Privacy policy

This policy explains which personal data B24 News Agency processes, why, and what your rights are, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Belgian Act of 30 July 2018.

Data controller

Paulo Maria Tchiwahil, Avenue de la Couronne 376, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, reachable through the contact form (see also the legal notice).

Data processed and purposes

• Contact form: name, email address, reason, subject and message. Purpose: to answer your request and, where relevant, to handle information or a press release you send us. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in answering messages received and, for commercial requests, pre-contractual steps.
• Comments: name, email address, optional website, comment content and IP address. Purpose: to publish and moderate comments and fight spam. Legal basis: legitimate interest.
• Technical data: IP address, browser type, pages visited and time of visit, recorded in server logs. Purpose: security and proper functioning of the website. Legal basis: legitimate interest.

We do not sell your data or use it for advertising.

Retention

Messages sent through the form are kept for up to three years after the last exchange. Comments are kept for as long as they are published. Technical logs are kept for the period set by the hosting provider, usually a few weeks.

Recipients

Your data is accessible only to the newsroom and to technical service providers acting on our behalf, in particular our hosting provider (Hostinger International Ltd.). Where a provider processes data outside the European Union, the transfer is covered by the safeguards required by the GDPR.

Protection of sources

Information sent to the newsroom in a journalistic context is treated confidentially. The identity of sources is protected in accordance with the Belgian Act of 7 April 2005.

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify and erase your data, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability. To exercise these rights, contact us through the contact form; we reply within one month. Some rights may be limited for processing for journalistic purposes (Article 85 GDPR).

If you believe your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, Rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels (www.dataprotectionauthority.be).

Cookies

The use of cookies is described in our cookie policy.

Changes

This policy may be updated; the date of the last update is shown at the bottom of the page.

Last updated: 29 October 2026