Privacy statement
For the 2026 Christmas sweater campaign. In short: we use your data to send you your sweater and, only if you tick the box, for our newsletter. Nothing else.
Who is responsible?
The data controller is [Patriots for Europe — te bevestigen door Ruben: fractie, partij of delegatie]. Questions about your data: [privacy-adres volgt].
Which data do we ask for?
Through the request form:
- first name and last name
- e-mail address
- phone number (optional)
- sweater size
- street and number, postcode, town and country
- year of birth (optional)
- gender (optional)
- whether you want the newsletter (yes/no)
- technical data when you submit: IP address, browser, time of request and confirmation (against abuse and as proof of your consent)
What do we use it for?
We use your name, e-mail address, address and size to confirm your request (the confirmation e-mail) and to ship your Christmas sweater. Your phone number is only used if there is a delivery problem. Year of birth and gender are optional and only used anonymously and in aggregate, to see who the campaign reaches. We also check that nobody requests more than one sweater per person or address.
You only get the newsletter if you tick that box yourself. It is never pre-ticked, and you can unsubscribe with one click at the bottom of every e-mail.
On what legal basis?
We process your data on the basis of your consent (GDPR art. 6(1)(a)), which you give by ticking the privacy box and confirming your e-mail address. For the newsletter you give separate consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time; this does not affect anything lawfully done before.
Special category data
Patriots for Europe is a political group. Requesting a Christmas sweater from us may say something about your political opinions. That is a special category of personal data (GDPR art. 9). That is why we ask for your explicit consent: by ticking the privacy box and confirming your request, you explicitly agree that [Patriots for Europe — te bevestigen door Ruben: fractie, partij of delegatie] processes your data for this campaign. We handle it with extra care and share it with nobody beyond what is listed below.
How long do we keep it?
Requests you don’t confirm within 48 hours are deleted. Confirmed requests are kept [termijn te bepalen] after the campaign ends, then erased. If you signed up for the newsletter, we keep your name and e-mail address for that until you unsubscribe.
Who receives your data?
We do not sell your data and pass it on to nobody, except:
- the carrier delivering your parcel: only your name, address and (if given) phone number [carrier name to be confirmed];
- Zichtbaar Studio, which builds and hosts this website and manages the requests, as a processor on our behalf under a data processing agreement. The data stays in the European Union.
Your rights
You can always access, correct or delete your data, restrict processing, receive your data in a common format and withdraw your consent. E-mail [privacy-adres volgt]. We reply within one month.
Not happy with how we handle your data? You can file a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels (www.dataprotectionauthority.be).
Cookies
This website sets no tracking or advertising cookies. If visitor statistics are ever added, it will only be after you consent, and we will update this statement.
Changes
If we change this statement, you’ll see it here. Last updated: [date].