Privacy Policy
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This Privacy Policy explains how Felix collects, uses, and protects your personal data, and your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Belgian data protection law. Felix is a private, members-only network for home rentals in Brussels.
1. Who is responsible for your data
The data controller is [Legal entity name], registered in Belgium under number [BCE/VAT number], [Company address]. For any privacy question or to exercise your rights, contact [privacy/DPO email].
2. What we collect
- Account: your email address and phone number.
- Profile: your name or display name, username, avatar, and any bio you add.
- Listings: the details, photos, and location of homes you publish.
- Connection graph: who you add to your circle or to your contacts, and who enters your network through a link you sent. Felix does not read your phone’s address book. See section 4.
- Activity: connections, access requests, shared links, and similar in-app actions.
- Technical: basic log and device data needed to run and secure the service.
3. Why we use it, and our legal basis
- To provide Felix (accounts, listings, circle visibility, matching): performance of our contract with you.
- To compute trust and visibility (mutual connections, circle vs contact access): our legitimate interest in making a members-only network work, balanced against your rights.
- To keep the platform safe and prevent abuse: legitimate interest and legal obligation.
- To communicate with you about the service: contract and legitimate interest.
- Where we ask for it, your consent (which you can withdraw at any time).
4. Your network: our commitment
Your connection graph is used only to compute mutual connections and visibility. Felix does not read your phone’s address book: your network is built solely from deliberate actions inside the app, such as sending someone a link, adding a member you found by name, or opening a link you received. We will never notify, message, or contact anyone on your behalf, and we will never sell or rent your data. Any outreach on Felix is a deliberate, pull-based action by a member.
5. Who can see your data
- Other members, strictly according to your visibility settings (circle, contacts, links). Your real name, exact address, and contact details stay hidden until you accept a match.
- Service providers who process data on our behalf to run Felix (for example, hosting and database infrastructure), under contract and only on our instructions.
- Authorities, where we are legally required to disclose.
We do not sell your personal data.
6. Where your data is processed
Felix relies on infrastructure providers (including [hosting/database provider, e.g. Supabase]) to store and process data in [region, e.g. the EU]. Where data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.
7. How long we keep it
We keep personal data for as long as your account is active and as needed to provide the service, then for any period required to meet legal, accounting, or security obligations, after which it is deleted or anonymised. You can ask us to delete your account and data at any time (see section 8).
8. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
- access the personal data we hold about you;
- have inaccurate data corrected;
- have your data erased;
- restrict or object to certain processing;
- receive your data in a portable format; and
- withdraw consent at any time, without affecting prior processing.
To exercise any right, contact [privacy/DPO email]. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (Autorité de protection des données / Gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit), rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels: autoriteprotectiondonnees.be.
9. Security
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect your data, including access controls that enforce your visibility settings. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and to limit what any member can see to what you have chosen to share.
10. Cookies
Felix uses only the cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to sign you in and keep the service running securely. If we later add analytics or non-essential cookies, we will ask for your consent first and update this policy.
11. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. If a change is material, we will take reasonable steps to inform you before it takes effect.
12. Contact
For any privacy question, contact [privacy/DPO email]. See also our Terms & Conditions.