University of Helsinki blogging platform and its related services might collect personal information. In this notification we talk more about how this data is handled and its relation to cookies.
Information collected through blogs.helsinki.fi–platform and its subsites
blogs.helsinki.fi collects your data, because its needed for the technical functionality of the platform, blog requests, communication, marketing, platform analyzing and development.
The data collected under the blogs.helsinki.fi platform is mainly information that you cannot be identified from. However, the platform and its subsites managed by different University of Helsinki users might collect your personal information in the following cases (for example):
- You request a blog from the request form.
- You leave a comment on one of the blogs.helsinki.fi – subsites using your real name, username or e-mail address.
- You fill a form on a subsite that collects personal information.
- Other types of personal data collection managed by the subsite administrator(s).
The information collected in our platform can be one of the following (for example):
- Basic information (such as your name and e-mail address)
- Information collected by subsite administrators related to their blog or work
- Information collected by cookies
Cookies
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small files, that websites can use to make the user experience more fluent. Blogs.helsinki.fi-platform uses different types of cookies in its environment. The user consent to optional cookies is primarily managed in groups (explanations further below).
You can click the following icon when using our platform to remove or change your consent to cookie groups or individual cookies within them (icon should be visible at the bottom left of our platform and subsites):
Cookies can be also managed through web browsers by removing individual cookies or clearing your browser history with additional settings.
Some cookies on our platform are set by third party services or plugins.
Based on your consent to different cookie groups or individual cookies, our platform might collect statistics data, data that develops the platform experience and data for targeted marketing.
Cookie Groups explained
Necessary technical cookies (Mandatory)
These cookies are a prerequisite for the functioning of the website, and they cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the website will not function properly.
Functional cookies (Optional)
Functional cookies are used for creating personalized content and developing the user experience.
Statistics cookies (Optional)
We collect statistical data on site usage for the purposes of website development. Such data includes visitor numbers and duration of visits. Individual users cannot be identified on the basis of cookies.
The platform uses Google Analytics 4 to collect statistics data on two levels. Firstly, there is the sitewide data collecting that is only accessible by the administrators in the University’s Center for Information Technology and covers the whole blogging platform including all of the subsites and pages.
The second level refers to the optional subsite specific data collecting that can activated by the subsite administrators within their blog (/example-subsite/). This data is only accessible by the administrator(s) of the specific subsite and it’s pages since its being forwarded from that subsite to the google account of the respective administrator(s) and uses a unique Measurement ID.
Within the EU, Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses, but it might collect Google signals data, granular data about the user’s location (City and its latitude and longitude), browser information, device information, operating system, platform, and screen resolution etc. You can read more about Google Analytics 4 EU-focused data and privacy here.
If you switch from one subsite to another while the statistics cookies are consented to, the setting will automatically continue to work covering the whole blogs.helsinki.fi platform including its subsites, until the consent is removed by the user or device. (This applies for other cookie groups as well).
Marketing cookies (Optional)
Marketing cookies make it possible to display on other websites advertisements that are of interest to you on the basis of your website visits.