Privacy & your data
Last updated 2026-07-14
This notice explains what personal data EU Candidates collects when you subscribe to email alerts, why we collect it, and the rights you have. We collect as little as possible and never sell your data.
Who controls your data
EU Candidates (eucandidates.com) is the data controller for this information. For any privacy question or request, email hello@eucandidates.com.
What we collect
Only what you give us when subscribing: your email address, your interface language, which countries you follow, and which alert types you chose. We also record when you consented and which version of this notice you agreed to. We do not collect your name, track you across other sites, or store any payment data.
Why we collect it
To send you the alerts you ask for: occasional updates about EU accession progress (verified milestones, changes to the projected timeline, and newly unlocked rights), which may include sponsored content. Our legal basis is your consent (GDPR Article 6(1)(a)), given when you submit the signup form; we record when you consented and which version of this notice you saw. Signing up subscribes you immediately and we send a short welcome email; every email carries a one-click unsubscribe. If you unsubscribe and later want to return, that re-subscription is confirmed by email.
Who we share it with
Your address is shared with our email-delivery provider, Resend, which acts only on our instructions as a data processor under contract, solely to deliver these emails. We will never sell or rent your address. Any sponsored content appears inside our own emails; sponsors never receive your address.
How long we keep it
Until you unsubscribe or ask us to erase it. Unsubscribing stops the emails; erasure removes your address from our records entirely.
Website analytics
To see which pages and countries readers find useful, we use a privacy-preserving, cookieless web-analytics tool, provided by our hosting provider Vercel as our processor. It records only anonymous, aggregated page views — the page address, the referring site, your approximate country, and your device and browser type. It uses no cookies and collects no name, email, stored IP address, or identifier that could follow you across sites or from one day to the next; the short-lived signal used to count a visit is discarded within about 24 hours, and only anonymous totals are kept. Because nothing is stored on your device by this analytics, we rely on our legitimate interest (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)) in running and improving a privacy-respecting site rather than on consent — so there are no tracking pop-ups. This data is never used for advertising, profiling, or sale, and you can object at any time at hello@eucandidates.com.
Donations (Buy Me a Coffee)
We offer a "Buy Me a Coffee" support button so readers who wish to can support the site. The button is simply an outbound link that opens buymeacoffee.com in a new tab. No third-party donation script or cookie runs on this site: we do not load any Buy Me a Coffee code, and nothing from them is placed in your browser while you are here. If you choose to donate, Buy Me a Coffee processes that entirely on their own site, under their privacy policy. No payment or card details are entered or handled on this site.
Your rights
You can access, correct, or erase your data, withdraw your consent at any time, and lodge a complaint with your national data-protection authority. To unsubscribe, use the link in any email we send, or email hello@eucandidates.com. To exercise any other right, email hello@eucandidates.com.
Changes to this notice
If we materially change what we collect or why, we will update this page and its version date, and seek fresh consent where the law requires it.