This privacy statement applies to all services of both the Municipal Administration of Beersel and the OCMW Beersel, united under the name "Lokaal Bestuur Beersel". Our websites may contain links to other websites, which may not belong to the services of our local administration. They may have a different privacy and cookie policy. We are not responsible for the collection, processing, or disclosure of personal data collected via such websites. Nor are we responsible for the information or content of such websites. Links to other websites are provided solely for your convenience. Your use of and visit to these websites is subject to the policies of those websites. Please review the privacy statements of other websites that you visit via a link on our website.
What is personal data?
Personal data is any data by which the Local Government of Beersel can identify you, directly or indirectly. With your name or national register number, we know immediately (directly) that it is you, but we can also identify you (indirectly) with a combination of your address, age, and gender. Therefore, these are also personal data. Personal data is thus all data that we can link to you in one way or another, such as your email address, your telephone number, or even your IP address (the internet address of your computer).
For definitions of the terms used in this text, such as “Personal Data”, “process”, “controller”, etc., we refer to the GDPR: Table of Contents EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR). Privacy/Privacy according to plan. (privacy-regulation.eu) .
What is the General Data Protection Regulation?
The 'GDPR' is the European privacy law.
Previously, the 'Act of 8 December 1992 on the Protection of Privacy with regard to the Processing of Personal Data' – better known as the 'Privacy Act' – protected your personal data. Since 25 May 2018, that old Privacy Act has been replaced by a new European Privacy Act. The media often use the English name: GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation. In Dutch, this is AVG or Algemene Verordening Gegevensbescherming.
The legislation therefore still deals with the 'processing' of personal data. Incidentally, according to that legislation, the term 'processing' is a very broad concept. Everything we do with your personal data constitutes 'processing': storing, consulting, forwarding, organizing, distributing, and updating it.
Privacy Statement
This privacy statement provides information about what data is collected and how it is handled.
The local government of Beersel complies in all cases with applicable laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This means that we:
- processing personal data in accordance with the purpose for which they were provided; these purposes and types of personal data are described in this Privacy Statement;
- limit the processing of personal data to only those data that are minimally necessary for the purposes for which they are processed;
- ask for your explicit consent when necessary;
- take appropriate technical and organizational measures to secure personal data;
- do not transfer personal data to other parties, unless this is necessary for the execution of the purposes for which they were provided;
- respect the rights regarding personal data.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, you can always contact us using the contact details below:
Local government Beersel
Alsembergsteenweg 1046
1652 Alsemberg
DPO Local Government Beersel: dpo@beersel.be
Why do we process personal data?
Personal data is processed by the local government of Beersel for the following purposes and legal grounds:
- to be able to provide the requested services
- to be able to participate in the activities of the local government of Beersel
- sending newsletters and invitations. This consent can be withdrawn at any time.
- obtaining government subsidies (legal obligation)
We use the collected data only for the purposes for which we obtained the data.
See attachment for complete information.