Privacy notice

This notice covers parleon.eu, Parliament Radar (epradar.eu), Parliament Radar's newsletter, The Week in 5 minutes, our social media pages, the way we contact parliamentary offices and the messages we send about Parliament Radar. Version 1.1, published on 23 October 2026.

Who is responsible

Parleon and Parliament Radar are run by Guilherme Imbassahy, based in Porto, Portugal, who is responsible for the personal data described in this notice. When the company that will run Parleon is registered, we will name it here and say so in the newsletter.

For anything about personal data, write to privacy@parleon.eu.

In short

We do not sell personal data. We do not buy contact lists. We never infer anyone's political views.

MEPs on Parliament Radar

We publish information about the public parliamentary work of Members of the European Parliament: name, official photograph, country, political group and national party, committee roles, roll-call votes, parliamentary questions, agreement with their group calculated from those votes, and links to news coverage.

• Sources: the European Parliament's open data portal and website, HowTheyVote.eu and the GDELT Project.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in informing the public about the work of Parliament, which is part of freedom of expression and information (GDPR, Art. 6(1)(f)). Votes and party membership are made public by MEPs themselves in their public role (Art. 9(2)(e)).
• What we never publish: anything about private life, private contact details, political views deduced from anything other than recorded votes, or the names of MEPs' assistants.
• How long: the archive is kept as a public record of parliamentary activity. We correct errors within 48 hours, with a dated note.

If you are an MEP and object to any of this, write to us. We will reply within one month.

The newsletter

When you subscribe, our website passes your e-mail address and the role you choose to tell us (optional) to our e-mail provider, without storing them. The provider records the date and time of your sign-up and the date, time and IP address of your confirmation, as proof of your consent.

• Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You confirm it by clicking the link in our first e-mail, and you can withdraw it at any time with the link at the end of every newsletter.
• We do not track you individually. We do not record whether you, personally, open the newsletter or click its links. Our e-mail provider counts opens and clicks only as totals that are not linked to any reader.
• Subscribing does not authorise commercial contact. We use the list only to send the newsletter.
• How long: until you unsubscribe. After that, we keep your address only in a suppression list, so that you are not sent the newsletter again, and we keep the record of your consent for 3 years. Sign-ups that are never confirmed are deleted after 30 days.

Contacting parliamentary offices

Parleon works for parliamentary offices, political groups and parties. We may contact Members of the European Parliament, members of national parliaments and the people who work in their offices to offer a conversation about our services.

• Data: name, role, office, professional e-mail address, public professional profile, working languages, public topics of the mandate and the history of our contact.
• Sources: official parliament websites, public professional profiles, our own professional network and introductions made by others.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in offering our services to parliamentary offices (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• What we never do: buy lists, use tools that find or guess contact details, record anyone's political views, send bulk messages, or send unsolicited e-mail to a personal work address without consent.
• How long: 12 months after our last exchange if no working relationship follows.
• To stop it: reply "stop" or write to privacy@parleon.eu. We delete your data at once and keep only your name, address, organisation and the date, so that we never contact you again.

Telling journalists and organisations about Parliament Radar

We may send one short message on X, Instagram or Bluesky to journalists, explainer accounts, data projects and European studies groups that cover the European Parliament, to point them to a Parliament Radar vote they may want to use.

• Data: name, organisation, public professional handle, the public post or article that led us to write, and the date and text of our message.
• Sources: their own public posts and articles, and their organisation's website.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in making Parliament Radar known to people who report on Parliament (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• What we never do: write this way to MEPs, their staff or private individuals, send a second message without a reply, send bulk messages or buy lists.
• How long: 12 months after our message, if there is no reply or further contact.
• To stop it: reply "no" or write to privacy@parleon.eu. We delete your data at once and keep only your handle and the date, so that we never write again.

Conversations and proposals

When you talk to us or ask for a proposal, we keep the e-mails, meeting notes and proposal, to answer you and take the steps you ask for before a contract (Art. 6(1)(b)), and to follow up (Art. 6(1)(f)). If no contract follows, we delete them 12 months after the last contact. If we work together, contracts and invoices are kept for 10 years, as Portuguese accounting law requires (Art. 6(1)(c)).

E-mails, corrections and data protection requests

When you write to radar@parleon.eu or privacy@parleon.eu, we use your message to answer you. Corrections are published without the name of the person who asked. General messages are deleted after 12 months. Data protection requests are kept for 3 years after we close them, to show that we answered them (Art. 6(1)(c)).

Visits to our websites

Our websites use no cookies to measure audience and no third-party trackers. Fonts and search are served by our own server.

• Server logs: to keep the sites secure and count what is read, our server records a shortened IP address (the first two blocks of an IPv4 address, the first 32 bits of an IPv6 address), the date and time, the page, the referring page, the browser type and any search terms typed on the site. Click identifiers that social networks add to links are removed before anything is stored. The logs are deleted after 30 days. We keep only totals, which do not identify anyone, for 13 months. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, your visit is not counted.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in security and in knowing which pages are useful (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• In your browser only: if you follow a country or an MEP, or tick 'Remember my country', Parliament Radar stores that choice in your browser's local storage so that it is there next time. Without that box ticked, the country you pick is kept only until you close the tab. It is never sent to us. You can delete it by clearing this site's data in your browser.

Our social media pages

Parliament Radar and Parleon have pages on LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X. When you follow, comment or send a message, the platform processes your data under its own privacy policy. For page statistics, we and the platform are joint controllers, under the terms each platform publishes; we see only totals and your public interactions. We keep direct messages for 12 months. Following or commenting never puts you on a contact list.

Research on public social media

We look at public social media to understand the European Parliament's public debate:

• MEPs' public accounts: follower counts and the reach of public posts, to study how parliamentary offices communicate. We publish only totals and rankings of public figures, never data about the people who follow or comment.
• Most-viewed public videos about Parliament: once a week, we check the topics of the most-viewed public videos, to choose which vote our daily video covers. We keep only the topic of each video. The raw results, which include account names, are deleted after 30 days.
• Legal basis: our legitimate interest in informing about Parliament (Art. 6(1)(f)).
• What we never do: contact people because they appear in these results, put them on any list, or collect comments, followers or private accounts.

Who receives your data

We use these service providers, under data processing agreements:

We do not give personal data to anyone else, unless the law requires it.

Transfers outside the European Union

Anthropic, Apify, ElevenLabs and GitHub process data in the United States, and some of Brevo's service providers are in the United States and India. These transfers are covered by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses or, for certified US companies, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, as set out in each provider's data processing agreement. Social media platforms transfer data under their own terms.

Your rights

You can ask us for access to your data, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict its use or to receive it in a portable format, and you can object to its use. Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. We take no decisions about you by automated means alone.

Write to privacy@parleon.eu. The answer is free and comes within one month; if a request is complex, we may need two more months and will tell you within the first month. We ask for proof of identity only if we have a real doubt about who is writing.

You can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (Av. D. Carlos I, 134, 1.º, 1200-651 Lisboa; online form), or to the authority of the country where you live or work.

Changes

Each version of this notice is dated. If we change what we do with your data, we update this page before the change and say so in the newsletter.