Use of personal data and cookies

Use of personal data in United Bankers Group

The UB Group processes personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the national Personal Data Act and the special regulation governing the financial industry (the” Regulatory Framework”) and ensures the materialisation of privacy protection and bank secrecy in the processing of personal data. Personal data is used, inter alia, for the management of client relationships and for the provision and marketing of products and services.

For the purposes of managing personal data, the UB Group has several data controllers and personal data registers for which separate privacy policies have been devised. The privacy policy of the companies processing the client information of the UB Group, along with the privacy policy for the marketing registers in use in the UB Group, is available below.

Information is obtained, for instance, from the data subjects themselves, from public registers maintained by the authorities and from credit information registers. Bank secrecy restricts the disclosure of information in the possession of the United Bankers Group other than with the consent of the person the information pertains to, or in other situations allowed for by the Regulatory Framework, for instance to the authorities.

By law, a company belonging to the United Bankers Group has the right to disclose client information to other companies belonging to the United Bankers Group that are subject to an identical confidentiality obligation.

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Rights of the data subject

The data subject has the right to obtain confirmation from the data controller of whether personal data concerning the data subject are being processed or not, and if such personal data are being processed, the right to gain access to the personal data and to certain data determined under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In addition, the data subject has the right to object to the processing of personal data for certain purposes defined under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, such as for direct marketing. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to retract consent at any time without this impacting the lawfulness of the processing conducted on the basis of such consent prior to the retraction of same, as well as to require the data controller to rectify without any undue delay any inaccurate and erroneous personal data concerning the data subject, as well as the right to have deficient personal data supplemented. In addition, the data subject may require the data controller to erase the personal data concerning the data subject without any undue delay in situations defined under the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In certain situations defined under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the data subject has the right to obtain the personal data concerning the data subject that the data subject has provided to the data controller, as well as the right to transfer such data to another data controller without hindrance from the data controller to which the personal data have been provided.

The data subject shall also have the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority, if the data subject considers that the processing of the personal data concerning them occurs in violation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.

The data subject may lodge a complaint especially in the member state of their permanent place of residence or employment, or in which the alleged breach of the General Data Protection Regulation has occurred.

The inquiries and requests mentioned above shall be addressed to the United Bankers Group, Compliance, Aleksanterinkatu 21 A, 00100 Helsinki. The inquirer must prove their identity.

Use of cookies on the website unitedbankers.fi

The website uses cookies and other technical solutions intended to collect information that are necessary for the operation of the site, improve the user experience, analyze website usage, and target marketing.

We request your consent for cookies other than those that are strictly necessary for the operation of the website. You may choose which cookies you accept and change or withdraw your consent at any time via the Manage cookies link located in the footer of the website.

Service-provider-specific settings and additional information can be viewed in the cookie banner by selecting Manage cookies, then the desired data processing service, and more information (i-icon).

This view provides information such as:

• which cookies each service uses

• the duration of each cookie

• data transfer practices

• consent categories (necessary / preferences / statistics / marketing)

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file sent to the user’s computer and stored there, helping the host of a website, for instance, to identify visitors visiting the website often, facilitate the logging-in of the visitors to the website and enable the compilation of aggregate data of the visitors. Cookies do not harm the users’ computers or their files.

Third-party cookies

The website also uses third-party cookies.

The website utilises the Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tools that install cookies on the user’s browser. The Google tools are utilised to collect information, for instance, regarding user volumes, pages visited by the user and the time spent on scrolling pages. Information collected with the aid of cookies pertaining to analysing utilisation are used for the purposes of website development. The information we receive through Google Analytics does not allow for the individualisation of the user. Information on how Google uses data collected from websites that use its services is available in the cookie banner, which can be accessed via the Manage cookies link in the website footer.

In addition, we use the following services:

• YouTube, 
• Vimeo,
• Google Ads,
• DoubleClick Ad,
• Cloudflare,
• reCAPTCHA,
• Highcharts.com  

The use of these services may result in information collected about the user being transferred to the service providers, who may also operate outside the EU or the EEA. Detailed information about cookies, browser storage technologies (such as LocalStorage and SessionStorage), and the processing of personal data by third parties is available in the website’s cookie banner.

What information is collected through cookies?

The information stored concerning website users includes, for instance, their IP address, browser type and pages visited. Cookies may be session-specific or permanent. Session cookies are removed from the user’s browser when they exit the website or close their browser. Permanent cookies remain on the user’s browser for a certain period of time, or until removed by the user. The Unitedbankers.fi website uses both session cookies and permanent cookies.

How are cookies managed and deleted?

1. Necessary, analytics and marketing cookies can be accessed by clicking on the Manage cookies link in the bottom bar of this page.

2. Most browsers allow for the deactivation of the cookie functionality. The service user should note that cookies may be necessary for the proper functioning of the website and the services provided by same (for instance, the OmaUB service). 

• Microsoft Edge
• Google Chrome
• Safari
• Firefox

United Bankers is not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided by third parties.

What types of cookies do we use?

Necessary - basic functions such as navigation and access to secure parts of the site. These cookies are important to the underlying operation of the website, supporting the technical operation of the website to ensure it performs how you would expect.

Statistics - measuring and optimising website performance. These cookies are used in the management of the site and include customer surveys, recording visitor numbers and other web analytics. Limited identifiable data may be collected.

Marketing - providing content that is relevant to the user. These cookies are used to track our visitors across our websites. They can be used to build up a profile of search and/or browsing history for every visitor. Identifiable or unique data may be collected. Anonymized data may be shared with third parties.

Preferences - preference cookies enable the website to remember information that changes the way the website behaves or looks, like user's preferred language.

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