Last updated: [18.5.2026]

Welcome to Bee Gardens.

This Privacy Policy explains how personal data may be collected, used, stored, and protected when you visit or interact with beegardens.eu.

Bee Gardens Europe is currently an informal project initiative and not a separate registered legal entity. This website serves as an informational and project-presentation platform for bee garden projects, biodiversity initiatives, partners, and supporters.

By using this website, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Bee Gardens Europe is an informal project initiative created to present and promote bee gardens, pollinator-friendly planting, biodiversity projects, and related partnerships.

Website: beegardens.eu

For privacy-related questions, please contact us through the contact form on this website.

Until a separate legal entity is established, personal data submitted through this website may be processed by the project organiser or by an appropriate participating legal entity responsible for managing the website and responding to inquiries.

2. What Personal Data We Collect

We may collect the following personal data when you use this website:

• your name,
• your email address,
• your phone number, if you provide it,
• your company or organization name, if you provide it,
• the content of your message,
• technical information such as IP address, browser type, device type, pages visited, and website usage data,
• cookie-related information, depending on your cookie settings.

We only collect personal data that is necessary for the purpose for which it is provided.

3. How We Collect Personal Data

We may collect personal data when you:

• submit a contact form,
• send us an inquiry,
• express interest in supporting or partnering with the project,
• browse the website,
• interact with cookies or analytics tools.

4. Why We Use Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

• to respond to your inquiries,
• to communicate with potential supporters, partners, or collaborators,
• to manage project-related communication,
• to improve the website and understand how visitors use it,
• to protect the website from misuse, spam, or technical issues,
• to comply with legal or administrative requirements, where applicable.

We do not sell your personal data.

5. Legal Basis for Processing

Depending on the situation, we process your personal data based on:

• your consent, for example when you submit a form or accept certain cookies,
• legitimate interest, for example to respond to inquiries, maintain website security, and improve the website,
• legal obligation, if we are required to keep or disclose certain information by law,
• pre-contractual or contractual steps, if communication relates to potential cooperation, sponsorship, partnership, or project participation.

6. Contact Forms

When you submit a contact form, we use the information you provide only to respond to your message and manage related communication.

Please do not send sensitive, confidential, or legally important information through the contact form unless necessary.

Submitting a contact form does not create a legal partnership, sponsorship agreement, donation obligation, or commercial relationship.

7. Cookies and Analytics

This website may use cookies or similar technologies to improve website functionality, remember preferences, measure website performance, and understand how visitors use the website.

Cookies may include:

• essential cookies required for the website to function,
• analytics cookies used to understand website traffic and visitor behavior,
• preference cookies used to remember selected settings.

Where required, non-essential cookies will only be used with your consent. You can usually manage or withdraw cookie consent through the cookie banner or your browser settings. The European Commission notes that website cookies can be used to remember user preferences or produce anonymised statistics about website use.

8. Third-Party Services

This website may use third-party services such as website hosting providers, analytics tools, security tools, form plugins, email services, or embedded content providers.

These third parties may process limited personal data only where necessary to provide their services.

We aim to use service providers that apply appropriate data protection and security standards.

9. External Links

This website may contain links to third-party websites, partner websites, social media pages, or other external resources.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, content, or security of external websites.

When you visit an external website, its own privacy policy applies.

10. How Long We Keep Your Data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

Contact form submissions and email communication may be kept for as long as needed to respond to the inquiry, manage project communication, or maintain appropriate records.

Website analytics data may be stored according to the settings of the analytics provider.

When personal data is no longer needed, it will be deleted or anonymised where reasonably possible.

11. How We Protect Your Data

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

However, no website, email system, or online transmission is completely secure. You use the website and submit information at your own discretion.

12. Sharing Personal Data

We may share personal data only when necessary:

• with project organisers or relevant partners who need the information to respond to your inquiry,
• with service providers that help operate the website,
• if required by law or public authority,
• if needed to protect the website, project, or legal interests.

We do not sell personal data to third parties.

13. International Data Transfers

Some website tools or service providers may process data outside the European Economic Area.

Where this happens, we aim to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as contractual protections or other legally recognized transfer mechanisms.

14. Your Rights

Depending on applicable data protection law, you may have the right to:

• request access to your personal data,
• request correction of inaccurate data,
• request deletion of your personal data,
• object to certain processing,
• request restriction of processing,
• request data portability,
• withdraw consent where processing is based on consent,
• lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

The European Commission explains that individuals have rights over their personal data under the GDPR, including the ability to exercise those rights with the relevant data controller.

15. Children’s Privacy

This website is not intended to knowingly collect personal data from children.

If we become aware that personal data from a child has been submitted without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

16. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Any changes will be published on this page with an updated date.

Continued use of the website after changes are published means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.

17. Contact

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the processing of personal data, please contact us through the contact form on this website.