Draft, pending approval

Data processing agreement

Draft of 27 October 2026, not yet in force

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This is a draft pending approval by Tarumo Oy. The agreement takes effect only once the approved version is published on this page. Online ordering of the Small (Pieni) and Handover (Siirto) packages opens only after that.

This agreement meets the requirements of Article 28 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679, GDPR). It forms part of the contract between the Customer and Tarumo Oy, to which Tarumo's terms of service apply. The agreement is written in Finnish and English. The Finnish version is authoritative, and the English version is a faithful translation of it.

1. Parties and scope

2. Subject matter, nature and purpose of the processing

3. Duration of the processing

The processing lasts for the term of the contract and, after it, for the transition period under section 12 a of the terms of service and the export period and deletion under section 17. Tarumo's obligations apply as long as it processes the Customer's personal data.

4. Data subjects

5. Personal data and retention

Data Retention
User data: name, email address, role, language, sign-in method and the Microsoft or Google account identifier, if used As long as the person is a user or until the organisation's data is deleted
Accountant data: name, email address, the invitation, the start and end of access and the choice on new-invoice notices. The accountant's actions are logged. As long as the person is the accountant or until the organisation's data is deleted. Log entries for the retention period of the log.
Sign-in events and sessions Sign-in events 90 days, sessions at most 30 days
Key person data: name, job title, starting year, departure date and its confirmation, knowledge areas, criticality and whether they are the only expert For the term of the contract; an archived key person remains as a card's source
Interview questions and answers (visible only to the interviewee) Deleted when the card made from the interview is approved or rejected, at the latest 30 days after the interview ends
Dictation audio (available only to the interviewee) By default 30 days from transcription. The Customer can choose 0–30 days; 0 means that no audio is stored. Deleted at once when the card is approved or rejected or the answer is filtered.
Knowledge cards: content in the expert's words, the source (expert and date), versions, archived versions and reports of outdated information For the term of the contract. Cards are not deleted but replaced, and the version history is kept. The content of a rejected draft is deleted. A draft that is neither approved nor rejected within 30 days is rejected, and its content deleted.
Search vectors from the text of published cards As long as the card is published
Mapping: invitations (who was invited), the expert's choice to take part and draft pack proposals (visible only to the expert), and pack proposals sent under the expert's name The content of drafts is deleted after 30 days. Invitations, choices and sent proposals are kept for the term of the contract. When a person's data is erased, their choices and drafts are deleted.
Incentives: a person's points, level and achievements (visible only to them), their reward choices, rewards notified to the reward granter, and teams and team challenges For the term of the contract. The reward granter's list shows given and closed rewards for 90 days.
Usage data: card read counts without the reader's identity and users' own "useful" marks For the term of the contract
Log: what was viewed, changed, approved and exported, by whom and when. The Customer's administrators see the log except card views and card reports (section 10). For the term of the contract
Notifications and reminders (email or Teams) Tarumo does not store their content separately. The email service (Scaleway) deletes the content after delivery but keeps the sending metadata (recipient, subject, time and delivery status) under its terms for as long as Tarumo's sending account is in use. The subject of interview and mapping reminders is neutral. The subject of other messages may contain the organisation's name.
The server's technical logs (without the content of interviews, cards or questions) At most 30 days

6. The Customer's instructions

6 a. The Customer's responsibilities as controller

As controller, the Customer is responsible for the processing being lawful. In particular, the Customer:

  1. determines the legal basis. Processing employees' data is usually based on the Customer's legitimate interest in passing on know-how, not on the employee's consent. The necessity requirement of section 3 of the Finnish Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life cannot be set aside by consent;
  2. stores only data needed to pass on know-how: a departure that has been agreed or that the employee has announced, not estimates of the employee's age, health or intentions;
  3. informs employees and key people about the use of the service before it is introduced (Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR). Tarumo provides the information about the service needed for this;
  4. handles the introduction with the staff: in a company with at least 50 employees in the dialogue under the Finnish Co-operation Act and, where needed, in change negotiations; in a company with 20–49 employees in the dialogue under section 7 a of that Act; and in a smaller company by hearing the employees when section 21 of the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life requires it;
  5. assesses whether a data protection impact assessment is needed. In Tarumo's view it usually is, because the service processes employees' data with AI. Tarumo provides material for it (section 15);
  6. does not use the service or its data to evaluate, score, compare or monitor employees' performance or for decisions on employment (section 3 a of the terms of service). The service's own incentives are allowed as they work in the service (section 3 b of the terms of service);
  7. instructs experts to describe practices rather than individual people and not to store data on health, trade union membership or other special categories of personal data;
  8. takes into account that a copy of the Teams app's chats stays in the Customer's Microsoft 365 environment (section 11);
  9. decides who its accountant is and removes the accountant when their task ends (section 7 a of the terms of service).

7. Principles of the processing

Tarumo has built the service on these principles and keeps them in force:

8. AI and the Customer's data

9. Confidentiality and access by Tarumo's staff

10. Security

Tarumo implements the technical and organisational measures required by Article 32 of the GDPR, in particular:

Tarumo may update the measures provided that the level of protection does not decrease.

11. Sub-processors

The Customer gives Tarumo general authorisation to use the sub-processors listed below. Tarumo binds them in writing to the same data protection obligations as in this agreement and is responsible for them as for itself.

Sub-processor Task Location and transfers
UpCloud Oy Servers, the PostgreSQL database and its own backups, Tarumo's encrypted backups and storage of audio recordings Helsinki, Finland. No transfers outside the EU.
Scaleway SAS AI models and speech recognition (Generative APIs), sending emails and delivery notifications (Transactional Email, Topics and Events) and the encrypted, locked copy of the backups (Object Storage) Paris, France. No transfers outside the EU.
Zoho Corporation B.V. Tarumo's mailboxes, such as support, which may receive the Customer's personal data in support requests Zoho's EU data centre. Zoho's Indian group company may access the data for technical support; the transfer is based on the EU standard contractual clauses.
Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd Only if the Customer enables the Teams app: Azure Bot Service, which passes messages between Tarumo and the Customer's Teams The bot is in the EU region. Some of Microsoft's Bot Framework services are global, so data may be transferred outside the EU under Microsoft's terms (the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses).

12. Location of data and transfers

13. Data subjects' rights

14. Personal data breaches and security incidents

15. Impact assessment and prior consultation

On request, Tarumo gives the Customer free of charge the material for a data protection impact assessment: a description of the processing, the data flows, the retention periods, the sub-processors, the transfers, the security measures and the identified risks with their mitigations. Tarumo updates the material when the service changes materially, and also gives the information for any prior consultation (Articles 35 and 36 of the GDPR).

16. Audits

17. Return and deletion at the end of the contract

Exportable data

The Customer's administrators can export themselves in the service:

On request, Tarumo delivers in JSON within 14 days at the latest:

The structure of the knowledge card JSON file is described at tarumo.fi/en/export, and Tarumo describes the structure and formats of the files delivered on request with the delivery. If a request is made within the export or retrieval period, Tarumo delivers the data even if the delivery falls after that period ends, and does not delete the data before delivering it.

Data not exported

Deletion

18. Liability

19. Term and changes

20. Contact details

Tarumo Oy (business ID 3664892-5)
Artturintie 4, 43500 Karstula, Finland
Email: sales@tarumo.fi

Questions, requests and notices concerning data protection can be sent to the same address. Tarumo sends its notices to the Customer's administrators by email. The Customer names in the order, or tells Tarumo, a contact person for data protection or security, to whom the notices under section 14 are sent in addition to the administrators.