Last Updated: March 18, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to Norsk med Aria. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

This privacy policy is compliant with the Norwegian Personal Data Act (Personopplysningsloven) which implements the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Norwegian law, as well as other applicable Norwegian privacy regulations.

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Data Controller

Ekspertkanalen.no (Organization number: 934291115) is the controller responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as "we", "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy). We are registered in Norway and subject to Norwegian data protection laws.

Contact Details:
Ekspertkanalen
Stasjonsveien 50 C
1467 Strømmen
Email: post@ekspertkanalen.no

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:

• Identity Data: includes name, date of birth, job title, and profession.

• Contact Data: includes email address and telephone numbers.

• Profile Data: includes your learning preferences and interests.

• Financial Data: includes payment card details (stored securely through our payment processor).

• Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system, platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.

• Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website and services, such as learning progress and completed courses.

We aim to limit the data we collect about our users but are restricted by what our learning management system offers.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

• Direct interactions: You may give us your personal data by creating an account, using our services, or contacting us.

• Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns using cookies and similar technologies.

• Third parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third-party service providers such as payment processors.

4. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To register you as a new user

• To provide our language learning services

• To process and deliver your order

• To manage our relationship with you

• To improve our website, products/services

• To recommend products or services that may interest you

• To administer and protect our business and website

• To track your learning progress and provide personalized experiences

5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We do not share your personal data with third parties except in the following circumstances:

• Service providers who provide IT and system administration services

• Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, and insurers

• Tax authorities, regulators, and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities

• If we choose to sell or transfer our business to another third party

Any third parties that we share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely and to use them only for the purposes we specify.

6. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Specifically:

• Account information: Retained as long as your account is active

• Course progress and completion data: Retained for the lifetime of your account

• Payment information: Retained for the period required by tax regulations

• Communication history: Retained for up to one year

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and applicable legal requirements.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:

• Request access to your personal data

• Request correction of your personal data

• Request erasure of your personal data

• Object to processing of your personal data

• Request restriction of processing your personal data

• Request transfer of your personal data

• Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at aria@norskmedaria.no. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data or to exercise any of the other rights. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

9. Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer when you visit certain parts of our website.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

11. Third-Party Links

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

12. Norwegian Data Protection Authority

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet), Norway's supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.datatilsynet.no). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach Datatilsynet, so please contact us first.