Privacy Policy

Find out more about your rights and our Privacy Policy.

Making Europe Again is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Contact us if you have any questions or problems regarding the use of your Personal Data and we will gladly assist you.

By using this site or/and our services, you consent to the Processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.

Making Europe Again website is provided by our Presidency Office. The data controller for Making Europe Again is the Presidency Office. A data controller determines how and why personal data is processed.

Definitions

  • Personal Data – any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person
  • Processing – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data
  • Data subject – a natural person whose Personal Data is being Processed
  • Child – a natural person under 16 years of age
  • We/us (either capitalized or not) – Making Europe Again NGO

Data Protection Principles

We promise to follow the following data protection principles:

  • Processing is lawful, fair, transparent. Our Processing activities have lawful grounds. We always consider your rights before Processing Personal Data. We will provide you information regarding Processing upon request
  • Processing is limited to the purpose. Our Processing activities fit the purpose for which Personal Data was gathered
  • Processing is done with minimal data. We only gather and Process the minimal amount of Personal Data required for any purpose
  • Processing is limited with a time period. We will not store your personal data for longer than needed
  • We will do our best to ensure the accuracy of data
  • We will do our best to ensure the integrity and confidentiality of data

Data we gather

Information you have provided us with

This might be your e-mail address, name, billing address, home address etc – mainly information that is necessary for delivering you a product/service or to enhance your user experience with us. We save the information you provide us with in order for you to give feedback or perform other activities on the website. This information includes, for example, your name and e-mail address. The same applies when you apply to become part of our team.

Information automatically collected about you

This includes information that is automatically stored by cookies and other session tools. For example, your IP address, the language that you speak, etc. This information is used to improve your user experience. When you use our services or look at the contents of our website, your activities may be logged.

Information from our partners

We gather information from our trusted partners with confirmation that they have legal grounds to share that information with us. This is either information you have provided them directly with or that they have gathered about you on other legal grounds.

Publicly available information

We might gather information about you that is publicly available.

What data we need

The personal data we collect from you includes:

  • questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you contact Making Europe Again
  • your email address and subscription preferences when you sign up to our email alerts
  • how you use our emails – for example whether you open them and which links you click on
  • your Internet Protocol (IP) address, and details of which version of web browser you used
  • information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques

Why we need it

We use your Personal Data in order to:

  • Provide our service to you. This includes for example registering your account; providing you with other services that you have requested; providing you with publications or reports at your request and communicating with you in relation to those services; communicating and interacting with you; and notifying you of changes to any services
  • Enhance your user experience
  • Fulfil an obligation under law or contract
  • Create anonymised statistics to improve our services and contents

We use your Personal Data on legitimate grounds and/or with your Consent.

On the grounds of entering into a contract or fulfilling contractual obligations, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To identify you;
  • To provide you a service or to send/offer you a product (e.g. one of our publications);
  • To communicate either for sales or invoicing;
  • To transmit your Personal Data to public authorities if we are requested to do so

On the ground of legitimate interest, we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To send you communications
  • To administer and analyse our user base (website interaction behaviour and history) in order to improve the quality, variety, and availability of products/ services offered/provided
  • To conduct questionnaires concerning user satisfaction

With your consent we Process your Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To send you newsletters
  • for other purposes we have asked your consent for

We Process your Personal Data in order to fulfil obligation rising from law and/or use your Personal Data for options provided by law. We reserve the right to anonymise Personal Data gathered and to use any such data. We will use data outside the scope of this Policy only when it is anonymised. We save your billing information and other information gathered about you for as long as needed for accounting purposes or other obligations deriving from law, but not longer than 7 years.

We might process your Personal Data for additional purposes that are not mentioned here, but are compatible with the original purpose for which the data was gathered. To do this, we will ensure that:

  • The link between purposes, context and nature of Personal Data is suitable for further Processing
  • The further Processing would not harm your interests and
  • There would be appropriate safeguard for Processing

We will inform you of any further Processing and purposes.

What we do with your data

The data we collect may be shared with supplier organisations, or government departments, agencies and public bodies.

We will not:

  • sell or rent your data to third parties
  • share your data with third parties for marketing purposes

We will share your data if we are required to do so by law – for example, by court order, or to prevent fraud or other crime.

How long we keep your data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as:

  • it is needed for the purposes set out in this document
  • the law requires us to

In general, this means that we will only hold your personal data for a minimum of 1 year and a maximum of 7 years.

Cookies and other technologies we use

We use cookies and/or similar technologies to analyse user behaviour, administer the website, track users’ movements, and to collect information about users. This is done in order to personalise and enhance your experience with us.

A cookie is a tiny text file stored on your computer. Cookies store information that is used to help make sites work. Only we can access the cookies created by our website. You can control your cookies at the browser level. Choosing to disable cookies may hinder your use of certain functions.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Necessary cookies – these cookies are required for you to be able to use some important features on our website, such as logging in. These cookies do not collect any personal information
  • Functionality cookies – these cookies provide functionality that makes using our service more convenient and makes providing more personalised features possible. For example, they might remember your name and e-mail in comment forms so you don’t have to re-enter this information next time when commenting
  • Analytics cookies – these cookies are used to track the use and performance of our website and services
  • Advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and to your interests. In addition, they are used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement. They are usually placed to the website by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. These cookies remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organisations such as advertisers. Often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organisation

You can remove cookies stored in your computer via your browser settings. Alternatively, you can control some 3rd party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as optout.aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com. For more information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

We may use Google Analytics to measure traffic on our website. Google has their own Privacy Policy which you can review here. If you would like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, visit the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Children’s privacy protection

Our services are not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children 13 years of age or younger. We do not intentionally collect or maintain data about anyone under the age of 13.

Where your data is processed and stored

We design, build and run our systems to make sure that your data is as safe as possible at any stage, both while it is processed and when it is stored.

Your personal data may, throughout the course of its processing at Making Europe Again, be transferred outside of the European Economic Area (EEA). Where this is the case, all appropriate technical and legal safeguards will be put in place to ensure that you are afforded the same level of protection as within the EEA.

Who else can access your Personal Data

We do not share your Personal Data with strangers. Personal Data about you is in some cases provided to our trusted partners in order to either make providing the service to you possible or to enhance your user experience.

We only work with Processing partners who are able to ensure adequate level of protection to your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data to third parties or public officials when we are legally obliged to do so. We might disclose your Personal Data to third parties if you have consented to it or if there are other legal grounds for it.

How we protect your data and keep it secure

We do our best to keep your Personal Data safe.  We use safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). We use anonymising and pseudonymising where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks. Moreover, only our Board of Directors, our Presidency Office and Human Resources Department members of Staff are authorised to deal with your Personal Data.

Even though we try our best we can not guarantee the security of information. We also make sure that any third parties that we deal with keep all personal data they process on our behalf secure. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do everything we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.

If you have an account with us, note that you have to keep your username and password secret.

Your rights

The Data Subject has the following rights:

  • Right to information – meaning you have to right to know whether your Personal Data is being processed; what data is gathered, from where it is obtained and why and by whom it is processed
  • Right to access – meaning you have the right to access the data collected from/about you. This includes your right to request and obtain a copy of your Personal Data gathered
  • Right to rectification – meaning you have the right to request rectification or erasure of your Personal Data that is inaccurate or incomplete
  • Right to erasure – meaning in certain circumstances you can request for your Personal Data to be erased from our records
  • Right to restrict processing – meaning where certain conditions apply, you have the right to restrict the Processing of your Personal Data
  • Right to object to processing – meaning in certain cases you have the right to object to Processing of your Personal Data, for example in the case of direct marketing
  • Right to object to automated Processing – meaning you have the right to object to automated Processing, including profiling; and not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated Processing. This right you can exercise whenever there is an outcome of the profiling that produces legal effects concerning or significantly affecting you
  • Right to data portability – you have the right to obtain your Personal Data in a machine-readable format or if it is feasible, as a direct transfer from one Processor to another
  • Right to lodge a complaint – in the event that we refuse your request under the Rights of Access, we will provide you with a reason as to why. If you are not satisfied with the way your request has been handled please contact us
  • Right for the help of supervisory authority – meaning you have the right for the help of a supervisory authority and the right for other legal remedies such as claiming damages
  • Right to withdraw consent – you have the right withdraw any given consent for Processing of your Personal Data

If you have any of these requests, get in contact with our Presidency Office.

Links to other websites

Our website contains links to other websites.

This privacy policy only applies to makingeuropeagain.eu, and does not cover other third party services and transactions that we link to. These services, such as PayPal, the EUROPA website, etc., have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies.

Following a link to another website

If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

Following a link to Making Europe Again from another website

If you come to makingeuropeagain.eu from another website, we may receive information from the other website. We do not use this data. You should read the privacy policy of the website you came from to find out more about this.

Take control over your data

You can manage your data that you share with us through our Privacy Tools page.

Legislation

Find out more about the current European legislation and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR) on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. The regulation came into force on 24 May 2016 and will apply from 25 May 2018.

Cookies

You will see that our site collects data because of Automattic. Automattic helps us understand how users use our website. Please know that if you have a Do Not Track request activated on your browser, our website will never track you in any way.

Do Not Track option

You can always activate a “Do Not Track” option on your browser. Select your browser to see how to opt-out from tracking:

Changes to this policy

We may change this privacy policy. In that case, the ‘last updated’ date on this page will also change. Any changes to this privacy policy will apply to you and your data immediately. If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, our Presidency Office will take reasonable steps to let you know.

Last updated 18 May 2018.

Contact us

Contact us if you:

  • have any questions about anything in this document
  • think that your personal data has been misused or mishandled

Presidency Office
presidency@makingeuropeagain.eu
Via Bellinzona, 12
40135 Bologna, Italy

Public Authority in Italy

You can also make a complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner in Italy, who is an independent regulator.

urp@gpdp.it
Telephone: +3906696772917
Monday to Friday, 10am to 12:30pm

Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
Piazza di Monte Citorio, 121
00186 Roma, Italy