Privacy

Our approach.

Customers’ and stakeholders’ trust is important for Telia Company. We want everyone who shares their personal data with us to feel secure that their data is used according to their expectations.

As soon as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the EU legislation governing how personal data should be handled, entered into force in 2016, Telia Company started its group-wide GDPR program. Since numerous principles of GDPR already existed under the old Data Protection Directive, we were able to build on previous experience and best practices while implementing new GDPR principles.

Data Protection Officers

Data Protection Officers (DPOs) facilitate Telia Company’s and its’ subsidiaries compliance with GDPR obligations across the relevant markets. DPOs continuously monitor privacy compliance internally and communicate on privacy matters, GDPR and local data protection provisions. In addition to DPOs, Telia Company has also many other professionals working on privacy matters such as our Privacy Lawyers.

We have designed different tools and processes to ensure that we work in a correct manner with personal data across the company. These tools and processes are used by our privacy professionals and also by other employees in their daily work. The tools and processes are also monitored by DPOs to verify compliance and to improve our practices. We in Telia aim to continuously ensure effective and legitimate ways of working with privacy and data processing.

Telia Company has carried out privacy training for our employees for several years. DPOs and our privacy professionals continue to facilitate privacy-awareness inside the company and continuously improve training materials to fulfil the GDPR needs as interpreted today and tomorrow. All Telia Company employees receive privacy training.

Privacy and data protection is a focus area for Telia Company and it is therefore governed by a Group Policy - Privacy and Data Protection.

Contact information

In case you have any questions about the way Telia Company takes care of your privacy and data protection or questions how to exercise your rights, our DPOs will be happy to assist with your questions.

Group Data Protection Officer

dpo-tc@teliacompany.com

Please contact Telia Company Group DPO in matters which are group-wide in their nature and regarding Telia Company entities that do not have a local DPO. Please see separate local and entity specific DPO contact details below.

Data Protection Officer, Sweden

dpo-se@teliacompany.com

https://www.telia.se/privat/om/integritetspolicy

Data Protection Officer, Finland

tietosuoja-telia@teliacompany.com

https://www.telia.fi/tietosuoja-ja-tietoturva

Data Protection Officer, Norway

pvo-telia@telia.no

https://www.telia.no/personvern/

Data Protection Officer, Denmark

privat-liv@teliacompany.com

https://www.telia.dk/privat/om-telia/privatlivsinformation/

Data Protection Officer, Estonia

privacy@telia.ee

https://andmed.telia.ee/privaatsusteade

Data Protection Officer, Lithuania

privatumas@telia.lt

https://www.telia.lt/privacy

Data Protection Officer, Telia Finance

dpo-teliafinance@teliacompany.com

https://www.teliafinance.com/en/privacy/

Data protection officers

FAQ

What is GDPR?

GDPR stands for General Data Protection Regulation – an EU law that regulates rights connected with personal data, including by giving all individuals control of their own personal data in all relations with companies, regardless if they are a customer or an employee. GDPR directly applies in all EU countries as of 25 May 2018 and in countries of the European Economic Area. It covers Telia Company’s footprint in the Nordics and Baltics. There may be some local variations in how GDPR is implemented in different countries, for example, on employee data processing, public health, public sector, archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

What is personal data?

Personal data is all information that could identify an individual directly or indirectly, for instance:

name, address, age, gender and position
location
social security number
IP address
telephone number
subscription details
traffic data (technical data generated when an individual uses telecommunication services)

What has Telia Company done to be compliant with GDPR?

In early 2016, Telia Company put in place a GDPR compliance program to carry out necessary changes and implement GDPR provisions across all relevant markets. Telia Company GDPR Program coordinated all activities related to ensuring our customers’ and employees’ privacy rights. Related projects were running also in all countries and group units. We have reviewed our internal processes, privacy policies and security measures, trained our employees, as well as made necessary changes in IT systems to enable our customers to be in control of their personal data, for example, to access or delete certain data on request.

We have also worked on implementing privacy by design in all our products and services and making sure that we are transparent to our customers and employees about how we use their personal data.

Our customers may have been asked to give consent for Telia Company to continue to process their personal data for specific purposes. We have also updated and provided more detailed privacy information, first, in our websites and My Telia pages.

This work did not stop on 25 May 2018. Privacy and data protection is present in our daily work. We continue to grow a privacy orientated mindset in all our activities, to make sure that Telia Company is the most trusted partner for customers in the Nordics and Baltics.

What does GDPR mean for Telia Company’s customers, be they individuals or companies?

GDPR strengthens individuals’ rights to control their own data.

GDPR allows our customers and end-users to:

access their personal data processed by Telia Company
correct personal data (if faulty)
delete personal data under certain conditions (right to be forgotten)
restrict and object to some processing of personal data (under specific conditions)
have specific data transmitted to another company (data portability)
receive compensation for the damages suffered as result of an infringement of the regulation
receive privacy information and information on serious data breaches

We continuously work to provide high level of transparency to our customers and easy ways to exercise their rights as data subjects. Privacy is be embedded in all our products and services that we provide to our customers and end-users.

Telia Company Group Policy on Privacy and Data Protection

Telia Company Group Policy on Privacy and Data protection strengthens company governance to ensure careful protection of customer privacy and network integrity. It lays down the Telia Company standards how we respect privacy and data protection and therefore, aims to ensure that customers feel confident that Telia Company respects and safeguards their privacy. The Policy applies to the whole Telia Company group and its subsidiaries. We expect every Telia Company employee to follow the policy in their daily work.

Group Policy - Privacy and Data protection

Telia Company Privacy Policy

Telia Company customer privacy policy strengthens company processes to ensure careful protection of customer privacy and network integrity. It also aims to ensure that customers feel confident that Telia Company respects and safeguards their privacy. We expect every Telia Company employee to follow the policy in their day-to-day work.

Group Policy - Privacy and Data protection

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