We welcome "GDPR" – EU's new regulation for privacy protection. And although we are small team up in the North - we will do our utmost to protect your privacy. Not because there is a new regulation coming – but because your privacy is important to us. Always has been, always will be.
We want you to read something you understand – not just a simple 'tick-box something font size 4 legal speak'. Because that wouldn't really be true consent, would it?
Remember: You can always reach out to us inside haaartland or email privacy@haaartland.com with any question.
Purpose of collection this data?
You, haaartland and the community owner?
Data from haaartland to community owner?
What about apps through our API?
The haaartland service is a community platform. It's a product you use single-handedly or for setting up your own community that lives on haaartland.
This means that you are likely to be engaged in lots of posting, liking, searching – even setting up of specific monitor pages for your interests. This personal data is being collected.
We will collect this personal data to provide a good and relevant service for you. This means everything from securing who you are when logging in to trying to figure out posts, pages, people and conversations that might be of interest to you. Basically, we try to get to know you to help you find and be introduced to like-minded people, content, pages, communities that live on haaartland. And very sparsely – we will contact you with possible upgrades to our service.
haaartland and the community owner. haaartland can be said to be "a community of communities". This means that we are an underlying platform where community owners bring - or start - their communities.
What data is given from haaartland to the community owner?
A community owner will get a list of email addresses from members. The community owner will also get aggregate analytics data – note: anonymized data – e.g. of content that interests the community and emotions coupled to topics – e.g. positive feelings towards low carb recipes in a diabetes community. The purpose is to help the community owner focus more on the right content and conversations. Make the community more relevant. To get to know her/his audience.
But key here is: 'aggregate data' and 'purpose'. First, the data is not personal. A large group of members must be in a community before this feature can come alive – too small a circle and it is not activated. We don't want to tempt community owners to try to parse data outside the platform and target outside you on ad platforms when you browse the rest of internet.
Can the community owner show ads on the platform?
No, we don't run ads at the platform, there is no ad platform in the back-ground – either for targeting or for displaying ads. HOWEVER (we don't like fine print so we spell this 'however' out) a community owner can run posts that designate pages to be SPONSORED by a brand.
– but things must be transparent. A community can be a place for commerce – BUT things should be out in the open. Regardless if they involve private data or not. For example: We think subscriptions or trials for Paid communities are open and transparent transactions. We think the concept of sponsorships is open. Coupons are open. Shopping on the platform is open.
But we have decided against ad targeting on the haaartland platform. We don't not consider today's advanced ad targeting solutions to be open and transparent enough – let alone the practise of allowing data of personal preferences to be used for ad targeting outside of the platform where they were collected.
Email us at privacy@haaartland.com with any question you have as a haaartland-user on privacy.
We use 3rd party service from established companies – Intercom (support), AWS (cloud), stripe (payments). They have communicated with us that they are fully compliant with GDPR.
What about, apps you have opted to use yourself? On haaartland you can opt to add apps, like Trello, slack, Google forms etc via our API. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy terms in these apps to be aware of specific rules in these apps.
We run on Amazon AWS. All services we use on AWS are GDPR-compliant and have a high level of security. Our team – with experience from mission critical systems in banks and retail systems – put much effort into making haaartland the safe place you can expect as a user.
We will notify you if there is breach and we will comply with GDPR's procedures regarding breach protocol.
Bottom line is this, privacy is a key pillar for haaartland. We work hard to be a safe platform for you personally and for your communities. If you have any questions – just reach out!