One of your rights under EU law is that you must be informed when your personal data is processed (collected, used, stored) by any organisation including one of the EU institutions and bodies. You also have the right to know the details and purpose of that processing.

Our website is mainly used as a communication tool.​

Please find below a general overview of some of the ways this website processes your personal data including the use of cookies and social media.

Your personal data and our website

We collect your personal data only to the extent necessary to fulfil a precise purpose related to the Group's function, in line with the relevant provisions of the Rules of Procedure of the European Committee of the Regions, its internal regulations and decisions and the Group's Rules of Procedure.

We do not reuse the information for another purpose that is different from the one stated.

We put in place measures to guarantee that your data are kept up-to-date and processed securely.

Only a limited number of staff members of the Group's Secretariat, chosen on a "need to know" basis, have access to your data.

Under certain conditions outlined in law, we may disclose your information to third parties (such as the European Anti-Fraud Office, the Court of Auditors, or law enforcement authorities), if it is necessary and proportionate for lawful specific purposes.

We will never divulge your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

You have the right to access your personal data, to have it corrected by sending an email to the data controller at the address ea-secretariat@cor.europa.eu. You may also contact the CoR data protection officer and you may have recourse at any time to the European Data Protection Supervisor.

The data controller, responsible for the processing of personal data in relation to this website, is the Secretary-General of the Group.

We do not keep your personal data for longer than necessary for the purposes for which we collected it.

However, we may keep your personal data for a longer period for historical or statistical purposes with the appropriate safeguards in place.

As a data subject, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on legitimate compelling grounds relating to your particular situation except when these data are collected in order to comply with a legal obligation, or are necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or are to be used for a purpose for which you have given your unambiguous consent.

Cookies

Cookies are short text files stored on a user's device (such as a computer, tablet or phone) by a website.

Cookies are used for the technical functioning of a website or for gathering statistics.

Cookies are also typically used to provide a more personalised experience for a user for example, when an online service remembers your user profile without you having to login.

When you visit our website, we may collect some data on your browsing experience such as your IP address, the webpage you visited, when you visited it and the website page you were redirected from.

This information is used to gather aggregated and anonymous statistics with a view to improving our services and to enhance your user experience.

When you visit the Group's website, we will keep the browser history of your visit for a maximum of 12 months. This information will then be deleted.

The collection, aggregation and anonymising operations are performed under adequate security measures.

Social Media

We use social media to present our work through widely used and contemporary channels.

Our use of social media is highlighted on this website.

For instance, you can watch videos, which we upload to our YouTube page and follow links from our website to Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin.

Cookies are not set by our display of social media buttons to connect to those services when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices) or from components from those services embedded in our web pages.

Each social media channel has their own policy on the way they process your personal data when you access their sites. For example, if you choose to watch one of our videos on YouTube, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept YouTube cookies; if you look at our Twitter activity on Twitter, you will be asked for explicit consent to accept Twitter cookies; the same applies for Facebook and Linkedin.

If you have any concerns or questions about their use of your personal data, you should read their privacy policies carefully before using them.

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