Published: 12.10.2020.
Updated: 13.11.2024.

General Privacy Policy of the Unified Website Platform

The webmaster of the Unified Website Platform highly values your privacy and data protection. We assume that you have read this Privacy Policy which requests your consent to the processing of your personal data before the provision of such personal data and that you agree to the processing of your data.

Public administration is committed to ensuring openness and transparency, therefore this Privacy Policy describes the methods and purposes for the processing of the personal data transferred by you for processing on the Unified Website Platform. Before processing personal data, we evaluate the lawfulness of the data processing activity. We process personal data based on official mandate and legal obligations related thereto.

The Privacy Policy of the Unified Website Platform aims to provide general information on the personal data processing activities organised and performed by the State Chancellery in accordance with the principles of personal data processing provided in Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (hereinafter – GDPR).

The personal data controller of the Unified Website Platform is the State Chancellery. The personal data processors of the Website Platform are the institutions whose websites are placed on the Unified Website Platform, the maintainer of the platform is the State Digital Development Agency (SDDA), the Web host is the Information Centre of the Ministry of the Interior (ICMI), and the technical service provider is the Latvia State Radio and Television Centre (LSRTC).

On the Unified Website Platform, your personal data shall be processed for the achievement of the legal interests of State administration institutions, the fulfilment of obligations specified in legal acts, the fulfilment of contractual obligations, the provision of information to the public, and also other abovementioned purposes.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data within the scope of the services managed on the Unified Website Platform is provided in the following legal acts:

Employees of the parties involved in the operation of the Unified Website Platform will only process personal data for the performance of their official duties or on behalf of or under the instruction of the institutions in compliance with the basic principles of personal data processing and confidentiality requirements set out in the institution’s internal documents.

An employee may not process personal data obtained during the performance of official duties for his or her own or other persons’ personal purposes. When processing personal data within the scope of their official duties, the personal data processors will minimise the risk of personal data coming into possession of unauthorised persons as a result of actions or omissions.

On the Unified Website Platform, your personal data is processed in accordance with the confidentiality requirements and by ensuring the security of the data in held by the Unified Website Platform. The personal data processors of the Unified Website Platform take various security measures to prevent unauthorised access to your data, disclosure of data or other inappropriate use of personal data. Based on the applicable level of security, proper processing and storage of data, and also data integrity is ensured. Proportionate and appropriate physical, technical, and administrative procedures and means to protect the personal data collected and processed on the platform are used accordingly. Security measures are constantly improved in accordance with the applicable security requirements and by complying with the relevant data protection principles, and to the extent necessary for the data processing purposes.

Personal data are protected with means of data encryption, firewall and other data network security breach detection solutions. The personal data processors of the Unified Website Platform ensure the confidentiality of data and take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, unlawful processing, disclosure, accidental loss, distribution or destruction in compliance with appropriate data protection principles and to the extent necessary for the data processing purposes. Personal data protection measures are constantly improved and enhanced to prevent a decrease in the level of personal data protection.

Principles for the protection of personal data apply to:

  • the personal data processed in the information technology infrastructure (servers, local computer networks, and application software);
  • the personal data transmitted in the data transmission network, if any;
  • the information systems used for the provision of work which are administered by the institutions whose websites are placed on the Unified Website Platform;
  • the electronic documents developed, registered and in circulation containing personal data.

You may withdraw your consent (if such has been requested from you and you have given it) to the collection, processing, and use of your personal data at any time. The personal data controller of the Unified Website Platform will assess your claims based on its legal interests. If the personal data are no longer needed for the pre-defined processing purposes, they will be deleted.

The webmaster of the Unified Website Platform is responsible for the personal data processing and processes personal data with means that must prevent the misuse, unauthorised disclosure, and alteration of personal data.

In order to improve the communication of State administration institutions, the personal data controller monitors the received personal data. Such data may be used in an aggregated form to draw up review reports that can be disseminated between the State administration institutions of Latvia. Reports are anonymised and do not contain any personal data.

The Unified Website Platform contains access data of the registered and public users, usernames, information selection parameters, traffic information, and Internet Protocol (IP) access address information. The Unified Website Platform uses cookies to provide information on visitor activity, visited pages, sources, and time spent on the site. This information is collected to improve the ease of use of the website and collect information on the interests of visitors in order to ensure that the best possible service is provided to you. Only the minimum amount of personal data that is necessary to achieve the processing purpose is processed.

Your personal data are stored on the websites only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which they were collected. The personal data processors of the Unified Website Platform who have access to such data are trained to handle them properly and in accordance with the regulatory data security framework.

Personal data are stored for as long as there is a legal obligation to store personal data. At the end of the data storage period, the data will be securely deleted or depersonalised so that they can no longer be attributed to the data subject.

The personal data stored on the Unified Website Platform is considered restricted access information and can only be disclosed to third parties in the cases and in accordance with the procedures, and to the extent specified in legal acts or concluded agreements. When transferring personal data to the contractual partners of the Unified Website Platform (independent controllers), additional provisions for the processing of personal data are be included in the agreements.

Websites contain links to other sites which have different terms of use and personal data protection rules.

The cooperation between the institutions involved in the implementation of the Unified Website Platform is governed by the adopted legal acts. If you have any questions or complaints relating to the processing and protection of personal data in the Unified Website Platform, please contact the State Chancellery by sending an e-mail to pasts@mk.gov.lv or the responsible personal data controller of the State Chancellery Aldis Apsītis (e-mail address: aldis.apsitis@mk.gov.lv).

The person responsible for the processing of personal data on the website www.em.gov.lv is Rolands Vītiņš (e-mail address: rolands.vitins@em.gov.lv).

Data subjects have the right to submit complaints regarding the use of personal data to the State Data Inspectorate (www.dvi.gov.lv) if the subject believes that the processing of his or her personal data violates his or her rights and freedoms in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations.

The Unified Website Platform uses cookies and warns the website users and visitors thereof.

The Unified Website Platform uses cookies to fulfil the obligation specified in Paragraph 23 of the Cabinet Regulation No. 399 of 4 July 2017, Procedures for Accounting, Quality Control and Provision of State Administration Services, as well as in Section 10 of the State Administration Structure Law to obtain traffic and usage statistics in order to improve the ease of use of the Unified Website Platform. You are provided with the possibility to read the Cookie Policy and decide whether to give your consent to the collection of statistics, as well as to choose the option to share the content in social media. In the opt-in consent window, you are given the option to opt out of cookies by selecting “Reject”. The exception is the mandatory technical cookie which is enabled by the browser for the duration of the connection session. You can change your cookie preferences in the footer of the website by selecting the link "Changing cookie preferences".

Cookies are small text files which are stored on the memory of your computer or mobile device when visiting a website. During each next visit, the cookies are sent back to the website of origin or to any other website recognising the cookies. The cookies operate as a memory of the particular website, enabling the site to remember your computer or mobile device during next visits, and the cookies can also remember your settings or improve the user experience.

The cookies used can be divided into essential technological cookies without which the provision of the service is technologically impossible or significantly restricted, performance cookies and social media cookies.

By using the website you agree that the performance cookies placed on this website are used for the purpose of improving the quality of services in compliance with the State administration principles specified in Section 10 of the State Administration Structure Law which provide that the State administration must be organised in a way that is easily accessible to an individual and also the fulfilment of the obligation of the State administration to improve the quality of services provided to the public, to simplify and improve procedures for the benefit of natural persons.

When using third-party resources embedded on this website (for example, YouTube, Flickr, etc.), third-party cookies might be placed on your browser.

The website uses the following cookies:

  • Essential cookies:
    • SESS<ID> – this cookie is essential only for content administrators to ensure authentication (ID is replaced by a unique name created for each session).
    • maintenance_message – this cookie is necessary for all users to prevent the content or platform administrator’s notifications from reappearing (those which the content user has read and closed with the "Close" button).
    • allowCookies – this cookie determines whether you have agreed to the terms of use of cookies and whether to display a statement about the use of cookies in the future.
  • Performance cookies. This webpage uses the Google Analytics service made by Google Inc. which uses the cookies stored on your computer to enable analysis of how you use the relevant website. The information generated by the cookies about how you use the website is sent and stored to the Google server. Your IP address, when applying IP anonymisation, is shortened within the territory of the European Union or the European Economic Area. Google uses the information in order to assess how you use the particular website in order to prepare reports for website providers about activities on the relevant websites and to provide other services related to the use of websites and the internet. Google will never link the IP address received here with any other information being at the disposal of Google. In case of need, Google may provide this information to third parties if it is stipulated in laws or if third persons perform the processing of such data on the assignment of Google.
    • _ga, _gat, _gid – these three cookies are necessary for all users to allow traffic data to be passed to the Google Analytics statistics collection tool.

If you do not accept the use of performance cookies, traffic data will not be included in Google Analytics statistics.

  • Social media cookies:
    • _cfduid – this cookie is necessary for all users to share a content item on their social networks.

You may reject the creation, storage, and processing of such statistics by manually disabling the use of the cookie handling mechanism in your browser at any time.

You can change or delete your cookie settings in your browser settings. We have added links to cookie management information resources for the most popular browsers:

More information on how to control cookies according to your device’s browser can be found at: www.aboutcookies.org.

To ensure the lawful, fair, and transparent processing of personal data, the following information is provided regarding the processing of personal data by the Ministry of Economics (hereinafter referred to as the Ministry).

1. Data Controller

Ministry of Economics
Brīvības iela 55, Rīga, LV-1519
Phone: +371 67013100
Fax: +371 67280882
Email: pasts@em.gov.lv

2. Contact for Questions Related to Personal Data Processing

If you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact the Ministry or the Data Protection Officer by:

3. Processed Personal Data

The Ministry may process various types of personal data (e.g., name, surname, personal identification number, date of birth, gender, contact information (phone number, email, address), the name of the represented institution or company, position held, photo/video image, location and time, information about education, work experience, communication language, voice).

4. Purpose and Legal Basis for Data Processing

The Ministry processes your personal data to fulfill tasks in the public interest, fulfill contracts, meet obligations and tasks set out in legal acts, and observe legitimate interests.

Additionally, the Ministry processes your personal data to:

  • Schedule your visit and ensure access to the Ministry’s building;
  • Ensure your participation in meetings, foreign representatives’ visits, and other informative events organized by the Ministry (e.g., conferences, press conferences, forums, seminars, etc., including registering and identifying participants, photographing and recording voice and video, communicating about changes in the event);
  • Analyze event attendance, ensure further communication, and send informational materials (including information about future events);
  • Promote event publicity and inform the public about its progress by photographing and filming during the event and publishing the materials on websites and social networks;
  • Conduct video surveillance to ensure safety and order within the Ministry’s building and its adjacent territory, as well as prevent or detect criminal offenses for the protection of persons and property;
  • Consider applications and complaints.

Based on the data subject's consent, the Ministry processes personal data to create and maintain an authorized user account on the workforce supply and demand forecasting platform, providing additional functionality for authorized platform users by creating a personalized work environment.

The Ministry processes personal data, for example, based on the Administrative Procedure Law, the Submissions Law, the Freedom of Information Law, the Notification Law, the State Administration Structure Law, the Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 588 of September 22, 2020, “Regulation of the Ministry of Economics,” the Construction Law, and the Cabinet of Ministers regulations issued based on it.

5. Recipients of Personal Data

Your personal data may be transferred to responsible Ministry employees or specifically authorized persons, data processors, sworn attorneys, state, municipal, and law enforcement authorities in cases specified by legal acts.

6. Personal Data Retention Period

Your personal data will be stored as long as necessary to achieve the respective processing purposes, in compliance with regulatory requirements, after which your personal data will be deleted unless a longer retention period is stipulated by legal acts. Video surveillance recordings are stored for up to 30 days or until the day these video recordings are no longer needed in the case of a legal infringement. Data is stored as needed if the data has previously been requested by competent state, municipal, and law enforcement authorities.

7. Data Subject Rights in the Data Processing Process

You have the right to request access to personal data, correct or delete it, restrict its processing, as well as the right to object and the right to data portability. If personal data processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed during events organized by the Ministry and later have these materials published, please inform the Ministry (pasts@em.gov.lv).

8. Safeguards Against Misuse of Data

The Ministry processes your personal data with attention to its security, using various security measures (e.g., data encryption and firewall protection) and maintaining confidentiality requirements to prevent its misuse and inappropriate use, unauthorized disclosure, exposure, and alteration, as well as unauthorized access.

9. Transfer of Personal Data to Third Countries

Your personal data may be transferred to third countries that are not member states of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) only in cases provided by legal acts and strictly in compliance with their provisions.

10. Right to Lodge a Complaint

If you have any objections, claims, or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, we encourage you to first contact the Ministry. If the issue cannot be resolved within the Ministry, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data State Inspectorate.

11. Automated Decision-Making

The Ministry does not use your data for automated decision-making.