Please see the privacy statement for the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) public portal below (relevant for all users of the BIK public portal).

Please scroll down the page to see the dedicated privacy statement for the BIK community (relevant to Insafe-INHOPE network members (and other selected stakeholders including users of the BIK Youth Closed Area) only, who wish to create an account for the BIK community).


Privacy statement for the BIK portal

 

PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Processing operation: Processing of personal data on the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Portal (https://www.betterinternetforkids.eu) and its minisites (https://www.bikyouth.eu,   https://www.saferinternetday.org, https://www.positiveonlinecontentforkids.eu), including IP addresses, by visitors of the publicly available websites.

Data Controller: European Commission, Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), Unit G3: Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet (hereinafter “Unit G.3”).  

Data Processor: EUN partnership aisbl (hereinafter “European Schoolnet”), Rue de Trèves, 61 (3rd floor), 1040 Brussels, Belgium. 

Record reference: DPR-EC-09706.1 (updated October 2022)


Table of Contents

1.    Introduction
2.    Why and how do we process your personal data?
3.     On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
4.    Which personal data do we collect and further process?
5.    How long do we keep your personal data?
6.    How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
7.    Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
8.    What are your rights and how can you exercise them? 
9.    Contact information
10.    Where to find more detailed information?  

1.    Introduction

The European Commission (hereafter “the Commission”) is committed to protecting your personal data and to respecting your privacy. The Commission collects and further processes personal data pursuant to 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 (repealing Regulation (EC) n° 45/2001).

This privacy statement explains the reason for the processing of your personal data, the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you have in relation to your personal data. It also specifies the contact details of the responsible Data Controller with whom you may exercise your rights, the Data Protection Officer and the European Data Protection Supervisor.

The information in relation to the processing operation “Data processing on the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Portal and its minisites” undertaken by European Schoolnet on behalf of Unit G.3 is presented below. 

2.    Why and how do we process your personal data?

Purpose of the processing operation: The Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology offers a number of external websites managed by European Schoolnet in its capacity as contractor. The technical setup collects and uses your personal information to be able to provide the websites which are physically located outside the Commission controlled hosting infrastructure. These websites are: 

and the BIK minisites:

Please note that the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Core Service Platform, is composed of the BIK Portal, which is public and the BIK Community which is the private sign-in area for registered users. This statement covers the Portal and its minisites only. For further information on the processing of your personal data on the BIK Community, please refer to the Data Protection Record and Data Privacy Statement for the BIK Community and its Youth Closed Area (DPR-EC-09707 for Communities).

Feedback forms might be used as a contact channel. 

Furthermore, links to forms linked to event registrations, information and e-newsletter subscriptions or online surveys may be available on the BIK Portal. Please note these processing activities are covered by different data protection records and privacy statements: DPR-EC-01063 on Processing of personal data linked to meetings and events, DPR-EC-03928 on the Management of subscriptions to receive information and DPR-EC-01011 on Targeted consultation activities respectively. Your personal data will not be used for any automated decision-making including profiling.

3.    On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data

We process your personal data on several grounds:

Article 5(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725:

this processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Union institution or body.

Indeed, informing the broad public is a task resulting from the European Commission's own prerogatives at institutional level, as provided for in Article 58(2) (d) of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2018/1046, of 18 July 2018, on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities (OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1). We ensure that adequate and specific safeguards are implemented for the processing of personal data, in line with the applicable data protection legislation.
 

Article 5(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725:

for the processing activities consisting in collecting user preferences using cookies, collecting analytics using a web analytics software, providing feedback/contact forms, your consent is necessary. In compliance with Article 3(15) and Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, the consent must be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.

We have obtained your consent directly from you. You may have expressed it by selecting and accepting cookie settings or privacy settings, by email, by submitting an e-registration form, or in any other written form. You may withdraw your consent at any time, please see contact details provided in Section 9. 

4.    Which personal data do we collect and further process? 

In order to carry out this processing operation, we collect the following categories of personal data:

  • Internet Protocol address (IP address) used to access the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Portal and its minisites.

Without this processing you will not be able to establish a technical connection between your devices and the server infrastructure and therefore will not be able to access our website.

In order for you to use our feedback/contact form, we collect the following categories of personal data when and if you contact us through the forms available on our websites: 

  • Name
  • E-mail address
  • Any personal data in the free text field called “Comment”.

We store a limited number of settings through the use of cookies essential to the proper functioning of the website and its services, including: 

  • Session ID
  • Language

So as to understand how visitors use and engage with the BIK Portal and its minisites, we collect information anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual visitors through the use of Matomo (web analytics software). Matomo is an open-source web analytics software installed on European Schoolnet servers so as to ensure a visitor’s online behaviour is not shared with advertising companies or other third parties. For more information on Matomo Analytics, see the official Matomo Analytics webpage.

The following table details which first or third party cookies you might encounter during your use of the BIK Community:

 Cookie namesType of cookieFirst or Third PartyCan be blockedSession or PersistentPurpose
LFR_SESSION_
STATE_XXXXX
FunctionalityFirstYesSessionFunctioning of website. 
JSESSIONIDFunctionalityFirstYesSessionFunctioning of websites. 
COOKIE_
SUPPORT
FunctionalityFirstYesPersistentTracks the accept/reject cookie policy status of the user.
GUEST_
LANGUAGE_ID
FunctionalityFirstYesPersistentOnly applicable for some users. If the user has a specific language version set for the website (ex: Spanish), this will be an essential cookie for the site to function for that user.
_pk_id.xxxxxAnalyticsThirdYesPersistentSet by Matomo for analytics. 
_pk_ses.xxxxxxxAnalyticsThirdYesSessionSet by Matomo for analytics. 

Furthermore, you may spontaneously provide other, non-requested personal data in the context of your reply (e.g. via the comment section of the BIK Portal feedback/contact form). 

Please note that Unit G.3 does not request or expect that data subjects provide any special categories of data under Article 10(1) of Regulation 2018/1725 (that is “personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation”) related to themselves or to third persons in their contributions to the targeted consultation activity. Any spontaneous inclusion of these types of personal data is the responsibility of the data subject and by including any of these types of data, the data subject is considered to provide his/her explicit consent to the processing, in accordance with Article 10(2)(a) of Regulation 2018/1725.

5.    How long do we keep your personal data?

We only keep your personal data for the time necessary to fulfil the purpose of collection or further processing.  

In addition, server access log files where IP addresses are recorded are kept only for 2 weeks.   

As to the analytics tool, the IP address and the device ID (e.g. IMEI number and WIFI MAC address) are deleted immediately at disconnection. 

As to the feedback/contact forms, data is kept during 2 years from the moment the form is submitted.

6.    How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?

All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on European Schoolnet servers on behalf of the European Commission. All processing operations are carried out pursuant to the Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46, of 10 January 2017, on the security of communication and information systems in the European Commission.

The Commission’s processor (contractor), that is to say European Schoolnet, is bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your data on behalf of the Commission, and by the confidentiality obligations deriving from the transposition of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU Member States (‘GDPR’ Regulation (EU) 2016/679).

In order to protect your personal data, the Commission and European Schoolnet have put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.

7.    Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?

Access to your personal data is provided to the European Schoolnet and Commission staff dealing with this processing operation and to authorised staff according to the “need to know” principle. 

Furthermore, access to your personal data can be provided to other external contractors working punctually on behalf of and under contractual agreement with European Schoolnet or the Commission service owning the websites and engaged in creation, maintenance, management, and archiving of websites according to the “need to know” principle. Assessment platform submission reports are shared with European Schoolnet’s collaborator on the BIK Project; INHOPE based in the Netherlands. Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.

Third Party IT tools – Social Media

Additionally, via the BIK Portal you may be able to watch our videos, which may be uploaded to one of our social media pages or follow links from our website to other relevant social media.  

In order to protect your privacy, our use of third-party IT tools to connect to those services does not set cookies when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices), nor are you immediately redirected to those social media or other websites. Only in the event that you click on a button/link or “play” on a video to watch it, a cookie of the social media company concerned will be installed on your device. If you do not click on any social media buttons/links or videos, no cookies will be installed on your device by third parties.  

If, as a visitor, you decide to view such third-party content on our websites, we recommend that you carefully read the privacy policies of the social media tools used. These explain each company’s policy of personal data collection and further processing, their use of data, users' rights and the ways in which users can protect their privacy when using those services.  

The use of a third-party IT tool does not in any way imply that the European Commission or European Schoolnet endorse them or their privacy policies. In the event that one or more third-party IT tools are occasionally unavailable, we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to their downtime. 

The information we collect will not be given to any other third party than the ones mentioned previously in this statement, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law. 

8.    What are your rights and how can you exercise them? 

You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access, rectify or erase your personal data and the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Where applicable, you also have the right to object to the processing or the right to data portability.

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, which is lawfully carried out pursuant to Article 5(1)(a). 

For those processing activities to which you have consented [Article 5(1)(d)] and are mentioned in Section 3 (i.e for the processing activities consisting in collecting user preferences using cookies, collecting analytics using a web analytics softwares, providing feedback/contact forms), you can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying Unit G.3 (and European Schoolnet). The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you withdrew your consent.

You can exercise your rights by contacting Unit G.3, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given under Section 9 below. 

Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified under Section 10 below) in your request.

In accordance with Article 14(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, your request as a data subject will be handled within 1 month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by 2 further months when necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. In such case you will be informed of the extension of the time limit, together with the reasons for the delay. 

As a user of the BIK Portal and its minisites, you may wish to first carry out a number of steps autonomously, such as to: 

Control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent cookies from being placed. If you do so, however please note that you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a website including the BIK Portal and some services and functionalities may not work.

9.    Contact information

Any and all changes to this privacy statement will be posted here, and will take effect upon their publication.

-    The Data Processor

For any questions or concerns about this privacy statement or the BIK Portal and minisites, you can contact the Data Processor: EUN Partnership aisbl (European Schoolnet) at privacy@eun.org. Your questions will be transferred to Unit G.3 if necessary. 

You may also contact Unit G.3 directly. 

-    The Data Controller

If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, namely the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), Unit G3: Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet, whose contact details are the following: CNECT-G3@ec.europa.eu 

-    The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission

You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER@ec.europa.eu) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.

-    The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor (edps@edps.europa.eu) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the Data Controller.

10.    Where to find more detailed information?

The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.

This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-09706.1.

Access a PDF version of this privacy statement here.

 

Privacy statement for the BIK community

 

PROTECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Processing operation: Processing of personal data within the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Community area, including the BIK Youth Closed Area (hereinafter “the community”). 

Data Controller: European Commission, Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), Unit G3: Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet (hereinafter “Unit G.3”). 

Data Processor: EUN partnership aisbl (hereinafter “European Schoolnet”), Rue de Trèves, 61 (3rd floor), 1040 Brussels, Belgium.

Record reference: DPR-EC-09707.1 (updated October 2022)


Table of Contents

1.    Introduction
2.    Why and how do we process your personal data?
3.    On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data?
4.    Which personal data do we collect and further process?
5.    How long do we keep your personal data?
6.    How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?
7.    Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?
8.    What are your rights and how can you exercise them? 
9.    Contact information
10.    Where to find more detailed information?
 

1.    Introduction

This privacy statement concerns the data processing activities related to the Better Internet for Kids Community, including its Youth Closed Area, both administrated by European Schoolnet on behalf of Unit G.3. 

It explains the reason for the processing, the way we collect, handle and ensure protection of all personal data provided, how that information is used and what rights you may exercise in relation to your data. The European institutions and European Schoolnet are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. As this service collects and further processes personal data, specific data protection rules apply*. 

(* Regulation 2018/1725 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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.)

2.    Why and how do we process your personal data?

Purpose of the processing operation: We collect and use your personal information to administer the community managed by European Schoolnet on behalf of Unit G.3. Collecting and using your data enables us to establish your membership within the community, to contact you with regard to online and offline activities relating to the community and ensure your participation therein, and to have an overview of the various types of members of the community.

Please note that the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Core Service Platform, is composed of the BIK Portal, which is public and the BIK Community which is the private sign-in area for registered users. This statement covers the BIK Community and its Youth Closed Area only. For further information on the processing of your personal data on the BIK Portal please refer to the Privacy Statement for the BIK Portal and its minisites available here (for more information, please consult the Data Protection Record DPR-EC-09706 for CNECT External Websites).

The BIK Youth Closed Area is a part of the BIK Community that provides a secure, moderated space for youth participation and interactions via its own separate child-friendly tools and resources. The Youth Closed Area is accessible only to a very restricted number of youth users following an invitation from European Schoolnet and the completion of a distinct registration process granting special user rights. 

The processing operations on personal data for the organisation and management of the community are lawful under Article 5(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, as the user provides his/her consent before becoming a member.

Furthermore, opt-in mechanisms or links to forms linked to event registrations, information and e-newsletter subscriptions or online surveys may be made available on the community. If those are events, information subscriptions and surveys managed by European Schoolnet on behalf of the Commission or by the Commission, please note that these processing activities are covered by different data protection records and privacy statements; DPR-EC-01063.1 on Processing of personal data linked to meetings and events, DPR-EC-03928.1 on the Management of subscriptions to receive information and DPR-EC-01011.3 on Targeted consultation activities respectively. 

3.    On what legal ground(s) do we process your personal data

The processing operations on personal data for the organisation and management of the community are lawful under Article 5(d) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, as the user provides his/her consent before becoming a member.

We have obtained your consent directly from you. You have expressed it by accepting terms and conditions during your registration process to the community. You may withdraw your consent at any time, in which case please see contact details provided in Section 9. 

4.    Which personal data do we collect and further process? 

We process personal data necessary for the creation of your account on the website, which allows you to participate in the community, and for the organisation and management of the community.

To access the community, you must create an account, which requires the collection of certain personal data such as your first name, last name and e-mail. These data become part of your user account. 

For the BIK Youth Closed Area:

No data is collected aside of the one needed to create an account (i.e first name, last name and e-mail).

For the standard BIK Community (i.e. excluding the BIK Youth Closed Area): 

Other mandatory fields to be provided when you join the community:

  • Salutation
  • Country

Optional fields you can fill in when completing your profile include, in particular:

  • Picture
  • Free text profile description
  • Phone number (landline and mobile)
  • Personal website
  • Mother tongue
  • Other spoken languages
  • Organisation’s region
  • Organisation type
  • Organisation address
  • Function/Job title

Registered users of the community can in any case provide additional information whilst using the platform services, some of which may contain personal data within:

  • Articles
  • Free text fields and comments
  • Pictures, text files
  • Links, e.g. to videos

Please note that the Commission does not request nor expect participants to the community to include (i) special categories of data under Article 10(1) of Regulation 2018/1725 (that is “personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation”) or (ii) personal data related to criminal convictions and offences as provided for in Article 11 of Regulation 2018/1725, related to themselves or to third persons in their contributions to the community. Should participants nevertheless volunteer such special categories of personal data, these would be processed on the basis of Article 10(2)(a), that is to say explicit consent of the data subjects. The moderator might decide to delete such personal data on the basis of a case-by-case assessment.

Additionally, the system administrator receives your Internet Protocol address (IP address), and the time of log-in. To improve your experience as a user of our website and provide you with a more personalised service without having to ask you repeatedly for your user preferences, we store a limited number of settings through the use of cookies, including: 

  • Session ID
  • Language

Finally, so as to understand how visitors use and engage with the BIK Community, we collect information anonymously and report website trends without identifying individual users through the use of Matomo (web analytics software). Matomo is an open-source web analytics software installed on European Schoolnet servers so as to ensure a visitor’s online behaviour is not shared with advertising companies or other third parties. For more information on Matomo Analytics, see the official Matomo Analytics webpage.

The following table details which first or third party cookies you might encounter during your use of the BIK Community: 

 Cookie namesType of cookieFirst or Third PartyCan be blockedSession or PersistentPurpose
LFR_SESSION_
STATE_XXXXX
FunctionalityFirstYesSessionFunctioning of website. 
JSESSIONIDFunctionalityFirstYesSessionFunctioning of websites. 
COOKIE_
SUPPORT
FunctionalityFirstYesPersistentTracks the accept/reject cookie policy status of the user.
GUEST_
LANGUAGE_ID
FunctionalityFirstYesPersistentOnly applicable for some users. If the user has a specific language version set for the website (ex: Spanish), this will be an essential cookie for the site to function for that user.
_pk_id.xxxxxAnalyticsThirdYesPersistentSet by Matomo for analytics. 
_pk_ses.xxxxxxxAnalyticsThirdYesSessionSet by Matomo for analytics. 

5.    How long do we keep your personal data?

We keep your personal data pertaining to you as a community user (all personal data that is mandatory to create an account) for as long as the support service is provided to you and this data will be retained for 5 years after your last date of login. 

We keep your personal data pertaining to the community services (such as posted content) for 5 years after your last date of login.

Your personal data will be deleted from the platform before the end of the five-year retention period, upon request (see contact information in Section 9).

In addition, server access log files where IP addresses are recorded are kept only for 2 weeks.    

6.    How do we protect and safeguard your personal data?

All personal data in electronic format (e-mails, documents, databases, uploaded batches of data, etc.) are stored on the servers of European Schoolnet on behalf of the Commission. All processing operations are carried out pursuant to Commission Decision (EU, Euratom) 2017/46, of 10 January 2017, on the security of communication and information systems in the Commission.

In order to protect your personal data, the Commission has put in place a number of technical and organisational measures. Technical measures include appropriate actions to address online security, risk of data loss, alteration of data or unauthorised access, taking into consideration the risk presented by the processing and the nature of the personal data being processed. Organisational measures include restricting access to the personal data solely to authorised persons with a legitimate need to know for the purposes of this processing operation.

The Commission’s processor (contractor), that is to say European Schoolnet, is bound by a specific contractual clause for any processing operations of your personal data on behalf of the Commission. Each processor has to put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the level of security, required by the Commission.

7.    Who has access to your personal data and to whom is it disclosed?

Access to your personal data is provided to the European Schoolnet and Commission staff dealing with this processing operation and to authorised staff according to the “need to know” principle. 

Furthermore, access to your personal data can be provided to other external contractors working punctually on behalf of and under contractual agreement with European Schoolnet or the Commission service owning the websites and engaged in creation, maintenance, management, and archiving of websites according to the “need to know” principle. Assessment platform submission reports are shared with European Schoolnet’s collaborator on the BIK Project; INHOPE based in the Netherlands. 

Such staff abide by statutory, and when required, additional confidentiality agreements.

Your data is visible to the other members of the community users. They can see: 

  • Your profile information, including your picture, first name and last name.
  • The content you upload and share (e.g. your posts, documents you upload). 

Third Party IT tools – Access to External Content and Tools (e.g. Social Media)

Additionally, via content available within the community (e.g. content posted by other users including users part of the European Schoolnet staff), you may be able to watch videos, which may be uploaded on social media pages or follow links from the community to other relevant social media.  

The use of third-party IT tools to connect to those services does not set cookies when our website pages are loaded on your computer (or other devices), nor are you immediately redirected to those social media or other websites. Only in the event that you click on a button/link or “play” on a video to watch it, a cookie of the social media company concerned will be installed on your device. If you do not click on any social media buttons/link or videos, no cookies will be installed on your device by third parties.  

If, as a user, you decide to view such third-party content, we recommend that you carefully read the relevant privacy policies of the social media tools used. These explain each company’s policy of personal data collection and further processing, their use of data, users' rights and the ways in which users can protect their privacy when using those services. 

The use of a third-party IT tool does not in any way imply that the European Commission or European Schoolnet endorse them or their privacy policies. In the event that one or more third-party IT tools are occasionally unavailable, we accept no responsibility for lack of service due to their downtime. 

More generally, other community users may share content locations external to the BIK community and not managed by European Schoolnet on behalf of the Commission or by the Commission. Those would then be subject to their own privacy policies on which the Commission and European Schoolnet have no control. We therefore recommend that you carefully review the relevant privacy policy of each content location when redirecting to external content locations suggested on the community. 

The information we collect will not be given to any other third party than the ones mentioned previously in this statement, except to the extent and for the purpose we may be required to do so by law. 

8.    What are your rights and how can you exercise them? 

You have specific rights as a ‘data subject’ under Chapter III (Articles 14-25) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, in particular the right to access your personal data and to rectify them in case your personal data are inaccurate or incomplete. Under certain conditions, you have the right to erase your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to the processing and the right to data portability.

As a user of the community, you can either modify, hide or delete most of your posted content. As a user, you may also edit or delete your optional profile information. 

Additionally, you may ask Unit G.3 to edit or remove your profile information and terminate your account. The user’s created content on the platform will then be pseudonymised or deleted, at your choice. If pseudonymised, your name, as it appears next to the content created and posted, will be changed to "Anonymous", but the content will remain on the community page.

Insofar you have consented to the certain processing of your personal data by Unit G.3 and European Schoolnet for the present processing operation, you can withdraw your consent at any time by notifying the Unit G.3 using the contact information in Section 9. The withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you have withdrawn the consent.

You can also exercise your rights by contacting Unit G.3, or in case of conflict the Data Protection Officer. If necessary, you can also address the European Data Protection Supervisor. Their contact information is given in Section 9 below. 

Where you wish to exercise your rights in the context of one or several specific processing operations, please provide their description (i.e. their Record reference(s) as specified in Section 10 below) in your request.

In accordance with Article 14(3) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, your request as a data subject will be handled within 1 month of receipt of the request. That period may be extended by 2 further months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of the requests. In such case you will be informed of the extension of the time limit, together with the reasons for the delay.

As a user of the BIK Community and/or its Youth Closed Area, you may wish to first carry out a number of steps autonomously, namely to: 

  • Edit or delete your optional profile information at any time.
  • Control and/or delete cookies as you wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent cookies from being placed. If you do so, however please note that you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit the community and some services and functionalities may not work.

9.    Contact information

Any and all changes to this privacy statement will be posted here, and will take effect upon their publication. 

-    The Data Processor

For any questions or concerns about this privacy statement or the BIK Community or Youth Closed Area, please contact the Data Processor: EUN Partnership aisbl (European Schoolnet) at privacy@eun.org. Your questions will be transferred to Unit G.3 if necessary.

You may also contact Unit G.3 directly.   

-    The Data Controller

If you would like to exercise your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, or if you have comments, questions or concerns, or if you would like to submit a complaint regarding the collection and use of your personal data, please feel free to contact the Data Controller, namely the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), Unit G3: Accessibility, Multilingualism and Safer Internet at: CNECT-G3@ec.europa.eu.

 -    The Data Protection Officer (DPO) of the Commission

You may contact the Data Protection Officer (DATA-PROTECTION-OFFICER@ec.europa.eu) with regard to issues related to the processing of your personal data under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725.

-    The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)

You have the right to have recourse (i.e. you can lodge a complaint) to the European Data Protection Supervisor (edps@edps.europa.eu) if you consider that your rights under Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 have been infringed as a result of the processing of your personal data by the Data Controller.

10.    Where to find more detailed information?

The Commission Data Protection Officer (DPO) publishes the register of all processing operations on personal data by the Commission, which have been documented and notified to him. You may access the register via the following link: http://ec.europa.eu/dpo-register.

This specific processing operation has been included in the DPO’s public register with the following Record reference: DPR-EC-09707.1.

Access a PDF version of this privacy statement here.