This Cookie Policy was last updated on 2.10.2025 and applies to citizens and legal perma­nent residents of the European Economic Area and Switzerland.

1. Intro­duc­tion

Our website, https://pohjois-karjala.fi (herei­nafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related techno­lo­gies (for conve­nience all techno­lo­gies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The infor­ma­tion stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interac­ti­vely. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user prefe­rences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repea­tedly enter the same infor­ma­tion when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statis­tics cookies

We use statis­tics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statis­tics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permis­sion to place statis­tics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display adver­ti­sing or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marke­ting purposes.

5.4 Social media

On our website, we have included content from Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), Insta­gram ja Pinte­rest to promote web pages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), Insta­gram ja Pinte­rest. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), Insta­gram ja Pinte­rest and places cookies. This content might store and process certain infor­ma­tion for perso­na­lized advertising.

Please read the privacy state­ment of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anony­mized as much as possible. Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), Insta­gram ja Pinte­rest are located in the United States.

6. Placed cookies

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an expla­na­tion about cookies. As soon as you click on “Tallenna asetukset”, you consent to us using the catego­ries of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

7.1 Manage your consent settings

8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automa­tically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more infor­ma­tion about these options, please refer to the instruc­tions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
• Right to recti­fica­tion: you have the right to supple­ment, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
• Right to object: you may object to the proces­sing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justi­fied grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the super­vi­sory autho­rity (the Data Protec­tion Authority).

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this state­ment, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Pohjois-Karjalan maakun­ta­liitto
Pielis­joen linna, Silta­katu 2
80100 Joensuu
Finland
Website: https://pohjois-karjala.fi
Email: kirjaamo@ex.compohjois-karjala.fi
Phone number: Vaihde 013 337 4700

This Cookie Policy was synchro­nized with cookiedatabase.org on 11.8.2024.