Website cookies
Cookies are small text files that are saved in your browser when you visit a website. The purpose of cookies is to maintain certain user preferences (e.g. language) for a certain period of time. In this way, you do not need to make the same selections again when you move from one page to another during the same session.
Some of the cookies used on the yt-asiamies.fi website are necessary to ensure the per-formance of the website. The necessary cookies ensure the technical functionality of the website, and they are not intended for any other purposes. Connections to the website are always secure (https).
In addition, the yt-asiamies.fi uses cookies whose information is used for website visitor statistics and analyses as well as the development of the pages and their content. The data collected is not used for marketing, and tracking data is not disclosed outside the Government. Only Finnish ministries have access to the tracking data of other ministries, which they use to improve their online communications.
Necessary cookies
COOKIE_SUPPORT
A cookie set by a content management system (Liferay) that saves the information about the ena-bling of cookies in a browser’s settings. The cookie expires after one year.
GUEST_LANGUAGE_ID
A content management system cookie that saves visitors’ language settings to be used the next time the visitors return to the site. The cookie expires after one year.
JSESSIONID
A content management cookie used for linking users to their sessions. The cookie expires when the session ends.
LFR_SESSION_STATE_10161
A content management system cookie used to save the time stamp of the visitor’s session and to warn the visitor that their session is about to expire. The cookie expires after one year.
AWSALB, AWSALBCORS
Cookies set by Amazon used to balance the load of servers and to ensure uninterrupted sessions for visitors. This improves the user experience of the site. The latter cookie is used to ensure the correct functioning of the website with newest browser versions. The cookies expire after one week.
__cf_bm, _cfuvid, cf_clearance
Server environment cookies used for detecting and preventing bot and malware traffic and attacks. The cookies expire after 30 minutes or when the session ends.
yja_cookie_acceptance
A cookie set by Valtori used to store information on whether cookies are enabled or disabled in the visitor’s browser settings (cookie banner). The cookie expires after one year.
Visitor tracking cookies
If the visitor has enabled the use of cookies, the visitor tracking cookies collect general statistic information on the visitor’s use of the website. This information is used to improve the online service and in quality control. The collected information includes the site from which the visitor arrived at the website, pages loaded, timestamp, browser and operating system of the visitor’s de-vice and the visitor’s internet service provider.
The purpose of the visitor tracking is not to identify individual visitors, and IP addresses are not saved as they are. The visitor’s IP address is used to identify the organisation the address is registered to and to determine the visitor’s geographical location.
SnoobiID
The cookie assigns a unique identifier to each visitor. The cookie expires after two years.
Snoobisession_yt-asiamies_fi
This cookie is used to save information on the user’s session for the duration of the ses-sion. The cookie expires when the session ends.
Snoobi30minute_yt-asiamies_fi
This cookies is used to save information on the user’s session for 30 minutes at most, alt-hough the user would visit other websites and open other browser tabs.
Disabling cookies
The yt-asiamies.fi website has a cookie banner. Visitors are asked to give consent for the use of non-essential cookies and plug-ins when they visit the website.
If a visitor does not enable the cookies, the non-essential cookies and plug-ins are not used. Visitors can change their cookie preferences by clicking the link below. Clicking the link shows the cookie banner again.
Technical log data on the website and telecommunications connections
Technical log data is collected on the use of the website and the telecommunications connections used to access it. This data is necessary for the provision of the online service and for ensuring information security. The log data includes information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as their IP address and timestamp. The log data is only used to enable the provision of the service via the telecommunications network and to investigate any disruptions and information security incidents.
Processing personal data related to the provision of the online service and ensuring information security is necessary for the Ministry Economic Affairs and Employment to comply with the legal obligation to which it as a controller is subject under the General Data Protection Regulation.
The online services of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment are provided by Valtori. The contracting partner of Valtori, Cloudflare Inc., uses one per cent of the visitor log data to develop its services and transfers them to the United states for this purpose. The transfer of personal data to the United states is based on the template contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.
Information on data protection