Processing your personal data  

The Swedish Institute would like to inform you that by taking part in our events we might process your personal data in order to take pictures of the event for the purpose of providing information about SI and our activities, such as our leadership programmes and other opportunities.

The Swedish Institute is responsible for the processing of your personal data, in our capacity as controller. We will process the following category of personal data:

  • Photographs containing personal data.

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is article 6.1 e GDPR, performance of a task carried out in the public interest.

The Swedish Institute will retain your personal data up to one year, after which your personal data might be retained to comply with Swedish law regarding the keeping of public records. We would also like to inform you of your right to request from the Swedish Institute access to, and rectification or erasure of, your personal information, or restriction of processing concerning you, or to object to processing, as well as your right to data portability. In case you deem that The Swedish Institute has infringed on your rights according to the GDPR or processed your personal information in a way that is incorrect or unlawful according to the GDPR, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten).

If you want to know more about how the Swedish Institute process your personal data, see our Privacy Policy at SI’s data protection policy – Svenska institutet

If you have any questions regarding our processing of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer at si@si.se