Introduction

The European Commission is committed to the protection of your personal data and respects your privacy on all its websites on the europa.eu domain.

This privacy policy on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the European Commission is based on the Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.

This privacy policy covers all the European Commission’s websites within the ec.europa.eu domain as well as inter-institutional EU websites on the europa.eu domain that are managed by the Commission. You can browse through most of these websites without giving any personal data.  

In certain cases though, your personal data may be required for the provision of an e-service. When personal data is required for that purpose, you can find more detailed information on that in a specific privacy statement linked to the website. You will find which service you should contact in that specific privacy statement.

In this respect:

• an operational controller ensures conformity with the specific privacy statement in place for each e-service
• the Data Protection Officer ensures in an independent manner the internal application of the Regulation in the Commission, and advises operational controllers on their data protection obligations
• the European Data Protection Supervisor acts as an independent supervisory authority

 

Information contained in a specific privacy statement

When visiting other Commission websites, further specific privacy statements will contain the following information about the use of your personal data:

• the purposes of the processing and how your personal data is processed
• on what legal grounds your personal data is processed
• which personal data is collected and further processed
• how long it is kept
• how it is protected and safeguarded
• who has access to your personal data
• what are your rights and how you can exercise them
• who to contact if you have questions or complaints

Cookies and third parties

Some websites of the Commission on Europa use 'first-party cookies'. These are cookies set and controlled by the Commission, not by any external organisation.

The Commission's websites within the ec.europa.eu domain may provide links to third-party sites. In order to use third party content on our websites, you may need to accept their specific terms and conditions, including their cookie policies over which we have no control.