Privacy Policy

FrostBit Software Lab is part of the Lapin ammattikorkeakoulu Oy. This privacy policy will explain how our organization uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Admin panel

We collect your email when you register or login online in our website admin panel.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

On entering the site, we will set a cookie to remember your preferred language setting. This cookie contains no personal data. This cookie will last for one year.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Analytics

On entering the page, we use third party tool Google Analytics to track website traffic. Service provider is Google LLC google.com/contact/. Tracking service’s IP-address anonymization feature is set on. Your personal IP-address is never saved on any server. Further information on anonymization from this link: support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052

How do we store your data?

FrostBit Software Lab securely stores your data at our private and secured server. Data is stored in secure database.

FrostBit Software Lab will keep your personal data for 4 years after last login. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by manual database clearing.

What are your data protection rights?

FrostBit Software Lab would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request FrostBit Software Lab for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that FrostBit Software Lab correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request FrostBit Software Lab to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that FrostBit Software Lab erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that FrostBit Software Lab restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to FrostBit Software Lab’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that FrostBit Software Lab transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Privacy policies of other websites

The FrostBit Software Lab website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

How to contact us

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email:

Email: mikko.pajula (at) lapinamk.fi