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Legal notice and privacy

This is a translation provided for information purposes. In case of discrepancy, the Spanish version prevails.

1. Website owner

In accordance with Article 10 of Spanish Law 34/2002, of 11 July, on Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (LSSI), this website, www.riee.eu, is owned by:

2. Terms of use

Access to this website is free of charge, and anyone who visits it becomes a user. Users undertake to make appropriate use of the content, in accordance with the law and with this legal notice.

The information on this website is provided for general information. Part of it, such as the news and the information on courses from previous years, is kept as a historical archive and may not be up to date.

3. Intellectual property

The texts, photographs, recordings, logos and other content of this website belong to the Real Instituto de Estudios Europeos or to their respective authors. They may be consulted and quoted, provided the source is acknowledged. Any other reproduction, distribution or transformation requires prior authorisation.

4. Links to other websites

This website contains links to third-party websites. The Real Instituto de Estudios Europeos has no control over those websites and accepts no responsibility for their content or their privacy terms.

5. Privacy policy

This website has no forms or registration areas, and it does not collect personal data from its visitors.

If you write to info@riee.eu, the Real Instituto de Estudios Europeos will process the data you send us (your name, e-mail address and whatever you include in your message) in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 (LOPDGDD):

The website is hosted on GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.). Like any web server, it may log visitors' IP addresses for security and operational reasons, in accordance with its own privacy statement. The Institute has no access to those logs.

6. Cookie policy

This website does not set its own cookies or use any advertising tools.

Visitor statistics: to find out how many people visit the website and which pages they view, we use GoatCounter, a statistics service that does not set cookies or identify visitors. It only records, in aggregate and anonymous form, the page visited, the referring website, the type of browser, operating system and screen, and the country. It does not store IP addresses or allow a person to be tracked between visits. The data are hosted on servers in the European Union (Germany and Finland) and are not shared with third parties. More information in its privacy policy.

Some pages include third-party content that may set its own cookies when it is loaded or used:

The "Share on Facebook" button on the news pages is an ordinary link: it does not load anything from Facebook until it is clicked.

You can block or delete cookies in your browser settings.

Last updated: October 2026.