Privacy policy

Last updated: 30 September 2026

This policy explains which personal data FrenchTech Brussels ASBL processes when you visit this website, subscribe to our newsletter or register for our events, or write to us, and what your rights are. It applies in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018.

Data controller

FrenchTech Brussels ASBL, rue de la Loi 23, 1040 Brussels, Belgium, company number 0671.628.493. For any question about your data: hello@frenchtech-brussels.com.

Data processed, purposes and legal bases

Visiting the website

Like any web server, our host’s server records technical logs: IP address, date and time, page requested, browser used. They are used solely to ensure the operation and security of the website (legitimate interest) and are kept for a maximum of 12 months. We use no advertising tools. Audience measurement is described in the section below.

Newsletter

If you subscribe, we process your email address and, where applicable, your name and organisation, to send you our news and invitations (consent). Subscription and sending are handled by Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France). Until our migration is complete in October 2026, some newsletters may still be sent through Mailchimp. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every email; your data is then removed from the list.

Event registrations

To organise our events, we process the data you provide when registering: first name, last name, email address, organisation and position (performance of your registration request). Registrations may go through a ticketing platform, whose privacy policy then also applies. When an event is held at a partner’s premises, the list of participants may be shared with that partner for access and security purposes; you are informed of this when you register. After the event, we keep your first name, last name, email address and organisation for 3 years in order to invite you to similar events (legitimate interest). You can object when you register and at any time using the link included in each invitation.

Email exchanges

When you write to us, we use your contact details and the content of your message to reply and follow up on our relationship (legitimate interest). These exchanges are kept for 3 years after the last contact.

Audience measurement

We measure the audience of this website with Matomo, installed on our own hosting (OVH, France): no data is shared with a third party. This measurement is based on our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR), and we follow the recommendations of the French data protection authority (CNIL) for consent-exempt audience measurement as a technical reference: it sets no cookie, IP addresses are anonymised (the last two bytes are masked) before any processing, no user identifier is recorded, the data is used only to produce anonymous statistics on visits. Detailed visit data is deleted after 6 months: only anonymous aggregated statistics (such as the number of visits per page and per month) are kept beyond that.

You can object to this measurement at any time:

Opt-out complete; your visits to this website will not be recorded by the Web Analytics tool. Note that if you clear your cookies, delete the opt-out cookie, or if you change computers or Web browsers, you will need to perform the opt-out procedure again.

You may choose to prevent this website from aggregating and analyzing the actions you take here. Doing so will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and creating a better experience for you and other users.

You are not opted out. Uncheck this box to opt-out. You are currently opted out. Check this box to opt-in.

The tracking opt-out feature requires cookies to be enabled.

Cookies

The website only uses cookies that are strictly necessary for its operation, which do not require your consent. If you object to audience measurement above, a cookie is set to remember your choice.

Videos and media files on this website are stored and delivered by Scaleway (France). A video is only downloaded when you press play. Playing it sets no cookie and involves no third-party tracking; as with any web request, Scaleway receives your IP address in order to deliver the file.

Recipients and processors

Your data is never sold or rented. It is only accessible to the volunteer members of the association who need it, and to the following providers, solely for the service they provide to us:

• OVH SAS (France): website hosting
• Google Ireland Limited (Ireland), Google Workspace: the association’s email, with possible transfers to the United States under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework
• Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France): newsletter management and subscription forms
• Intuit Mailchimp (United States): former newsletter tool, used until the end of the migration to Brevo in October 2026
• ticketing platforms, for example Eventbrite (United States): event registrations
• Scaleway SAS (France): storage and delivery of videos and media files

Where data is transferred outside the European Union, these transfers are governed by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework to which these providers adhere, or by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and port your data, as well as the right to object. Where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. To exercise these rights, write to hello@frenchtech-brussels.com; we will reply within one month.

If you believe your rights are not being respected, you can lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels (www.dataprotectionauthority.be).

Security

The website is served over HTTPS, kept up to date and protected by an application firewall; access to its administration is limited to the people who need it.

Changes

This policy may change, in particular if we add new services to the website. The date of the last update appears at the top of the page. See also our legal notice.