Fonn Group (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://fonngroup.com website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://fonngroup.com
Service: Service is the https://fonngroup.com website operated by Fonn Group AS.
Personal Data: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies: Cookies are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller: Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers): Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User): Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
| The purpose of the processing | Type of Personal Data | How is Personal Data obtained? |
| To contact and identify you, allowing us to notify you of changes in our service, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service if you choose to do so and to provide customer support | Your personal details and contact details – such as name, telephone number and email address | Provided by you at our request |
| To contact and identify you, allowing us and our Service Providers to do business dealings with you | Your business contact information – such as name, business telephone number, address, email address and user ID | Our website |
| Usage data; to monitor the usage of our Service, to provide and maintain our Service, to detect, prevent and address technical issues and for internal analysis | Your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data | Our website |
| Providing newsletters, special offers and information about other goods, services and events that might be of interest to you | Name, phone number and email address. | Provided by you at our request |
We do not Process Special Categories of your personal data.
We do not currently use automated decision making (when an electronic system uses personal data to make a decision without human intervention).
Legal basis for processing:
Processing of usage data for the above mentioned purposes is necessary for the legitimate interests of Fonn Group, cf. GDPR article 6.1 (f). The legitimate interest is to provide a good service, and this processing is necessary to perform the contract with our customer, to get new customers and to expand commercial activities. In our view, this does not represent a risk for your rights and freedoms. We have made individual assessments of the processing in relation to the different purposes.
Retention of Data
Fonn Group will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Fonn Group will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and we hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other tracking technologies are also used such as beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse our Service.
We process personal data on the basis of consent as required by § 2-7b of the Norwegian Electronic Communications Act. Unless you adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, we will see this as a consent and issue cookies when you interact with us. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Advertising Cookies. Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
Transfer of Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside Norway and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Norway and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Fonn Group will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Data
Business Transaction
If Fonn Group is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Disclosure for Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, Fonn Group may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Legal Requirements
Fonn Group may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
To comply with a legal obligation
To protect and defend the rights or property of Fonn Group
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
To protect against legal liability
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
In the following you can read about the rights you have when Fonn Group is the data controller of the processing of your Personal Data. Fonn Group aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you want to know more, or contact us to exercise your rights, the easiest way is to email us at dpo@fonngroup.com.
If you contact us to exercise the rights mentioned in this privacy policy, we will verify your identity. The legal basis for this processing is our legal obligation under the GDPR to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to the wrong person.
Under certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
The right to be informed. You have the right to be informed about how we process your Personal Data. You also have the right to be informed if we plan to process your Personal Data for any purpose other than that for which it was originally collected. We provide you with such information through this privacy policy, through updates on our website, and by answering any questions you may have for us.
The right to access your Personal Data. You have the right to know if we process Personal Data about you. Whenever made possible, you can access your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to access your Personal Data, please contact us to assist you.
The right to access and to request a transfer of your Personal Data to another recipient ("data portability"). You can request a copy of the Personal Data relating to you that we process for the performance of a contract with you, or based on your consent, in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. This will allow you to use this data somewhere else, for example to transfer it to another recipient.
The right to have your Personal Data deleted ("right to be forgotten"). You can delete your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. In some cases, you also have the right to have us delete Personal Data about you. This is for example the case if it’s no longer necessary for us to process the data for the purpose for which we collected it; if you withdraw your consent; if you have objected to the processing and there are no legitimate, overriding justifications for the processing; or if the processing relates to direct marketing and you object to the direct marketing.
The right to object against our processing of Personal Data. You have the right to object to processing of your Personal Data which is based on our legitimate interest, by referencing your personal circumstances.
The right to restrict processing. If you believe that the Personal Data we process about you is inaccurate, that our processing is unlawful or that we don’t need the information for a specific purpose, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of such Personal Data.
The right to rectification. You can update your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. In some cases, you also have the right to request that we rectify inaccurate information, and that we complete information about you that you consider incomplete.
The right to withdraw your consent. When we process your Personal Data based on your consent or explicit consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. If you do so, we will stop processing your data for the purposes you’ve withdrawn your consent for. However, it doesn’t affect the lawfulness of processing that was based on your consent before it was withdrawn.
The right to raise a complaint. If you have complaints about our processing of your Personal Data, you can raise a complaint with the Norwegian Data Protection Authority. You can also lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Advertising
We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
Behavioral Remarketing
Fonn Group uses remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimise and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
Google AdWords: Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customise the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
LinkedIn: LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. LinkedIn is used to promote our services, job offerings, and news from Fonn Group and its companies to their followers. Visit LinkedIn's privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Hubspot: Hubspot is Fonn Groups web analytics system, CRM, sales follow-up and publishing of parts of our web content. If you have left your e-mail address on our website (registration course, download of ebook or sent us a request), you will receive a profile in the tool that follows your online visit. Information stored is name, email address, IP address, company and, optionally, what an inquiry is about. For sign up newsletters, you will also be logged in when you give your consent.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
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.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy:
→ Contact our Data Protection Officer (mailto link)
