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Privacy: EU Battery Regulation
How eubatteryregulation.com handles personal data: request and contact forms, 24-month retention, no analytics or ad vendors, and your GDPR rights.
Summary
eubatteryregulation.com processes only the personal data you send through its request and contact forms, plus the connection data its hosting and content delivery provider needs to deliver each page, and it uses no analytics or advertising vendors.
This notice covers every page of this independent reference on the EU Battery Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2023/1542.
One address handles every privacy question and every request to exercise a right: editorial@eubatteryregulation.com. This notice, dated 13 November 2026, explains who controls your data, what we collect, how long we keep it and which rights Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR) gives you.
Who Controls Your Personal Data on eubatteryregulation.com
The controller of your personal data is the publisher of eubatteryregulation.com, which you reach for every privacy question at editorial@eubatteryregulation.com. The publisher signs every page as the eubatteryregulation.com Editorial Team. It decides which personal data the site collects, for which purpose and for how long.
The publisher is independent of the providers who receive requests through the site, and no provider decides how this site collects or keeps your personal data. Who publishes the site and why is set out in the page about this EU Battery Regulation reference.
What Personal Data We Collect and Why
We collect personal data in three situations: when you send a request for independent providers, when you write to the editorial team, and when your browser loads a page through our hosting and content delivery provider. Each is listed below and explained in its own section.
- Requests for independent providers
- Messages to the editorial team
- Connection data at our hosting and content delivery provider
Requests Passed to Independent Providers
A request carries the details you enter in the form, such as your email address, company country and a description of what you need, and we pass it to independent battery compliance providers who work on this.
The form also asks for the request type, the battery category and your role, and a consent box comes before sending.
Requests go to independent providers by kind of need: EPR registration and producer responsibility organisations, authorised representatives, battery passport software, carbon-footprint calculation and verification, testing laboratories and notified bodies, and recyclers. Providers cannot buy a place on eubatteryregulation.com. How we keep providers apart from our content is set out in our editorial policy.
Messages to the Editorial Team
A message to editorial@eubatteryregulation.com stays with the editorial team, which uses your email address and the text you send only to answer you. We pass a message to no provider unless you ask us to, and we keep it for 24 months, the same period as request form data.
Hosting and Content Delivery
Our hosting and content delivery provider processes the connection data your browser sends to load each page, because the site cannot be delivered without it.
It acts as our processor, a body "which processes personal data on behalf of the controller" (Article 4(8) of the GDPR). It uses this data only to deliver the site, and no analytics or advertising vendor receives it.
No Analytics and No Advertising Vendors
eubatteryregulation.com uses no analytics and no advertising vendors, so no visitor profile is built from the pages you read. No page of the reference loads an analytics script or an advertising script, from battery categories and labelling to producer registration and the battery passport.
Reading the reference needs no account and no consent choice. Personal data reaches us only when you write to us or send a form, and the sections above describe each of those two routes with its purpose and its recipients.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We keep request and contact data for 24 months. This period covers the copy we hold, whether the data came through the request form or by email. Table 1 lists each kind of data with its purpose, its recipients and how long we keep it.
| Data | Purpose | Recipient | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Request form data | Passing your request to independent providers | The editorial team and the independent providers who receive it | 24 months |
| Contact message | Answering your message | The editorial team | 24 months |
Table 1: Retention periods and recipients, as of 13 November 2026.
Your Rights under the GDPR
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 gives you the rights of access (Article 15), rectification (Article 16), erasure (Article 17), restriction of processing (Article 18), data portability (Article 20) and objection (Article 21), each under the conditions of its article.
The GDPR is published in OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1 and has applied since 25 May 2018 (Article 99(2)).
The six rights, plus the withdrawal of consent, are listed below with their articles of Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
- Right of access (Article 15)
- Right to rectification (Article 16)
- Right to erasure (Article 17)
- Right to restriction of processing (Article 18)
- Right to data portability (Article 20)
- Right to object (Article 21)
- Withdrawal of consent at any time (Article 7(3))
Every right in the list is exercised against the publisher as controller, through editorial@eubatteryregulation.com. Each right applies under the conditions of its own article, so portability and objection do not cover every processing activity. The other ways to reach us are on the contact page for this EU Battery Regulation reference.
How to Exercise Your Rights
Write to editorial@eubatteryregulation.com, name the right you want to exercise, and we answer without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt (Article 12(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, given the complexity and number of requests, and we tell you of any extension within the first month.
Complaints to a Data Protection Supervisory Authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority under Article 77(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement. Writing to the editorial address first remains open to you.
What This Notice Does Not Cover
This notice covers eubatteryregulation.com only, not the data in any battery passport. Passport data is stored by the responsible economic operator or by operators it authorises (Article 78(c) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542). The security and privacy requirements that Article 78(h) sets for the EU battery passport are explained on its own page.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We update this notice when our processing changes, and the date at the top shows the version in force. A change to the forms, the retention period or the processor described above leads to a new dated version, and questions about any version go to editorial@eubatteryregulation.com.