Privacy & Cookie Policy

This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how the Yemeni Belgian Cultural Center (“we”, “us”) collects, uses and protects your personal data when you use this website, in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who we are

The Yemeni Belgian Cultural Center is a non-profit cultural organisation based in Belgium and is the controller responsible for your personal data. You can reach us using the details on our Contact page.

2. What data we collect and why

• Contact form — name, email, subject and message, so we can reply to your enquiry.
• Event registration (RSVP) — name, email, phone and number of guests, so we can reserve your place and send a confirmation.
• Newsletter — your email address, to send news and event updates. We use double opt-in and you can unsubscribe at any time.
• Volunteering / Get involved — name, email, phone and your message.

Our legal basis is your consent and/or our legitimate interest in responding to you and running our activities.

3. Cookies

This website uses strictly necessary cookies only (a session cookie for sign-in, form/CSRF protection and your language, and a consent cookie). We do not use analytics, advertising or tracking cookies.

4. How we protect your data

Your data is stored securely using encrypted connections (HTTPS), prepared database queries, restricted staff access and hashed passwords, and is kept only as long as necessary.

5. Sharing your data

We do not sell or share your personal data for marketing. Public website content (not your personal data) may be machine-translated by DeepL.

6. Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict your personal data, to object, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time, and to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (www.dataprotectionauthority.be).

7. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page.