NF Fleet Data Privacy Policy

Purpose

Your privacy is important to us. This Data Privacy Policy aims to explain how we collect, store, use and disclose your personal information whenever you use our products and services, our websites or interact with local NF Fleet Oy in Finland or with Axus Finland Oy or Ayvens SA.

This Data Privacy Policy also aims to spell out the conditions that govern how we process and protect that information.

General principles

NF Fleet understands your concerns regarding the confidentiality of your personal information. Below we describe how we acquire and use that information and outline your rights. Please read this carefully, so that the process is as fair, transparent and secure as possible.

The following principles are central to how we process your personal information

Transparency and fairness: When we collect and process your personal information, we inform you as to who collects and receives these data, and the reasons for this. When required by law, we always seek your prior consent (e.g. before collecting any sensitive information or sending any direct marketing material). We never use your personal information for purposes that are incompatible with the purposes outlined here.
Legitimacy: NF Fleet does not collect or process personal information without a lawful reason. We use your personal information only for appropriate business purposes (e.g. to provide services, manage relationships with customers, manage customer vehicle fleets, and perform accurate invoicing, or for marketing activities, profiling to better serve customers, to conduct satisfaction surveys or draft reports and comply with our legal obligations).
Minimization: We only collect the personal information strictly necessary for data processing, as set out in this document. We collect sensitive information only where relevant. We take all reasonable measures to ensure that your personal data on record is accurate, complete and up to date.
Privacy: We endeavor to ensure privacy when implementing personal data processing. To this end we also carry out privacy impact assessments to ensure that our safeguards are appropriate and that your information is protected.

How long do we keep your personal information?

We retain your personal information only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of an agreement with NF Fleet, or the term applicable under local law since our last contact, or as required to comply with NF Fleet’s legal obligations.

In case of litigation, we may keep your personal information until the end of such legal action, including any potential periods for appeal. We will then either delete or archive it according to the law in force.

In any event, your personal information will not be kept in a form that allows you to be identified for any longer than necessary by NF Fleet for achieving the purposes for which it was collected or processed, or according to the relevant laws in force.

How do we ensure the security and integrity of your personal information?

We protect your data through technical and organizational security measures(including education and training of relevant personnel) against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss or alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful forms of processing.

Only those teams and employees who need to know your information within our company can access it. We make sure to implement administration rights and policies within our company, and we take all measures to ensure that employees, advisers and service providers keep your files confidential.

How can you express your preferences on the use of your personal information?

To exercise the rights set out in the following section at any time, please contact NF Fleet’s Data Protection Correspondent: fi.dataprotection@nffleet.com who will handle your request.

Withdrawal. In cases where you have given your previous consent for your information to be processed, you can withdraw that consent any moment.

Access. You can request access to your personal information we maintain about you. If you make such a request, we will provide you with all the information on the purposes of the processing, categories of data processed, categories of recipients, data retention term, your rights to rectify, delete or restrict the data accessed if applicable, etc.

Portability. You can also obtain a copy of any personal information that we hold about you in our records in a format compatible and structure to allow you to exercise your right to data portability to another controller. You may have the right to have personal data transferred directly from us to another controller, if technically feasible.

Restriction. You can request a restriction in the following cases:

for a period enabling NF Fleet to verify the accuracy of your personal data in the event you contest the accuracy of your personal information;
if the processing is unlawful and you wish to restrict your personal information rather than deleting it;
if you wish NF Fleet to keep your personal information because you need it for your defense in the context of legal claims;
if you have objected to the processing but NF Fleet needs to check whether it has legitimate grounds for such processing which may override your own rights.

Rectification / Erasure. You may also request that we correct, amend, erase, any information which is incomplete, out of date or inaccurate.

You can request the deletion of your personal information in the following cases:

if your personal information is no longer necessary for the purpose of the data processing;
if you have withdrawn your consent for data processing based exclusively on such consent;
if you objected to the data processing;
if the personal information must be erased to comply with a legal obligation applicable to NF Fleet. We will take reasonable steps to inform other entities within Axus Finland or Ayvens Automotive Group which might be involved in the data processing of such erasure.

Objection. You can also object to the processing of your personal information at any time when used for marketing purposes or profiling to send you targeted advertising. In some cases, you have the right to object to our otherwise legitimate processing of your personal information.

Complaint. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can also provide your instructions regarding the storage, deletion or disclosure of your personal information after your death. Such instructions may be general or specific.

Specific conditions concerning your personal data

What activities and people are concerned by data collection?

This Policy applies to all sources of data collected and processed by NF Fleet globally in the context of various Group activities such as corporate car leasing, private car lease, sales locations, third-party sources, use of our websites or mobile applications, and all offline processing activities.

We may collect and process your personal information if you are among the following categories: drivers of leased cars, private lease customers, buyers of cars, business-to-business customers’ contact, partners, dealers, prospects, fleet managers, shareholders, managers, etc.

What are the bases for processing your personal data?

We process your personal data for fulfillment of the agreement with you or your company, with your consent or on the basis of a legitimate interest of NF Fleet. Legitimate interest as a legal basis for processing of personal data applies, for example, when for the purpose of to enable the fleet management services it is necessary to communicate with the user of the car or when NF Fleet has a legitimate interest in ensuring that the legal obligations related to the ownership of a vehicle are fulfilled. NF Fleet may also have a legal obligation to process personal data for example to comply with the requirements of accounting and taxation laws and the Anti-Money Laundering Act.

Who controls the data?

In Finland, NF Fleet Oy carries out the data processing activities described above. This section applies to the processing of your personal information by NF Fleet Oy as data controller.

At NF Fleet Oy, the Data Protection Correspondent responsible for your personal information can be reached at fi.dataprotection@nffleet.com.

How do we use your personal information?

NF Fleet Oy uses your personal information to offer you better services.

Therefore NF Fleet Oy Oy may use your personal information in the following cases:

When necessary for contractual purposes
- on a general level, to manage the commercial relationship with you and/or your company, respond to estimate requests, open customer accounts, fulfill your orders for services and for related activities, manage events, send you communications related to your contract, respond to your inquiries and requests for verifications, provide customer service, account management, support and related training of our personnel involved in such activities, and to provide other services related to your account;
- for white-label partners: for fleet management services with reports and widgets, for key accounts, call center assistance and follow-up of international key account fleets;
- for the purposes of international customer relationship management, to perform satisfaction and quality measurement, to consolidate quality information worldwide to create a global assessment of company quality, to provide management satisfaction surveys on products, services or contents, and to follow-up customer relation claims and after-sale service;
- to provide customer satisfaction surveys to professional traders about the remarketing of leased cars service via the online platform to market used cars coming from the leasing contracts.
- to perform financial reporting (Sales, Procurement, Finance & Risk, Pricing, Insurance), including invoicing consolidation and profitability targets, operational performance of the group, procurement and litigation.
- to provide drivers with car monitoring applications (e.g. Nordea Fleet Ajotietopalvelu) or provide managers with fleet management tools;
- to report to clients on customer satisfaction survey results.
With your informed knowledge and consent
- Marketing purposes: we may use your information to contact you, subject to your consent when applicable, about new offers or services and special offers we think you will find valuable, or to send you marketing communications or newsletters; we may analyze your client profile and preferences, and perform multichannel marketing campaigns via automated tools, contact you via SMS, email, or send you brochures;
- Customer satisfaction: based on targeted marketing tools and analysis, we may send you qualitative surveys for our products and services;
- We may also invite you to participate in marketing events, games, or quizzes, through our mobile applications and/or websites.
- Websites, Cookies and other Tracking Tools & Newsletters: when you visit our website or use our mobile applications, we may collect information through cookies or other tracking tools by automated means to provide you with an enhanced experience and improve your browsing experience notably to store your preferences and parameters to save you time, (such as languages preferences), enable log in, fight against fraud, and analyze the performance of our website and services. We use technologies such as cookies, pixel tags, browser analysis tools, server logs and web beacons (e.g. Google Analytics). If you use our web sites, we may collect information about the browser you are using, and your browsing behavior. If you use our mobile application we might also look at how often you use the app and where you downloaded it.

This information helps us enhance our web sites and apps and better understand the products and services you would prefer.

We also use cookies for web analytics to measure the web sites activity and determine the areas of the web sites which are the most visited.

While we may install functional cookies to facilitate your visit to our web sites or apps, you can express your preferences regarding cookies used for behavioral targeting advertising through the privacy settings options of your browser, which should include features to prevent information from being stored on the terminal or the processing of information already stored on such terminal, unless you turn on the feature to allow such storage or processing.

Profiling: to improve our understanding of your interests and concerns: we may use your personal information to improve our website and services, to customize your experience with us and to tailor our marketing activities to fit your needs and interests. We believe that it is also in our interest to better serve you and respond to your needs.
to perform customer screening, credit check and ”Know Your Client” processing; to perform customer rating
we use your personal information to maintain business records for legal, administrative and audit purposes. We also use information to meet legal, insurance and processing requirements.

What type of personal information do we collect?

We collect the following types of personal information:

Identification and Contact information, such as your name, last name, address, telephone/mobile number or email address;
Professional information, such as your job title, professional address, telephone/mobile number or email address;
Financial/Credit information, such as your Credit Acceptance Date or contract information, tax benefit value;
Private details: such as your gender, date of birth, personal identity number, nationality, language(s), or personal preferences (habits, favorite car, etc.);
Driver data, such as the number/copy of the driver’s license;
GPS location data, if you use our mobile app or Nordea Fleet Ajotietopalvelu. We ask for your consent if required.

We may also collect information about you indirectly from our business partners or social media platforms.

We collect your personal information either directly from you (e.g., if you create an account on one of our sites or make a purchase or applies for or enters into an agreement with NF Fleet Oy), or passively (e.g. when using tracking tools like browser cookies), or from third parties (e.g. through social media platforms).

Vehicle Operations

When you or your company uses car leasing services with us, we may collect information about the vehicle (such as the vehicle registration plate, VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) or the vehicle last revision) and the driver’s behavior (such as the average speed, mileage), to provide the car leasing services in accordance with the contract and invoice you or your company.

Who do we share your personal information with?

We understand that you do not want us to provide your personal information directly to third parties for their own marketing purposes without your consent. However, we occasionally need to use partners or processors to provide you with the requested services and a better experience, for the purposes described above. We therefore limit our sharing of your personal information on a need-to-know basis as follows:

with internal business departments such as sales, customer care/quality department, marketing, IT services, support and maintenance. Inside the Axus Finland and Ayvens SA Group, we may share your personal data with other entities within the group, who may only use your personal information in compliance with this Policy.
with our suppliers and partners, including, for example, retailers, repair shops, tire suppliers, suppliers for fuel, insurance companies etc.
with our service providers, such as data hosting service providers, call centers, data administrators, located in France or within the European Economic Area and instructed to only use your personal information in accordance with our instructions.
with unaffiliated marketing partners, but only if you have given us your consent.
where needed to affect the sale or transfer of business assets, in connection with a bankruptcy proceeding, to enforce our rights, protect our property, or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions.
when required to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, including to law enforcement agencies and courts in the countries where we operate.

Please note that we may also use and disclose personal information about you that is not personally identifiable i.e. personal information in an aggregate form that no longer identifies you.

How is your personal information transferred?

Some of the countries which receive or have access to your data may not provide the same level of data protection as the country in which you provided the information. You may obtain a list of these countries by contacting NF Fleet’s Data Protection Correspondent fi.dataprotection@nffleet.com.

Your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in any country or territory where one or more of our Affiliates are located outside of the European Economic Area (in countries such as Algeria, Belarus, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Peru, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine for the purposes of managing customer relationship at the global level, providing unified car lease services with a globalized car fleet.

We may also transfer your personal information to the service providers involved in data hosting, maintenance and support services (located in countries such as India, the United States), or the provision of any other tool used for the processing of our customers or prospects personal information.

Your information may be transferred to geographical partners in Argentina, Australia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, New Zealand, Nicaragua, South Africa and the United States, and for the purpose of offering you a global coverage service.

When we transfer your information, we protect and provide adequate protection for the transfer of your personal information to recipients in those countries by entering into data transfer agreements based on the European Commission standards clauses with such data recipients. You can request a copy of these safeguards by sending an e-mail to NF Fleet’s Data Protection Correspondent: fi.dataprotection@nffleet.com.

How can you contact us or the supervisory authority to lodge a complaint?

If you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding this Data Privacy Policy or our information collection practices, please contact us by writing, or sending an email to: NF Fleet’s Data Protection Correspondent: fi.dataprotection@nffleet.com.

You can also lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Ombudsman if you have any concern about the conditions of processing of your personal information by NF Fleet.

What happens when we change this Data Privacy Policy?

Our Data Privacy Policy may change from time to time to reflect changes in the way we processing your personal information. However, these changes will remain fully compliant with applicable law. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. We will notify you of any material changes as required by law.