Privacy
Processing of personal data of the visitors and users
The Point of Contact for Fair Competition protects the privacy of its users by the observance of the act of December 8, 1992 on the protection of privacy with regard to the processing of personal data.
The personal data of the users are not at all processed for commercial purposes.
If the user refuses to share certain essential data, it is possible that the SIOD will not investigate the report.
Links to other sites
The website of the Point of Contact for Fair Competition contains links to other websites and references to other sources of information. These data can only be made available for information purposes. The Point of Contact for Fair Competition cannot guarantee that these websites apply a privacy policy in accordance with the act of December 8, 1992 on the protection of privacy with regard to the processing of personal data. Users are therefore requested to check this themselves by referring to the clauses on the protection of privacy that must appear on each website.
The reproduction of information from the website is only permitted for non-commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged. The same applies for copying electronic addresses.
Use of cookies
As required by Article 129, 1° of the Act of June 13, 2005 on electronic communications, the Point of Contact for Fair Competition will inform visitors of its website about the use of cookies. This website uses so-called ‘cookies’. These are small data files stored by the browser on your computer or appliance so that the information does not have to be entered again the next time you visit the site.
The cookies on this site are used to register your preferred language, to store statistics on the visits to the website and to enable us to optimize the use of the website. No information is collected that would allow any identification of visitors to the site.
You can disable the use of these cookies in your browser. This could however lead to a less optimal user experience of the website. Information regarding the adjustment of the cookie settings can be found under ‘Help’ in most browsers.
Privacy of your identity as a reporter
Unless you have given your express permission, social inspectors may not disclose your identity to anyone, not even to the courts.
In addition to that, they may not inform the employer or his representative that the investigation they are conducting was launched on the basis of a report.
Below is the full article from the Social Criminal Code:
Art. 59. Secrecy
Unless expressly authorized by the complainant or by the person having filed the report on the infringement of the provisions of the legislation they supervise, the social inspectors shall in no case, not even to the courts, disclose the name of the author of this complaint or of this report.
It is equally forbidden to disclose to the employer or to his representative that an investigation was opened following a complaint or denunciation.
Confidentiality of data
Social inspectors may use the information in your report, should it allow individuals to be identified, only for carrying out their investigation. They must treat the information therein confidentially.
Below is the full article from the Social Criminal Code:
Art. 58. Confidentiality of data
The social inspectors shall take the necessary measures to ensure confidentiality of the social data of a personal nature of which they have become aware in the exercise of their mandate and to ensure that this information is used only for the performance of their supervisory duties.
The persons mentioned in Articles 33 and 34, second paragraph, shall preserve the confidential character of the social data of a personal nature of which they have become aware through assisting the social inspectors in the performance of the powers bestowed upon them in these articles. Any infringement shall be punished in accordance with Article 458 of the Penal Code.