Visitor tracking and cookies

Visitor tracking

The Ministry of Justice is responsible for the Oikeus.fi website pages providing general information and those concerning legal aid, financial and debt counselling and public guardianship, the National Courts Administration for the judicial system section, and the courts for their respective pages.

Statistics on the use of the website are collected and used by the organisations responsible for the website pages for the purposes of content and communications development and quality control. The agencies serve as controllers with regard to visitor tracking data concerning their respective websites. 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

The links on our website to social media services do not pass on any visitor data to these service providers if the links are not clicked. Information about the cookies of social media services can be found from the privacy statements of the respective service.