1. Statement of Intent

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and e-mail address) in order to purchase products and to receive or use services on this website. Such products include UNICEF-branded cards and merchandise, and other merchandise sold through UNICEF shops. Such services include e-cards, newsletters, and other personalised services that could be offered in the future. By entering your details in the fields requested, you will enable UNICEF and its National Committees to provide you with the products and services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. UNICEF Finland will of course respect your privacy as far as possible and will act in accordance with current internet best practice.

2. Information on visitors

During the course of any visit to the UNICEF Finland e-card Site, the pages which you see, along with something called a "cookie", are downloaded to your computer (see the paragraph below for more on this). Most, if not all, web sites do this, and that's because cookies allow the web site publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit. Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.

3. What is a cookie?

When you enter the UNICEF Finland e-card Site your computer will automatically be issued with a Cookie. Cookies are text files which identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site, in order to track traffic flows. Cookies themselves only record which areas of the site have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time, although this of course means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user. Even assuming you have not set your computer to reject cookies, you can browse our site anonymously until such time as you register for UNICEF services.

4. Submitting personal information

When you supply any personal information on the UNICEF Finland e-card Site (for example for e-cards or other UNICEF personalised services) we will collect the information fairly and let you know how we will use it and whether we will pass the information on to anyone else. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of a personalised service you no longer wish to continue your registration as a personalised user. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered, but have taken part in other Online services, that information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely.

5. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information about you that has been derived from the UNICEF Finland e-card Site, and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please contact us by email to information@unicef.fi.