personal data is based on:

• legitimate interest (e.g. marketing, data security, fulfilling or negotiating a contract with the company you represent)
• legal obligation (e.g. accounting obligations or other legal obligations stemming from applicable legislation)

Given the categories of data subjects, the types of data, the nature of processing and the choices available to you, we have assessed that your interests or fundamental rights or freedoms do not override the legitimate interest described above. You can, however, object processing based on legitimate interest at any time as described below.

We do not make any automated decisions solely on automatic means which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

4. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. You may request erasure of your data as mentioned below in “Your rights”.

5. Your rights

In addition to having access to the information provided in this privacy policy, you have the following rights as the data subject:

• Right of access, rectification and erasure: You have the right to request access to your personal data we process. At your request we will also rectify any inaccurate, incomplete or outdated personal data relating to you. You also have the right to request your personal data to be erased (right to be forgotten) in accordance with applicable law.
• Right to object to direct marketing: In case you do not want to receive further marketing or other updates from us, you have the right to object to processing of your personal data. Should you use your right to object, you will no longer receive marketing messages from us. You can use your right to object either by contacting us or through the unsubscribe link on electronic messages we send you.
• Right to object to data processing and right of restriction: You have the right to object to processing we carry out based on legitimate interest on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless we have compelling legitimate interests for the processing which override those interests. You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, for example, in case you object to processing as described above or contest the accuracy of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent: You may withdraw consent you have given at any time by contacting us. Please note that withdrawing your consent does not affect the legality of the processing we have carried out prior to withdrawal.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller when we process your data automatically on the basis of contract or your consent.
• Right to lodge a complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority in case you feel that we have processed your personal data contrary to this privacy policy or the applicable legislation. Contact details of the Finnish supervisory authority can be found at www.tietosuoja.fi.

Email or post your request to the address stated above in “Data controller and contact details”. Please note that we ask you to verify your identity when using your rights.

6. Disclosure and transfer of personal data

We may disclose your personal data to third parties in the following circumstances:

• Authorities: We may disclose personal data to authorities when we have a legal obligation to do so under applicable law.
• Consent: Based on your consent we may disclose your personal data within the limits of the specific consent you have given.
• Business transactions: We may disclose your personal data in connection with a business transaction to the other party or parties of the transaction, if and to the extent necessary.
• Our legitimate interests: We may disclose your personal data if it is necessary in order to protect or defend our legitimate rights and interests, or those of our other customers, employees, directors or shareholders, and/or to ensure the safety and security of our services.

The processing of personal data can be outsourced to a third party which processes personal data on behalf of us and under our instructions. We guarantee by contractual arrangements that personal data is processed in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.

Personal data may only be transferred outside the territory of the Member States of the European Union or to the European Economic Area if the country concerned provides sufficient level of data protection or there are other applicable safeguards in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

7. Cookies and similar technologies

Like most websites, we may use cookies and similar technologies on our website. We use these technologies to understand how you are using our website or to ensure the website’s functionality, such as to allow video playback.

A “cookie” is a small data file containing a string of characters that is sent to your device when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to recognise your browser. A cookie does not harm your device, and we do not get any information that is directly related to you (such as your name or email address) merely through cookies. The duration of how long a cookie will stay on your device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies will only stay on your device until you stop browsing. Persistent cookies stay on your device until they expire or until you delete them.

We may also use cookieless techniques to carry out website measurement. For example, Plausible Analytics generates a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User-Agent to count unique visitors on our website. By using Plausible, we collect data points, such as page URL, HTTP referrer, browser, device type, country, region and city. These datapoints are anonymised and are impossible to relate back to the user.

8. Data security

The personal data we process will be kept confidential. We have employed necessary technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data against unlawful or unauthorised access, disclosure, loss and other unauthorised processing. These measures include, for example, use of firewalls, encryption technologies and secure facilities, appropriate access control, controlled grant of access rights and supervision of use of systems and properly instructing our personnel participating in the processing of personal data.

9. Changes to this privacy policy

We are continuously developing our business and services, which is why we may occasionally need to make changes also to this privacy policy. We will inform you about any changes we make, either personally or through our services. We suggest that you check this page periodically.

This privacy policy was last updated 21.3.2025.