Norrsken.

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What Norrsken is

Norrsken is an internal business intelligence tool that ESS Group developed and runs for its own use. It is not a product, it is not sold or licensed, and it is not third-party software. There is no public sign-up and there are no external users: access requires corporate single sign-on and is limited to authorised ESS Group employees.

What data it processes

Norrsken collects data from the systems we already use to run the business, so that we can report on it in one place:

The purpose of the processing is aggregate reporting and analysis.

Google user data

Norrsken reads performance data for properties ESS Group owns through Google APIs. It retrieves search performance data for our own websites from Google Search Console, and, as we connect them, advertising performance data from Google Ads and listing and review data for our own venues from Google Business Profile. We request read-only access.

How we access it
Only an authorised ESS Group employee can connect a Google account, and only for properties ESS Group owns. Norrsken requests read-only scopes and never writes back to Google.
How we use it
Only for internal reporting inside Norrsken: following how our own websites, campaigns and venues perform. We do not use it to target individuals with advertising, and we do not use it to train machine learning models.
How we store it
The data we retrieve is stored in our own database, hosted in Europe. Access to it inside Norrsken is limited to authorised ESS Group employees signed in through corporate single sign-on.
How we share it
We do not. Data obtained through Google APIs is not sold, shared or transferred to any third party. It stays inside Norrsken.
How we delete it
If the connected Google account revokes our access, or if you ask us to, we delete the copy we have stored.

Where the data is stored

The data is stored in our own PostgreSQL database, hosted in Europe. The systems we pull data from are separate services with their own storage and their own terms.

What we do not do

Data controller and your rights

ESS Group is the data controller for this processing. Guests who want to request access to or deletion of their data can do so through ESS Group’s usual channel for data protection requests.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about how Norrsken handles data, go to [email protected].