Privacy Policy - Check Some Votes

Below we inform you, in a clear and concise form, about the collection and processing of your data when visiting check-some-votes.eu and about your related rights. If you have further questions about data protection, you can contact us at any time using the details given below.

Data Controller

Partei des Fortschritts (PdF) — Party of Progress
Authorised representative: Lukas Sieper
Esserstr. 2, 51105 Cologne, Germany
Phone: +49 152 33149487
Email: reden(at)partei-des-fortschritts.de

Data Protection Officer

You can reach our Data Protection Officer at:
Email: datenschutz(at)partei-des-fortschritts.de
Phone: +49 152 33149487

Visiting the website

You can visit check-some-votes.eu without providing any personal information. Each time you access a page, the web server automatically stores a so-called server log file, which includes, among other things, the name of the requested page, your IP address, the date and time of access, the amount of data transferred, the requesting provider (access data), the device used, and the page you came from (referrer URL).

This access data is analysed exclusively to ensure smooth operation of the site, to improve our service, and to detect and trace attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the correct presentation and security of our website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Web analytics (Matomo)

We use the open-source software Matomo for web analytics. The service runs on a server we operate ourselves; your data is not shared with any third party.

Data is collected without cookies, and we honour a “Do Not Track” signal sent by your browser (in that case, no data is collected at all). We only evaluate which pages were visited and the referring page, in order to understand how our content is used and to improve it.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in shaping our website according to actual usage (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Processing of Members of the European Parliament's data

check-some-votes.eu publishes the names, photos, voting records and speeches of Members of the European Parliament. This data comes from the European Parliament's Open Data API and is already publicly available under the CC BY 4.0 licence.

This processing is based on our legitimate interest in the democratic transparency of elected officials' public conduct (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Members of Parliament with questions about this processing may contact us at the address given above.

Social media

Instead of social media plug-ins that transmit data to network operators as soon as a page loads, we use static links: you are only taken to our Instagram profiles or our Discord server after actively clicking a link. Please note that the operators of these platforms may use personal data for their own purposes, including profiling. Further information can be found in the respective providers' privacy policies.

Your rights

You have the right, among others, to request information about the data we have stored about you. Under certain conditions, you may also request that your data be corrected or deleted. You further have the right to restrict the processing of your data and to receive the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

Where processing is based on consent you have given, you may withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future. Where processing is based on overriding legitimate interests, you may object to it if your particular situation justifies doing so.

Every data subject also has the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if they believe that data protection law has been violated.

Currency and changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and dated 09.2026. Further development of check-some-votes.eu or changes to legal or regulatory requirements may make it necessary to amend this privacy policy. The current version can always be accessed on this page.