The FSMA stores your personal data only for the period necessary to accomplish the purposes for which it collected them and within the limits provided for by the law if it allows for a longer period.
If you or the natural or legal person for which you work or where you hold or held a position is supervised by the FSMA, then the Data processed by the FSMA for purposes of carrying out its public interest tasks and for the exercise of the public authority with which the FSMA is entrusted will be kept for as long as you are supervised by the FSMA.
If that is not or no longer the case, the FSMA can store your personal data (for a longer time), provided this is (still) necessary, for example for the exercise of its supervision or as part of potential liability claims.
Without prejudice to what is stated above, as a matter of course the FSMA applies the following specific storage periods for the personal data it receives:
- to send you newsletters: until you unsubscribe;
- to be able to respond to a request for information, for example via the contact forms: for 2 years after the last response on our part;
- if you register as a user of the external platform for document exchange with the FSMA: for 3 months after the last exchange, unless you delete your user account on the platform before then;
- if you attend a meeting or training session via Microsoft Teams: the metadata collected automatically by Microsoft Teams are stored for 30 days;
- in the (pre-)contractual stage: for the duration of the contract and 10 years after the end of the contract. If no contract is entered into, your data will be deleted more rapidly;
- as part of your visit to the FSMA: for 30 days;
- if you use the visitors’ Wi-Fi network: for 1 year.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the FSMA is subject to the Law of 24 June 1955 on the National Archives, and some data will therefore be kept for a longer period as provided for under that Law, for archiving purposes, albeit with the appropriate safeguards.