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Leader Höga Kusten processes personal data that is necessary for the operation and to fulfill our commitments. Read more here!

Leader Höga Kusten's handling of personal data

Leader Höga Kusten processes personal data that is necessary for the operation and to fulfill our commitments. The purposes include support management, statistics, information, follow-up, evaluation, analysis, and archival purposes based on legal obligation and public interest. The data is processed electronically.

Information sent to Leader Höga Kusten becomes public documents, unless they contain information that is confidential according to the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act.

Leader Höga Kusten provides data related to projects to the Swedish Board of Agriculture and to EU institutions in accordance with what follows from EU legislation, law, or regulation.

Information according to GDPR

Leader Höga Kusten strives to ensure that all information, regardless of who owns it, is handled in a controlled, secure, and structured manner according to GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation or Data Protection Regulation.

How is personal data collected and how is it stored?

Personal data is collected through, for example, web forms, email, paper applications, and phone calls. The data may also be supplemented with information from public registers and authorities.

If you are, or have been, a participant with us, your data is stored only as long as necessary for Leader Höga Kusten to administer training/conferences or as long as we must store them according to law/agreement. After that, they are deleted according to applicable retention routines. We do not delete personal data when there is a legal requirement to store them, for example, according to applicable accounting rules and EU regulations. We use anonymized information for statistical purposes and course development.

We never disclose your personal data to third parties.

Newsletters and web news

The data used to send out newsletters and information about Leader Höga Kusten's activities is stored only as long as you are a subscriber. When you unsubscribe, we remove your personal data.

Application for support and payment

Applications for support and payment are made in the Swedish Board of Agriculture's IT system. For the processing of personal data specified in the application for support or payment, the Swedish Board of Agriculture is the data controller.

Your rights

You have certain rights under data protection legislation. If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you contact Leader Höga Kusten's office. Our contact details can be found on this page.

Access to your personal data – you have the right to receive confirmation of whether we process your personal data and an extract of which data is processed.

Request correction – you have the right to have incorrect data corrected.

Request deletion – you have the right, under certain circumstances, to have your data removed.