Privacy
This site collects very little about you. This page says what, why, and what you can do about it.
Who is responsible
The controller of the personal data described here is the company that operates Lapland Handbook. Write to [email protected] with a question about your data, or to ask who the controller is.
What we do not collect
- There are no accounts, logins, comment forms or newsletter sign-ups on the site.
- We do not show advertising and do not sell or share data with advertisers.
Fonts and images are served from this site, so reading a guide does not send requests to font or image services run by anyone else.
Hosting
The site is served through Cloudflare Pages. To deliver a page, Cloudflare processes technical data about the request, such as your IP address, browser type and the page requested. This is necessary to run the site and is based on our legitimate interest in keeping it available and secure. Cloudflare’s own privacy policy describes its processing.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to see which guides are read and how people move between them. It does not run unless you agree to it. Until you do, nothing is measured: the tags are held in a denied state from the first line of the page, before any of them load, so refusing is not a matter of us switching something off afterwards. Google Tag Manager itself sets no cookies.
If you agree, Google Analytics records how you use the site: the pages you view, roughly where you are, your device and browser type, and how you arrived. We also record which answers were chosen in the activity finder and which tour it recommended, so we can tell whether it is any use. None of that identifies you, and we never send your name, your email address or anything you type into a booking form to Google. According to Google, it does not log or store individual IP addresses from users in the EU. Google processes the data on our behalf, and some of it may be transferred outside the EU under the safeguards described in Google’s privacy policy. The legal basis is your consent. In our Google Analytics property the event data is kept for fourteen months, which is the longest a standard property allows, and is then deleted.
The cookies this sets
| Name | Set by | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes one visitor from another. | 2 years |
_ga_<container id> | Google Analytics | Keeps track of the current visit. | 2 years |
lh:consent | This site | Remembers whether you agreed or refused, so the banner does not ask again on every page. Stored in your browser’s local storage rather than as a cookie, and never sent to us or to anyone else. | 12 months |
The names and lifetimes of the two Google cookies are Google’s own, published in its documentation on Google Analytics cookie usage. If you refuse, none of them is set: the only thing stored is your refusal.
Changing your mind
You can withdraw your consent at any time, and it takes one click: use the cookie settings link, which is also at the foot of every page, and turn analytics off. That stops any further measurement immediately. Clearing your browser’s cookies and site data for this site removes the Google cookies already set along with your stored choice, after which the banner will ask you again. Nothing on this site is withheld from you either way – refusing analytics changes nothing about what you can read or book.
The booking widget
The tour pages under Activities carry a booking calendar from Bókun, the booking system the tour operator uses. Nothing is fetched from Bókun while you are reading: the calendar loads only when it comes into view, which on a phone means only if you scroll down to it. Anything you enter to book, such as your name, contact details and payment, goes to Bókun and the tour operator, not to us. Bókun may set its own cookies. Their handling of your data is covered by Bókun’s privacy policy and the operator’s own terms. Bókun tells us which bookings came through this site; we never see your payment details.
Bókun’s calendar does not arrive alone, and you should know what comes with it. When it loads, it also loads Google Tag Manager, Google Maps and New Relic from Google’s and New Relic’s servers. Those are Bókun’s own choices, not ours: we did not add them, they are not the analytics described above and are not covered by the choice you make in the cookie banner, we cannot switch them off from here, and we receive nothing from them. What they do with the request is governed by Bókun’s privacy policy and by those companies’ own. If you would rather not load any of it, the pages elsewhere on this site carry none of it, and you can read every figure about a tour without the calendar ever loading.
Your theme setting
If you switch between the light and dark theme, your choice is saved in your own browser’s local storage so the site remembers it next time. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to us, and you can remove it by clearing your browser’s site data.
Emails you send us
If you email us, we use your address and message to reply and to deal with what you asked, such as checking a correction. We keep the correspondence only as long as we need it for that, and do not add you to any mailing list.
Your rights
You can ask us for access to the personal data we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, to restrict its use or to stop using it. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw consent at any time. Write to [email protected]. If you believe we have handled your data unlawfully, you can complain to the Data Protection Ombudsman’s Office in Finland at tietosuoja.fi.
