Role and election of the President of the European Council: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) | Epdenktank

Learn more about our Cookie Policy.

The current website is hosted by WordPress.com, a service of Automattic. Automattic is a global company with thousands of servers located in several separate data centers around the world. While Automattic for the security of the platformwe, the European Parliament Research Service, own the content of the blog. For more detailed information on the compliance of Automattic’s products and services with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please see their special page.

Data collected

We do not collect any personal information that could identify an individual user. The users registered on WordPress.com should consult this wordpress.com terms of service. We collect anonymized aggregated data for statistical purposes. The data collected for these purposes includes: number of visits/visitors per page, the user’s country and the total number of inbound and outbound clicks.

We determine the number of unique pages by using a “hashed” version of the visitor’s IP address. The visitor’s full IP address is deleted from our logs after just over a month. That time frame is how long the data is needed to allow us to calculate your metrics monthly, and no longer.

We only collect your email address if you have proactively requested to be notified of updates to the blog. You can always contact us to remove your email address from our records or unsubscribe from the reporting service.

We may also see your name and email address if you have commented on one of our posts. We do not make the email address visible in the response. Nevertheless, we can delete your comments upon request.

Cookies

We only collect cookies to facilitate your browsing experience, for example to allow you to share our posts via social media or to comment on the post. Most cookies are only used if you are a registered WordPress.com user. In this case you are obliged to do so WordPress.com Terms of Service.

Some pages contain content from third parties. In this case, you must actively agree to their terms in order to view the content.

We do not collect cookies to serve advertisements, nor do we sell information collected with cookies to third parties. Read more about wordpress.com’s cookie policy and how you can manage cookies special page.