Privacy policy

This policy applies solely to the information collected by this website (www.intiapaiva.fi and blog.intiapaiva.fi) in order to provide a seamless experience to site visitors and users.

Who we are?

Intia-päivä or India Day is a mega event and a unique celebration of Indian culture, yoga, ayurveda, cuisine, film, tourism and the rich heritage of India in the heart of Helsinki. Organized by Suomi Intia Seura ryEmbassy of India in Helsinkiand Indian regional associations in Finland, the event brings together the Finnish and Indian communities living in Finland to celebrate the spirit of living and working together.

When do we collect personal data?

  1. When you register as a sponsor / volunteer / vendor to the event
  2. When you subscribe to any of our mailing lists
  3. When you fill up a contact form on our website / blog

What personal data we collect and why?

  1. Your email address / phone number
    1. To contact you for discussions related to sponsorship
    2. To contact you for volunteering workshops, meetups
    3. To contact you for stall guidelines
    4. To share with you statutory updates related with the event
  2. Your email address
    1. To send you regular updates about the event
  3. Your email address
    1. To answer to the query you have asked via the contact form

Other data our platform collects and why?

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.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

Do we disclose this information to any third party?

No we don’t. All of these data remains with the India day organizing team and we do no share this with any third party, unless we are required to do so “as-per-the-law”.

Our contact:

In case you have any concerns, please feel free to get in touch with us via our contact form or send us an email at privacy@intiapaiva.fi.