Privacy Statement

This privacy statement describes how the Norwegian Coastal Administration collect and use personal data, to inform you about how we process personal data, including your rights regarding your privacy.

This privacy statement describes how the Norwegian Coastal Administration collect and use personal data. The objective of the statement is to provide you with information about how we process personal data, including your rights regarding your privacy.

The Norwegian Coastal Administration is the data controller for our processing of personal data.

1. When does the Norwegian Coastal Administration collect personal data?

We mainly process your personal data that you have provided to us, i.e. when:

You have sent us an application, asked for guidance, sent a complaint or a tip, or have reported anything through our external systems – such as SafeSeaNet or about acute pollution.
You have asked for right of access according to the Freedom of Information Act.
You have registered for a course or seminar.
You have applied for a job.

We do also receive personal data indirectly when:

We have asked a company for a statement, and your information appears in the report.
A complaint or a guidance case contains personal data about you.
We receive information about you from another government agency.
An employee in the Norwegian Coastal Administration has named you as their closest relative.
A jobseeker has named you as their reference.

2. Your rights

You can exercise your rights by contacting our Data Protection Officer Hanne Silje Habberstad at +47 70 23 10 19. You are entitled to a response without undue delay, and no later than 30 days.

Access your personal information

You can request a copy of all the personal information we process about you.

Correction of your personal data

You can request that we correct or supplement information that is wrong or misleading.

Delete personal data

In some situations, you can ask us to delete your personal data.

Limit the processing of personal data

In some situations, you can ask us to limit the processing of your personal data.

Protest against processing of personal data

If we process your personal data based on our assignments or based of an interest assessment, you are entitled to protest on our processing of your personal data.

Data portability

If we treat your personal data based on a consent or a contract, you are entitled to ask us to transfer your personal data to you or another data processor.

Submit a complaint

We hope you will let us know if you believe that we do not comply with the Personal Data Regulations. Please contact our Data Protection Officer.

You can also submit a complaint of our process of personal data to the Data Protection Authority.

3. What do we register when you use our website?

Web analytics

We use tools to register use and activity from our visitors at www.kystverket.no. The objective is to develop statistics to improve and develop the information on our website. Examples of statistics is how many visits different pages, how long does the visit last, where does the users come from and which browsers are used.

We treat all the information anonymized and aggregated. This means that we are not able to track the information back to specific users.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your computer when you have visited a web page. By using www.kystverket.no, you accept that we can place cookies in your browser.

Most webpages uses cookies to improve the user experience.

We use the following cookies at www.kystverket.no:

Cookie	Description	Duration	Type
ASP.NET_SessionId	This cookie is used in sites developed with Microsoft.Net. When a user start browsing a unique session ID is created, which keeps track of all the information regarding that session.This information is stored in the web server and it is identified via a GUID.The GUID is essential for any ASP.NET site to function properly.		Necessary
ARRAffinity	This cookie is set by websites that run on Windows Azure cloud platform. The cookie is used to affinitize a client to an instance of an Azure Web App.		Necessary
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.	1years 20days 8hours 15minutes	Analytics
_gid	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.	1years 19days 14hours 45minutes	Analytics
_gat_UA-96765145-1	No description	1years 19days 14hours 44minutes	Analytics
nmstat	No description	1years 20days 14hours 44minutes	Other
_hjid	This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.	1years 19days 23hours 29minutes	Other
AWSELB	This cookie is associated with Amazon Web Services and is used for managing sticky sessions across production servers.		Necessary
AWSELBCORS	No description		Other
_fbp	This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.	1years 19days 16hours 53minutes	Advertisement
li_sugr	No description	1years 19days 16hours 53minutes	Other
lang	This cookie is used to store the language preferences of a user to serve up content in that stored language the next time user visit the website.		Functional
bcookie	This cookie is set by linkedIn. The purpose of the cookie is to enable LinkedIn functionalities on the page.	1years 20days 8hours 16minutes	Functional
lissc	This cookie is provided by LinkedIn. This cookie is used for tracking embedded service.	1years 19days 23hours 29minutes	Analytics
lidc	This cookie is set by LinkedIn and used for routing.	1years 19days 14hours 45minutes	Functional
fr	The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin.	1years 19days 16hours 53minutes	Advertisement
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample	No description	1years 19days 14hours 44minutes	Advertisement
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress	No description	1years 19days 14hours 44minutes	Advertisement
UserMatchHistory	Linkedin - Used to track visitors on multiple websites, in order to present relevant advertisement based on the visitor's preferences.	1years 19days 15hours 27minutes	Other
bscookie	This cookie is a browser ID cookie set by Linked share Buttons and ad tags.	1years 20days 8hours 16minutes	Advertisement
U	The purpose of this cookie is targeting and marketing.The domain of this cookie is related with a company called Bombora in USA.	1years 19days 16hours 53minutes	Other

How do you reject or delete cookies?

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can reject them by changing the settings in your browser.

Search engine

We save the search history in our search engine EpiServer Find. The objective is to improve our information on our website. The search pattern is stored in a separate database, and are only saved in aggregated form. We only save the search terms, and they cannot be linked to other information about the users – like the IP-addresses.

4. What is registered when you contact us?

We handle both personal identifiable and non-personal identifiable information about you. Personal identifiable information is information that identifies you as an individual. Non-personal identifiable information is information that does not identify your identity.

Typical information we register about you is name, address, mail address and phone number, depending on how you contact us (applications, request to access information, reports, inspections etc.). In some cases, i.e. job applications, we also register your age, gender and personal identification number.

Visitors, consultants etc. who get access to information about the Norwegian Coastal Information and our IT-systems must sign a non-disclosure agreement. Visitors must always register and wear their visitor identification. The list of visitors and the non-disclosure agreements will be stored for two years after the visit.

Some of our locations have camera surveillance. These locations are marked.

5. Who do we share your personal data with?

The Norwegian Coastal Administration has several data processors, including suppliers and partners of our IT-systems (i.e. daily operations, administration and support) and access control. We have signed data processor agreements with all data processors.

We might share your personal data with other government agencies when it is considered necessary due to reporting, treatment of a case etc.

6. How long will we keep your personal data?

The Norwegian Coastal Administration will keep your personal data as short as possible and only as long as necessary. In some cases, we are required to keep your data longer according to the Norwegian Archives Act.

We will store personal data as long as it follows from the law, and if a special need arise (i.e. if we receive complaints or claims).

7. Changes to the privacy statement

The Norwegian Coastal Administration may update this privacy statement when the processing of personal data changes, or when revision is necessary due to changes in the legislation.

When we make changes to this statement, we will change the revision date at the top of this page and the modified privacy statement will take effect from the last revision date.

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices or privacy statement. You can always contact us at post@kystverket.no.

The Data Protection Officer at Kystverket is Hanne Silje Habberstad.