Court of Justice judgment · Case C-40/17

Fashion ID GmbH & Co.KG v Verbraucherzentrale NRW eV

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case: C-40/17
Court: Court of Justice
Date of judgment: 29 July 2019
ECLI: ECLI:EU:C:2019:629
Instrument: Directive 95/46/EC (pre-GDPR; reasoning still applied under the GDPR)
Provisions: Article 4(7), Article 26, Article 6(1)(a), Article 6(1)(f), Article 13

Listed under "Related (earlier law or other instruments)": this judgment concerns earlier law or another instrument, not the GDPR alone.

Holding (summary, not the official text)

A website that embeds a social plugin is a joint controller with the plugin provider for collecting and sending visitors' data, but only for that stage; each must pursue a legitimate interest, and the site must obtain any consent and give information for the stage it controls.

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

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