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Privacy Policy

How this website handles personal data.

Controller

This website is the personal website of Ari Rasilainen, conductor and violinist. Ari Rasilainen is the controller of any personal data processed through this site.

Contact: ari.rasilainen@gmail.com

Website purpose

This website presents Ari Rasilainen’s professional work, including biography, concerts, recordings, reviews, news and contact information.

What data may be processed

Email contact

If you contact Ari Rasilainen by email, your email address, name and message content are processed so he can respond. There is no contact form on this site — every enquiry is a direct email sent from your own email client.

Technical website data

The hosting provider may process basic technical data, such as IP address, browser information, requested pages and timestamps, for the security, reliability and delivery of the website.

Spotify content

The Recordings page displays Spotify-related release information and links. The embedded Spotify player is click-to-load: Spotify content loads only when you open the player. Opening Spotify links or the player may cause Spotify to process data under Spotify’s own privacy policy.

External links

This site links to external media sources, Spotify and other third-party sites. Those sites have their own privacy practices.

What this site does not do

  • No user accounts
  • No online purchases
  • No newsletter sign-up
  • No contact form storing messages in a database
  • No comments
  • No user profiles
  • No behavioural advertising
  • No analytics cookies

Legal basis

  • Email enquiries: responding to your request.
  • Technical data: operating and securing the website.
  • The Spotify player: loaded only after you choose to open it.

Retention

  • Email messages are kept only as long as needed to handle the enquiry and any related professional correspondence.
  • Technical logs are retained by the hosting provider according to its normal security and operations practices.

Rights

You may contact Ari Rasilainen at any time to ask about the personal data processed in connection with this website.

Last updated: July 2026