This cookie notice explains how the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament (hereinafter: the ‘S&D Group’) uses cookies on https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/.
1. Introduction
The S&D Group’s website, https://www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu/ (hereinafter: ‘the website’) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as ‘cookies’). In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on the S&D Group’s website. Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make the S&D Group’s website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on the S&D Group’s server or on your device. We may place these cookies without your consent.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored only for this purpose and for a maximum of 100 days using web beacons. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical and functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing technical and functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit the S&D Group’s website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting the S&D Group’s website. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
The S&D Group uses statistics cookies to optimise the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies, we get insights into the usage of our website. We ask for your consent to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing and tracking cookies
Marketing and tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on the S&D Group’s website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes. We ask for your consent to place marketing and tracking cookies.
5.4 Social media cookies
On the S&D Group’s website, we have included content from Facebook and X to share (e.g. ‘tweet’) on social networks like Facebook and X. This content is embedded with code derived from Facebook and X and places cookies. This content might store and process certain information for personalised advertising. Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook and X are located in the United States. We ask for your consent to place social media cookies.
5.5. Plug-ins
Third-party plugins are software modules provided by external entities, not the owner of the main website. They perform specific functions like analytics, advertising, or social media integration. These plug-ins often use cookies to collect data about user behaviour, preferences, or demographics. We ask for your consent to place plug-in cookies.
6. Placed cookies
Google Analytics
Statistics, Functional
Consent to service google-analytics
YouTube
Marketing/Tracking, Functional
Consent but required to show you our work.
Marketing/Tracking, Functional
Consent to service facebook
X
Functional, Marketing/Tracking
Consent to service twitter
7. Consent
When you visit the S&D Group’s website for the first time, you will be shown a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on ‘Save preferences’, you consent to the S&D Group using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this cookie policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that certain aspects of the S&D Group’s website may no longer work properly.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that the S&D Group’s website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again if you click the consent button in the pop-up when you revisit the S&D Group’s website.
9. Your rights with respect to the processing of personal data
You have the following rights with respect to the processing of your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to the S&D Group.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give the S&D Group your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. The S&D Group comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact the S&D Group. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie policy. If you have a complaint about how the S&D Group handles your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
The Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament attaches great importance to respecting the right to privacy. The policy on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies is thus based on 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) N° 45/2001 and Decision N° 1247/2002/EC (Text with EEA relevance.)
10. Contact details
To exercise your rights or to obtain any further information, you can apply directly to the S&D Group’s data controller involved: Annabel Garnier
You may also consult the Data Protection Officer of the European Parliament (DPO) who is responsible, within each community institution, for ensuring that the rights and freedoms of data subjects are not adversely affected by data processing operations, in order to obtain an opinion on the processing operations either concerning you or carried out by you.
Contact: data-protection@europarl.europa.eu.
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 (EDPS) - the independent supervisory authority. Actions against the Supervisor’s decisions may be brought before the Court of Justice of the European communities.
Contact: edps@edps.europa.eu
The website of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament sometimes provides links to other internet sites. Since the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament has no control over such sites, we suggest that you review their privacy policies.If you wish to access, change or remove your data, please write to: s-d.dataprotection@europarl.europa.eu
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 13 December 2023.