Privacy

MentalHub.fi collects personal data from certain users. This page explains how we use your personal data.

Members of the public

MentalHub.fi does not collect, store or process any personal data of visitors to the public area of the site.

Professionals

The site collects certain personal data about professionals who log into MentalHub for professionals (HAG user ID, region and professional title) and stores the information in a personal data file.

The data are used to identify users and

to design and build services for professionals, track the number of users and improve the content, as well as
for scientific research purposes.

HUS always observes the applicable laws and regulations and follows good data protection practices when processing users’ personal data.

The latest data protection laws and regulations give data subjects the right to access their personal data file and to ask us to correct any mistakes, add missing information and erase their file.

The site administrator is committed to maintaining a high level of information security and to having in place technical safeguards that prevent unauthorized access to its information systems. Any personally identifiable information is always transmitted using strong encryption.

Data protection in the context of HUS HAG

Professional users log into MentalHub for professionals via the HUS HAG user authentication service, which collects certain personal data about users. Information about the data protection policy associated with HUS HAG and the processing of personal data in the context of the service can be found via the link below:

HUS HAG Terms of Use and Privacy Policy (opens in a new window, goes to a different website)

Cookies and analytics software

Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small blocks of data created by a web server that are placed on the user’s computer or other device. Cookies help the site to run as intended. The data contained in cookies can also be used to improve the user interface and the user experience, and to track the number of visitors for statistical purposes. The cookies used on the site are listed below.

What cookies are used on the site?

The cookies used on the site include strictly necessary cookies, preference cookies and analytics cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies enable the website to function properly. Strictly necessary cookies are of a technical nature, and they do not collect or store any personally identifiable information about users. Users can disable cookies in their browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the site and prevent the use of certain features.

Preference cookies enable the site to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks according to the user’s preferences. This can mean, for example, storing information about the user’s preferred currency, region, language or color scheme. The site prompts users to enable preference cookies when they first visit the site, and these cookies can be rejected.

The site also uses analytics cookies, which help to improve the user interface and the user experience, and to track the number of visitors for statistical purposes. Analytics cookies are also used on an opt-in basis, i.e. they need to be enabled by users themselves.

Cookie preferences can be changed at any time under Cookie settings.

Drupal

Drupal is the content management system used to run MentalHub.fi and to display the site to users. Drupal does not collect or store any personal information about users.

Matomo

Matomo is a software application used to collect data on the use of MentalHub.fi. It monitors activity and tracks users’ behavior on the site (such as the most popular content, the most often used devices and session lengths). The data are used for statistical purposes and to improve the site. The data that the application collects, such as users’ IP addresses, are anonymized and cannot be linked to a specific user or IP address.

Matomo is also capable of determining users’ approximate geographical location based on their anonymized IP address. This information can be used to track, for example, the popularity of the site in different parts of Finland.

Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager is a tool used to manage Matomo and the HTML code of the site. Google Tag Manager does not collect information about users themselves and only stores data relating to the technical functionality of the site on users’ devices.

More information can be found here.

Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a tool used to analyze the Google searches that users perform to find the site. The tool does not collect or store information about individual users.