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Privacy policy

The online service belongs to Turun teknologia- ja tiedepuisto Oy and is part of the City of Turku’s online services.

For more information on turku.fi’s data protection and register descriptions, please visit www.turku.fi/en/data-protection.

We collect usage data

The website collects usage data in order to improve the services on our website. Users cannot be identified by cookies or other technologies alone, and our site cannot know, for example, a user’s email address unless the user provides it.

Contact information can be requested in various forms, if the user wants a response to their contact, or, for example, in e-mail subscriptions to newsletters. The information provided in the forms is used only for the purpose of responding to the request and will not be passed on to third parties unless otherwise indicated in the form (see for example www.turku.fi/tiedotteiden-henkilorekisteri) (in Finnish).

Use of cookies

The website uses cookies to track users anonymously. A cookie is a small text file sent to and stored on the user’s computer, which

This information helps us to continuously improve the content of our website. Cookies do not harm users’ computers or files. We use them to provide our customers with information and services tailored to their individual needs.

Cookies are used:

Cookie survey in use

The online service uses the cookie survey required by Traficom.

On their first visit to the website, visitors to the website must choose in the cookie questionnaire whether to allow all cookies, the cookies they have chosen, or only the cookies they need to download.

Necessary cookies include the site’s own cookies, which are required for the site to function. Other cookies include third-party cookies for things like site plug-ins, visitor tracking or information and marketing targeting. For more information on these, see below under “Social media and customer service”.

Users can view their own cookie settings by clicking on the “Cookie settings” link at the bottom of the website.

Blocking cookies via your browser

Most browser software also allows you to disable the cookie function. For more information on how to disable cookies, see the settings of the browser you are using.

However, it should be noted that cookies may be necessary for the proper functioning of some of the pages and services provided.

Exploiting spatial data

Some of the content on turku.fi is built to be adaptive, i.e. the content changes according to the location of the mobile device, for example, based on neighbourhoods and addresses. It is entirely up to the user to decide whether he or she wants to provide his or her location data to the web service. No information is inaccessible even if it is not made available to the web service. It is not possible to identify an individual user on the basis of location data.

Social media and customer service

The City of Turku wants to be an active participant and engages in discussions with its residents on the most common social media services. Our website uses various social media feeds and embeds, the content of which is not managed by Turku’s online publishing system. Turku does not collect personal tracking information about its users through social media services, but uses social media for interaction, news and other experiential communication. Social media services are responsible for their own cookie and privacy policies (so-called third-party cookies).

The site uses content from the following social media services and other elements embedded on the site (click to view the privacy statements of each service):

Vector