Privacy and Cookie Policy
(This privacy policy will be continuously updated and was last revised on 13.05.2024)
This statement explains why and how The Port of Drammen collects and uses personal data, and what your rights are. We are very committed to respecting your privacy and are committed to complying with the privacy regulations that are in force at any given time.
The privacy policy applies to The Port of Drammen (org.nr 931 717 235), where the general manager is responsible for the company’s processing of personal data.
The Port of Drammen is responsible for the domain drammenhavn.no.
We highly value the privacy of our users. At the same time, we depend on personal data to deliver our services. By using drammenhavn.no as a service, you consent to us processing personal data about you as described below.
Your consent, together with the terms of use for our service, constitutes the legal basis for our processing of your personal data. In certain cases, the legal basis for processing may be based on what is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or the assessments we have made, you can contact us at post@drammenhavn.no.
About The Port of Drammen
The Port of Drammen, owned by the municipalities of Drammen, Lier, and Asker, stands as one of Norway’s most efficient and integral logistic and transportation hubs.
The Port of Drammen is centrally located in the southeastern part of Norway and has a customer base of two million people within a radius of ten miles.
What is personal data?
Personal data is any information and assessments that can be linked to you as an individual. Typical personal data includes name, address, telephone number, email, and social security number. Certain identification numbers are also considered personal data according to the law, and examples of this are: IP address, customer number, cookie ID/online identifier (anonymized). Information about your behavior (usage patterns, actions) is also defined as personal data.
Why do we collect personal data?
The purpose of collecting and processing personal data via our website drammenhavn.no is to facilitate contact regarding the services we provide. We collect this information based on your contact with us via the contact details provided on our website, which are mainly email, phone, and forms for reporting arrivals.
In addition, we use traffic analysis and visitor patterns through various analysis tools on our website to understand how the site is used and thereby identify potential improvements.
We also collect data (anonymized) to provide the opportunity to deliver relevant advertisements.
What personal data do we collect?
The information we collect is provided by the contact and dialogue you have with us, which has emerged in emails, phone calls, or via our form (arrival form) on the website.
Information about visits and statistics is configured to collect personal data, including anonymizing IP addresses. However, your visitor patterns can be registered so that we can understand usage and identify potential improvements.
To provide relevant advertisements, anonymized identifiers are used, which cannot be traced back to individuals.
How do we store personal data?
Our web solution is provided by our partner BDO AS. Stored information about you as a user is stored on servers at BDO’s subcontractor, DigitalOcean. These are servers that are physically located in the EU/EEA.
Your information is stored only as long as required to perform our services/agreements, or as long as prescribed by law. Your personal data will be deleted if The Port of Drammen does not have a storage obligation under an agreement or law (e.g., accounting and bookkeeping obligations).
Anonymized information (which cannot be linked to you as an individual, and which is therefore no longer personal data) may be retained for statistical purposes.
Our partner BDO AS uses subcontractors for data storage and underlying technical solutions for handling digital communication and user authentication. This is information that can be obtained by contacting the solution managers at BDO AS at websupportdrammen@bdo.no.
BDO AS shall, according to the agreement (~data processor agreement) with us, process your personal data in the manner we determine. We require the data processor to ensure adequate information security, including that personal data cannot be transferred to others.
Who has access to personal data?
Employees (administration) at The Port of Drammen have access to the common email address for contact (post@drammenhavn.no). Other email addresses provided on our website go directly to various employees.
Our arrival form on the website is forwarded to 3 employees in the administration for follow-up.
In addition, technical system managers at our partner (BDO AS) have insight into the solution and will have access to personal data stored here.
We neither sell nor rent information provided by you to third parties.
How can you access your information?
If you want detailed information about any data we have stored about you, please send us an email at post@drammenhavn.no. Alternatively, send us mail to our physical address: The Port of Drammen, Hans Kiærs gate 1 A, 3041 Drammen. You can also call us at +47 32 20 86 50. You have the right to request a copy of the information The Port of Drammen has stored about you.
What rights do you have?
As a user of our websites, you have the right to request access to the personal data we process about you and how it is processed. You can also request correction, deletion, and restrictions on the processing of personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Act.
Where the processing of personal data is based on consent, e.g., as a visitor to the website, you can withdraw your consent at any time in our consent solution.
If you believe that The Port of Drammen has not complied with your rights under the Personal Data Act, you have the right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority. This is done by sending a complaint to the The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA), contact information is available at www.datatilsynet.no.
Social media
If you choose to follow The Port of Drammen on social media, you should know that personal data and other information you have provided to these media can be read, collected, and used by other users of the social media service.
We have little or no control over and are not responsible for others’ use, misuse, or misappropriation of personal data or other information that you yourself contribute to any social media services. As the owner of the pages, we receive statistics on visits and usage, but we do not store this information ourselves. Read more about what the The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) says about privacy and the use of social media.
For more information about privacy, we refer to their respective privacy policies:
Cookies/Tracking
A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone. A cookie is not a program that contains harmful processes or viruses. Cookies are categorized into different categories; necessary, statistical, and marketing.
On drammenhavn.no, we use a GDPR-compliant consent solution for cookies, provided by Cookie Information. Here you as a user can easily manage consent for the use of cookies when you use our solution.
Read more about information on cookies at the The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) .
This is what we use cookies for:
– To ensure good user-friendliness and functionality on the solution.
– Assess how the website is used and identify potential improvements.
– Provide relevant advertisements on various advertising platforms and social media.
Below is an overview of the current cookies on our site.
