Privacy Policy

UPDATED: 17 MAY 2022

The Swedish Nutritionist Association (Swe. Nutritionistföreningen) is a professional association that acts as a gathering point for nutritionists in Sweden.

The trust and partnership of our members are very important to us. Therefore, we have updated our entire privacy policy to clarify how we use your information.

The Data Protection Regulation GDPR is a European law establishing the protection of personal data of EU citizens and which entered into force on 25 May 2018. According to the GDPR, organizations that collect, maintain, use or otherwise process EU citizens’ personal data (regardless of the organization’s location) introduce certain privacy and security guarantees for the information.

When you use and interact with the Swedish Nutritionist Association’s websites, we process information from and about you to give you access to an improved experience. Meaning that we collect, use, transfer, store, share and delete your data.

This privacy policy describes how the Swedish Nutritionist Association processes your information and explains what choices are available to you regarding your information.

If you have any questions or concerns about how the Swedish Nutritionist Association processes your information or if you want to exercise your privacy rights, you can contact us at any time via our contact form.

OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU

In connection with visiting this website, the Swedish Nutritionist Association is responsible for personal data. For members who are connected via Naturvetarna, Naturvetarna is responsible for personal data. In cases where members receive newsletters from the Swedish Nutritionist Association, MailChimp is responsible for personal data.

INFORMATION THAT WE PROCESS

The Swedish Nutritionist Association processes information that we receive directly from you, which is automatically collected when you visit one of our websites.

This includes information required for the Swedish Nutritionist Association to be able to contact users who have sent information via the contact form:

  • Identifiers such as first and last name and e-mail address.
  • Other information from e-mails.

Information related to your use of the Swedish Nutritionist Association’s websites:

  • Internet networking activity, including information that our servers automatically record, such as your:
    • Web request
    • IP-address
    • browser type and settings
    • referral / exit pages and URLs
    • number of clicks
    • date and time stamp information
    • language settings and other similar information.
  • Geolocation information from your device, such as approximate geographical location from a de-identified IP address.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

The Swedish Nutritionist Association uses your information to communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention purposes, and to comply with the law. We may process your information to:

Provide you with services and run our business

  • Maintain, provide and improve our services.
  • Help us to better understand the user interests and needs and adapt the website for you.
  • Analyze and investigate how you interact with our websites.
  • Protect the Swedish Nutritionist Association and you, for example:
    • secure our systems against fraud or unauthorized activity
    • identify, troubleshoot and fix bugs and errors
    • comply with global laws and regulations

Aggregated and de-identified data

We may aggregate and/or de-identify information about your use of the Swedish Nutritionist Association (e.g., geolocation) so that such information can no longer be linked to you or your entity. We may use such aggregated and de-identified information for any purpose, including but not limited to research and marketing purposes. We may also share such information with third parties, including advertisers, marketing partners, sponsors, event organizers and / or others.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR DATA

We use and share the categories of information we collect from and about you in accordance with the various purposes we review in this Privacy Policy. We do not share your information with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. We do not sell your information in accordance with applicable law.

PROTECTION, STORAGE, TRANSFER AND RETENTION OF YOUR DATA

Security

The Swedish Nutritionist Association takes technical and organizational measures to protect your information against accidental or unlawful destruction or unintentional loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. However, no method of transmission over the Internet and no way of electronic or physical storage is absolutely secure. Therefore we cannot ensure or warrant the security of this data. We are constantly updating and improving our protection measures.

Data storage

When you use the Swedish Nutritionist Association’s websites, certain information about you will be stored in Sweden. We will retain your data for the time necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy to make our Services available to you or as directed by you unless a more extended storage period is required or permitted by law.

OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

You can instruct us not to use your contact information to contact you by e-mail or regular mail regarding products, services, promotions and special events. In commercial e-mails, you can also deselect them by following the instructions at the bottom of such e-mails.

YOUR INTEGRITY RIGHTS

No matter what country you are in, we respect your ability to know, access, correct, export, restrict the processing of and delete your data, and we have extended these rights globally. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights.

Information about your rights

At your request and subject to applicable legal exceptions, we will:

  • Provide access to and / or a copy of certain information we have about you.
  • Prevent the processing of your data for advertising purposes.
  • Update information that is outdated or incorrect.
  • Delete some information we have about you.
  • Limit how we process and disclose some of your information.
  • Withdraw your consent to the processing of your data.

Exercise your rights

To exercise your privacy rights, make a request by filling out our contact form.

CHANGES TO OUR INTEGRITY POLICY

We will update this Privacy Policy to ensure that it reflects our practices for collecting and using data and our functions and technical advances in the proper manner or as required by applicable law. We will comply with applicable legal requirements to give you notice and / or obtain your consent when we make such changes, depending on the type of change made.

CONTACT US AND PRIVACY ISSUES

The Swedish Nutritionist Association is located in Nacka, Sweden. If you want to contact us or have any questions or complaints in connection with our privacy policy, you can use our contact form.