Privacy Policy

Controller

Petterik Oy (Business ID 3102728-1) is the controller for personal data processed through the Kisatietäjä website.

Contact details

Petterik Oy, Petteri Kolehmainen, Lekkerikallio 5, 02400 Kirkkonummi, Finland. Email: yhteys@kisatietaja.fi

Data protection contact

For questions about privacy, personal data, or the exercise of your data protection rights, you can contact: yhteys@kisatietaja.fi

What this policy covers

This Privacy Policy explains how we process personal data when you create an account, join or create a team, submit sports event score predictions, participate in rankings and prize competitions, contact us, or otherwise use the website.

Who may use the service

The service is intended only for persons aged 18 or over. We do not knowingly offer the service to minors. If we learn that a person under 18 has created an account, we may remove the account and delete the related data unless retention is required by law or for the handling of a concrete issue.

Personal data we process

We process the following personal data:

• email address;
• nickname;
• team name;
• submitted score predictions and related timestamps;
• points, rankings, standings, competition history, and team participation data;
• support messages or other communications sent to us;
• records relating to rule enforcement, abuse prevention, or dispute handling;
• technical data required for the operation and security of the service, such as session information, IP address, and server or security logs.

If you win a prize, we may also process prize-related information. As a rule, we will share the winner's email address with the named Finnish sponsor so that the sponsor can contact the winner directly. If additional information is needed for prize delivery or legal or tax-related handling, the sponsor will normally collect that information from the winner directly under the sponsor's own privacy practices.

Purposes and legal bases

We process personal data for the following purposes:

• to create and manage your account, enable login, and provide the service;
• to organise prediction competitions, record your predictions, calculate rankings, maintain team standings, and show competition results;
• to prevent cheating, fraud, abuse, and security incidents, and to protect the integrity of the service;
• to respond to support requests and handle complaints or disputes;
• to verify eligibility for prizes and enable prize fulfilment;
• to comply with applicable law and to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Our legal bases are performance of a contract, where processing is necessary to provide the service you requested; legitimate interests, where processing is necessary to keep the service secure and fair, prevent misuse, investigate suspicious activity, and handle claims or disputes; and legal obligation, where we must process data to comply with Finnish or other applicable law.

We do not use your registration data or competition data for sponsor marketing by default. If we ever introduce optional sponsor marketing, it will be based on separate consent and not on hidden or bundled wording.

Public rankings and visibility

Because rankings and team competition are core parts of the service, your nickname, team name, predictions, points, and standings may be visible to other users and, where relevant competition pages are public, to site visitors. We do not publish your real name by default in rankings.

Prize sponsors and recipient roles

If a competition has a sponsor-funded prize, the sponsor will be identified in the relevant competition page, prize notice, or campaign terms. For prize delivery and possible tax-related handling, the sponsor will normally act as a separate controller for the winner data it processes directly. We may disclose the winner's email address, and only other data if necessary, to the sponsor in Finland so the sponsor can contact the winner and complete the prize process.

Recipients of data

We may disclose personal data to:

• Finnish hosting or technical service providers acting on our instructions;
• Finnish security or maintenance providers where necessary for operating the website;
• the relevant Finnish prize sponsor, only where necessary for prize fulfilment or prize-related legal handling;
• authorities, advisers, or courts where required by law or necessary in relation to legal claims.

We do not sell personal data.

Data location and transfers

Personal data is hosted and processed in Finland. Based on our current setup, we do not transfer personal data outside Finland.

If our setup changes in the future so that personal data is processed outside Finland or outside the EEA, we will update this Privacy Policy before that change takes effect.

Cookies and similar technologies

We use only strictly necessary first-party cookies and similar technologies required to operate the website, keep users signed in, maintain session security, remember basic service settings, balance server load, and detect abuse. We do not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, social media tracking cookies, or third-party tracking technologies. Please also see our Cookie Notice.

Retention

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described above:

• account and profile data: while your account is active;
• inactive accounts: if your account has had no login and no prediction activity for 12 consecutive months, we may remove the account and delete or anonymise related data within a reasonable deletion cycle;
• competition and ranking data linked to an active account: while needed to operate current and recent competitions and to maintain the service history available to the user;
• competition and ranking data after inactivity-based deletion: deleted or anonymised after account removal unless longer retention is necessary for fraud prevention, dispute handling, or legal claims;
• support, security, and abuse-handling records: normally for up to 12 months, unless a longer period is needed because of an ongoing issue or claim;
• server and security logs: typically for 30 to 90 days, unless needed longer for incident investigation;
• prize-related records held by us: only as long as needed to confirm the winner, document the disclosure to the sponsor, and handle any related issue.

We may retain limited data longer where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data. These may include encrypted connections, access controls, role-based permissions, logging, backups, software updates, limited administrator access, and procedures for handling security incidents. Access to personal data is restricted to persons who need it for their tasks.

Your rights

Subject to the GDPR and applicable law, you have the right to:

• obtain information about the processing of your personal data;
• access your personal data;
• request rectification of inaccurate or incomplete data;
• request erasure in certain situations;
• request restriction of processing in certain situations;
• receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format where the right to data portability applies;
• object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your particular situation;
• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

If processing is ever based on consent, you also have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting earlier lawful processing. To exercise your rights, contact us at yhteys@kisatietaja.fi.

Complaint to the supervisory authority

If you believe that our processing of personal data infringes data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman in Finland.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The current version will always be available on the website together with its effective date. If changes are material, we will provide appropriate notice.