Information about the handling of personal data when using a Mid Sweden University student account
When you applied for studies at Mid Sweden University, you informed us of your name, your Swedish personal ID number, and your name. The university needs this data to register your studies. The handling of personal data is automated and in accordance with the Swedish regulation on the presentation of studies etc. at universities and university colleges (1993:1153).
To facilitate your studies, you are given a user identity for e-mail, conferences, printouts, storage of files etc., as well as an entrance card for Mid Sweden University. For the handling of the card and the account, Mid Sweden University uses Ladok data to register user identities and entrance card data. The user account data include your name, your Swedish personal ID number and e-mail address, and the entrance card data include your name, your Swedish personal ID number, e-mail address as well as the course or programme code.
The aim is to facilitate a secure handling of the user identity and the entrance card. Your contact information can also be found in Moodle or other learning platforms, so that you can access the content of the courses. This data will only be used in the context of your studies at Mid Sweden University, but all employees can get access to that data in different ways. In the case of a suspected crime, data from the system may be handed over to law enforcement agencies.
Mid Sweden University is responsible for the students ́ personal data. The university is also a Swedish authority, and therefore, it is obliged to follow certain regulations, such as the rules and regulations for public records, authorities ́ archives and public statistics. This way, the university will also handle the personal data in line with the legislation in force. If a person requests a copy of a public record containing your personal data, Mid Sweden University may approve. This is the case if the data are considered public records and not classified.
By submitting a written request, you have the right to know if personal data about you are used by Mid Sweden University, and, among other things, be given the opportunity to look at the personal data Mid Sweden University has registered about you. Reasons for this could be to check if the information is correct, or to decide if you would like to ask for a change, or part of the information to be deleted, if possible. Please send your request to registrator@miun.se or to Mid Sweden University, the Registrar ́s Office, SE-851 70 Sundsvall.
You have the right to submit a complaint regarding the handling of your personal data to the Mid Sweden University Data Protection Officer or directly to the Swedish Data Protection Agency.
The contact information of the Mid Sweden University Data Protection Officer can be found on the website, search for ”Data Protection Officer”. More information about the Swedish Data Protection Agency can be found here: www.imy.se.