Privacy policy & cookies

Leader Framtidsbygder strives to ensure that all information is handled in a controlled, secure, and structured manner in accordance with GDPR and only requests information that is necessary for the operation. Leader Framtidsbygder commits to storing this information securely and deleting the data when it is no longer needed.

Guiding Principles for Personal Data Processing

• Lawfulness: Personal data shall be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently in relation to the data subject.
• Purpose Limitation: Personal data shall only be collected and otherwise processed for specific, explicitly stated, and legitimate purposes, and shall not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes.
• Data Minimization: Personal data that is processed shall be adequate, relevant, and not excessive in relation to the purposes.
• Accuracy: Personal data that is processed shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
• Storage Minimization: Personal data shall not be stored for longer than necessary in relation to the purposes of the processing.
• Integrity and Confidentiality: Personal data shall always be processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security using technical or organizational measures. All information about individuals' personal circumstances shall always be treated confidentially.

Your Rights

You have certain rights under data protection legislation;

• Access to your personal data – you have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether we are processing your personal data and a copy of the data being processed.
• Request rectification – you have the right to have inaccurate data rectified.
• Request deletion – you have the right, under certain circumstances, to have your data erased.

If a request for deletion is received, all information will be deleted except for data that must be retained due to legal requirements. The data specified in application documents cannot be removed from registers or archives as we are obligated to keep these for 10 years after the completion of operations according to the regulations of the Swedish Board of Agriculture.

If you wish to exercise any of your rights, you contact our office.

Our Handling

Leader Framtidsbygder processes personal data related to our employees, elected representatives, members, and project documents. The purposes include support management, statistics, information, follow-up, evaluation, analysis, and archival purposes based on legal obligation and public interest. We use anonymized information for statistical purposes. The legal basis for this processing concerns public authority exercise, accounting law, as well as legal obligation, contracts, and consent.

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.

Information sent to Leader Framtidsbygder becomes public documents, unless they contain information that is confidential according to the Freedom of Information and Secrecy Act. Leader Framtidsbygder provides information related to projects to the Swedish Board of Agriculture and to EU institutions in accordance with what follows from EU legislation, law or regulation.

We never disclose your personal data to third parties without your permission.

Your information is stored only as long as required for our operations or as long as we must store it according to law/agreement. Thereafter, it is deleted according to applicable retention routines. We do not delete personal data when there is a legal requirement to store it, for example according to applicable accounting rules and EU regulations.

Membership register

As a non-profit association, we need certain information (which you provide yourself upon application) for the administration of our membership register. This information is stored with us as long as you are a member and we use the information to send out membership information and to establish membership lists in connection with membership meetings/annual meetings. You can request your withdrawal from the association at any time by contacting us, and your information will then be removed from our register. All membership information is deleted when the association ceases to exist.

Project documents

Documents related to our projects are saved during the association's operational period and will thereafter be archived and saved for a maximum of ten additional years according to the requirements of the Swedish Board of Agriculture. Applications for support and payments 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.

Cookies on the website

We use small text files, so-called cookies, to facilitate your browsing on the site. You have the option to choose which cookies are used during your visit to the website with the help of the Cookiebot service. We have cookies of two types, necessary and marketing.

Necessary cookies – Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions related to the website's functionality. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

Marketing – These cookies are used to track visitors between different websites. The goal is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for each individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers. We primarily use cookies of this type from YouTube, which are used to display certain videos on the website.

Contact information

If you have questions or concerns regarding our privacy work or our cookie management, contact Johannes Haggärde at the office.

Johannes Haggärde
Operational leader, program period 2023-2027
Johannes@framtidsbygder.se