Privacy policy

The address of our website is www.vammaishistoria.info

This privacy policy has been updated on 27.07.2024.

Who are we?

The network in the background of the Disability History Month maintains a register created through the website, which contains the personal data of website users. This statement explains what personal data we collect, how and why.

Contact information and additional information

Registrar

Network for Disability History Month
info@vammaishistoria.info

Data protection officer and contact person

Jemina Vainikka Lindholm, website administrator
info@vammaishistoria.info

What data do we collect and why?

The Disability History Month network collects personal data for communication, event calendar maintenance and website maintenance.

Website user profiles

We collect the information necessary to maintain the website when we create a user profile for our website updaters.

Website forms

We collect the information filled in the website forms when the website user submits the form.

Event calendar form

Contact form

Media

If you upload images to this site, you should avoid uploading images with stored location information (EXIF GPS). Site visitors can download and view location information from the images that are on the site.

Cookies

The vammaishistoria.info website collects some information about users using cookies. A cookie is a small text file sent to the browser of a user visiting the site, which usually contains an anonymous identification number. The visitor’s identity is not revealed with the help of cookies and the information is anonymous in nature.

The website uses cookies, e.g. for visitor traffic analysis and statistical monitoring and site development.

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change the browser settings of your browser. Please note that users visiting the site are considered to accept the use of cookies, unless the user has disabled them in their browser.

If you have an account and log in to the website, we set a temporary cookie that determines whether your browser supports cookies or not. This cookie does not contain personal data and is deleted when the browser window is closed.

When you log in, we set several cookies that save your login and display settings. Login cookies are deleted within two days, cookies related to display settings are deleted after a year. If you select “Remember me” when logging in, your login information will be stored for two weeks. If you log out, the cookies related to logging in will be deleted at the same time.

If you publish an article or edit an existing one, we save a cookie in the browser that contains the ID of the article to be edited. The cookie expires in one day.

Content embedded from other websites

Articles on this website may contain embedded content (for example, videos, social media feeds, images, articles, etc.). Opening embedded content imported from other websites is comparable to visiting a third-party website.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking cookies, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including tracking your interaction if and when you are logged in as a user to the site.

How long we maintain data?

We save the information filled in and sent to the forms on the website. We will keep this information for the time being.

We store the user profile data of registered users. All users have the opportunity to see, modify and delete their own personal data at any time. Only the username cannot be changed. Website administrators can view and edit user profile information.

The website user can delete the cookie data related to the use of the website from their browser at any time.

What rights do you have to your own data?

If you have a user account for this site, you can request a summary file of your own personal data, including all the personal data you have given us. You can also request the deletion of your personal data. The right to delete your own data does not apply to personal data that we have to keep for maintenance, legal or information security reasons.

Data sharing

Personal data is not shared with third-parties.