Data Protection Information

Thank you for visiting my website! The protection of your personal data is particularly important to me. In this privacy policy, I explain which personal data is collected during your visit to this website and how this data is used. Transparency and security are my top priorities.

Purpose and Legal Basis of Data Processing

Data processing is carried out by Damian Boeselager, one of the founders of Volt Europa and a Member of the European Parliament. On the website, he provides information about his political work, his goals for a better Europe, his positions in various committees, and offers opportunities to get in touch and get involved. The site serves as an information and communication platform for his political activities and to promote the pan-European party Volt.

The legal basis is in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, whereby the legitimate interest is related to:

• answering inquiries
• the dispatch of information material
• management and administration
• the maintenance of business relationships

Controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Damian Boeselager
Altero Spinelli Building
Office ASP9&108
60, rue Wiertz
1047 Brussels, Belgium

If you have any questions about data protection, please send us an e-mail to: damian.boeselager@europarl.europa.eu

Scope of Application

This data protection information applies to the following offers:

• our website
• our social media page
• whenever reference is made to this data protection notice from one of our offers, regardless of how you access or use it.

Collection of Personal Data When You Contact Us

If you write us an e-mail, contact us by telephone, or use the contact form, we collect, process, and store the following data from you and use it for the purpose of responding to your inquiry:

• First name, last name
• Address
• Landline/mobile phone number
• E-mail address

Collection of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website

(1) If you use the website for informational purposes only, i.e., if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website and ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

• IP address
• Date and time of the request
• Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
• Content of the request (specific page)
• Access status/HTTP status code
• Amount of data transferred
• Website from which the request comes
• Browser
• Operating system and its interface
• Language and version of the browser software

Cookies

(2) We use cookies to make the website more user-friendly and effective.

This website uses the following types of cookies:

• Transient cookies (automatically deleted when you close the browser)
• Persistent cookies (deleted after a specified period)

You can configure your browser settings according to your preferences and refuse third-party cookies or all cookies. However, you may then not be able to use all website functions.

Tracking Technologies

(3) We use tracking technologies such as:

• js.adsrvr.org (The Trade Desk) – for personalized advertising
• etracker – for website analytics
• Matomo – for web analytics with anonymized IP addresses
• Google Floodlight – for measuring the effectiveness of our online marketing campaigns

Consent Management

For some data processing, we require your consent. To obtain and document your consent, we use the Cookie Consent Manager from “Borlabs GmbH.”

User Rights

You have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to information about what data we have collected and stored
• Right to correction or deletion
• Right to restriction of processing
• Right to object to processing
• Right to data portability

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority.

Storage Duration of Your Data

We process your personal data for as long as necessary for the business relationship and in compliance with legal retention periods (usually 10 years).

Objection

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time. Please send your objection in writing via e-mail or post to the address above.

Legal provisions may change, so please review this data protection notice regularly. We will update changes promptly to provide transparent information.

Last updated: September 2024

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