Data protection notice

Who processes your personal data (who is the data controller)?

This data protection notice applies to websites of the 2024 European Parliament Elections that are available under the “elections.europa.eu” domain. It covers the navigation of our websites, but does not cover e-services, like contact or registration forms, we may offer you.
For each e-service made available on those websites, a specific data protection notice informing you about the purpose of processing your personal data, the legal basis, the categories of personal data collected, and foremost about your rights and whom to contact in case you wish to exercise your rights, will be accessible in the concerned web pages.
We process your personal data pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data (the ‘Regulation’).
We provide you with the information that follows based on Article 15 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.

What is the purpose of the processing of your personal data?

The European Parliament acts as the data controller and the department responsible for the processing is the Directorate for Campaigns of the Directorate-General for Communication of the European Parliament, represented by its director.
You can contact the controller by email at webmaster@europarl.europa.eu or by post, in a sealed envelope, at European Parliament, Directorate-General for Communication, Directorate for Campaigns, to the attention of the Director, 60 rue Wiertz / Wiertzstraat 60, 1047 - Bruxelles/Brussels, Belgium.

What is the legal basis for the processing?

We process your personal data in order to analyse, monitor and diagnosis our technical infrastructures and applications. Your data is collected, processed and stored in server logs that help us to achieve operational security, to investigate on incidents, to monitor our network and to provide user assistance.

What personal data do we process?

The lawfulness of our processing is based on Article 5 (1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 interpreted in the light of Recital 22, since it is necessary for the performance of tasks carried out in the public interest by the European Parliament.

For how long do we store your personal data?

We collect and process the following data:

• your IP address
• date and timeslot of your connection
• part of the European Parliament’s websites you visited
• your operating system
• the volume of data loaded
• the protocol used (http; https; rtmp, etc.)

Who are the recipients of your personal data?

Your personal data is recorded in log files that are created daily in real time and are stored for a period of 6 months.
Log files logs are essential as they help us to assume our operational security, to investigate on incidents, to monitor our network and telecommunication performance and to provide user assistance.

Do we use cookies?

We share your personal data exclusively with our colleagues of the European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support who are in charge of the Cloud infrastructure. They may access your personal data in order to provide appropriate technical support.
Our only processor is our Cloud service providers, which is bounded by specific contractual clauses and by the obligations deriving from the Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.
We do not share your personal data with any non-EU country or international organisation.

Do we use local storage?

We use cookies on our websites.
Our cookies policy and the list of cookies we place are available on line on our Cookies policy and Cookies inventory pages.

Do we use tracking technologies?

We use the local storage capability of your browser as part of our multimedia platform (named "Multimedia Centre") that hosts the videos embedded in this website.
Below, you may find the data placed on your browser.

[ featured.content.list.filter ]
Purpose: Used to record the type of media selected by the user in the “Most relevant media” section of the homepage in the Multimedia Centre platform.

[ kaltura-player-js_audioLanguage ]
Purpose: Used to record the language of the audio track of videos watched via the player of the Multimedia Centre (Kaltura player).

[ kaltura-player-js_textLanguage ]
Purpose: Used to record the language of the subtitles of videos watched via the player of the Multimedia Centre (Kaltura player).

Do we allow third party content?

We do not use any tracking technologies, like beacon, browser fingerprinting, or tracking pixel.

What rights do you have and how can you exercise them?

Our websites may provide links to external websites that are not covered by this data protection notice. When this is the case, we inform you about it and provide you with their specific terms and conditions, including their own data protection notice and cookie policy, over which we have no control.