FSO members can now securely store and share in a Swedish cloud
More and more companies and associations are realising the importance of adapting their operations to the requirements of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR), which comes into force on 25 May 2018. Requirements that may seem like a tangled jungle to many, but are designed to protect, limit and give individuals control over their personal data. Now, Free Preschools has signed a framework agreement with Storegate to make it easy and secure for its members to store files that comply with the GDPR.
FSO Fria förskolor is a national trade association for independent and non-profit preschools in Sweden. The preschools' management and administrative functions handle both sensitive and non-sensitive personal data. This can range from children's allergies, special diets due to religious affiliation, protected address data to something as simple as personal identity numbers and ordinary residential addresses.
- We see that many people choose to send unencrypted emails to our members containing personal data and other information that should not be there. This is something we cannot stand behind and have therefore chosen to give our members an alternative to collecting and sharing information digitally in a secure way," says Mimmi von Troil, CEO, FSO Free Preschools. The fact that we then negotiated a good offer with Swedish support is a plus for us.
- Today, many schools and municipalities use services that are not GDPR compliant when information is passed between them and there is a lot of uncertainty about who and which public cloud providers can be trusted. The fact that Free Preschools choose Storegate in times like these, when the debate about Facebook and Google is going on most in the media, is proof of the need for a Swedish cloud service, says Torbjörn Lindkvist, Sales Manager at Storegate AB.
For more information, please contact:
Torbjörn Lindkvist, Sales Manager, Storegate AB,
+46 (0) 705 487 463, torbjorn.lindkvist[at]storegate.com
Mimmi von Troil, CEO, FSO Free Preschools,
+46 (0) 31-309 90 10, mt[at]fso.se
ABOUT FSO FREE PRESCHOOLS
FSO Fria förskolor is the national trade association for independent, non-profit preschools and educational care in Sweden. FSO is politically and religiously independent, and is a member-owned, member-managed and member-funded organisation where the members have defined the organisation's mission - "to work from a child's perspective for all children's equal opportunity for development regardless of the head of the preschool". The FSO's work protects the safety and individual security and integrity of children as well as the member preschools and their staff's opportunity for a good and safe working environment. Preschools can then provide children with the tools and conditions they need for their development. They therefore welcome any initiative aimed at strengthening children's security and their ability to develop at their own pace and to absorb learning and development in the best possible way. For the FSO, this mission is in line with the fundamental principles and values adopted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) in 1995, which, like the mission of its members, underpin the FSO's activities.
