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Kuva Space Privacy Policy


Kuva Space Oy (“Kuva Space” or “We”) takes your privacy seriously. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data, which is any information that is capable of identifying you as an individual person.

This Privacy Policy describes how we handle and protect your personal data in connection with Kuva Space’s business activities, such as our data platform, client services, websites, conferences and events, and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy in our capacity as data controller.

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time.


1. CONTACT DETAILS OF CONTROLLER

Name: Kuva Space Oy Company ID: 2759225-3Otakaari 5 (A Grid)

02150 Espoo

Finland

privacy@kuvaspace.com


2. PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED AND SOURCES OF PERSONAL DATA

Kuva Space processes personal data as part of its business activities and when providing services to you.

We primarily receive personal data directly from you, as you use our services and through your interactions with us. However, to the extent permitted by applicable laws, we may also collect personal data from third parties.

We process the following personal data:

  1. contact and identification information, such as name, personal identity code, title, telephone number, email address, mailing address, and the name of company you represent;
  2. user data for data platform, such as account information, platform usage, and subscription and payments data;
  3. device information, such as IP address, device identifier, web browser, browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies used on our website;
  4. other data you provide to us.

3. THE PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

Personal data under this Privacy Policy is processed to provide you with the services you have requested, based on our legitimate interests, and to fulfil the legal obligations to which we are subject. In some instances, we may also request your consent.

To perform our contractual obligations and provide you with the services you have requested, we process your contact information and information provided by you. We also process data based on our legitimate interests to ensure the functionality, security, and reliability of our data platform, as well as to develop and improve it.
We process personal data to communicate, market and interact with our customers and potential customers. This is based on legitimate interest and consent.

Certain processing of personal data is required due to our status as a licensed ground station. This obligation is laid out in Act on ground stations and certain radars (96/2023). When legally obligated to do so by applicable law, we process and disclose your personal information to relevant authorities. This includes your contact information and other data which may be requested.


4. DATA RETENTION

We process personal data for as long as that data is necessary for the purposes we have collected the data for. We will delete personal data when its retention is no longer necessary and there is no right or obligation to process it under law.


5. PERSONAL DATA RECIPIENTS

Kuva Space may disclose personal data to third parties in following ways:

  1. to the authorities and some service providers permitted and required by law such as Finnish Transport and Communications Agency both annually and when data is requested by the authorities in order to fulfil the know-your-customer, security and other requirements of Kuva Space;
  2. to our partners, where our partners process personal data on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, for example to identify and address data security issues;
  3. with your consent, to the parties to whom the consent applies.

6. DATA TRANSFERS OUTSIDE OF EEA

Your personal data is mainly processed within the European Economic Area.

However, in certain cases, we may transfer or access personal data outside the European Economic Area. In such cases, we provide adequate protection for the transfers of personal data to countries outside of the European Economic Area through a series of agreements with our service providers based on the Standard Contractual Clauses or through other appropriate safeguards, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.


7. COOKIES

Cookies are used to recognize a device and collect certain information about the use of websites and services online.
When you visit our data platform or websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology in order for us to understand how you use our website and services.

These functional cookies recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. The information stored can include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

8. HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES

You can manage your cookie setting from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.


9. YOUR RIGHTS

Right to access

You have the right to access the personal data processed by us. This means that you may contact us, and we will inform you about the personal data we have collected and processed regarding you, as well as the purposes for which such data are used.


Right to withdraw consent

In the case that data processing is based on a consent granted by you, you may withdraw that consent at any time.


Right to correct

You have the right to have incorrect, imprecise, incomplete, outdated, or unnecessary personal data we have stored corrected or completed. You have the right to update for example your contact information or your other personal data.


Right to deletion

You may also ask us to delete your personal data from our systems. We will comply with such a request unless we have legitimate grounds to not delete the data.


Right to restriction of processing

You may request us to restrict the processing of personal data, for example when your data erasure, rectification or objection requests are pending and/or when we do not have legitimate grounds to process your data.


Right to object

You may have the right to object on grounds relating to your particular situation to the processing of your personal data based on our legitimate interest. We will comply with such objection unless we have legitimate grounds not to.


Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data you have provided us with in a structured and commonly used format.


How to use your rights

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by using the contact information given at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

We may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, excessive, or manifestly unfounded.


10. INFORMATION SECURITY

We are committed to keeping your data safe and secure. We use a variety of organizational and technical safeguards to protect the personal data we collect and process. Our security controls are designed to maintain an appropriate level of data confidentiality and integrity.

The personal data stored under this Privacy Policy shall only be processed on a need-to-know basis. The use of personal data is protected by appropriate user rights, passwords, and rights of use. Paper documents shall be stored in locked storage.


11. PRIVACY POLICIES OF OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website and the information we collect.


12. LODGING A COMPLAINT

In case you consider our processing of personal data to be inconsistent with the applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the local supervisory authority for data protection. In Finland, the competent authority is the Data Protection Ombudsman (www.tietosuoja.fi).