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© European Union, 2002-2019.




Personal Data Protection

The European Union is committed to user privacy.





In this respect:



What is an e-service?




Europass e-service privacy statement





If a visitor already has an account with a cloud-storage provider (currently supported are: Google drive and OneDrive), s/he can sign-in to that provider and enable the possibility to access their CV(s) from any computer. Practically, the CVs are stored and read on a folder called “Europass” of the corresponding cloud drive.

Additionally, a visitor can choose to publish his/her CV directly to online CV and job portal services including Xing, Monster, EURES and CV Library. When doing this s/he is informed about the terms and conditions of the chosen service.





Visitors’ logs, containing the IP address of connecting visitors are kept for a period of 13 months, for IT security reasons, to enable us to track down malicious attacks, security breaches and intrusion attempts. The logs are also analysed by AWSTATS for producing web statistics (visits by country).

An anonymised version of the IP address is also kept by Europass Analytics, see also below. Europass Analytics uses an IP anonymisation mechanism that automatically masks a portion of each visitor’s IP, effectively making it impossible to identify a particular visitor.

A unique hash of the e-mail address entered by visitors is kept, for statistical reasons, to count unique visitors over a period of time. The hash is an irreversible coding of the e-mail and it is mathematically impossible to decipher the actual e-mail address from the hash. The hashes are kept for a period of 13 months.

3. Who has access to your information?

When you use the Europass online editor, your data are processed for a short period of time by the Europass web servers without being viewed or processed by any physical person. Once processed, these data are immediately deleted. Access to the Europass servers is restricted to authorised technical operators who manage and maintain the operating system and the Europass software and services. The contracts of Europass technical staff have specific binding confidentiality and non-disclosure statements.

4. How do we protect and safeguard your information?

Data exchanged during the Europass 'Online creation' session are protected from unauthorised, illegal access that may be made be in transit, by the application of SSL (HTTPS) encryption (11/2005).





6. How long do we keep your data?


Europass automatically deletes visitors' logs after 13 months (IP addresses).

Europass automatically deletes visitors' anonymous e-mail hashes after 13 months.

7. Contact information



Data subjects may at any time consult Cedefop's Data Protection Officer () or have recourse to the European Data Protection Supervisor.


1. What are cookies?


2. How do we use cookies?

A number of our pages use cookies to remember:




3. Do we use other cookies?


Cookies used by Europass Analytics enable us to track the following information about visitors:

  • IP address (anonymised)
  • Random unique Visitor ID, Time of the first visit for the specific visitor, Time of the previous visit for the specific visitor, Number of visits for the specific visitor
  • Language of the visited page
  • Browser version, browser plugins (PDF, Flash, Java, etc.) operating system version, device identifier (User-Agent header)
  • Events
  • Files that were clicked and downloaded (Download)
  • Site search

When using the feature of Europass to connect to a cloud service for storing your CVs (“Cloud sign-in”), upon signing-in, the respective service (Google or Microsoft) sets their own cookies, over which we have no control. Please consult the corresponding privacy statement and terms of use of each of these services before using them.

4. How to control cookies?


5. Opt-out features

By default, website visitors are tracked using the first party persistent cookie from Europass Analytics. You may choose not to be tracked (opt-out). If you change your mind, you can choose to be tracked again (opt-in).

Choosing not to be tracked does not affect your navigation experience on Europass web sites.

6. 'Do not track' preference


Europass website respects visitors' preference and will not track visitors that have enabled the do not track option in their web browsers. If the visitor uses a browser that has a do not track function enabled, the cookie notice will by default be configured for “opt-out” from analytics.

7. Anonymisation of visitors' IP addresses

Europass Analytics uses an IP anonymisation mechanism that automatically masks a portion of each visitor's IP, effectively making it impossible to identify a particular visitor.

Language policy

The Europass portal is available in the official languages of:
