This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information when you visit our website, sign up for our newsletter, or purchase our integration support services, workshops, and e-books.

1. Data Controller

For the purposes of the GDPR, the data controller responsible for your personal information is:

• Company Name: Sweden for Beginners
• Operator: Jasna Anicic
• Address: Astrakangatan 161, 16552 Hässelby, Stockholm, Sweden
• Phone: 08-15 99 40
• Contact Mechanism: Via the Contact form on our website.

2. The Personal Data We Collect

We may collect, use, and store different kinds of personal data about you, which we group as follows:

• Identity Data: First name and last name.
• Contact Data: Email address and phone number.
• Technical Data: Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types, operating system, and platform.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, blog, products, and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving updates or newsletter notifications from us.

3. How We Collect Your Personal Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

• Direct Interactions: You give us your Identity and Contact data by filling out forms on our website (such as the contact form or newsletter signup) or by corresponding with us by phone or email.
• Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this data using cookies and similar technologies (see our Cookie Policy for details).

4. How and Why We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To perform a contract: To register you for our 90-minute sessions or 3-hour integration workshops, or to deliver an e-book you requested.
• Consent: Where you have explicitly opted in to receive our newsletter or marketing updates. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
• Legitimate Interests: To improve our website functionality, analyze user trends, and optimize our services to help newcomers successfully navigate Swedish society.
• Legal Obligation: To comply with Swedish tax, accounting, or administrative regulations.

5. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

• Contact Form submissions: Retained for up to 12 months after resolving your query, unless you purchase a program.
• Newsletter subscriptions: Retained until you click "unsubscribe" or ask to be removed.

6. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, altered, disclosed, or accessed in an unauthorized way. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those who have a business need to know.

7. Third-Party Sharing and Transfers

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in running our business:

• Hosting and IT Providers: To maintain website stability and email delivery.
• Analytics Tools: Such as Google Analytics to understand website traffic.
• Newsletter Distribution Platforms: If used to process and deliver our newsletters.

Some third parties may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). If data is transferred outside the EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards (such as EU Standard Contractual Clauses) are in place to guarantee your data remains secure.

8. Your Legal Rights Under the GDPR

As a resident of the EU, you have the following rights under data protection laws:

• Right of Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct incomplete or inaccurate data.
• Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You can ask us to delete your personal data under certain conditions.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You can object to or limit how we process your personal data.
• Right to Data Portability: You can request the transfer of your data to another organization.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: You can opt out of marketing emails instantly by clicking the unsubscribe link or contacting us directly.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through our website contact channels. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten - IMY), the Swedish supervisory authority for data protection issues.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. Any updates will be posted directly to this page.