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Information about varke.fi

Varke.fi is the website of the Centre for State-Subsidised Housing Construction. On the site, we provide information about the Centre's tasks, objectives, services, and current affairs in Finnish and Swedish, and to some extent in English.

This site was published on February 27, 2025.

Copyrights 

Varke.fi contains copyrighted material. You are free to link to varke.fi and use its text content in accordance with good practice. The use of photographs and other visual material must be agreed upon separately with the Centre's communications team. Contact information for communications

When using materials from the website, the source and date must be mentioned.

Images in the website

We use photos taken by other organizations and photographers on the site. The copyrights to these photos belong to the creators, and permission has been obtained for their use.

The main image we use on the front page, depicting the Jätkäsaari area in Helsinki and the image comes from the Finna database and is part of the Helsinki City Museum collection. The image is taken by Suomen Ilmakuva Oy in 2014.

The main images in the "Services" and "Statistics and Publications" sections of the site are generated by artificial intelligence.

The main image in the "Communities and Companies" section is by Sakari Kiuru and is part of the historical photo collection of the National Board of Antiquities (licence CC BY 4.0).

We also use free Creative Commons licensed images in some of our content (licenses CC BY or Pixabay content license).

Data protection

Our data protection statements explain what information is collected about users and how it is used.

Data protection and data processing

Use of cookies and analytics 

Varke.fi uses some cookies. Some cookies are related to the functionality of the site, and some to the statistical analysis of site usage.

General statistical information about site usage is collected to develop the service. This information includes the number of visitors to the site, page visits, devices, and browsers used. We track site traffic using the Snoobi Analytics service.

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Responsibility 

The Centre for State-Subsidised Housing Construction is responsible for the content of its own online services. Detected errors will be corrected.