SUMMARY OF THE PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR YOUR VISIT TO WWW.BEBIODIVERSITY.BE

(i) Introduction

The Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment (FPS Health) protects the personal data you provide to us in any possible processing. The FPS Health respects the Belgian and European legislation in this respect.
This brief summary of our privacy statement for visitors to the web pages of the FPS Health and those who fill out an online form of the FPS Health will bring you up to speed in no time on how the FPS Health processes your personal data as part of your visit or completion of an online form. Would you like further information? In that case, we invite you to read our full privacy statement, which explains everything in detail.

(ii) Which personal data do we collect about you?

• Your identification and contact details
• IP address

(iii) Why do we collect and process your personal data?

We collect and process your personal data in order to:
• Legal obligation
• General interest in the context of the competences of FPS Health
• General interest in the context of public health
• Consent

(iv) What legal basis do we use to process your personal data?

We process your personal data on the following legal basis:

• Public interest in the context of public health
• Legal obligation
• General interest in the context of the competences of the FPS Health
• Consent

(v) On what infrastructure do we store your personal data?

Your personal data is stored electronically (in protected databases on secure European servers).

(vi) Who has access to your personal data?

Your personal data are not transferred to third parties.

(vii) What rights do you have?

As a deliberation between the exercise of various fundamental rights is necessary in this processing of personal data, we will assess on a case-by-case basis whether these rights can be exercised by you. Where appropriate, you may request us, inter alia, to review or correct your personal data. These requests will then be evaluated in an individual basis. You can find more information in our full privacy statement.

(viii) How long do we store your personal data?

We do not keep your personal data longer than necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected.
• When visiting www.biodiversiscape.be, your IP address is stored for 12 months.
• The retention period varies in function of the type of cookie (up to max. 1 year).
• Personal data in the context of exchanges via the contact form and via e-mail are kept for 5 years.
• When subscribing to a newsletter, your e-mail address will be kept until you unsubscribe.
In exceptional cases, such as legal proceedings, your personal data may be kept longer.

(ix) What are your rights?

Regarding any processing of your personal data, where appropriate after due consideration of the fundamental rights guaranteed, you may exercise the following rights by sending an email to DPO.PHA@health.fgov.be:
– Right of access: you have the right to request a copy of your personal data that the federal public service holds and processes;
– Right to rectification (correction): you have the right to have your data corrected if it turns out to be incorrect;
– Right to object to processing: you can ask us, for example, to stop marketing communications at any time;
– Right to withdraw consent: you have the right to withdraw a previously granted consent to processing;
– Right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (DPA): you have the right to lodge a complaint here if you suspect that your data is not being handled correctly by the federal public service.

You may also exercise the following rights with limited consent depending on the legal basis of processing and the legal retention periods:
– Right to erasure: you may request the federal public service to delete your personal data, but it will not always be possible to do so, given the legal grounds on which the data was obtained;
– Right to restrict processing: you may ask to restrict the processing of your personal data, but it will not always be possible to do so, given the legal grounds on which the data was obtained;
– Right to data portability: you have the right to request your personal data in a structured and machine-readable format, or in another standard format so that it is readable by another data controller

Complete version: Privacy policy Bebiodiversity