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Personal data collection</strong></p><p><strong>1.1 Why are we collecting your personal data ?</strong></p><p>We colect personal data to continue enhance our services. Through some of those personal data, we learn to know more and more our customers and ensure our services match the customer's envy.</p><p><strong>1.2 How data are collected by RMI ? </strong></p><p>Those data are gathered by the application if the OS permission location is active.</p><p><strong>1.3 What personal data are collected ?</strong><br /> We only collect them for the purpose of personalizing the application to the need of the user.</p><p>We are gathering following data:</p><p style="margin-left:28.0pt; margin-right:0cm"><u>Precise location</u></p><p>To allow the app to show the weather for your precise location, we gather the precise location of your device.</p><p><strong>2. What do we use your data for? </strong></p><p>To be able to offer you personalized content and show you precise weather location (not based on the centre of a city).</p><p><strong>3. Are your personal data passed on to third parties? </strong><strong></strong></p><p>No.</p><p><strong>4. How do you request access to or delete your personal data? </strong></p><p>You may, at any time, change the location permission of the application and set the parameter "Location for this app" to "Deny". We do not store the history of your location neither on your device or on our servers.</p><p><strong>5. Updating this privacy policy</strong></p><p>This privacy policy may be modified in certain cases depending on the modification of our services, comments from customers or changes in the legislation on the protection of privacy.</p></div><hr /><div class="text-pp"><p>Last update: 26 May 2021</p></div></div></div></div></div></main><div class="js-backstretch backstretch__image "><noscript>  <img src="/Background/reshaped/2000/FLia2018/Fotolia_97109410_L_edited.jpg?v20241107-0827" class="office__picture__img" loading="lazy" decoding="async"> </noscript></div></div><footer role="footer" class="footer mobile-nav__content"><section class="main-footer"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-2 col-sm-3"><nav class="footer-nav"><h6 class="footer-nav__title"><a href="/en/weather" class="footer-nav__title__link">Weather</a></h6><a href="/en/65239/65239-2/warnings" class="footer-nav__item"> Warnings </a><a href="/en/65239/65239-2/forecasts" class="footer-nav__item"> Forecasts </a><a href="/en/65239/65239-2/observations" class="footer-nav__item"> Observations </a></nav></div><div class="col-md-2 col-sm-3"><nav class="footer-nav"><h6 class="footer-nav__title"><a href="/en/about-rmi" class="footer-nav__title__link">About the RMI</a></h6><a href="/en/about-rmi/contact" class="footer-nav__item"> Contact </a><a href="/en/about-rmi/contact/how-to-reach-us" class="footer-nav__item"> How to reach us </a></nav></div></div></div></section><section class="sub-footer--kmi"><div class="container"><div class="row"><div class="col-md-9 col-sm-9"><img src="/frontend/img/general/logo-kmi--en.svg?v20241107-0827" alt="" class="sub-footer--kmi__logo" loading="lazy" decoding="async"><p class="sub-footer--kmi__text"> We offer a reliable public service realised by empowered staff and based on research, innovation and continuity. </p></div><div class="col-md-3 col-sm-3"><div class="footer-social"><h6 class="footer-social__title">Follow us</h6><a href="https://www.facebook.com/www.meteo.be" class="footer-social__links" target="_blank"><i class="icon icon--facebook footer-social__links__icon"></i></a><a href="https://twitter.com/meteobefr" class="footer-social__links" target="_blank"><i class="icon icon--twitter footer-social__links__icon"></i></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kmi_irm/" class="footer-social__links" target="_blank"><i class="icon icon--instagram footer-social__links__icon"></i></a></div></div></div></div></section><section class="sub-footer"><div class="container"><div class="sub-footer__inner"><div class="sub-footer__info"><p class="sub-footer__info__time"> © RMI 2025 </p></div><ul class="sub-footer__nav__list"><li class="sub-footer__nav__list__item"><a href="/en/about-rmi/legal-informations" class="" >Legal informations</a></li></ul><ul class="sub-footer__nav__list"><li class="sub-footer__nav__list__item"><a class="js-kmcc-extended-modal-button" data-target="legal_privacy_policy" data-url="/en/legal/modal/legal_privacy_policy" > Privacy policy </a></li><li class="sub-footer__nav__list__item"><a class="js-kmcc-extended-modal-button" data-target="legal_cookie_preferences" data-url="/en/legal/modal/legal_cookie_preferences" > Cookie preferences </a></li></ul><p class="sub-footer__credentials"> Created by <a href="http://www.kunstmaan.be" target="_blank" class="sub-footer__credentials__link"><i class="icon icon--kuma sub-footer__credentials__icon"></i></a></p><div class="sub-footer__partners"><a href="http://www.belspo.be/" target="_blank" class="sub-footer__partners__link"><img src="/frontend/img/footer/belspo-logo.png?v20241107-0827" alt="belspo logo" class="sub-footer__partners__link__img" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></a><a href="http://www.belgium.be/" target="_blank" class="sub-footer__partners__link"><img src="/frontend/img/footer/be-logo.png?v20241107-0827" alt="be logo" class="sub-footer__partners__link__img" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></a></div></div></div></section></footer><button type="button" class="btn backstretch__button" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#backstretch-options"> Wallpaper </button><div class="modal js-modal" id="backstretch-options" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-hidden="true"><div class="modal-dialog" role="document"><button type="button" class="modal__close" data-dismiss="modal" aria-label="Close"><i class="icon icon--cross"></i></button><div class="modal-content box"><div class="modal-header"><h4 class="modal-title" id="myModalLabel"> Wallpaper </h4></div><div class="modal-body"><p>Don't like our wallpaper? 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