Who are we?

The address of our site is: https://gotesseasbl.org. The data controller responsible for the personal data collected on this site is the Gotesse ASBL. For any questions related to your personal data, you can contact the data manager: Anatole Nono-Kamga, by email at anatole.nono@gotesseasbl.org.

Comments

When you leave a comment on our site, the data entered in the comment form, as well as your IP address and browser user agent, are collected to help us detect spam comments.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be sent to the Gravatar service to check if you use it. The privacy policies of the Gravatar service are available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible next to your comment.
The moderation of comments is carried out exclusively by the staff of Gotesse ASBL to ensure compliance with the rules and proper functioning of the exchanges.

Media

If you upload images to the site, we advise you to avoid uploading images containing GPS coordinate EXIF data. Visitors to your site can download and extract location data from these images.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you will be offered to save your name, email address, and site in cookies. This is only for your convenience so that you do not have to enter this information again if you leave another comment later. These cookies expire after one year.

If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie will be created to determine if your browser accepts cookies. It contains no personal data and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up several cookies to save your login information and screen preferences. The lifespan of a login cookie is two days, and the lifespan of a screen option cookie is one year. If you check “Remember Me,” your login cookie will be retained for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookie will be deleted.

When you edit or publish a post, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data. It simply indicates the ID of the post you just edited. It expires after one day.

Embedded content from other sites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles…). Embedded content from other sites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor visited the other site.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in on those websites.

Use and transmission of your personal data

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Data retention periods

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and automatically approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For accounts that register on our site (if any), we also store the personal data provided in their profile. All accounts can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except their username). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.

Your rights under the GDPR

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Belgian legislation, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of access: you can request to receive a file containing all the personal data we hold about you;
• Right to rectification: you can request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data;
• Right to erasure: you can request deletion of your personal data, except for data retained for legal, security, or administrative reasons;
• Right to restriction of processing;
• Right to object;
• Right to data portability.

To exercise these rights, you can contact Anatole Nono-Kamga, data manager, at anatole.nono@gotesseasbl.org. We commit to responding within the legal timeframes.

Security and responsibility

We implement all appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal data, in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR and Belgian law.

Supervisory authority

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (DPA) if you believe your rights are not being respected.

Where your data is sent

Visitors’ comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.