Privacy Statement
Centrum Balticum Foundation
Last updated: 10.4.2026
This Privacy Statement explains how we collect, process and protect your personal data
1. Controller
Centrum Balticum Foundation
Vanha Suurtori 7, 20500 Turku, Finland
Email: centrumbalticum@centrumbalticum.org
2. Purpose of processing personal information
We process your information to provide, improve and administer our services and to communicate with you. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We collect personal information that you provide us when you subscribe to our publications or register for our events. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- Name
- Email address
- Organisation
- Country of residence
- Dietary restrictions
- Information on how the participant heard about the event
We process personal data for the following purposes:
- Delivering publications and newsletters
- Organising events
We also automatically collect information when you visit, use or navigate our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity, but may include device and usage information, such as your
- IP address
- browser and device characteristics
- country
- location
- other technical information
This information is needed to maintain the security and operation of our website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. We also collect log and usage data, device data and location data through cookies and similar technologies. Users are asked to provide consent for cookies via a cookie banner when visiting the website.
3. Legal basis for processing personal information
We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to provide you with services or to fulfil our legitimate interest.
We may process your information if you have given us permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. We may also process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate interests, like to gather information to evaluate, develop and improve our web services.
4. Information retention
We will only keep your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Statement. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information.
5. Information sharing and transfers
We may share personal information with trusted service providers to support our operations. Currently we use these services:
- Email marketing: LianaMailer
- Event management: Eventilla
- Website analytics: Google Analytics
All service providers are located within the EU/EEA, and no personal data is transferred outside the EU/EEA.
6. Rights of information subjects
Under applicable data protection legislation, you have the right to
- access your personal information
- request deletion of your personal information
- restrict processing of your personal information
- object to processing of your personal information
- personal information portability
Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove of reject cookies, this could affect certain features on our website.
You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. In order to do so, contact us at centrumbalticum@centrumbalticum.org
7. Information security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.
8. Special categories of information and profiling
We do not process special categories of personal information, collect information from minors, or carry out profiling or automated decision-making.
9. Supervisory authority
If you believe that your data protection rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman: https://tietosuoja.fi/en/office-of-the-data-protection-ombudsman
10. Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may update this privacy statement from time to time. The latest version will always be available on our website.
