Privacy statement and legal notice
The information on this website is subject to personal data protection rules, to copyright and to a disclaimer by the Council.
Consultation or use of this site involves the full acceptance of the general conditions set out below.
Protection of personal data
'Personal data' means any information relating to an identified or identifiable person - one who can be identified by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his or her identity.
When you access the information available on or via the website of the Council, we collect your anonymised IP address and your location (continent, country, region, city) via cookies.
In order to use certain online services available on the Council website - for example to request a visit to the Council, to subscribe to our emailing system or to send a question to the Public Information service - you may be asked to supply information about yourself. For instance, contact details required to fill in a form: name and first name, profession, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number or nationality.
The Council will collect such personal information only to the extent necessary to fulfill the precise purpose specified for each online service. In each such case, the details the details of the data controller (the person responsible for processing the data collected about you) appears on the related privacy statement and on the public register maintained by our data protection officer.
- Privacy statement for website
- Privacy statement for email and SMS subscription
- Privacy statement for accreditation of journalists
- Privacy statement for publications
- Access to Council and European Council documents and public information
- Privacy statement for outreach activities, visits and events
- Privacy statement for outreach e-newsletter
- Privacy statement for processing of images videos for outreach purposes
- Privacy statement for logos
- Privacy statement for traineeships
- Privacy statement for images and videos on social media channels
- Personal data protection at the General Secretariat of the Council (background information)
- Personal data of external visitors to the Council Library reading room
- Privacy statement for processing data on Eureka
- Use of Zoom video conference platform for press and outreach activities at the Council of the European Union
To exercise your rights or to obtain any further information, you can apply directly to the responsible data controller. You may also consult the Council data protection officer in order to obtain an opinion on the processing operations concerning you. If you believe your rights have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data, you can lodge a complaint with the European Data Protection Supervisor, the independent supervisory authority.
Within the PRADO section of the website no use is made of authentic personal data if not necessary. In order to ensure the protection of privacy and personal data when use is made of authentic documents (as opposed to specimen), no details which could identify a person are made legible unless individual data items are the subject of the contribution.
This website sometimes provides links to other internet sites. Since the Council has no control over such sites, we suggest that you review their privacy policies.
Cookies
This website uses AT Internet to help analyse the use of the website, and Site Improve in order to identify and correct accessibility errors. For more information see our cookies policy page.
Legal Disclaimer
The Council maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its activities and Council policies in general. Our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate. The Council, however, accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the material on this site. This material is:
- information of a general nature only which is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity
- not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date
- sometimes linked to external sites over which the Council services have no control and for which the Council assumes no responsibility
- not professional or legal advice (if you need specific advice, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional).
Please note that it cannot be guaranteed that a document available on-line exactly reproduces an officially adopted text. Only European Union legislation published in the electronic editions of the Official Journal of the European Union is deemed authentic.
It is our goal to minimise disruption caused by technical errors. However some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats which are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. However, the Council accepts no responsibility for direct or indirect damage which may result from the use of this site.
This disclaimer is not intended to limit the liability of the Council in contravention of any requirements laid down in applicable national or European law, nor to exclude its liability for matters which may not be excluded under Article 340 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
