Data protection policy

How we handle personal data at Connected Skills

Who is responsible for your personal data?
Connected Skills AB is the data controller. The company is based in Sweden.

What is personal data?
When you come into contact with Connected Skills AB, you may provide information about yourself. Not all the information you provide to us will constitute information that is subject to the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), but the data that does, we process in accordance with both the Regulation and what is otherwise required by law.

Information you provide to us when you use our services can be, for example, information about you as a person (name, social security number, mobile number), contact information for you or your company (name, address, email address, telephone number, your workplace), payment information (invoice address, reference person or other billing information).

What data does Connected Skills AB process about you and why?
Connected Skills AB works to connect workers and employers. To achieve the purpose of our service, we will process personal data about you. The data may be provided by you personally or obtained from a third party, such as another company in the group, or from your employer. When we store data about you on the legal basis of balancing of interests, the storage period refers to 1 year from the period of time that runs from your last purchase of service from Connected Skills AB, or from the period of time you have concluded an agreement with Connected Skills AB.

How does Connected Skills AB process personal data about you or your company?
Connected Skills AB will request information about you that is necessary for you to be able to enter into a contractual relationship with us and for us to be able to carry out the assignment we have contracted for in a good way. We may also process personal data about you in order to fulfill other legal obligations we have, for example in relation to the requirements of the Accounting Act, and on the basis of consent or a balance of interests; such data that is needed for you to be able to make any complaints against us, or for us to be able to provide you with feedback on news regarding our services and our range of services, for example.

Connected Skills AB shall ensure that the processing of personal data is legal according to applicable data protection rules, but you as a customer are responsible for ensuring that you only provide Connected Skills AB with such personal data that is necessary for the purpose of the processing. If part of the service you order from Connected Skills AB entails that you transfer personal data to us about another person, you are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to transfer the personal data and the task of processing the personal data to Connected Skills AB.
If you instruct Connected Skills AB to process personal data that is of a sensitive nature as referred to in Article 9 or 10 GDPR, you are obliged to carefully examine the security measures that need to be taken in order for the processing of such personal data to be lawful, and you should consult with Connected Skills AB before instructing us to process such personal data to ensure that the security measures taken by Connected Skills AB are adequate.

Connected Skills AB is part of a group. Some companies within the group share personal data with each other in the context of group-wide cooperation. Connected Skills AB administers and manages the common database and is the data controller for the group-wide personal data processing together with any other companies in the group where you are a customer or whose services you use. All processing of personal data within the framework of the group’s common database is carried out in accordance with Connected Skills AB’s data protection policy.

Your personal data will not be sold to third parties unless you have consented to this.

Cookies
Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit the Connected Skills AB website. Information collected through cookies is used to determine visitor patterns in the use of our websites. More information on how to manage and delete cookies is available athttps://connectedskills.se/cookie-policy/.

Assistants, subcontractors and authorities and place of storage
Connected Skills AB will share personal data about you with parties, such as clients, employers or other stakeholders in the service for the performance of our contractual obligations to you. This includes consultants hired by Connected Skills AB to perform the agreed services and also such transfer of personal data that is based on purely technical accounting measures/invoicing programs/auditors, etc.

As far as possible, Connected Skills AB stores all your personal data within the EU/EEA. Personal data may in some situations be processed outside the EU/EEA by third parties, for example by subcontractors of Connected Skills AB. However, Connected Skills AB has taken all reasonable legal, technical and organizational measures to ensure that in these cases your information is handled at the same level of protection as that offered in the EU/EEA.

When you join the service, or enter into an agreement with Connected Skills AB, we process the following personal data:

Category of data: Company/customer data
Type of personal data in this category: Company, organization, name, company number/personal number, address, gender, current and previous employers, references, education, CV, photograph, social media profiles such as LinkedIn etc., certificates, grades, usernames, other data relevant from a recruitment perspective.
Legal basis for this category and purpose and retention period of the processing: Contract, whereby data is stored for the duration of the contract and up to 10 years after the termination of the contract due to. the general limitation period. Balancing of interests, whereby data is stored for 1 year for marketing purposes.

Data category: Billing/payment information
Type of personal data in this category: Company, organization, name, corporate identity number, personal identity number, address, reference person.
Legal basis for this category and purpose and duration of the processing: Contract, whereby data is stored for the duration of the contract. Legal obligation (including the Accounting Act) whereby the data is kept for 7 years.

– Data category: Contact details
Type of personal data in this category: Name, phone number, email.
Legal basis for this category and purpose and duration of the processing: Contract, whereby data is stored for the duration of the contract. Balancing of interests, whereby the data is kept for 1 year for marketing purposes.

When you contact us by web form, phone or email, we process the following data:

– Data category: Contact details
Type of personal data in this category: Name, phone number, Email.
Legal basis for this category and purpose and duration of the processing: Contract, whereby data is stored for the duration of the contract. Balancing of interests, stored for 1 year for marketing purposes.

– Category of data: Customer data
Type of personal data in this category: Company, organization number, name, social security number.
Legal basis for this category and purpose and duration of the processing: Contract, whereby data is stored for the duration of the contract. Balancing of interests, stored for 1 year for marketing purposes and if the contact has led to a contract, up to 10 years after termination of the contract due to a lack of interest. the general complaint period.

When Connected Skills AB contacts you with offers or newsletters, we process the following data:

– Data category: Contact details.
Type of personal data in this category: Name, Email, Phone number.
Legal basis for this category and purpose and duration of the processing: Consent, whereby data is stored for the duration of the consent. Balancing of interests, whereby data is stored for 1 year for marketing purposes.

Connected Skills AB may also collect information about you for the following purposes:
Financial information – standard credit checks for the purpose of assessing creditworthiness before entering into a contract and during the course of a contract. The data is stored for the duration of the contract.
Service and delivery information – details of the services you subscribe to or purchase, e.g. ongoing consultancy services, assignments, projects or training courses and newsletters you read. The data is stored after a balance of interests, during the contract period and 1 year after the last purchased service/completed contract with Connected Skills AB for marketing purposes.
Historical information – payment history. The data is stored after a balance of interests, for the duration of the contract.
Device information – e.g. IP address, language settings, browser settings, time zone, geographical information, operating system, platform and screen resolution, on a best interest basis, in accordance with Connected Skills AB’s cookie policy.

Your rights
You have the right to request, free of charge, once a year, an extract from the register.
You have the right to have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate, incomplete or misleading, and you and/or your employees have the right to restrict the processing of personal data until it is rectified.
You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.
You have the right to object to direct marketing.
You have the right to be forgotten, but the deletion of personal data cannot take place if it is required to fulfill the contract or if other Swedish or European law, court or authority decision states otherwise, and if the storage is based on legitimate interest. Should you consider that there are no legitimate grounds, or that the legitimate interest is incorrect, you have the right to object to the processing.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint about Connected Skills AB’s processing of your personal data with a supervisory authority (in Sweden Datainspektionen).

Changes to this Data Protection Policy
We will update our Data Protection Policy on an ongoing basis as necessary to reflect customer feedback and changes to our Services.
If there are major changes to the policy or to how we at Connected Skills AB use your personal data, you will be notified via website postings or emails before the changes come into effect where required by law.

Where can you go with questions about Connected Skills AB’s Data Protection Policy, our privacy protection, our data protection or if you have objections to Connected Skills AB’s processing of your personal data?
Connected Skills AB (559382-7446) is the data controller and can be reached as follows:
Address: Connected Skills AB, Jöns Filsgatan 2, 211 33 Malmö.
E-mail: info@connectedskills.se