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Privacy: Machinery Regulation Guide
How machineryregulation.net handles personal data: request and contact forms, 24-month retention, no analytics, no advertising, no tracking cookies.
Summary
machineryregulation.net processes only the personal data you send us through its request and contact forms, plus the server logs our hosting and CDN provider needs to deliver the site, and it runs no analytics, no advertising and no tracking cookies.
Form data stays with us for 24 months, and this notice covers every page of our guide to the EU Machinery Regulation.
This notice applies as of 12 November 2026, the date shown at the top of the page. One address handles every privacy question and every request about your personal data: editorial@machineryregulation.net.
Who Controls Your Personal Data on machineryregulation.net
The controller of your personal data is the publisher of machineryregulation.net, which you reach for every privacy question at editorial@machineryregulation.net. The publisher runs the site under the name Machinery Regulation Guide and decides why and how the personal data described on this page are processed.
The email address is the single contact channel for privacy matters, so a message about access, rectification or erasure goes to the same inbox as any other privacy question.
The publisher is independent of the machinery safety and CE marking providers who receive provider match requests. A provider receives only the requests that readers choose to send. More on who publishes the site and why is explained on the about Machinery Regulation Guide page.
What Personal Data We Process and Why
We process personal data in two situations: when you send a provider match or contact request, and when your browser requests a page from our hosting and CDN provider. The two activities are listed below.
- Provider match and contact requests: the details you type into our forms.
- Server logs: technical data our hosting and CDN provider processes to deliver each page.
Provider Match and Contact Requests
A provider match request carries the details you type into the form, such as your email address, your company and a description of your machinery request, and we use them to pass the request to independent machinery safety and CE marking providers.
The form also asks for the product type, its Annex I status if known, the route of interest, the service needed, the planned date of placing on the market and the Member States concerned. A contact request goes to the editorial team only and is used only to answer your message.
The recipients of a provider match request are independent providers, such as machinery safety consultants, CE coordinators, test labs and notified bodies, technical writers and training providers. Providers cannot buy a place on machineryregulation.net. How we keep providers apart from our content is set out in our editorial policy.
Server Logs at Our Hosting and CDN Provider
Our hosting and CDN provider processes server log data each time your browser requests a page, because the site cannot be delivered without it.
Server log data serve the delivery of the site only. We run no analytics on the server logs and build no profile of you from them, so reading a page sends nothing to the editorial team.
What We Do Not Collect: No Analytics, No Advertising, No Tracking Cookies
machineryregulation.net runs no analytics software, shows no advertising and sets no tracking cookies, so no visitor profile is built from your reading. No analytics vendor and no advertising vendor operates on any page of the site.
No tracking cookies follow you from page to page or from our site to other sites, and no advertising network learns which machinery topics you read.
Reading the guide therefore requires no account and no consent choice. Personal data reaches us only when you write to us, through a form or by email.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We keep provider match and contact request data for 24 months. The period runs from the date of your request; after it, we no longer keep the data of that request, and no other retention period applies to form data on this site.
Table 1 sets out each form, its purpose, its recipients and the period we keep it.
| Data | Purpose | Recipient | Kept |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider match request (form data) | Passing your request to independent providers | The editorial team and the independent providers who receive it | 24 months |
| Contact request (form data) | Answering your message | The editorial team | 24 months |
Your Rights under the GDPR
Articles 15 to 21 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 give you the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection.
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR), published in OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1, has applied since 25 May 2018; its text is on EUR-Lex. The seven provisions behind these rights are listed below.
- Right of access: Article 15.
- Right to rectification: Article 16.
- Right to erasure: Article 17.
- Right to restriction of processing: Article 18.
- Notification obligation regarding rectification, erasure or restriction: Article 19.
- Right to data portability: Article 20.
- Right to object: Article 21.
You exercise every one of these rights by writing to editorial@machineryregulation.net. The other ways to reach us are listed on the contact Machinery Regulation Guide page.
How to Exercise Your Rights
Write to editorial@machineryregulation.net, say which right you want to exercise and which request it concerns, and we answer from that address. Under Article 12(3) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, we inform you of the action taken without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of your request.
That period may be extended by two further months where necessary, and we tell you of any extension within one month of receipt.
Complaints to a Data Protection Supervisory Authority
You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority under Article 77 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679. The GDPR names in particular the supervisory authority in the Member State of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
We update this notice when our processing changes, and the date at the top shows the version in force. Questions about any change go to editorial@machineryregulation.net.