Privacy

MHB Global AB publishes Sweden Brief. We are the controller for the personal data we use to operate this website and handle Sweden Brief enquiries. Company details are on the About page.

Visiting the website

Cloudflare hosts and protects this website. It processes technical information, including IP addresses and browser and connection information, to deliver pages, prevent abuse and investigate security problems. We use these services for our legitimate interests in running a reliable and secure publication.

Emailing us

Contact links take you to a Cloudflare Turnstile security check before showing our email address. Cloudflare processes technical browser and connection information to check for automated requests. Our server checks the result before returning the address. We do not store verification tokens in an application database or log them in our code.

Cloudflare processes the security signals on our behalf to protect this site. It also processes those signals as a controller to improve its bot detection. Its Turnstile Privacy Addendum explains that processing.

This Turnstile check is configured not to issue a clearance cookie. The email check does not grant access to other pages.

After the check, you can copy the address or open your email app. This website does not send your message through a contact form. General enquiries and corrections go to the same Sweden Brief mailbox at MHB Global AB, hosted in Microsoft 365. If you cannot use the check, you can write to the postal address on our About page.

Your email can contain your address, name, message and any attachments you choose to send. Please include only what is needed for your enquiry. Do not send identity documents, medical records or other sensitive case documents.

We use your address, message and necessary attachments to reply, handle corrections and follow up the matter. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to readers and maintaining accurate reporting. We handle applicable data-protection requests to meet our legal obligations. Sending an email does not give consent to unrelated uses.

Who handles information

Hasnain Mirza remains responsible for enquiries, corrections and privacy requests for MHB Global AB, with ChatGPT/Codex assistance for handling the work. Microsoft provides our email service. Cloudflare provides website hosting and security.

We use OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Codex to assist with editorial and website administration work. Information provided to these tools, including relevant administrative details or selected material needed for a task, is processed by OpenAI. We limit what we share and remove unnecessary identifying details. This does not mean that every incoming message is automatically sent to an AI tool. A person remains responsible for our editorial decisions and responses.

How long we keep information

We review ordinary resolved enquiries at least quarterly and manually delete correspondence when it is no longer needed for a reply or follow-up. This includes unnecessary attachments and working copies. We remove messages from Deleted Items as part of that process; moving a message there is not the end of deletion.

At the same review, we check personal information in related task and chat records and local working copies. We remove material we control when its purpose ends, using the service’s deletion controls. Archiving a chat is not deletion. We also review stale unanswered enquiries and close them when no real action or follow-up need remains.

We keep selected correction or dispute evidence only for a documented purpose, with a review date. We delete it when that need ends, unless a specific legal preservation requirement still applies. We do not keep a whole mailbox indefinitely as an editorial archive.

Deleting working correspondence does not immediately remove every recovery copy. Microsoft 365 can retain deleted items until the applicable recovery period expires; a preservation requirement can delay removal until it ends. Recovery copies are not used for routine correspondence. If information is restored, we apply our review and deletion rule again, subject to any continuing preservation requirement.

Provider records can have separate retention criteria. For information Cloudflare handles for its own purposes, these include the purpose, nature and sensitivity of the information and legal requirements. Its privacy policy explains those criteria. Our manual correspondence review is not a promise of simultaneous deletion from every provider system.

We use an individual ChatGPT Pro account. OpenAI’s Europe privacy policy explains retention: some account content remains until deleted; service needs, data type, settings, safety, security, disputes and legal obligations can affect retention. Deleting material we control does not override applicable provider retention exceptions. We do not promise zero retention or that information is never used for model improvement.

International processing

Information may be processed outside the European Economic Area. Microsoft and Cloudflare describe safeguards for relevant transfers, including European Commission standard contractual clauses where required, in Microsoft’s data-protection terms and Cloudflare’s data-processing addendum.

OpenAI’s Europe privacy policy describes processing outside the EEA, including in the United States, and safeguards based on adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses for other destinations. We do not promise that all processing stays in the EEA. Contact us for information about the services, recipients and safeguards relevant to your information.

Privacy enquiries

Contact us about privacy if you have a question about how we use personal information. Depending on the processing and applicable law, you may have rights to access, correct or delete information, restrict its use, object to processing or receive information in a portable format. These rights are not unconditional.

You can complain to the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY).

We assess requests promptly, normally responding within one month. If a permitted extension is needed, we explain why within that first month. We may ask for proportionate information to confirm identity; please do not send identity documents unless we explain why they are needed. You can also write to the postal address on our About page.