1. Preamble

This Privacy Policy is about:

• How Karmøy Folkehøgskole collects and uses personal data when you have applied for admission and while you are a student with us.

• Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data.

• What obligations does Karmøy Folkehøgskole have when we process the data.

• What rights you have as registered with us.

The privacy statement follows the requirements set out in the Act on the Processing of Personal Data (Personal Data Act).

2. What is personal data?

Personal data are all forms of data, information, information and assessments that can be linked to you as an individual, cf. section 2, no. 1 of the Personal Data Act. The decisive factor for whether a piece of information is personal data is whether the information can identify a specific person. Examples of personal data about you that are registered and processed at Karmøy Folkehøgskole are information such as name, photo, contact information, subject, absence, etc.

3. Processing of personal data at Karmøy Folkehøgskole

The purpose of the Personal Data Act is to protect the individual against privacy being violated through the processing of personal data. It is important for Karmøy Folkehøgskole that the processing of personal data constitutes as little intervention as possible for the individual data subject as is practicable, technically and economically feasible, cf. sections 8, 9, 11 and 28 of the Personal Data Act. As a data subject, you therefore have important rights that must be safeguarded.

All processing of personal data at Karmøy Folkehøgskole shall take place in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Karmøy Folkehøgskole shall not process personal data to a greater extent than is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the Folkehøgskole. Read more in the Public Colleges Act.

4th. What personal data does Karmøy Folkehøgskole process?

If you are applying for admission to and/or are a student at Karmøy Folkehøgskole, we must collect and register, among other things, your name, birth number and contact information. The purpose of the registrations is to manage your application and your studies with us. You normally register the data yourself via folkhogskol.no. The data is stored in Wisweb Navi, which is the system the public colleges use for study administrative data.

All students are photographed. The image is used for ISIC study cards and stored in Wisweb Navi.

5. Personal data of third parties

Karmøy Folkehøgskole will be able to hand over or export data containing personal data to other systems, i.e. external data processors, for example to Låkansen.

Disclosure of personal data takes place according to Publicleglova.

The provisions of the Personal Data Act will not be able to limit the right of access where the request concerns personal data.

6. Your rights

Insight

You have the right to know what personal data is registered about you at Karmøy Folkehøgskole and how this data is processed, cf. Section 18 of the Personal Data Act.

Correction, deletion

As a registered employee at Karmøy Folkehøgskole, you have the right in certain cases to request the rectification and deletion of information about yourself, cf. section 27 and section 28 of the Personal Data Act. For example, this may apply to information that is incorrect and/or incomplete, or information Karmøy Folkehøgskole does not have access to process.

Requests from you as a registered person must be answered free of charge and no later than within 30 days.

7. Who can I contact?

Responsible for processing

According to the provisions of the Personal Data Act, Karmøy Folkehøgskole is the principal who has overall responsibility for all processing of personal data and is the controller. The day-to-day follow-up of this responsibility is delegated to the administration, which responds to inquiries about the processing of personal data at Karmøy Folkehøgskole.

If you would like to receive information about the type of data that is registered about you, would like to be transparent/corrected/deleted in what is registered about you, or have general questions about the processing of personal data at Karmøy Folkehøgskole, you can contact us at adm@karmoy.fhs.no

8. The Administration

The administration shall safeguard the privacy interests of both students and staff at Karmøy Folkehøgskole. The scheme is facilitated and managed by the Danish Data Protection Agency. The administration may, among other things, assist individuals registered with personal data at Karmøy Folkehøgskole to safeguard their rights. You can contact the administration at adm@karmoy.fhs.no.

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Last Updated: 09.10.2025