Personal data on Openaid is processed under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Sweden’s Data Protection Act 2018:218, which supplements the EU rules.

Personal data is any information that identifies an individual directly or indirectly. Processing covers collecting, registering, storing and using personal data.

Sida processes personal data to fulfil its mandate as a government agency and to uphold the transparency guarantee. Data may include names, contact details and, in certain cases, information about living conditions. Sida obtains this data from its partners.

Sida processes information about the IP addresses of visitors to our website in order to example: detect errors, viruses, intrusion attempts and security issues. Visitors’ IP addresses are collected and may be investigated in the event of an incident. Logs are deleted after 1 year.

The legal basis for the processing is information of public interest.

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Public documents

Under the Freedom of the Press (1949:105), all notices sent to or created by a government agency become public documents.

Everyone has the right to access these records. When someone requests a document, Sida first reviews it for confidentiality under the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act (2009:400) before release.