About website and cookies

The website rikosseuraamus.fi is maintained by the Prison and Probation Service of Finland and it contains information on the Prison and Probation Service of Finland, penal system, prisons, and community sanctions offices as well as our contact details. The website includes a separate section for products made in prison (vankilatuote.fi) and a section called Portti, which is aimed at our clients and contains links to external websites and services.

Besides Finnish, the website rikosseuraamus.fi also provides information in Swedish and English. The prison product section and Portti are only in Finnish.

In order to read the PDF files published on the website, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader or other similar programme, which you can download for free of charge, for instance, from the website of Adobe Reader.

Copyright

The Prison and Probation Service of Finland has the copyright on all material made and produced on the website (text, content, and images). The content of the website of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland may not be used or quoted in other contexts without permission and a reference of the source. If some of the material on the website is not made by the Prison and Probation Service of Finland, the copyright holder is mentioned.

The website is updated by the Communications Unit of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland. The Prison and Probation Service of Finland is not responsible for any inaccuracies in the content or material linked to the website that are published by third parties.

Visitor tracking

Statistics on the use of the website are collected and used by Prison and Probation Service of Finland for the purposes of content and communications development and quality control. The agency serve as controllers with regard to visitor tracking data concerning our website. The Legal Register Centre needs this data in order to prepare for the development of visitor volumes and plan the service capacity accordingly.

The purpose of visitor tracking is not to collect any identifiable data. No visitor data will be collected if the visitor has enabled the ‘Do not track’ feature in their browser settings.

The open-source software Matomo is used for visitor tracking. Matomo does not install cookies or store any other information on the visitor’s terminal device. Matomo’s service provider is the Legal Register Centre that retains visitor tracking data on a server maintained by the Government ICT Centre Valtori. The server is located in TietoEvry’s data centre located in the European Economic Area. The data is stored for two years.

Matomo generates a random identifier for the visitor. With the identifier, Matomo combines data about how many times a visitor has previously visited the site and what the visitor’s rough geographical location is. An anonymised IP address will be used to determine the location data, not the full IP. In addition, data is collected concerning the pages downloaded and the date and time of access, as well as on the web browser and the device model and operating system.

The processing of data related to visitor tracking is based on a duty of the authority concerned, such as ensuring the appropriate service of a public administration customer and providing advice (Administrative Procedure Act). When the processing is based on the authority’s duty, a person has a statutory right to object to the processing of their personal data.

Visitor tracking can be prevented. However, if visitor tracking data has already been collected, data protection rights can only be exercised if the visitor themself provides the additional information necessary to identify the visitor data.

Visitor tracking data will not be disclosed outside of the judicial administration, and outsiders will not have access to the data. Statistical data may only be disclosed for in-house use by judicial administration service development purposes or utilised for purposes such as communications.

Website cookies

Cookies are small text files that a web browser stores on a visitor's device to help track the use of the website.

Necessary cookies

The strictly necessary cookies are only used to ensure the technical performance of the website.

STATOSESSION

The publishing system cookie that maintains data on the visitor’s session. The cookie is valid for the duration of the visit, meaning that it will be deleted when the visitor closes the browser.

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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.

Links to other services

Links to social media services on the website of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland and share buttons available on some of our web pages will not transmit any user information to the providers of these services, unless you click on these links and share buttons. For more information on the cookies on these social media services, please see the privacy statement of each service.

Feedback on the website

You can send feedback on the website and its content to the Communications Unit of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland by email to viestinta.rise(at)om.fi.

Official emails should be sent to the registry of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland to kirjaamo.rise(at)om.fi. The Prison and Probation Service of Finland also uses the e-service Suomi.fi Messages . The service is a secure way of communicating the Prison and Probation Service of Finland electronically. Communication is possible through the web address www.suomi.fi/messages from where the messages will be sent to the registry of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland, which will forward the message if necessary.

For further information about the website, please contact he Communications Unit of the Prison and Probation Service of Finland.