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European Citizens' Initiative

Privacy policy concerning signatories' personal data collected using paper forms

In accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation), your personal data provided on this form will only be used for the support of the initiative and made available to the competent national authorities for the purpose of verification and certification. You are entitled to request from the group of organisers of this initiative access to, rectification of, erasure and restriction of processing of your personal data.

Your data will be stored by the group of organisers for a maximum retention period of one month after the submission of the initiative to the European Commission or 21 months after the beginning of the collection period, whichever is the earlier. It might be retained beyond these time limits in the case of administrative or legal proceedings, for a maximum of one month after the date of conclusion of these proceedings.

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge at any time a complaint with a data protection authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that your data is unlawfully processed.

The representative of the group of organisers of the initiative or, where appropriate, the legal entity created by it, is the controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation and can be contacted using the details provided on this form.

The contact details of the data protection officer (if any) are available at the web address of this initiative in the European Commission's register, as provided in point 4 of this form.

The contact details of the national authority which will receive and process your personal data and the contact details of the national data protection authorities can be consulted at: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/how-it-works/data-protection_en.

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