Protection of your personal data
This privacy statement provides information about the processing and the protection of your personal dataProcessing operation: Survey on feedback mechanisms (UPower project)
Data Controller: Funka Nu AB (Sweden)
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
9. Contact information
1. Introduction
Funka is committed to protect your personal data and to respect your privacy. Funka collects and further processes personal data pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU Member States (
Regulation (EU) 2016/679, hereinafter ‘GDPR’) and the
Swedish Act containing supplementary provisions to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (SFS 2018:218) (hereinafter ‘the Data Protection Act’). The Data Protection Act is the transposition of the GDPR. The official version of the act is
Lag (2018:218) med kompletterande bestämmelser till EU:s dataskyddsförordning (dataskyddslagen), in Swedish.
This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data, the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights.
This privacy statement concerns the processing operation related to research and consultation activities, undertaken by the Funka as presented below.
2. Why and how do we process your personal data?
Purpose of the processing operation: Funka collects and uses your personal information within the framework of research and consultation activities. In particular, this survey is related to the UPowerWAD - Users Power the Web Accessibility Directive Erasmus+ project.
For reasons of transparency and openness, in principle, your views may be published in a project deliverable, either directly as received, in the form of a summary report, or included in a wider set of views. Your identity, if you provided it, is not published.
If the subject matter of the consultation activity requires you to provide personal data in your response. These personal data will only be published subject to your explicit consent.
If you opt for confidentiality of your personal data, it is your responsibility to avoid any reference in your submission or contribution that would reveal your identity.
The consultation activity uses the Alchemer survey tool. It requires no login. The
privacy policy of the Alchemer (previously: SurveyGizmo) survey tool is available online.
Your personal data will not be used for an automated decision-making including profiling.
3. On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
We process your personal data (see in point 4), because processing is necessary for the legitimate interests pursued by the controller (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).
We ensure that adequate and specific safeguards are implemented for the processing of personal data, in line with the applicable data protection legislation.
4. Which personal data do we collect and further process?
In order to carry out this processing operation the Data Controller may collect the following categories of personal data:
- country of origin,
- if provided, e-mail address of the respondent,
- if relevant, the name, and type of the organisation on whose behalf the respondent is contributing,
- personal data included in the response or contribution to the survey (if the survey at hand requires so).
Furthermore, you may spontaneously provide other, non-requested personal data in the context of your reply to the survey.
5. How long do we keep your personal data?
The Data Controller only keeps your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing in the Project, and for a maximum of five years after the closure of the project to which the present consultation belongs. This retention period is without prejudice to an earlier elimination of personal data not part of the file or cases of administrative elimination.
6. How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on the servers of Funka and/or of the survey provider (Alchemer, previously: SurveyGizmo). All processing operations are carried out pursuant to the GDPR and the Data Protection Act.
7. Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
Access to your personal data is provided to the Funka staff responsible for carrying out this processing operation, to the staff of the UPower project partners (the European Blind Union, TU Dortmund University and Synthesis Center for Research and Education) working with the results of this survey and to authorised staff according to the “need to know” principle, in particular to follow-up on the survey.
Certain personal data may be made public in a project deliverable, namely:
- any personal data provided in your response to the survey, on which you consented to their publication, presented without names, as part of aggregated data, which might be presented by country, age group, gender, highest education/qualification, category of respondents, a combination of those and/or without such break-down;
- personal data spontaneously provided by you in your contribution (without it being required by the consultation activity).
The information we collect will not be given to any third party, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law.
8. What are your rights and how can you exercise them?
You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles2-23) of the GDPR, in particular the right to access, rectify or erase your personal data and the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Where applicable, you also have the right to object to the processing or the right to data portability. These rights might be limited by provisions of the Data Protection Act.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is lawfully carried out pursuant to Article 6(1)(a), on grounds relating to your particular situation.
Insofar you have consented to the certain processing of your personal data to the Data Controller for the present processing operation, you can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the Data Controller. The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.
You can exercise your rights by contacting the Data Controller. Their contact information is given under Heading 9 below.
Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description in your request.
9. Contact information
The Data Controller
If you would like to exercise your rights under the GDPR, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller at
support@funka.com.