Legal notice & privacy
Who publishes this website, what data we collect and how to exercise your rights.
Publisher
This website is published by the Congolese Patriots League of the Diaspora (LPCD), [legal form — to be completed], [company number — to be completed].
Head office: Avenue Jean Palfyn 38, box 4, 1020 Brussels (Laeken), Belgium. Luxembourg office: 9, rue des Romains, L-8812 Bigonville.
Contact: ligue@patriotescongolaisdiaspora.org — +352 691 20 48 11 — +32 489 23 94 25.
Publication director: [name and position — to be completed].
Design and hosting
Design and development: Ink Brothers RDC (www.inkbrothersrdc.com).
Hosting: [host name, address and phone number — to be completed].
Intellectual property
The texts, logo and photos of the LPCD are protected: any reproduction requires the prior consent of the League. Photos published under a free licence (Wikimedia Commons) are credited on the “Photo credits” page.
Data controller
The LPCD is responsible for the data collected on this website, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation (EU) 2016/679). For any question: ligue@patriotescongolaisdiaspora.org.
What data, and why?
Membership and volunteering: first name, last name, email, phone (optional), country of residence, type of request and skills, to process your request and contact you. Legal basis: your membership request and your consent.
Contact, donation pledge and report: name, email and message content (name and email are optional for a report), to reply to you and handle your request. Legal basis: your consent and the League’s legitimate interest in answering the requests it receives.
Newsletter: email address and chosen language, to send you news from the League. Legal basis: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the unsubscribe link in every email.
Who has access, and for how long?
Only authorised LPCD officers have access, in a password-protected management area. Your data is never sold, rented or passed on to third parties for commercial purposes.
Retention periods [to be confirmed]: membership requests not accepted, 1 year; member data, for the duration of membership then 3 years; messages and reports, 1 year after they are handled; newsletter, until you unsubscribe.
The League’s emails are sent through [LPCD email service — to be completed].
Your rights
You may ask to access, correct, delete or port your data, restrict or object to its processing, and withdraw your consent at any time by writing to ligue@patriotescongolaisdiaspora.org. We reply within one month.
If you believe your rights are not respected, you may contact the data protection authority of your country: Data Protection Authority in Belgium (www.dataprotectionauthority.be), CNPD in Luxembourg (cnpd.public.lu), CNIL in France (www.cnil.fr).
Cookies and third-party services
The public website uses no advertising or audience-measurement cookies and loads no third-party service: fonts, photos and videos are hosted on the website. Only the management area reserved for the team uses a session cookie, which is required to log in.
The “View on the map” links open Google Maps, which applies its own privacy policy.
Last updated: 10 November 2026.