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Finnish Cultural Foundation’s Privacy Policy

We only process personal data within the framework of the General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable legislation and respect your right to privacy.

In this policy, we provide you with a general overview of the processing of personal data by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. You can find detailed information on how we process personal data depending on the activities in relation to which your personal data is processed by clicking on the links below, where you can view each of our privacy policies separately. In these policies, we explain, among other things, from where we collect your personal data, on what legal basis we process your data, to whom we may disclose data about you, and how long your data will be stored.

1. Who is the data controller?

The Finnish Cultural Foundation (“Foundation”) (0116947-3)
Bulevardi 5 A, 00120 Helsinki
Phone +358 9 612 810 

Contact person for data protection:
Anu Littunen, Chief Financial Officer
anu.littunen@skr.fi

2. Whose personal data do we process?

We have prepared activity-specific privacy policies that provide you with information on how your personal data is processed. You can access each privacy policy from the links below.

  1. Grants
  2. Donations
  3. Art Collection Kirpilä
  4. The Mirjam Helin Competition
  5. Mirjam Helin Academy
  6. Support Association for the Finnish Cultural Foundation
  7. Whistleblowing channel
  8. Job seekers

We describe the processing of the personal data of related parties and our employees in accordance with the Foundations Act in the privacy policy concerning them, which is available on the Foundation’s intranet.

3. To whom is your personal data disclosed?

The Foundation will only disclose your data if it is necessary for the purpose of processing personal data. Before any transfers, the Foundation always ensures that the transferees comply with the provisions of the GDPR, concludes the necessary agreements with the transferees, and ensures that the transferees have a sufficient level of data security. You can find detailed information about the processing of personal data concerning you in section 2 above from the links to the activity-specific privacy policies.

We use external service providers to process your personal data, which process your personal data for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. With regard to these service providers, personal data may also be transferred to servers outside the EU/EEA.

If personal data is transferred outside the EU/EEA, it will be ensured that the processing of personal data is adequately protected and processed in accordance with this agreement. Protection may include, for example, an adequacy decision by the European Commission or appropriate contractual clauses, such as model clauses approved by the European Commission and other appropriate safeguards.

4. How long do we keep your personal data?

We will only process your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed or to fulfill our legal obligations.

The storage periods of personal data vary depending on the purpose of use, and you can find the storage periods that apply to you in the activity-specific privacy policies, which you can find in the links above.

5. How have we protected your personal data?

We have in place technical and organisational methods and safeguards that are sufficient for our operations to ensure the data security of personal data.

Personal data in electronic form is protected by generally acceptable and reasonable technical means, such as firewalls and passwords. Materials containing personal data in the register, which are not in electronic form, are located in locked premises to which unauthorised access has been prevented.

The rights to update and view personal data have been restricted both personally and temporally by the controller’s internal, centrally managed access rights. Appropriate agreements have been made with our service providers and we have ensured personal data is handled confidentiality and securely.

6. Our Cookie Policy

The Foundation uses various cookies on its website, which can also be used to collect your personal data.

When you visit our website for the first time, we will ask for your consent to store non-essential cookies. You can find more information about cookies on our website under cookie settings, where you can also disable cookies later.

7. What are your rights in relation to the processing of personal data?

You have the right to check what information about you has been stored. This request may be refused on the grounds laid down by law.  The exercise of the right is free of charge.

You have the right to request that incorrect information about you be rectified. In addition, in certain situations, you have the right to request the erasure of data concerning you or to request the restriction of processing on grounds laid down by law.

To the extent that you have provided us with information yourself, you may have the right to receive such information in a machine-readable format and the right to transmit this information to another controller.

To the extent that you have given your consent to the processing of personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting yleisinfo@skr.fi.

You have the right to object the processing of your personal data on the basis of your particular personal situation, if we are processing your personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. You can contact us at yleisinfo@skr.fi if you wish to object the processing of your data. You must specify the specific situation on the basis of which you object to the processing.

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us at yleisinfo@skr.fi. If you consider that we have not complied with the applicable data protection regulations in our operations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

The competent supervisory authority in matters related to the processing of personal data is the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman, Lintulahdenkuja 4, 00530 Helsinki, tel. 029 566 6700, tietosuoja@om.fi.