The Lapland.fi website is maintained by the Regional Council of Lapland.

Your privacy is important to the Regional Council of Lapland. In its operations, the Council complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and national data protection legislation. The aim of the GDPR is to ensure that personal data is processed in a planned, responsible, and consistent manner in accordance with data protection principles. The GDPR enables individuals to monitor and review the processing of their personal data by various organizations.

Personal data refers to information that allows a natural person to be identified, either directly or indirectly. Examples of personal data include names, photographs, addresses, and personal identity codes.

Data protection refers to the appropriate processing of personal data and aims to prevent potential harm arising from such processing. The GDPR defines, among other things, the legal grounds for processing personal data and guarantees data subjects various rights regarding their own personal data.

We fulfill the information obligations incumbent upon a data controller regarding the processing of personal data and ensure the transparency of our operations through data protection notices.