Privacy policy

Data controller

The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation is the data controller for the service that shows how political parties in Norway are funded. The data controller determines the purpose of the use of personal data, as well as which tools are to be used.

Data processor

Statistics Norway (SSB) and the County Governor of Sogn and Fjordane (FMSF) are the data processors for the service. SSB is responsible for data capture and facilitation of the material. FMSF is the website provider. The data processors process personal data on behalf of the data controller.

How do we collect personal data?

In accordance with section 22 of the Political Parties Act, Statistics Norway shall compile details of the parties’ and party units’ reports and make this publicly available in an appropriate manner, for instance through the use of electronic aids. The reason that your personal data is processed in connection with party funding may be because:

• You are responsible for reporting on financial circumstances on behalf of a political party.
• You are a donor to a political party, and your donation is in excess of a set value.

Which personal data is recorded when you use our website?

When you use the website to examine party accounts, we do not collect any information that can be directly tied to you as an individual. In order to provide a website that works optimally for you, we use cookies, but these cookies cannot identify you personally. Read more about cookies below.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are downloaded and stored on your computer when you visit a website. The use of cookies poses no threat to your security. None of the information we gather using cookies is used to identify you personally. You can withhold your consent to cookies being stored and used by us, but this may lead to services on the website not working optimally for you. 

You can read about how to change your browser settings to accept or reject cookies at nettvett.no.

The following cookies are used on the website:

.ASPXANONYMOUS

Used by .NET technology that the website is built with in order to manage sessions on behalf of users who do not log in.

ASP.NET_SessionId

Used by .NET technology that the website is built with in order to maintain the session’s ID.

Web analyses

As an important part of our work to create a user-friendly website, we examine usage patterns of visitors to the website. In order to analyse this information, we use the analysis took Google Analytics. 

Google Analytics uses cookies (small text files stored on the user’s computer by the website) to record users’ IP addresses, and to provide information about individual users’ movements online. Examples of the sort of information these statistics can provide are how many people are visiting different pages, how long each visit lasts, which websites users arrive from, and the web browser being used. None of the cookies enable us to tie information about your use of the website to you as an individual. Data connected to cookies is automatically deleted 14 months after being recorded.  You can manage the use of cookies.

The information collected by Google Analytics is stored on Google’s servers in the USA. All information received is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy.

An IP address is defined as personal data because it can be traced back to a specific piece of hardware and therefore to an individual person. We anonymise users’ IP addresses before the information is stored and processed by Google. This means the anonymised IP address cannot be used to identify the individual user.

Your IP address is also logged for a brief period by our web servers. The user’s IP address, time, web address, HTTP status, number of exchanges sent, HTTP referrer and HTTP user agent are all logged for 15 days. This log is then automatically deleted.

Which personal data is recorded when you are responsible for reporting on financial circumstances?

All reporting on behalf of a political party occurs via Altinn. When you enter a notification address into Altinn, this notification address may include personal data such as a personal email address and personal mobile phone number. In order to use Altinn, you must use an electronic ID and log in via ID-porten. ID-porten is a joint log in solution to public services online. Naturally, we must also record which political party you are reporting on behalf of.

Which personal data is recorded when you are a donor to a political party?

If you make a donation or give a gift to a political party either as a private individual or on behalf of a company or organisation, the party must be aware of your identity. In election years, the parties have a special duty to report donations exceeding NOK 10,000 received in the period 1 January until the Friday before the election day, in accordance with section 18, paragraph four of the Political Parties Act.

If you make a donation to a political party during the course of a year that is in excess of the threshold value specified in section 20, paragraph on of the Political Parties Act, then the party has a special duty to report this donation/s as part of its annual report.

The following personal data is collected, stored and published on partifinansiering.no when you have made a donation or given a gift:

• Your name/your municipality of residence if the gift or donation is from you personally and exceeds the threshold values specified in section 18, paragraph four or section 20, paragraph one of the Political Parties Act.
• The name and postal address of an organisation or company that has given a gift or donation if this is in excess of the threshold values specified in section 18, paragraph four or section 20, paragraph one of the Political Parties Act.
• Which party has received the gift or donation.
• The value of the gift or donation.
• When the gift or donation was received by the party.
• When the party published information about the receipt of the contribution.

How long is personal data available on the website for?

The data will be electronically accessible for five years from the date of the report in accordance with chapter 2 of the Political Parties Act Regulation.