Resource-specific data protection terms and conditions (seuruu)

Suomeksi

Title of Resource: Follow-up Study of Dialects of Finnish (seuruu)

Metadata: urn:nbn:fi:lb-2023082101
License: urn:nbn:fi:lb-2015041307

This page describes the specific conditions regarding the processing of the personal data in the Resource. In addition to these conditions, see the guidelines for processing personal data in the Language Bank of Finland. 

Controller of the data stored in the Language Bank of Finland 

Institute for the Languages of Finland
Hakaniemenranta 6
00530 Helsinki

Data Protection Officer of the Institute for the Languages of Finland

Email: maija.sutinen@kotus.fi

The Language Bank of Finland is a Data Processor on behalf of the Controller.

For further details on the data protection of the resources in the Language Bank of Finland, please contact the helpdesk of the Language Bank. 

Description of the personal data 

Types of personal data in the resource 

The Resource consists of

  • audio recordings of interviews, the original content of which has not been edited,
  • transcripts of the speech content and other types of mark-up that are required for research purposes
  • background information provided by the interviewees (sex, date or year of birth, place of birth, place of residence at the time of the interview).

A large part of the recordings represent thematic interviews, the topics of which follow the life stages of the interviewees and local issues. At the beginning of the recordings, the full name of the interviewee and the place where the interview was conducted are usually mentioned. The identity of the interviewee may also be revealed indirectly on the basis of their voice, the things mentioned in the interview and the background information included in the Resource, especially in cases of small rural towns.

Efforts have not been made in order to completely remove the identifiers from the recordings, as this would hinder the primary uses of the material, i.e., comparing and monitoring dialects. The recordings cannot be edited to the extent of making them completely anonymous without also making it impossible to carry out the intended research in an appropriate way.

The interviewees were verbally informed that the data collected from them would be used for research and that the interviews would also be archived for later research use. However, no comprehensive documents exist about the permissions asked from the interviewees. Some of the researchers and students who acted as interviewers were instructed to avoid emphasizing dialect or language research when informing their interviewees, in order not to affect their speech and language use. The interviewees were also told that they might be asked to participate in further interviews. Participation was voluntary in all cases.

Categories of data subjects 

The data subjects were native speakers of Finnish who represented different ages and ten different rural municipalities in Finland (Alastaro, Alatornio, Artjärvi, Eurajoki, Kauhava, Lapinlahti, Liperi, Pälkäne, Savitaipale, Sotkamo) and volunteered to be interviewed one or more times. Two rounds of interviews were completed partly with the same subjects. The first round of interviews started in 1989 and the second round lasted from 1999 to 2007.

The aim of collecting the data was to study, compare and monitor dialects and their changes over time, both on an individual level and between groups of speakers and localities. Even later, further rounds of interviews, partly with the same interviewees, have been carried out in the same municipalities by new research projects at approximately 10-year intervals.

Data protection terms and conditions 

In these data protection terms and conditions, End-User means the party acting as the Controller for the Resource received, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679. Depending on the case and the purpose of Resource use, End-User may therefore mean the Language Bank user’s employer or organisation (e.g., a university, university of applied sciences or other research organisation) or the service user personally. 

The End-User understands that when receiving the Resources, it becomes a controller, as referred to in the data protection legislation. The End-User must ensure that it complies with the applicable data protection legislation when processing personal data. 

The purpose of use of personal data 

  • The Resource may only be used for the research purpose described in the research plan approved by the Controller.

Location and transfer of the personal data 

  • Personal data may not be processed outside the European Economic Area. 

  • In order to process the Resource outside the European Economic Area, a license may be granted only on the basis of a specific application. In that case, please contact the Language Bank of Finland. 

Publish a link to your Privacy Notice

When applying for access to this Resource, share the title of your project that is understandable to the general public as well as the link to the publicly available privacy notice. The link can be updated at a later time by using this form. This information will be published on the website of the Language Bank of Finland. 

Updates 

This page was last updated on 19.7.2024.

Persistent identifier of this page: urn:nbn:fi:lb-2021062247