Privacy policy for Cogno

Contact information

Cogno AS is the data controller for the processing of your personal data. If you have any questions about the processing or want to get in touch with us to exercise your rights, you will find our contact information below:

Cogno AS
Reilstadvegen 32
4160 FINNØY
Organization number: 918276726
Email address: post@cogno.no
Mobile 901 81 618

The website is built by Change Works AS, org. no. 928824195, and you may be forwarded for questions regarding the processing of personal data on the site.

Key concepts

Personal data is information that alone or together with other information can be used to identify, locate or contact a person. Examples of personal data are name, telephone number and IP address.

Processing of personal data involves all forms of handling of personal data such as: collection, analysis, registration and storage.

The data controller is the person who determines the purpose of the processing of personal data and what information is requested. The data controller is responsible for ensuring that your personal data is processed in accordance with the applicable Personal Data Act.

Why we process personal data about you

The purpose of our processing of personal data is primarily to ensure functionality and user-friendliness. This can be information about progression in courses, any purchases, login information, contact with the company and other things where it is useful to handle information exchange by linking said information to a specific user.

We process personal data to the extent that legislation requires or allows us to do so.

We collect the following personal data and process it for the following purposes:

• To get information about the use of our websites
  We have weighed up our interests and decided to use cookies to process personal data. We have assessed that this is necessary in order for us to be able to customize our websites to users. However, we safeguard your privacy by only using the information for statistics. In these statistics, it is not possible to identify you as an individual.
• To send out newsletters and provide information about our business
  We collect your e-mail address for this purpose and process it in line with the agreement that you enter into with us when you sign up for the newsletter and confirm that you want to receive it. We undertake not to pass your e-mail address on to others or to use it for anything other than sending you the newsletter. You can unsubscribe by clicking on a link in the newsletter you receive.
• To answer inquiries that come in to us
  We process your name, telephone number, e-mail address and any personal data that may result from the inquiry. We weigh up the interests involved and consider whether it is necessary for us to store some of this information for a limited period of time. We have assessed that this is often necessary to help users with their questions.

Key concepts

Personal data is information that alone or together with other information can be used to identify, locate or contact a person. Examples of personal data are name, telephone number and IP address.

Processing of personal data involves all forms of handling of personal data such as: collection, analysis, registration and storage.

The data controller is the person who determines the purpose of the processing of personal data and what information is requested. The data controller is responsible for ensuring that your personal data is processed in accordance with the applicable Personal Data Act.

What kind of information are we collecting?

Commentary

When visitors post comments on the site, the information provided in the comment form is stored in addition to the IP address of the visitor and the visitor's browser version. This is done to help avoid frivolous comments.

An anonymous text string generated on the basis of your email address (also called a "hash") may be sent to the Gravatar service to check whether you have an account there. Gravatar's privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be visible to anyone in connection with your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images that contain information about the location where it was taken (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the site can download and extract such information from images on the site.

Information cookies

If you post a comment on this website, you can ask us to remember your name, email and website. This information is stored in a cookie and is there to make things easier for you. You will then not have to re-enter this information the next time you post a comment. These cookies expire after one year.

If you visit our login page, we will create a temporary cookie to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and disappears as soon as you close your browser.

When you log in, cookies are created that store your login information and choices you have made about how content is displayed. Cookies with login information expire after two days, while those with display choices last for one year. If you check the "Remember me" box, your login information will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, these cookies will disappear.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal data, but only the ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

Languages

We use cookies to identify the visitor's current language, the language used on the previous visit and the language of users who have logged in - when necessary. Some data from the site will go into the provider of this program, such as names of pages and menus, but no user data will be shared. When translating content, e.g. from comments, the content may be shared with a translator if used.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the website from which the embedded content originates.

These websites may collect information about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking systems and monitor what you do through this embedded content. This includes tracking your actions through the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into the website.

Who we share your information with

If you request a password change, your IP address will be included in the password change email.

How long we keep information about you

If you leave a comment, the comment and information about the comment will be stored indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize follow-up comments and approve them automatically instead of queuing them up for manual approval by an editor.

For users who register on this website, personal data that they provide in their user profile is also stored. All users can view, edit and delete their own personal data at any time (except for usernames). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.

Your rights regarding the information we hold about you

If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you can request an export file containing the personal data we hold about you. This includes any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to store for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Where we send information about you

Visitor comments can be checked through an automatic recognition service against spam comments.

The learning portal

We may store information about you when you purchase courses, progress on courses, and results on various tests, assignments and quizzes.

When you create an account with us, we ask you to provide your email address. We use this information for purposes such as:

Send you information about your account and orders

Create your account for our LMS

If you register, we will store your email address.

We store information about you for as long as your account exists.

We store courses, including completion status, quiz results, assignments and/or essay submissions (if applicable).

We also save comments on courses, lessons, courses, assignments and essays if you choose to leave them.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you give us. For example, both administrators and team leaders have access to:

Booking information, such as your registered courses, courses and username/email address.

Any additional information added to your user profile may also be visible to the administrator(s).

What we share with others

We take your privacy seriously and do not share more information with various third parties than necessary. This information is anonymized in accordance with applicable law. This is done to improve our services. For example, we use Google Analytics to track visitor numbers and see how the site is used, as well as where visitors come from if they come via links used for marketing purposes. IP addresses are anonymized before they are sent to Google Analytics.

Handling of acceptance

This website uses the Privacy Suite by Complianz to collect and record browser- and device-based consent. For this functionality, your IP address is anonymized and stored in our database. This service does not process any personally identifiable information and does not share any data with the service provider. For more information, see Complianz privacy policy.