Privacy Policy

Last updated on May 22nd, 2025

Preamble: Our commitment to protect Your Data

Group of Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament, (hereinafter indiscriminately "Group of Patriots for Europe", "the Group", “Us” or "We"), is the Data Controller of the Visitors of Our website: https://patriotsforeurope.eu/ (hereinafter the "website").

We know that You value how Your Personal Data is processed and recognize the importance of protecting and respecting Your privacy. This is why We implement all the appropriate security and protection measures to protect your Data and your privacy.

We explain to You in this "Privacy Policy" (hereinafter "Policy") why and how We collect and process Your Data on Our website, with whom and how We may share it and, above all, your rights regarding the protection of Personal Data and how You can exercise them.

When the Cookie Policy and this Privacy Policy are concerned, they will be commonly referred to as the "Document".

Visiting and browsing our website means that you accept that your personal data are to be processed as indicated in this Policy as well as in the Terms and conditions of Use and in the Cookie Policy.

This Privacy Policy is subject to change. Any modification of this Policy will be notified to you the next time you browse our website. We invite you to verify the last updated date on the top left of the page.

The English version of this Policy Policy prevails over any other translated version and is the only one deemed authentic.

If you have any questions about the Document, please write to our DPO at the following mail: vincent.keyaerts@europarl.europa.eu.

I. Definitions

In this Document, words or expressions beginning with a capital letter refer to the terms defined in the Terms and Conditions of Use and, failing that, will have the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1724 known as “EUDPR”:

"Consent" means any free, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she agrees, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, to the processing of Personal Data concerning him or her.

"Controller" means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law;

"Data Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or sets of Personal Data, whether by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, the alignment or interconnection, limitation, erasure or destruction.

"Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

"Processor" means the natural or legal person who processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.

"Recipient" means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body that receives communication of Personal Data, whether it is a third party.

“Regulation (EU) 2018/1725” means the 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, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 and Decision No 1247/2002/EC (Text with EEA relevance.),known as EUDPR.

"Social Networks" means sharing spaces on the Internet that allow the Visitor of the Website to follow our Group when You visit our official pages on the various social networks.

"Visitor" refers to any person browsing the Website.

"You" and "Your" refer to the Visitor of the Website.

II. Processing of Your Data: data collected, purposes and legal bases

A. For which purposes?

We only use and process Data that is relevant to achieve the following purposes:

  • To allow you to contact Us through our contact form, to ask us any questions on topics that are important to you.
  • Follow us on our official social media pages Instagram, Facebook, X, Tik Tok and YouTube.
  • Apply to our vacancies following the procedure put in place and be aware of the type of positions we offer at the Group of Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament by consulting the archived positions.
  • Participate to our tenders and download all the required documents in accordance with our procedure.
  • Measure the audience of our website and get to know the content which interests the Visitors the most.

The Group of Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament will not reuse your data or information for a purpose incompatible with the original purpose.

B. Which Data do we collect?

1. Data collected directly:

a) Contact form

We collect Data about You directly from You, to enable You to fill in the contact form.

Indeed, when you fill in Our form, we will ask You to provide Us with a certain amount of mandatory data, without which any communication with You would be impossible.

We will only ask You for the Data that is relevant to us to respond to your message. Mandatory data are followed by an asterisk (*).

Are concerned:

  • Identity data: surname, first name, email.
  • Your Message Data: the subject and content of the message.

Identity data is personal data because it allows you to be identified.

2. Data collected indirectly

Data collected indirectly is generally collected during your browsing of the pages of our website or by third parties through the deposit of Cookies.

We invite You to read our Cookie Policy to understand how we or third parties process Your Data in this specific case.

III. Whom do We share your data with?

The Group will share only the necessary information and personal data to the following Third Parties.

We will never disclose your data for direct marketing purposes.

We share Your Data with Our Data Processors, whether with the developer or the host of the Website, knowing that your data is hosted in a private server owned by the Group of Patriots for Europe within OVH in France. Your Data is never transferred to any Third country.

1. Website developer: E-Politic

The Group has entrusted E-Politic with the development of its website as E-Politic has provided us with all the guarantees in terms of security and data protection.

  • E-Politic :
  • Unipersonal limited company
  • 27 rue des Vignes
  • 75016 Paris
  • France

2. Data center Website host: OVH

The Website's Data is hosted in the OVH data centre in a private server owned by the Group of Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament.

OVH SAS is a subsidiary of OVH Groupe SA, a company registered with the Lille Trade and Companies Register under number 537 407 926 located at 2, rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix.

As your Data is hosted in a private server owned by the Group, we can ensure you with legal certainty and your data will never be submitted to any surveillance foreign regulation.

3. Cookie Management Platform: Agilitation

We share your Data with Agilitation, Axeptio’s Cookie Management Platform owner, located at 15 rue du Général Campredon 34000 Montpellier, France, with a capital of 76 130,00 €.

Axeptio has provided the Group with all the guarantees in terms of security and data protection.

4. Social networks

We have implemented some social networks buttons to allow you to follow the Group of Patriots for Europe in the European Parliament through our official pages.

As far as you have not clicked on any of the social network’s buttons, each of them (X, Meta, Tik Tok) are considered Joint controllers. Since you leave our website and are redirected to the social network selected by you, the social network will become the Data controller of your Data.

The Group is not to be held liable of the way these social networks process your data. The Group has no control over these social networks. We kindly invite you to carefully read each one of their Privacy and cookie Policies, knowing that to allow you to read our posts or watch our videos in their social networks, you are supposed to already have an account in the said social network.

To better know how deposited cookies process your data, we invite you to read our Cookie Policy, available at: Cookie Policy.

IV. Retention of Your Data

We have implemented the principle of minimization of Your Data and We keep it only for the time necessary to accomplish the Purposes described herein and accordingly to the administrative retention period of the European Parliament, not exceeding five years, based on the retention policy of European Parliament documents and files and the personal data contained in them, governed by the Bureau decision of 2 July 2012 on rules on document management in the European Parliament and its implementing measures adopted by Decision of the Secretary General of 25 October 2013.

Are thus concerned your applications to our vacancies and your application to our tenders.

Your data may be retained for a longer period for historical, statistical or scientific purposes, without prejudice to any other provisions of the EUDPR.

V. What are Your rights and how can You exercise them?

V.1 Your rights

In accordance with the applicable regulations on the protection of Personal Data, and in particular the EUDPR, You have the rights of information, access, deletion, limitation of processing, rectification, opposition and portability of Your Data, in accordance with Articles 14 to 24 of the EUDPR or in accordance with Article 7, You may withdraw Your Consent at your earliest convenience.

It exists some limitations to exercise your rights, especially but not limited to:

  • Not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other persons involved in the data processing.
  • When your personal data is necessary:
    • For exercising the right of freedom of expression and information.
    • For compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
    • For reasons of public interest.
    • For archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes,
    • For the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

IV.2 Definition of Your Rights

Right of access: This allows You to know whether Your Personal Data is being processed by the Group and to ask them to communicate it to You in an understandable and readable format. You will also be able to check the accuracy of the data and ask the Group, if necessary, to rectify or delete it.

Right to erasure: You can ask Us to delete Your Data. Careful! This right is not automatic. There are some exceptions that are regulated by law.

Right to restriction of processing: You can ask Us to freeze the processing of Your Data until it is verified and confirmed to be accurate. Careful! the freezing of Your Data does not imply the deletion of your Data.

Right to rectification: You can ask Us with undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you.

Right to object: You can object to Us using Your Data on compelling grounds to the processing of your data, except in the case of political prospecting, which You may oppose with no reason.

Right to portability: You may request from Us the Data You have provided to us based on Your Consent or a contract. We will send You Your Data in a "structured", machine-readable format.

Post-mortem rights: You can give your beneficiaries instructions on the fate of Your Data in the event of death.

IV.3 How can you exercise your rights?

You can exercise Your rights by sending an email clearly describing your request to the address: vincent.keyaerts@europarl.europa.eu.

You may obtain an opinion on the data processing carried out by Us by consulting the Data Protection Officer of the European Parliament (DPO) by writing to data-protection@europarl.europa.eu. This DPO is responsible, within each Institution of the European Union, for ensuring that the rights and freedoms of data subjects are not adversely affected by data processing operations.

If you believe your rights have been infringed because of the processing of your personal data, you can lodge a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) - the independent supervisory authority, by sending a mail to edps@edps.europa.eu.