Privacy Policy Blueberry College & Universitet

Privacy Policy Blueberry College & Universitet

Blueberry College & Universitet protects your privacy. In this policy, Blueberry College & Universitet, organization number 556632-3316 is called Blueberry and is responsible for personal data while you are called the customer.

Blueberry is responsible for all information that you provide in contact with us, which can be on the website, by phone, email or directly at one of our lectures, seminars, fairs, open house or similar.

You reach us in the following ways

Mail: Blueberry College & Universitet, Karlavägen 104, 115 26 Stockholm
Phone: 08-408 88 499; Email: info@blueberry.nu; Website: www.blueberry.nu

Processing of personal data 

This Privacy Policy applies to those customers who visit our website, subscribe to our newsletters and who choose to use our services to study at the foreign universities we represent.

Personal data is information that individually or in combination with other data can be used to identify you as a user as a physically living person. It can e.g. be your name, email address or phone number. 

The reason why we process your personal data is because we at Blueberry will be able to fulfill commitments to you as a customer, but we also collect information about you who are not yet a customer but who want to be contacted by us.

By choosing to apply to one of the colleges, universities or special schools we represent, you give your consent for us to transfer the personal information we collect from you to the college/university/special school you are applying to.  

As the person responsible for personal data, Blueberry is responsible for ensuring that your personal data is processed in a secure manner and that the GDPR is complied with. We do not process sensitive personal data unless there is specific consent to handle them. 

Internally, we handle your personal information in our customer database. This system is there to be able to deliver the services you request from us and to be able to handle questions and customer care in connection with the performance of these services. 

Blueberry acts as the personal data manager for the treatments listed in the personal data processes table further down this page.

Security

Blueberry protects your personal information through a combination of technical and organizational solutions. Access systems are required for access to Blueberry’s customer database that handles personal data. Blueberry employees must follow Blueberry’s internal information security policy.

How Cookies are used

To give you as a visitor as good an experience on our website as possible, Blueberry uses cookies. Cookies are used to enable us to see the choices you have previously made on our websites and to enable us to improve our website. Cookies are also used to measure traffic and statistics on our website as well as re-marketing. The information collected via cookies is anonymous and does not contain any personal information such as name or email address. Visitor information cannot be traced by Blueberry.

A cookie is a small amount of data that usually has a unique stamp on it. This data is sent from a website computer to your browser and stored there, on your hard drive, so that the website can recognize your computer. All websites can send cookies to your browser if your browser settings allow it. In order not to misuse this information, websites can only read information from cookies saved by themselves and not any cookies saved by other websites. There are two types of cookies, permanent cookies and session cookies. Permanent cookies are stored as a file on your computer or mobile for a certain period of time until you, or the server that sent them, deletes them. Session cookies are temporarily stored and disappear when you close your browser. You can choose not to automatically receive cookies from us in your browser settings.

Direct marketing

Blueberry uses newsletters or emails to provide you who want to study abroad with information about new universities, offers of scholarships from our current university partners, changes in the outside world that may be relevant to you such as changes to visa rules, grading rules etc. We also inform about stories from former students who want to share their experiences. Blueberry also invites to information meetings where sometimes representatives from foreign universities also participate.

Newsletters and emails are only sent to those who have agreed to receive information from Blueberry.

Transfer of information

We do not resell any customer information to third parties.

Changes to the privacy policy

Updates and changes to this privacy policy are published on this page.

Your rights

• You have the right to receive information about which personal data processing is done with us. We have collected these in the table personal data processing below. The table shows, among other things, purpose, legal basis and storage time.

• You have the right to once a year, through a written signed application, request an extract from the register where you can see what personal data processing we have about you.

• You have the right to request correction if we have errors registered about you.

• You have the right to be deleted under these conditions:

– The information is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected.

– If the information is saved with your consent and you revoke the consent.

– If the treatment is based on a balance of interests and there are no justified reasons that outweigh your interest.

– If the personal data has been processed illegally.

– If you object to treatment for direct marketing purposes.

• The right to be deleted does not apply if we are obliged by law (e.g. the Accounting Act) to retain the information.

• You have the right to data portability (the right to have your personal data transferred) provided that the legal basis is consent or agreement and what you can obtain is personal data concerning you, which you have provided yourself or which has been generated by your documents/activities.

• You have the right to request a restriction in the processing, but not have the request fulfilled if it is a requirement that the processing takes place for the service to work.

• You have the right to object to a personal data processing and Blueberry will then stop processing while the matter is investigated.

• You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Inspectorate about treatments performed by us.