Website operator
- Country
- Belgium
- Fine
- 15,000 EUR
- Date
- 2019-12-17
- Sector
- Public Sector
- Articles
- Art. 6 and 7 GDPR, andArt. 12 and 13 GDPR
Insufficient legal basis for data processing (no lawful consent); and violation of transparency obligations
The administrative fine was imposed by the Litigation Chamber of the Belgian Data Protection Authority for failure to comply with cookie legislation. The website initially provided false information in its privacy policy, which was furthermore unavailable in the website's own languages. The site also used third party analytics cookies ("Google Analytics", "Google Tag Manager" and "Google Adsense") without valid consent via a cookie banner - consent boxes were already ticked. Authority: Belgian Data Protection Authority (GBA-APD)