Effective date: 5 October 2025

The Entrepreneurship Unit (“ENTU”) operates as part of the Aalto University School of Business. As part of Aalto University, ENTU follows the university’s data protection principles and broader policies that guide the responsible handling of personal data.

This Privacy Notice explains how ENTU collects, uses, and protects personal data when you visit our website entu.aalto.fi, which is hosted on Webflow.

Protecting your privacy and personal data is of the utmost importance to us. ENTU complies with applicable Finnish and European data protection legislation and handles all information in accordance with recognised good practices of Aalto University.

1. Why does ENTU process personal data?

ENTU collects and processes personal data to enable and facilitate communication between visitors and the unit. The primary purposes of processing are to:

• Allow you to contact us through the website’s contact form
• Respond to your enquiries and provide requested information
• Manage and maintain correspondence related to your enquiry
• Ensure the secure and reliable operation of the website

ENTU does not analyse website traffic, use tracking cookies, or engage in marketing or profiling based on visitors’ activity. Personal data is collected solely for direct communication initiated by the website visitor.

2. What personal data does ENTU process?

ENTU only collects the personal data that you voluntarily provide when using the contact form on our website. The categories of data collected include:

• Identification and contact information: your full name and email address
• Message content: the text you include in the message field of the contact form

We do not collect additional information such as IP addresses, location data, or analytics data, and no tracking technologies are used on this website.

3. Sources of information

All personal data processed by ENTU is obtained directly from you when you submit the contact form.

We do not collect personal data from any other sources, nor do we import data from other Aalto University systems for this purpose.

4. Legal basis for processing

The processing of your personal data is based on your consent, which you provide when you submit the contact form.

You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at entu@aalto.fi. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.

5. Transfers and disclosures of personal data

ENTU does not disclose personal data to third parties for marketing or any other unrelated purposes.

Personal data submitted through the contact form is transmitted securely to ENTU’s official Aalto University email account (entu@aalto.fi) and accessed only by authorised members of the unit who need the information to respond to your message.

Because the website is hosted on Webflow, a service provided by Webflow, Inc. (398 11th Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA), some technical data may pass through Webflow’s hosting infrastructure. Webflow acts solely as a technical service provider, ensuring that the website functions securely and reliably.

More information about Webflow’s data protection and hosting practices is available in the Webflow Global Privacy Policy.

6. International transfers of personal data

While ENTU operates within Finland and the European Economic Area (EEA), Webflow’s hosting infrastructure may involve the technical transfer of data through servers located outside the EEA.

Webflow applies strong technical and organisational safeguards to ensure that personal data handled through its services remains secure and protected. ENTU does not make any additional international transfers of personal data.

7. Retention period

Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry and maintain related correspondence.

Once the correspondence is complete and there is no further need to keep the information, the data is securely deleted within a reasonable timeframe.

8. Data security

We take appropriate measures to protect the confidentiality and integrity of personal data. Access to contact form submissions is limited to authorised ENTU staff, and data is transmitted and stored using secure systems provided by Aalto University and Webflow.

9. Your rights

You have the following rights concerning your personal data:

• Right of access: to know what data we hold about you.
• ‍Right to rectification: to request correction of any inaccurate or incomplete data.‍
• Right to erasure: to request deletion of your data once it is no longer needed.‍
• Right to withdraw consent: to stop us from processing your data for the purpose it was collected.

To exercise any of these rights or to request further information, please contact us at entu@aalto.fi.

10. Controller and contact information

Controller:
Entrepreneurship Unit (ENTU)
Aalto University School of Business
Ekonominaukio 1, 02150 Espoo, Finland
Email: entu@aalto.fi

11. Changes to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our operations or in the services we use. The most recent version will always be available on this website, and the effective date at the top indicates when it was last revised.

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