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PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: February 7, 2026

It is Irka's Studio tmi's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://tattoo.irka.fi, and other sites we own and operate.

Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, and information about how you use a website or online service.

If our site contains links to third-party sites and services, those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site.

Information We Collect

Information we collect falls into one of two categories: "voluntarily provided" information and "automatically collected" information.

"Voluntarily provided" information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using our services, such as submitting a booking inquiry or subscribing to our newsletter.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Device Data

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect data about your device, such as:

  • Device type and operating system
  • Browser type and version
  • Country or region-level geo-location data

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information when you submit a booking inquiry or subscribe to our newsletter. This may include one or more of the following:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Phone number
  • Tattoo placement preference
  • Desired tattoo size
  • Description of your tattoo idea
  • Reference images you upload
  • Preferred appointment dates

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

  • Submit a booking inquiry through our booking form
  • Subscribe to our newsletter
  • Contact us via email or social media
  • Use a web browser to access our content

We collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

  • To process and respond to your booking inquiries
  • To communicate with you about your tattoo appointment
  • To send you marketing communications, such as newsletter updates (only with your explicit consent)
  • For analytics and website improvement, including to operate and improve our website
  • For security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our site is safe and used in line with our terms

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy.

For example, if you have submitted a booking inquiry, we may retain this information for as long as necessary to process and fulfill your request. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation.

Children's Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 16. Tattoo services are only available to individuals who are 18 years of age or older.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including IT service providers, email delivery services, hosting providers, and analytics providers.

Third-party services we currently use include:

  • Google Analytics 4 — for website usage analytics (only activated with your cookie consent)
  • Resend — for sending booking confirmation and notification emails
  • Vercel — for website hosting and deployment

Use of Cookies

We use "cookies" to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • Essential cookies — Required for the website to function properly, including storing your cookie consent preferences
  • Analytics cookies — Used by Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies are only set after you provide explicit consent via the cookie banner

You can manage your cookie preferences at any time through the "Cookie Settings" link in our website footer. You may also decline cookies from our site if your browser permits.

Business Transfers

If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data, including your personal information, among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, continue to use your personal information according to this policy.

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

If the changes are significant, or if required by applicable law, we will contact you with the new details and links to the updated or changed policy.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance

Data Controller

The GDPR distinguishes between organizations that process personal information for their own purposes (known as "data controllers") and organizations that process personal information on behalf of other organizations (known as "data processors"). We, Irka's Studio tmi, located at Fleminginkatu 25 D 58, 00500 Helsinki, Finland (Business ID: 3226002-6), are a Data Controller with respect to the personal information you provide to us.

Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information

We will only collect and use your personal information when we have a legal right to do so. Our lawful bases depend on the services you use and how you use them:

  • Consent — Where you give us consent to collect and use your personal information for a specific purpose, such as subscribing to our newsletter or accepting analytics cookies. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Performance of a Contract or Transaction — Where you have entered into a contract or transaction with us, or in order to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contract or transaction with you. For example, when you submit a booking inquiry, we require your personal information to process and respond to your request.
  • Legitimate Interests — Where we assess it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as for us to provide, operate, improve, and communicate our services.
  • Compliance with the Law — In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal information, such as for tax and accounting purposes.

International Transfers Outside the EEA

We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example by using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission.

Some of our third-party service providers (such as Vercel and Resend) may process data outside the EEA. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for such transfers.

Your Rights Under GDPR

You have the following rights regarding your personal information:

  • Right of Access — You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
  • Right to Rectification — If you believe any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, or misleading, please contact us. We will take reasonable steps to correct it.
  • Right to Erasure — In certain circumstances, you can ask for your personal data to be erased from our records.
  • Right to Restrict Processing — You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • Right to Data Portability — You may have the right to request a copy of your personal information in a machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object — You have the right to object to processing of your personal information that is based on our legitimate interests.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent — Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.

Data Breach Notification

We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach. Upon discovery of a data breach, we will investigate the incident and report it to the relevant supervisory authority and affected individuals, if required by law.

Complaints

If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law, please contact us at TATTOOIRKA@GMAIL.COM. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation.

You also have the right to contact the Finnish Data Protection Ombudsman (Tietosuojavaltuutetun toimisto): Lintulahdenkuja 4, 00530 Helsinki, Finland. Tel: +358 29 566 6700. Website: tietosuoja.fi

UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR)

We, Irka's Studio tmi, located in Helsinki, Finland, are a Data Controller with respect to the personal information you provide to us. Our lawful bases for processing your personal information under UK GDPR are the same as outlined in the GDPR section above.

The personal information we collect is stored and processed in Finland/EU. Following an adequacy decision by the EU Commission, the UK has been granted an essentially equivalent level of protection to that guaranteed under UK GDPR. Where we share your data with third parties based outside the UK or EEA, we will adopt appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses.

Your rights under UK GDPR mirror those outlined in the GDPR section above, including: Right of Access, Right to Rectification, Right to Erasure, Right to Restrict Processing, Right to Data Portability, Right to Object, and Right to Withdraw Consent.

If we fail to resolve your concern, you may contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. Tel: 0303 123 1113. Website: ico.org.uk

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us: Irka — TATTOOIRKA@GMAIL.COM