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PRIVACY POLICY OF WWW.FINNGUIDE.FI
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www.finnguide.fi ,
www.finnguide.com ,
www.finnguide.net ,
www.finnguide.org,
www.finnguide.info
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Throughout this document the term "site" will refer to
www.finnguide.fi,
www.finnguide.com,
www.finnguide.net
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www.finnguide.org
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www.finnguide.info. |
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The Privacy Policy is applicable to this Site only. It does not
cover any other World Wide Web page to which a link is provided on
this Site. When leaving this Site, please read the privacy policy
applicable to the site you are visiting. |
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Site Administrator and Contact Person |
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In
matters concerning this privacy policy or information registered
into the “Finnguide Database”, the personal information database
related to this Site, you may contact Finnguide
at,
e-mail:info(AT)finnguide.fi, and we will endeavour to
answer all your questions. |
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Collected Personal Information and Its Uses |
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In order to manage the Site and its services, mainly the Finnguide
Forum and Finnguide Newsletter (Mailing List), it may be necessary for us to ask for your
personal information. Whenever we ask you for this information, it
is clearly stated, which information is mandatory and which
information may be given at your own discretion. Please note,
however, that if you decide not to provide all the information asked
from you, some of the services of this Site may not be fully
available to you and you might not be enjoying this Site to the
fullest of its capabilities. |
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When you register as a user of the Forum or Finnguide Newsletter (Mailing List) , you will
be asked for the
following information (note: mandatory information is marked with an
asterisk): |
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-Name
-Alias *
-Date of birth
-Username and password *
-The country you live in
-Your e-mail address and the address of your homepage
-ICQ Number, AIM Address, MSN Messenger Identification and Yahoo
-Messenger Identification
-Occupation and interests
-Personal picture (avatar) |
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We use this information to manage this Site and its services. The
main use of the information is identifying you when you use the
Forum. All messages posted by you will be marked with your username
and your personal picture, if you have chosen one. Other users of
the Forum may be given a chance to view your information to the
extent you choose. |
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In addition to using the information in connection with the Forum and Finnguide
Newsletter (Mailing List), we may use the information to respond to your
requests and orders. We may also use the information to contact you via mail or
e-mail to inform you of new products, services, promotions or other topics of
interest in accordance with the Danish law and your permission when
necessary. If you no longer wish to receive such mail, please be
kind enough to inform us (info@finnguide.fi). |
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We will not provide the information to any third party without your
permission, unless compelled by applicable legislation or a court
order. We may, however, provide this information to our partner when
necessary in order to fulfil your request or order concerning
service, product or such. If we provide information to our partner,
we shall always require that our partner complies with as tight
privacy policy as our own. No information is provided to persons or
entities residing outside the EU area. |
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In addition to the personal information that you may be asked to
provide us, this Site may automatically collect certain technical
information like your Internet protocol address, your computer's
operating system, your screen resolution, your browser type and the
address of any referring Web sites. This information is primarily
used to enhance the Site and its services. Collecting such technical
information is a widely accepted trade practice and it enables us to
tailor the Site to work in the actual technical environments the
Site is accessed from. |
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Information Security |
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We keep up with the information security standards required by Danish law by endeavouring to take appropriate measures to prevent
and minimize risks of unauthorized access to and improper use of the
information collected and handled by us. The ways to protect the
information include limiting access to some of a user’s information
only to the user in question and such of our representatives, that
need to have access to the information in order to operate and
manage the Site. Furthermore, such physical protections are used
that are deemed necessary to protect the information. No manual
database in the form of paper or such is maintained. |
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However, please note that no system of technology is and can never
be completely safe and there are always risks associated with
providing personal information. Thus, by accessing and using this
Site, you accept the described security level and the fact that the
applied security measures can never be fool-proof. |
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Upkeep of and Access to the Information |
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We will at our own initiative, or at your request, append, correct
or erase any incomplete, inaccurate or outdated personal information
handled by us in connection with operating and managing this Site.
Furthermore, when using the Site, you may be given chance to view,
append, correct and erase information regarding you. However, you
may always contact the contact person in order to have such tasks
performed. |
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Persons under the Age of 18 |
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If you are a person under the age of 18, you may submit information to Finnguide
if you understand the relevance of such act. If you are not sure what you are
doing, you should always ask your parent or other legal guardian for advice and
consent before submitting any information. If you are planning to make a
purchase that is more expensive than the ones you usually do, you have to have
the consent of your parent or other legal guardian for the action. Please also
note, that we may provide information concerning a minor to his or her parent or
other legal guardian to the extent the Danish law requires. |
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Statistical Information |
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We may collect
standard information regarding the usage ratio of this Site and all
its individual pages. We may provide statistics about our customers,
sales, traffic, and related site information to
third parties deemed trustworthy by us. This statistical information
will never include any information identifying any single person. |
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Visitor Identification |
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From time to time, when you are using the Site, a small bit of
information known as a “cookie” may be placed on your computer by
this Site in order for us to identify you. The use of cookies is a
widely accepted practice of storing information of visitors visiting
World Wide Web pages. We may store and view only such information in
and from the cookie that this Site has stored in it. Due to our
ability to recognize you by using the cookies, we are able to
provide you with personalized and easy-to-use service. |
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This site also makes use of services provided by third parties examples of which include, but are not limited to, advertisements and user interest-based advertisements served on this site by advertising networks. Services provided by third parties used on this site, may also use cookies and/or web beacons to identify and track website visitors. Cookies and/or Web beacons used by third party services provided on this site can also be used to collect information about other sites you have visited in order to display appropriate advertisements on this site. |
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This site may use DART cookies for ad serving through Google’s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (including some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (”interest based targeting”). The ads served will be targeted based on your previous browsing history (For example, if you have been viewing sites about Concerts, you may see Concert ticket advertisements when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about dogs). DART uses “non personally identifiable information”. It does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security numbers, bank account numbers or credit card numbers. You can opt-out of this ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting
http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx |
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If you do not wish to receive any cookies from this site or cookies served by third parties on this site, you may set the settings of your browser so, that the storing of cookies is not allowed or that you receive a notification whenever they are stored on your computer. Privacy Software, such as Norton Internet Security, can also be used to manage your privacy preferences. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts. |
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Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program and or third party service used on this site. Unless you have settings that disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running advertisements or any other third party service, a new cookie will be added. |
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More information about Web Beacons, Cookies, Advertisement Serving, User Interest-based Advertisement Serving and how to protect your privacy online can be viewed from the
NAI (Network Advertising Initiative)website. |
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