Who we are
Support from HEL is a community of customer support professionals in Helsinki, Finland. We gather every few weeks either in person, or virtually through an online meeting or webinar.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments are checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you register to an event
We collect an email address in order to send you a reminder of the event taking place. We collect your first name and last name in order to identify you at the place of the meetup. These informations will be kept indefinitely and can be requested to be removed. The meetups may be held at some companies premises and the hosting company may be required to collect the list of people entering their premises. We default to this behaviour and will provide the list of attendees to the hosting company at their request. The list of attendees is provided for security purpose, not for talent acquisition, or marketing. If the hosting company wants to engage in marketing or talent acquisition, they should take the opportunity of collecting your details during the event as we will not be sharing this information.
At the beginning of the event we will check-in every attendee, also for security reasons. If you registered but did not attend, your information will not be transferred to the security team of the hosting company. Only checked-in attendees’ information will be transferred.
If you register to our mailing list
When you register to our mailing list, you provide an email address that will be kept indefinitely in our mailing management system. The mailing list purpose is to advertise the next few meetups. The list of emails stored in the mailing management system is not transferred to anyone. You can unsubscribe to the mailing list in order to stop receiving advertisement for the next meetups. You can also request your email to be removed from the mailing management system.
Email addresses are sent through an email sending partner (Mail Poet) and may be stored temporarily on their infrastructure.