Processing of personal data

Description of the service

The services Personnel account for BTH and Student account for BTH are services aimed at staff and students to activate and administer their user account at Blekinge Institute of Technology.


Handling of personal data

Transfer of personal data

The personal information from the identity issuer (your login service) is used to verify your identity so that you get access to your user account at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

In connection with logging in to this service, the following personal information is requested from the identity issuer you use:

Personal data Purpose Technical representation
First name First name of who is logging in givenName
Social security number or coordination number Know who is logging in norEduPersonNIN
Last name Last name of who is logging in sn
Assurance profile Know what assurance profile the logged in account has eduPersonAssurance

In addition to direct personal data, indirect personal data is also transferred, such as which organization the user belongs to or which identity issuer has been used when logging in. In combination with the above personal data, these can be used to uniquely identify a person.


Other processing of personal data in the service

We check that your identity is staff or students at Blekinge Institute of Technology by retrieving information about you from the identity management database.


Transfer of personal data to third parties

No personal data is transferred to third parties.


Legal basis

The user concludes an agreement in connection with retrieving the account. The user account is a prerequisite for being able to work or study at Blekinge Institute of Technology.

In order to be able to carry out our exercise of authority in a legally secure manner, we must be able to verify that it is the right person who retrieves their user account.


Right to register extract, correction and deletion of personal data

For register extracts, correction and deletion of your personal data, contact the personal data manager at BTH.

Correction of personal data transferred in connection with login is done by students in the study administration system Ladok. Staff who want the correct personal information contact the account administrator at the department or the IT Helpdesk.


Data erasure

The right to delete personal data is described in Blekinge Institute of Technology's description of personal data liability: BTH | Personal Data


Personal data manager

The person responsible for personal data for the processing of personal data is Blekinge Institute of Technology, 371 79 Karlskrona, epost: registrator@bth.se, telefon: 0455-38 50 00


GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct

This service complies with the international framework GÉANT Data Protection Code of Conduct (http://www.geant.net/uri/dataprotection-code-of-conduct/v1) for the transfer of personal data from identity issuers to the service. The framework is intended for services in Sweden, the EU and the EEA that are used in research and higher education.