Copyright
The content of the website (World Wide Web) of the University of Vaasa is protected by copyright C University of Vaasa 2006. All rights reserved.
The text or pictures on this website cannot be used for commercial purposes.
The University’s Communications Manager is the Editor-in-Chief of the university web service. It should be noted, however, that the faculties, departments, and institutes of the University of Vaasa produce themselves the contents of their websites and publications. If not otherwise informed in an institute’s website, the head of the institute is responsible for the content of the website. See contact information of each unit on our website.
Conditions restricting the use of individual websites or services may exist. Any such conditions are determined on the relevant website or in connection with the services. Register reports containing personal data are also found on the related web service or site.
Discharge from Liability
The website of the University of Vaasa is presented without any commitment and “as-they-are”. The University of Vaasa does not guarantee the authenticity or reliability of any information presented in or gained from the website. The University of Vaasa does not guarantee an uninterrupted or correct operation of the website. The University of Vaasa is not responsible for the accessibility of the website. The University of Vaasa reserves the right to make changes to the website.
The website of the University of Vaasa also contains pages created by students and personnel or associations formed by them. Persons appointed as administrators of these sites are responsible for such web sites. The persons in question must have administrational rights to use the University net.
Protection Principles of Personnel Information
The University of Vaasa can give combined statistical and general information about University’s clients, sales, variances in the number of visitors, and other information related to the website to third parties with good reputation. This statistical and general information do not include information from which any single person could be recognized.
Any personnel data that may be asked in the website is not handed over to third parties, unless it is required by law or it is separately notified on the site in question.
The website may use technology that collects different technical data, such as the Internet Protocol address, the type of web browser, the way of navigating the website, and the address of the website to which a visitor goes from the University’s website. This data is used for developing the service, discovering and fixing any technical bugs, and discovering, preventing and resolving any misuse of the service. If the web pages have any parts that require payment, the collected data may be used for charging for the use of that page.
The parts of the web pages that are meant for a limited group of users require a login with user-id and password accepted by the University. The use of these user-ids will be saved to a log for the purposes of maintenance and development of the service, discovering and resolving any possible misuse as well as for charging the possible payments required for the use of certain pages.
Cookies may be saved to the web page user’s computer for the purpose of recognizing the user. Because this data shows how and when the visitors of the web page use the pages, the University can thus further improve the functionality of the web pages. The cookies uploaded from these pages do not expose any other information from the user’s computer. If your browser allows it, you may use the settings that block the cookies or warn the user when a cookie is about to be saved to her/his computer.
Technical Information
The web service works best on IE 5.5 or Firefox 1.0 or newer browsers. We recommend the use of 1024*768 resolution, while the minimum for the pages is 800*600.
In case a user notices that the laws of Finland or good practice are being violated on this website, the user is asked to immediately notify the Communications Manager or Chief Information Officer of the University of Vaasa, whose contact information are on this page.
Head of Communications
tel. (06) 324 8224
viestintapaallikko@uwasa.fi
Chief Information Officer
tel. (06) 324 8267
tietohallinto@uwasa.fi
