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The SFS Privacy Policy for Customer and Marketing Data is available on our website at www.sfs.fi

SFS Shop

This website is a web shop and online subscription service owned and managed by SFS Finnish Standards. This website is intended mainly for standards' users but also for anyone looking for a standard.

The website is both in Finnish and in English. Through SFS webshop you can search our full list of SFS, ISO, and IEC standards, SFS Handbooks and other publications.

In the webshop it is possible to place orders for publications, and to purchase most SFS, ISO and IEC standards as a download in PDF format.

SFS Online

The SFS Online service is operated as an internet service at online.sfs.fi. The customer chooses a collection of SFS, ISO or IEC standards for use through the service. The service is updated weekly. However, the collection of standards included in the customer's license are only updated when new standards are published for the said collection or when the standards are amended or supplemented. The superseded versions of the standards may be used by the customer through the service during the agreement term.

SFS limits access to the service by IP recognition and/or a user name and password.

The customer shall have a limited license for the simultaneous use of the standards for their own internal activities. The users to whom the license applies may use the standards or copies thereof for the internal administration, business or research activities for example, for producing reports or training or preparatory tasks. With reference to simultaneous users, the license covers:

a) the reading and viewing of standards on a computer screen

b) the saving of electronic copies of the standard onto the hard drive of a computer

c) the printing of paper copies of individual standards.

Users to whom the license applies have the right to give paper copies of individual standards to a different person or department at the customer organization for the purposes of internal activities and the organisation's own training, planning or other production work.

The number of paper copies of the standard may be restricted.

Standards or their copies must not be given to parties other than the customer included in the agreement, including for the purposes of making copies or for private or personal use. For example, copies of standards shall not be provided as an appendix to a call for tenders, an offer or marketing material.

Privacy

By using the SFS webshop or the Online service, user allows their information to be processed as described in our privacy policy.

The SFS webshop and the Online service employ cookies that are stored in the web browser used.

Cookies are text files stored on the user's computer. Cookies are not harmful to the computer or other files.

Cookies are used to improve the user experience and user-friendliness of the service. Cookies enable site analysis. In other words, cookies are used to collect statistics concerning the use of services. Their purpose is to secure site functionality and to offer relevant content to users. The site uses the data to assess how the site is used. It sends reports to SFS as the site owner and offers other services related to website and Internet use.

Data stored in cookies are not personally identifiable. The data includes identifying information regarding the visitor's web browser, site usage, linking pages, operating systems, display resolution, and IP address. This information is stored on servers located in Finland. The aforementioned information may be disclosed to third parties if required by applicable law or if a third party processes the information on behalf of SFS Finnish Standards or the website.

The user may clear any cookies stored in the browser by removing all browsing data. The user may also block cookies in the browser's settings.

Preventing the use of cookies may affect the functionality of sites. Some of the content in the SFS webshop and the Online service may require cookies to function correctly.