Privacy Policy
Cold Will is an initiative of Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Oy. This Privacy Policy explains how personal data submitted through the Cold Will website is collected and processed.
What information do we collect?
When you submit a membership application or otherwise contact Cold Will through the website, we may collect personal data such as your name, email address, phone number, organisation, professional role and any other information you choose to provide.
Membership applications may also include information about the organisation, its capabilities, services, activities, certifications, partners, contact details, links, images and other material submitted for a potential member profile.
How do we use the information?
Personal data may be used to:
• process membership applications and contact applicants
• manage Cold Will membership and stakeholder relationships
• provide and develop Cold Will services and network activities
• communicate about Cold Will activities, events and opportunities
• send newsletters and event information where the recipient has agreed to receive them
• maintain and develop the Cold Will website and network
Depending on the purpose, the processing of personal data is based on consent, the performance of a contract or Business Tampere’s legitimate interest in managing stakeholder relationships, providing its services and communicating about its activities.
Member information and publication
Information about member organisations may be published on the Cold Will website as part of member profiles.
The information selected for publication will be agreed with the member organisation. Personal contact details will not be published without the consent of the person concerned.
Personal data may be shared between Cold Will network members only where the relevant individuals and organisations have agreed to such sharing.
Where is the information stored?
Information submitted through the Cold Will website is stored on the website.
The website is hosted by Seravo, and the server used by coldwill.fi is located in Finland. Website data stored through the hosting service is therefore not stored outside the EU/EEA.
Business Tampere may process information relevant to its customer, stakeholder and network relationships in accordance with its general privacy practices.
For information about cookies and third-party technologies used on the website, please see the Cold Will Cookie Policy.
Who can access the information?
Access to personal data is limited to people who need it to manage Cold Will activities, membership applications, stakeholder relationships or the website.
This may include authorised Business Tampere personnel, website administrators and technical service providers responsible for hosting and maintaining the website.
Personal data is not disclosed for commercial purposes. It may be disclosed to other parties where this is necessary for providing the service, based on consent or another applicable legal basis.
How long do we keep the information?
Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and for managing the relevant membership, customer or stakeholder relationship.
Information related to membership applications may be retained while the application is being processed and for as long as it is reasonably needed for related follow-up. Member information may be retained for the duration of the membership or network relationship.
Newsletter and similar communications based on consent will be sent until the recipient withdraws their consent or the information is no longer needed for that purpose.
Your rights
Under applicable data protection legislation, you may have the right to:
• receive information about how your personal data is processed
• access your personal data
• request correction or deletion of your personal data
• request restriction of processing
• object to processing
• request data portability where applicable
• withdraw your consent at any time where processing is based on consent
Cold Will does not use personal data submitted through membership applications for automated decision-making or profiling.
If you believe that your personal data has been processed in violation of applicable data protection legislation, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman.
Contact
Data controller
Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Oy Business ID 2252888-5 Finland
Cold Will privacy enquiries
Jari Ikonen
jari.ikonen(a)businesstampere.com
+358 500 456 636
For more information about how Business Tampere processes personal data, please see the Business Tampere Privacy Policy.
Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 09/09/2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://coldwill.fi (hereinafter: "the website") uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as "cookies"). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.4 Social media
On our website, we have included content to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks. This content is embedded with code derived from third parties and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalized advertising.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on "Save preferences", you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Tampere Region Economic Development Agency Business Tampere Oy
Kalevantie 2
33100 Tampere, Finland
Finland
Website: https://coldwill.fi
Email: jari.ikonen@ex.combusinesstampere.com
Phone number: +358 40 800 7676
This Cookie Policy was synchronized with cookiedatabase.org on 09/09/2026.