Data protection

What personal data do we collect and why?

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer when you visit a website.

Their purpose is to improve your user experience by allowing the website to remember your settings, which pages you have visited, login and, if relevant, your username and other information you have entered and want the website to remember so you don’t have to type it in each time.

Visitors to the website can choose whether they wish to provide personal details in connection with services, such as receiving a newsletter, creating an account and travel plans, or filling in and submitting a form.

If you visit this website, we will nonetheless collect de-identified information about the visit through the tool Google Analytics. The purpose of this is to compile statistics that we use to improve and further develop the information we provide on our websites. Examples of questions that such statistics can answer are how many people visit the different pages, how long the visits last, which websites the users come from and which browsers they use.

Google Analytics cookies are a first-party cookie. The cookie is set to be automatically deleted after 24 months if you do not return to the website. You can opt out of Google Analytics cookies here.

We also use cookies to be able to target users who have visited our website through advertisements in Google’s network and in social media such as Facebook and Instagram. You can stop personalised advertisements in Google’s network here. You can find more information about the advertisements Facebook shows you here.

User account

If you have a user account and log into this website, we create a temporary cookie to find out whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and is removed when you close your browser. When you log in, however, we create more cookies to store your login details.

Login cookies last for two hours or as long as you are active on the website. If you log out of your user account, the login cookies are removed.

If you wish to delete the user you have created on the website, please contact us at post@sognefjord.no

Form

When you contact us via the online form, the information you enter is stored behind the website login and is available to the administrator and our data provider, and the information is also sent to us by email. Sensitive information must not be submitted via the online form since the email containing the data is not encrypted. We store the information in our systems for as long as we need them to be able to perform the services you request.

Integrated content from other websites

Pages and articles on this website may contain content (e.g. videos, images, articles, sharing in social media etc.) from other websites. This kind of integrated content from other websites works in exactly the same way as if you had visited the other websites.

The websites can collect data about you, use cookies, contain third-party tracking, and monitor how you interact with the third-party content. This could be to track how you interact with integrated content if you have a user account and are logged into the website.