Cookies and visitor statistics

For visitor statistics, we use the Matomo tool, which collects information about the use of the site through, among other things, analytics cookies and web beacons. This information is stored on the Matomo server located in Frankfurt, Germany. At no time will CSC transfer or store data outside the EU.

Data collected by the Matomo tool

URL	URL of the page viewed by the user
Title	URL of the page viewed by the user
Device	The type, make, model and screen resolution of the user’s device
Browser	The user’s browser, its version and the language selected in the browser
Visit identifier	An anonymous random code stored in a cookie that can be used to report the percentage of repeat users
Referring page	Information about the page or site from which the user arrived to view the page
Search term	A term entered by a user in the search field on csc.fi
Follow-up event	Information about another specified follow-up event such as the URL of a link to another site clicked on at the site or a contact link clicked on at the site
Timestamp	The time when the user viewed each page on the site
Anonymized IP	The initial part of the user’s IP address (blocks A–C). The rest of the IP address (block D) is removed before storage, so the user cannot be identified by IP address.
Country	An estimate of the country where the user is located based on the anonymized IP address
Menu used	Information about the menu that the user last used to navigate the page
Additional content informationt	Additional information about the page the user is viewing, such as the categories, keywords or author assigned to the page by the CSC

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Data to be stored on the user’s terminal device

The operation of the website requires the storage of certain information on the user’s terminal device. This information is often stored in cookies and is often referred to generically as cookies.

The information is stored in the user’s web browser as small text files. Each site can only read the information that it has stored. Information necessary for the functioning of the website includes, for example, the language version of the page chosen by the user.

If certain information might have an impact on the user’s privacy, the storage of this information requires the user’s consent. Examples of such cases include a visit identifier stored by Matomo, which allows two separate visits to a website to be combined, and a source identifier, which allows Matomo to identify where the user arrived at the website from. By accepting the website’s visitor statistics, you also accept the use of these cookies. By opting out of visitor statistics, we will only store information on your browser that is necessary for the technical functioning of the website.

Visitor statistics and the Matomo tool may store the following information in your browser:

INFORMATION	TYPE	PURPOSE
consentAnalytics	localStorage	Tells whether the user has allowed visitor statistics on the site
consentMarketing	localStorage	Tells whether the user has allowed the targeting of advertising on the site. Currently, the site does not target advertising.
_pk_id	cookie	The login ID that Matomo uses to identify a user returning to the site. Valid for up to 13 months.
_pk_ref	cookie	The source identifier that Matomo uses to identify where the user arrived on the site from. Valid for up to 6 months.
_pk_ses, _pk_cvar, _pk_hsr	cookie	Temporary data on the visit used by Matomo statistics. Valid for up to 30 minutes.
_pk_testcookie	cookie	Identifies whether the user’s browser supports cookies. Deleted immediately.
matomo_sessid	cookie	A cookie necessary for Matomo statistics, which does not contain any data about the user. Valid for up to 14 days.
mtm_consent, mtm_cookie_consent	cookie	A Matomo setting cookie that allows the tool to know whether the user has enabled or disabled cookies.
navRef	sessionStorage	Tells which menu the user last used to navigate the site.

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