General information
MyTax is the electronic platform, set up by the Brussels Regional Public Service Taxation (Brussels Fiscality) to enable you to manage your tax file online.
You can consult various documents relating to your tax file and execute several things (request for reduction, exemption, payment plan, payment of your taxes, lodging a complaint, etc.).
When you use MyTax, Brussels Fiscality may process personal data concerning you.
Warning
This privacy statement applies exclusively to MyTax. For a complete overview of the processing of personal data by Brussels Fiscality, please consult our Data Protection Policy concerning the processing of personal data.
Data Controller and Data Protection Officer
The controller is Brussels Regional Public Service Taxation (Brussels Fiscality), located at Place Saint-Lazare 2,1210 Bruxelles, represented by its Director General.
Like any public authority, Brussels Fiscality has a Data Protection Officer, whose main role is to ensure that Brussels Fiscality complies with the privacy legislation. She/He is also the contact person at the Data Protection Authority. To contact her/him, please send an email to the following address: dpo.bf@fisc.brussels.
Securing access to MyTax
Access and connection to MyTax is made by secure means of identification (electronic identity card, itsme® application, etc.), to ensure that only you or your representatives can access and consult your tax file.
Personal data collected when using MyTax and the purposes of this processing
In addition to the data processed by Brussels Fiscality in the context of its legal missions, some data concerning you may be collected when you use MyTax.
These are essentially identification and contact data, which allow Brussels Fiscality to contact you or your representative:
- email address;
- telephone number;
- correspondence address.
This contact data may also be used by Brussels Fiscality for any communication with you or your representative, even outside the use of MyTax, within the limits of its other legal powers which would not be supported by MyTax.
By entering this data on MyTax, you acknowledge that you have explicitly given your consent for this data to be used by Brussels Fiscality for the above-mentioned purposes.
Data storage
The data you enter on MyTax are kept by Brussels Fiscality as long as a tax file is open in your name and as long as you have not decided to delete it.Addressees and transmission to third parties
The data collected by MyTax are exclusively intended for Brussels Fiscality and its staff in order to contact you, in compliance with the purposes set out above.They are not passed on to third parties.
Your rights and how to exercise them
You have the right to access, at any time, your personal data contained in MyTax. To do so, all you have to do is identify yourself.You can change your profile and the data you have entered at any time. You can also delete this data and choose to no longer receive notifications about the availability of documents related to your tax file on MyTax.
Please note, however, that by deleting your contact data, you will no longer receive notifications about the availability of certain documents or the follow-up to your requests; you will then have to consult your profile regularly to be notified or will wait until you receive the document concerned by post. Brussels Fiscality will no longer be able to use your contact data collected in MyTax to contact you in the context of its other missions.
Complaints and appeals
Without prejudice to any other administrative appeal or judicial remedy, if you consider that the processing of your personal data constitutes a breach of the general data protection regulation, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority. You may also submit a judicial appeal if you consider that your rights have been violated as a result of the processing of personal data in violation of the general data protection regulation.To lodge a complaint, please contact the Data Protection Authority directly:
- by email, to the following address: contact@apd-gba.be
- by post, to the following address:
Autorité de protection des données
Rue de la Presse, 35
1000 Bruxelles
Cookie policy
To facilitate the use of MyTax and make it more pleasant, the BRPST uses cookies. They allow its sites to remember your actions and preferences (username, language, font size and other display settings) for a given time, so that you do not have to re-enter this information each time you visit these sites or browse from one page to another.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files, possibly encrypted, saved by a website on your computer or any other technological device (smartphone, tablet, etc.) that you use to view it. The purpose of these cookies is to speed up and personalise your use of the BRPST website as you visit and return to it.
To that end, cookies communicate information between your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc.) and the server that hosts its website. For example, cookies communicate about your display preferences (language, font size, etc.), your browsing history, your choices among the options offered by a site or registration data.
For example, cookies allow the BRPST to compare new visitors with old ones, to understand how users browse MyTax, to count visitors and to obtain data to improve the browsing experience in the future.
Cookies do not keep track of any personal information about a user and the identifiable data will never be recorded. If you do not wish to use cookies, you must configure your computer settings to delete all cookies from websites and/or receive a notification if cookies are stored.
If you do not wish to change the configuration of cookies, you can simply continue browsing MyTax.
What type of cookies do we use?
| Type of cookie | Essential/ Non-essential | Storage period | Name of the cookie | Purpose of the cookie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookies strictly necessary for browsing | Essential | Session | JSESSIONID AcceleratorSecureGUID | Maintain the user's session Maintain user's registration |
| Analytical and performance cookies | Essential | These cookies are anonymous and can last for up to 12 months | Google Analytics _gat_UA-137196686-1 _gid hjIncludeInSample | For example, know the number of visitors, their geographical location, their browsing behaviour on the site (how and by which page they accessed it, the pages that followed in their session and the page by which they left the site), the time of the visit, |
| These cookies are anonymous and can last for up to 2 years | _ga | |||
| Functional cookies | Essential | These cookies are anonymous and can last for up to 12 months | Cookie-notification anonymous-consents Cookie-consent | Show or hide the cookie bar Obtain the visitor's consent for non-essential cookies |
| Targeting cookies | Non-essential | These cookies are anonymous and can last for up to 3 months | _fpb | 1. avoid that the visitor is repeatedly confronted with the same advertisements 2. measure the effectiveness of our various communication actions, or of an advertising campaign 3. personalize advertising on our websites and other communication platforms. |
| Cookies from third party websites | Non-essential | NA | NA | NA |
Cookies stricly necessary for browsing
These cookies are essential in order to browse the site and enjoy its features. They cannot be disabled in our systems. They are deposited on your device in response to actions you take that amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in (accessing secure areas of the website) or completing forms.
They allow you to:
- navigate between the different sections of the website;
- fill out forms;
- verify your identity safely before granting access to your personal information when a personal account has been created, including browsing between secure areas of the site that require authentication.
You can configure your browser to block cookies or alert you to the existence of cookies. If you later refuse these cookies, some areas of the website or some of the services will not work properly or not at all.
Analytical and performance cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, and in particular how users use and behave on sites.
These cookies allow the BRPST to compile statistics. For example, by counting visits and traffic sources so that the BRPST can measure and improve the performance of its websites and services. They help it to know which pages are the most and least popular, how visitors navigate its sites and how its services are used.
These cookies are also used to check its performance in the sense that they will also indicate whether error messages are issued, how often and on the basis of which actions.
Cookies do not collect data that identifies visitors. Insofar as all the information collected by these cookies is collected, it remains anonymous. These cookies are only intended to improve the functioning of websites.
The information collected by cookies is aggregated. If you delete these cookies, the BRPST will not know when you visited our site or used its services and will not be able to monitor its performance.
By using a BRPST website, you agree to receive this type of cookie on your technological device.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies, also known as "functionality cookies", provide improved and customizable features. They facilitate and analyze the operation of websites in order to make their use more pleasant and personalized by allowing the site to remember the choices you have made and by providing you with more precise and personal characteristics.
They allow to:
- customize services by memorizing your preferences (remember your username, language, currency, region where you are, etc.);
- avoid having to repeat your choices each time you visit the site (remember user changes, such as text size or font size);
- collect the information provided in the online forms;
- provide services you have requested (such as watching a video or leaving a comment on a blog);
- establish statistics (number of unique visitors, etc.);
- analyze the use of the site and the popularity of our pages.
These cookies are specific to the content management platform (WordPress, Drupal, Liferay, Craft CMS, etc.), which is a form of software that can be described as the "engine" of a site.
The information collected by these cookies is made anonymous and cannot track your browsing activity on other sites. With the exception of the cookie setting your language preference, functional cookies expire when your browser closes. They are therefore deleted from your computer or other technological device when you leave this software.
By using a BRPST website, you agree to receive this type of cookie on your device. If you block these cookies, some or all of these services may not work properly.
Targeting cookies
These cookies collect information about your Internet browsing habits and the use of BRPST services in order to provide you with advertisements that are tailored to you and correspond to your interests. They also limit the number of times you will see an add and help the BRPST evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. They are generally installed by advertising networks with the permission of the website operator. They memorize visits to a site and share this information with other companies (advertisers, etc.). Targeting cookies are often linked to the site's features provided by the partner company.
They allow to:
- avoid that you are repeatedly confronted with the same advertisements;
- measure the effectiveness of our various communication actions, or of an advertising campaign;
- personalize advertising on our websites and other communication platforms.
Information is collected and shared with third parties to provide audience targeting and optimization solutions for our administrations, publishers and possibly advertisers. No personal data are collected and an individual cannot be identified via the data collected.
Targeting cookies are based on the unique identification of your browser and technological device on the Internet (IP address). By blocking these cookies, adds will continue to appear. On the other hand, you will experience less targeted advertising.
Cookies issued on our sites by third parties
As a result of third-party applications integrated into our sites or services, cookies issued by third parties may be installed in third-party applications integrated into BRPST websites or services, in advertising content (graphics, animations, videos, etc.) broadcast via advertising spaces integrated into BRPST websites or services. For example with the "Share" and "Like" buttons, which come from social networks such as "Facebook", "Twitter", "LinkedIn", "Viadeo", etc.
The social network providing such button is likely to identify you through this button, even if you have not used this button when visiting a BRPST website or its services. This type of application button may allow the social network to track your browsing on a BRPST website or its services, simply because your account on the social network was activated on your technological device (open session) during your browsing on a BRPST website or its services.
The issuance and use of cookies by third parties is subject to the privacy policies of such third parties. Thus, the BRPST has no control over the process used by social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on its websites or services and associated with the personal data at their disposal.
The BRPST invites you to consult the privacy policies of these social networks in order to learn about the purposes of use, particularly advertising, of the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons. These protection policies must allow you to make your choices on these social networks, in particular by setting up your user accounts for each of these networks.
The BRPST reminds you that you can, at any time, simply and free of charge, choose to refuse the registration of cookies on your technological device in such a way that neither the BRPST nor its partners have any information collected by cookies.
How do I manage cookies on my computer, tablet, etc?
Most Internet browsers are automatically configured to accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser to accept or block cookies or some of them.
More information about cookies: AllAboutCookies.org (EN/FR), Wikipedia.
You can delete cookies already installed on your technological device (computer, smartphone, tablet, etc.) at any time and configure most browsers to block them. However, in this case, you may have to indicate certain preferences each time you visit one of the BRPST sites. As a result, some services and features may not be available. In other words, the BRPST cannot guarantee that you will have access to all the services on its websites if you refuse to accept cookies.
If you wish to decline commercial cookies (including Google), you can do so using the website below: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/be-fr/
In your browser settings you have the option to refuse the installation of cookies. How to enable or disable cookies and delete them, depends on your device and Internet browser:
- For Internet Explorer™ : http://windows.microsoft.com/fr-FR/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies
- For Safari™ : https://support.apple.com/fr-be/HT201265
- For Chrome™ : https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=fr&hlrm=en
- For Mozilla Firefox™ : https://support.mozilla.org/fr/kb/effacer-les-cookies-pour-supprimer-les-information
- For Opera™ : http://help.opera.com/Windows/10.20/fr/cookies.html