Privacy

Be Civic doesn't collect personal data. No name, no email, no IP address tied to your visit. There are no user accounts.

What we don't do.: No tracking cookies. No third-party trackers. No advertising. No newsletter sign-ups. No fingerprinting.
Cookies.: One cookie to remember your language choice.
Visit statistics.: We use Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate page views — no cookies, no fingerprints. The library search runs entirely in your browser; queries never reach our servers.
Submissions.: When your AI files an observation, validation, or amendment on your behalf, it's instructed to explain what's being sent and let you review; you can cancel within 24 hours. We also run automated checks server-side to flag personal information — a best-effort scrub, not a guarantee. What you submit is your responsibility.
Your rights under the GDPR.: You have rights of access, rectification, and erasure of personal data. Be Civic doesn't hold personal data, so these don't apply in practice — but if you believe otherwise, write to privacy@becivic.be.

Removing content about you

By design, Be Civic doesn't collect personal data. No personal data is collected when you use Be Civic with your AI assistant.

When your AI submits feedback or validations on your behalf, every effort is made to prevent personal data from leaving your session — your AI is instructed to surface what it's about to send for your review, and runs scrub checks before submission. Server-side, every submission goes through a 24-hour staging window during which you can ask your AI to cancel, plus automated personal-information detection that runs again before anything is published. None of these layers are perfect on their own; together they're the structural reason the public corpus stays personal-data-free.

If something slipped through.: Write to privacy@becivic.be and tell us what to look at. We acknowledge within 72 hours and act within 7 days — either removing the content from the live site, the database, and the public source repository, or explaining why the request is outside this contract.
What we will not chase.: Be Civic is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Once content is in the corpus, anyone may copy, mirror, or build on it — that's the licence at work, not a gap in our process. We can remove content from Be Civic itself; we cannot reach forks, search-engine caches, the Internet Archive, or AI training datasets that have already ingested the corpus.
What is in scope.: Personal data about you — name, address, file reference, anything that identifies you. Content you can demonstrate you wrote and now want removed. Content that is defamatory or otherwise unlawful.
What is out of scope.: Accurate factual statements about Belgian administrative procedure, even if you disagree with them. References to publicly published statutes, regulations, or official documents. Demands to remove an organisation's name from a procedural description where the name is a fact about the procedure (the SPF, a commune, a regulated profession).
GDPR rights.: This contract operationalises the right to erasure (Article 17) and rectification (Article 16). You can also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD/GBA) at autoriteprotectiondonnees.be.
Identification.: You don't need to prove who you are. By design we don't have an identity to match yours against. For requests to remove content you authored, briefly describe the session and any details only the author would know.

Contact.: privacy@becivic.be.