The data controller for your Personal Data is Global IT Service « GITS », represented by Mr. 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.

The processing is carried out in accordance with the RD (pending receipt from the APDP) issued by the Personal Data Protection Authority (APDP). You may contact this authority and verify the terms hereof using the following contact details:

The data processed includes personal information we collect from our clients, employees, and on our website during their various operations.

GITS only collects personal information relating to clients, employees, and website users for the exclusive purpose of processing their operations.

The information collected is subject to the following operations:

Collection, adaptation, display and exhibition, storage, copying, exploitation, recording, modification, extraction, backup, consultation, use, communication by transmission, encryption, restriction, erasure, structuring, destruction and organisation aimed at achieving the purposes mentioned below.

The information is collected for the following purposes:

• Client relationship management
• Human Resources management
• Serving as the company's showcase website
• Staff recruitment
• Optimisation of user experience

It should be noted that each processing operation corresponds to a specific and unique purpose. In the event that a single processing operation could serve multiple purposes, your consent will be obtained separately for each one.

No data will be transmitted to a third party. Global IT Service 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.

Personal data of clients is retained for a period of ten (10) years.

Personal data of employees is retained for a period of ten (10) years after the termination of the contractual relationship.

Personal data collected via the website is retained for a period of six (6) months necessary to achieve the purposes for which it was communicated to GITS, in compliance with applicable regulations, and is in any case anonymised or destroyed at the end of that period.

This period is determined based on the legal and regulatory obligations applicable to the area of activity. After this period, data is deleted or anonymised, in accordance with the provisions of the Digital Code of the Republic of Benin.

The law grants you the following rights over your personal data:

• Right of access to collected information;
• Right of enquiry;
• Right of rectification or deletion;
• Right to data portability;
• Right to object / withdraw consent;
• Right to be forgotten
• Right of modification
• Right of rectification

You can consult the definition of these rights on the website: https://service.apdp.bj/

You may exercise your rights by writing to our Personal Data Protection Officer (PDPO), either by email or by post at the following addresses:

GITS undertakes to respond to requests from data subjects within one month (30 days) 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.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Authority:

This is without prejudice to a remedy before a competent court.

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

• By email: elise.badjagoma@gits.bj
• By post: Akpakpa Tokplegbe c/5136
• By phone: +229 01 21 60 42 52 / +229 01 91 91 15 91