Personal Data Policy

Document last updated: 2026-04-14 13:48, Swedish summer time.

How ALTES Handles Personal Data

Data Controller

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) is the data controller for the processing of your personal data. Your contact person for this processing is: Kim Lindgren, who can be reached via kim.lindgren@slu.se.

The Data Protection Officer at SLU is Anna Jarmar, who can be reached via anna.jarmar@slu.se or +46(0)18-672 275. You can also contact the Data Protection Unit: dataskydd@slu.se, +46(0)18-672 090.

Purpose

ALTES is intended to serve as a national agricultural field experiments in Sweden. The main purpose is to secure and make these experiments visible. To achieve this, we store contact information about the individuals responsible for the experiments, enabling dialogue if any of the experiments are at risk of being compromised.

SLU will also process your personal data in the manner required for SLU to comply with the rules regarding public documents and the archives of authorities.

Legal Basis

According to Section 6 of the Swedish Agency Ordinance, 2007:515, all Swedish authorities must strive to improve their operations. To do this, it is necessary for us at SLU to handle information about the individuals who register field experiments in our system.

According to the Archives Act and the Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act, all authorities must also ensure that public documents are handled correctly. Personal data concerning individuals who register field experiments in ALTES are considered to be of public interest.

Technical Preferences and Local Storage

To improve the accessibility and user experience of the platform, we offer a "Quick Settings" feature in the website footer.

If you choose to use these settings (e.g., activating a high-legibility font), your preference is stored and applied directly on your device using LocalStorage.

• Scope: This data stays in your browser and is never sent to our servers.
• Purpose: The storage is strictly functional, ensuring that the interface remains in your preferred state as you navigate the site.
• Control: You can remove these settings at any time by toggling them off in the footer or by clearing your browser's cache/local storage.

Because these settings are stored only on your device and are not used to identify you or track your behavior, they do not require a separate cookie consent banner under the ePrivacy Directive.

Disclosure

SLU may disclose your personal data to anyone who requests a public document containing your personal data, in accordance with the rules on public documents, unless they are subject to confidentiality. Please note that technical preferences stored locally on your device (see the heading "Technical Preferences and Local Storage") are not held by SLU and therefore cannot be disclosed as public documents.

Your Rights

You have the right, under certain circumstances, to have your data deleted, corrected, restricted, and to access the personal data being processed, as well as the right to object to the processing of your data. To exercise your rights, contact Anna Jarmar or the Data Protection Unit.

Feedback

If you have any feedback regarding SLU's processing of personal data, you can contact dataskydd@slu.se, +46(0)8-67 20 90.

If you are not satisfied with SLU's response to your contact, you can file a complaint regarding SLU's processing of your personal data with the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection, imy@imy.se or +46(0)8-657 61 00.

You can read more about the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection's supervision at https://www.imy.se/en/.