Privacy Policy

 

What is personal information?

A personal information is information or an assessment that can be linked to an individual, such as (not exhaustive list):

• name,
• address,
• phone number,
• e-mail address,
• IP adress,
• car number,
• pictures,
• fingerprint,
• iris pattern,
• DNA profile,
• head shape (for face recognition), and
• birth number (both date of birth and social security number).

Behavioral information is also considered personal information. Information about what you shop for, which stores you go to, which TV series you watch, where you move during a day and what you search for online are all personal information. One of the challenges for privacy is that we leave so many digital traces. This information is often used commercially without your consent.

Sensitive personal information is information about:

racial or ethnic background, or political, philosophical or religious beliefs,
that a person has been suspected, charged, indicted or convicted of a criminal offense,
health conditions,
sexual relations, or
membership in trade unions

You can read more about this at What is a Privacy Policy & How to Write it: The Definitive Guide (websitepolicies.com)

 

Statistics and visitors

We use the analysis tool Googe Analytics on our website. Google Analytics is a tool that is installed on a separate server at the operating provider (Google.no).

The statistics from Google Analytics are used to be able to keep track of the number of visits and which pages on the web portal are used the most. Publication of information from this service will never be able to leave traces back to users. We also respect "Do Not Track" settings in the user's browser (applies to the X-Do-Not-Track and DNT headers). The Do Not Track feature is included with most new browsers. It can alternatively be entered by the user himself. See also Cookies and which Cookies Google Analytics uses.

The purpose of this is to compile statistics that we use to improve and further develop the information offered on our website. Examples of what the statistics give us answers to are; how many people visit different pages, how long the visit lasts, the geography the users come from and which browsers are used.

 

Firewall

To secure the website, we use a so-called firewall. In short, firewalls are used to scan unwanted traffic and attacks on the Web site. If the firewall filter stops any suspicious packets or incidents, they are denied access to the computer system.

Firewalls are important in stopping traffic that is either dangerous or has sinister intentions from passing through the network.

The firewall system logs the IP address of all attacks on the website. Serious computer attacks are reported to the police. The police receive information that has been logged. The system does not log normal traffic to the website. This is also a measure we have for the general security around your visit to visitvestlandet.no - This helps to ensure that no criminals have access to infect the website with viruses, rootkits and Trojans etc.

Firewall does not log visits to the website, but attempts unwanted traffic and attacks on the Web site

 

Search on Visitvestlandet.no

We do not have the opportunity to receive direct information about you as a user or other non-information that can be linked to the user. Seearch log is:

1. Type of search (Listing, Event, Offers and so on)
2. Search type (Catagory, Keywords, City and so on)
3. Date
4. Words you search for

 

Cookies Cookies

(cookies) are small text files that are placed on your computer when you download a website, such as visitvestlandet.no. Visitvestlandet.no.

There are several types of cookies:

TECHNICAL COOKIES that facilitate user navigation and use of the various options or services offered online to identify the session, provide access to specific areas, simplify orders, purchases, fill out forms, registration, security, simplify functionalities (videos, social networks, etc ..).
CUSTOMIZE COOKIES that allow users to access services according to their preferences (language, browser, configuration, etc.).
ANALYTICAL COOKIES that allow anonymous analysis of the behavior of web users and make it possible to measure user activity and develop navigation profiles to improve websites.

The advantage of cookies is that you experience the use of a website easier and faster. Ex on the use of Cookies: When you log in, a text file is stored on your computer. This file arranges so that if you as a user have not been active on the website after logging in for a while, you will be automatically logged out. If you want to delete cookies, you will find good guidance on this website (https://nettvett.no/slik-administrer-du-informasjonskapsler/)

E-mail to visitvestlandet.no. We do not store information about you when you send us e-mails directly via contact forms. The e-mail inquiry is received as a regular e-mail and we then decide whether it should be stored or not. Storage of emails can eg be at the request of the price of advertising.

 

Use of cookies by ga. js (Classic Google Analytics)

_utma (unique visitor cookie)
_utmb (session cookie)
_utmc (session cookie)
_utmt.
_utmv (visitor segmentation cookie)
_utmx (Google Analytics Content Experiment Cookie)
_utmz (Campaign cookie)

For most browsers (such as Google Chrome), the _ga cookie lasts for two years by default. For returning users, each time a user visits your site, it extends the expiration date to two years from the last date. Visitvestlandet.no. has chosen to set the duration of Cookies to 14 months instead of 24 months.

 

Joomla Core Capabilities

• All requests to a Joomla website start a session which stores the IP address in the session data and creates a session cookie in the user's browser. The IP address is used as a security measure to help protect against potential session hijacking attacks and this information is deleted once the session has expired and its data purged. The session cookie's name is based on a randomly generated hash and therefore does not have a constant identifier. The session cookie is destroyed once the session has expired or the user has exited their browser.
• Joomla's logging system records the IP address of the visitor which leads to a message being written to its log files. These log files are used to record various activity on a Joomla site, including information related to core updates, invalid login attempts, unhandled errors, and development information such as the use of deprecated APIs. The format of these log files may be customised by any extension which configures a logger, therefore you are encouraged to download and review the log files for your website which may be found at `/home/5/v/visitvestlandet/www/administrator/logs`.
• When a network connection is available, a Joomla installation will attempt to communicate with the joomla.org servers for various capabilities, to include:
  • Checking for updates for the Joomla application
  • Help screens for core Joomla extensions
  • The Install from Web service (opt-in)
  • The statistics collection server (opt-in)
  As with all HTTP requests, the IP address of your server will be transmitted as part of the request. For information on how Joomla processes data on its servers, please review our privacy policy.

 

Authentication - Cookie

In conjunction with a plugin which supports a "Remember Me" feature, such as the "System - Remember Me" plugin, this plugin creates a cookie in the user's browser if a "Remember Me" checkbox is selected when logging into the website. This cookie can be identified with the prefix `joomla_remember_me` and is used to automatically log users into the website when they visit and are not already logged in

 

CAPTCHA - Invisible reCAPTCHA

The reCAPTCHA and Invisible reCAPTCHA plugin integrates with Google's reCAPTCHA system as a spam protection service. As part of this service, the IP address of the user answering the captcha challenge is transmitted to Google. 

 

System - Language Filter

On a site which supports multiple languages, this plugin can be configured to set a cookie on the user's browser which remembers their language preference. This cookie is used to redirect users to their preferred language when visiting the site and creating a new session. The cookie's name is based on a randomly generated hash and therefore does not have a constant identifier.

 

Manage Cookies in your browser

You can decide for yourself whether you want to accept or refuse to consent to the storage of cookies.
Follow the steps for your browser.

How to Manage Cookies by Browser - Knowledge - CookiePro

 

Share / report / tip service

Visitvestlandet.no. Sharing service can be used to forward tips or share articles from the site. Sharing information is not logged, but is only used there and then to post the tip to the online community you choose. How the relevant online community handles the data is further regulated by your agreement with the online community.

If you use the function to send a link via e-mail, we only use the e-mail addresses provided to forward the message. Email addresses are not saved. This happens automatically.

Contact us If you have further questions regarding this topic, you are welcome to contact us: info@visitvestlandet.no and we will try to help you as best we can.

 

Attention to the following:

Inquiries you send directly via e-mail are not sent encrypted. We therefore encourage you not to send confidential, sensitive or other confidential information via e-mail. Visitvestlandet.no. will NEVER send out emails with requests, social security numbers, account numbers, etc .. without this being an agreement made in advance, for example via advertising and profiling, but in that case this will be company-related info. Account number may eg be in connection with invoicing. Should you receive an email with this type of request and you are unsure about this, we recommend that you contact us.

 

User accounts

To be able to manage listings, events, offers, save favorites, reviews, etc., on your own, you have to create a user account.

User account has the following info:

• Name:
• Username:
• Email
• Time of account creation:
• Time of last login:
• Messages sent in the system

If you are a person who needs to hide your identity, you should consider whether to register. User accounts with suspicious or unwanted activity are deleted.

Anonymous user accounts are deleted or blocked. This is to ensure the quality and seriousness of the website