RTBF Privacy Policy

1. We offer you new content to be closer to your tastes.

Our public service mission requires us to be particularly attentive in providing you with access to the content you desire - innovative and enriching content. It is through a better understanding of your preferences that we can recommend the most relevant content related to your interests.

2. Your experience is enriched: Use of your information only to serve your interests.

Our priority is to bring added value to you, both in terms of the content and the form of our content. To enrich your user experience, we undertake to collect only the necessary information.

3. Optimization of content and personalization with complete transparency.

The personalization of your user experience is done through the communication of some information that you control the management of.

4. Your security on our sites: an essential value.

We process your data in compliance with strict security standards currently in force.

5. You remain the sole decision-maker and owner of your personal data.

You have a permanent right of access, rectification, and deletion of your personal data as provided by law. RTBF provides you with a unique contact point: our "Data Protection Officer - DPO" via the following email address: dpo_rtbf@rtbf.be.


Introduction

RTBF aims first and foremost to provide added value in both content and delivery format. This added value may take the form of personalized recommendations or services aimed at improving the accessibility of our content.

To achieve this goal and improve your experience, RTBF is committed to collecting only necessary information.

Our public service mission

RTBF's missions are based on universality, independence, pursuit of excellence, diversity, transparency, and innovation. We are particularly concerned that you have access to the content you desire and that enriching, new, and interesting content can be offered to expand your discoveries.

In this context, certain technological devices have become levers that RTBF intends to use to fulfill its mission and further satisfy you.

Algorithms, for example, allow us to recommend content tailored to your interests, reading, viewing or listening habits. These recommendations represent an important step forward that allows us to improve the quality of our offering and the service we provide. However, when implementing these complex devices, we ensure that you are at the center of our concerns and offer you a varied choice of content. We do not limit this content to your consumption habits and strive to offer you different content that is likely to sharpen your curiosity, make you discover the diversity of society and creators, and open you up to new horizons.

The implementation of innovative technologies to fulfill our mission is determined by the promotion of our values. We want, in particular, to be part of our time by using the latest technologies to federate and connect our audiences, but also to reach the largest number of people and allow everyone to enjoy quality content marked by the seal of independence.

Our intentions

RTBF aims first and foremost to provide added value in both content and delivery format. This added value may take the form of personalized recommendations or services aimed at improving the accessibility of our content.

To achieve this goal and improve your experience, RTBF is committed to collecting only necessary information.

Transparency

The purpose of this section is to inform you about the information we collect, the places where this collection takes place, and the purposes we pursue.

Any internet browsing is likely to leave traces. Various technical devices exist that allow website managers to analyze and measure traffic. These devices are classified into different categories depending on their purpose. Some have a purely technical purpose (such as establishing the connection between your computer and the one hosting the website); others allow us to analyze traffic on our sites (such as the most viewed pages).

This personalization is done through your registration on our sites and the communication of some basic information. We give you the possibility at any time to modify the information you have provided to us, to adapt your preferences (for example by modifying your subscriptions to our newsletters), or even to completely delete your information from our servers.

Security

The security of your data is an essential value of our digital strategy. We put everything in place so that you can transmit data to us with confidence. To this end, we process data in compliance with the strictest standards currently in force.

Your rights

The RTBF Charter aims to inform you of how we collect and process your personal data.

This Charter is part of the data controller's desire to act in full transparency, in compliance with the Law of July 30, 2018, relating to the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data, and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC.

The data controller (RTBF) pays particular attention to the protection of privacy and therefore undertakes to take reasonable precautions to protect personal data collected against loss, theft, disclosure or unauthorized use. Therefore, except for limitations imposed by applicable legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation or "GDPR", regarding your personal data grants you the following rights:

  • Right of access: the right to be informed and to request access to the personal data we process, (Art. 15);
  • Right to rectification: the right to request us to modify or update your personal data when it is inaccurate or incomplete, (Art. 16);
  • Right to erasure: the right to request us to permanently delete your personal data, (Art. 17);
  • Right to restriction: the right to request us to temporarily or permanently stop processing all or part of your personal data, (Art. 18);
  • Obligation of the data controller to notify you if you request it, if your personal data has been communicated, rectified, deleted or subject to a restriction (Art. 19);
  • Right to data portability: the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit this personal data for use by a third party (Art. 20);
  • Right to object (Art. 21): the right to refuse the processing of your personal data for prospecting purposes;
  • Right not to be subject to automated decision-making: the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision-making, including profiling, if the decision has a legal effect on you or produces a similar significant effect (Art. 22).

You can contact our "Data Protection Officer - DPO" directly via the following email address: dpo_rtbf@rtbf.be


Legal Notice

The Radio Télévision Belge de la Communauté Française (RTBF) is a public autonomous cultural enterprise registered with the BCE under number 0223.459.690.

The company's registered office is located at Cité de la RadioTélévision, Boulevard Auguste Reyers, 52 in 1044 Brussels.

It is represented by its General Administrator, Mr. Jean-Paul Philippot.