This privacy policy is based on Article 415 of Book Five of the Digital Code relating to the Protection of Personal Data.
It mentions proof of completion of prior formalities with the Personal Data Protection Authority (APDP) and helps you understand what information we collect and process through the Watchmanplatform, the personal data involved, the intended purposes, and the management policy implemented to comply with legislation on personal data protection and privacy in the Republic of Benin.
Please read this Personal Data Protection Policy carefully, as it is binding on us. By providing your Personal Data on this platform, you acknowledge that you have read this policy and expressly consent to it, as well as to the processing itself.
1. Data Controller and Commitments
The data controller for your Personal Data is Mr Sètondji Bégis Pascal DAGBEHOU.
The data controller takes all necessary measures to ensure the security of your data and comply with legal obligations regarding personal data. It is firmly committed to respecting a set of rules to guarantee the confidentiality of all data concerning you.
Transparency commitment: throughout this document, we detail how the various data concerning you are obtained, stored, and processed.
Security commitment: technical and operational security measures meeting industry standards are applied at all levels of information processing, whether for collection, storage, or backups.
Non-disclosure commitment: no data is subject to automated disclosure to service providers or third parties. However, certain information may be published and disclosed strictly within the limits required by laws relating to decentralised financial systems, in particular in accordance with Law No. 2012-14 of 21 March 2012.
Commitment to respecting the rights of data subjects: rights allowing access, rectification, and deletion of certain personal data, as well as the export of all such data, are ensured.
Commitment to legal compliance: the information system complies with data protection legislation.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures to prevent the destruction, loss, falsification, modification, unauthorised access, or erroneous notification to third parties of the Personal Data collected, as well as any other unauthorised processing of such data.
We guarantee a sufficient level of protection by making obligations applicable to collaborators.
You are solely responsible for the use made from the website of your computer, your IP address and your identification data, as well as for their confidentiality. You must at all times comply with security rules, in particular by preventing any unauthorised access to your login and password.
2. Prior Formalities
The processing is carried out in accordance with the extract of deliberation No. 2026-144/AT/APDP/DST/SC OF 29 APRIL 2026 — Processing of personal data via the platform www.watchman.bj issued by the Personal Data Protection Authority (APDP).
You may contact this authority and verify the terms hereof using the following contact details:
Head office: rue 6.076 (Centre d'accueil monseigneur Parisot) Aïdjèdo, Immeuble El MARZOUK Joël.
3. Personal Data Subject to Processing
The data processed is the personal data you provide to us when registering, when visiting the site https://watchman.bj or when using our telephone contacts and email addresses.
This consists of: surname, first names, email address, IP address, cookies, pages visited, visit duration, country of visit.
4. Operations Performed
The platform only collects personal information relating to users, and data collected from them, for the exclusive purpose of the services it provides.
The information collected is subject to electronic processing intended solely to achieve the purposes mentioned below.
The operations performed are: collection, storage, copying, exploitation, recording, extraction, backup, consultation, use, restriction, erasure.
The processing of your Personal Data does not include profiling, nor will you be subject to automated decision-making on our part.
5. Purpose(s) of Processing
The information is collected for the following purposes:
Presenting the company and its activities through a showcase website.
Ensuring the security of companies' information systems.
Improving navigation and the user experience on the site.
It should be noted that these purposes correspond to a single processing operation.
6. Recipients of Personal Data, Communication and Transfer
6.1 The recipients of this data are the following internal departments:
IT department (site administrator)
Compliance department
General Management
6.2 No data will be transmitted to a third party
No data will be transmitted to a third party. We will not sell, rent, distribute, or make your Personal Data commercially accessible to third parties, except in the cases described above or with your prior consent.
7. Duration of Processing, Retention and Storage
Personal Data is retained for a period of six (06) months necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was communicated, in compliance with applicable regulations, and is in any case anonymised or destroyed at the end of that period.
For more information regarding retention periods, you may contact us at the following address: Cotonou, Akpakpa TOKPLEGBE C/5136
We undertake to respond to requests from data subjects within one (01) month of receiving the request. This period may be extended by two additional months if necessary, depending on the complexity and number of requests. In such cases, the data subject will be informed of the extension and the reasons for the delay.
9. Complaints
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Authority. The complaint is:
filed at the institution's head office, Rue 6.076 Aïdjèdo Cotonou
This is without prejudice to a remedy before a competent court.
10. For More Information
If you have any other questions or comments regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact our Personal Data Protection Officer:
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