Legal Notice

1. Site publisher

blackcrypt: activity carried out under the common law regime applicable to an individual trader, in accordance with the Code of Civil and Commercial Obligations (COCC).

Dakar, Senegal.

Publication director: EDS.

Contact: [email protected]

2. Hosting

Hetzner Online GmbH, a German limited liability company (GmbH), registered with the commercial register of the Ansbach court under number HRB 6089. Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. Phone: +49 (0)9831 505-0. Website: hetzner.com.

3. Terms of use

Use of the blackcrypt website implies full and unconditional acceptance of these terms of use. These terms may be modified at any time; users are invited to consult them regularly.

blackcrypt strives to ensure, to the best of its ability, the accuracy and up-to-date nature of the information published on this site, but cannot guarantee completeness or the absence of errors. The publisher cannot be held liable for direct or indirect damages resulting from access to or use of the site, including inaccessibility, data loss, or the presence of viruses.

4. Intellectual property

All elements making up this site (text, images, logo, visual identity) are, unless otherwise stated, the exclusive property of blackcrypt and are protected as such by the provisions of the Bangui Agreement of March 2, 1977 (as revised), establishing the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI), of which Senegal is a member state. Any reproduction, representation, modification or exploitation, in whole or in part, without prior authorization is prohibited and constitutes an infringement.

5. Hyperlinks

The site may contain links to third-party sites. blackcrypt exercises no control over these sites and disclaims all liability regarding their content, availability, or personal data practices.

6. Personal data

In accordance with Law No. 2008-12 of January 25, 2008 on the protection of personal data, blackcrypt undertakes to process personal data collected with respect for users' privacy. This national framework is supplemented, at the community level, by ECOWAS Supplementary Act A/SA.1/01/10 of February 16, 2010 on the protection of personal data within the ECOWAS region. As blackcrypt offers its consulting services without geographic restriction on clientele, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) also applies, in accordance with its territorial scope (Article 3(2), concerning the offering of services to individuals located in the European Union), to the data of data subjects located in the European Union.

Data collected: the site only collects personal data through the contact form: message subject, message content, sender's email address.

Purpose: this data is used exclusively to respond to requests sent via the form.

Legal basis: processing is based on blackcrypt's legitimate interest in responding to requests addressed to it.

Recipients: this data is never transmitted to any third party and is never resold.

Retention period: data is kept for as long as necessary to process the request, then deleted.

Your rights: you have the right to access, rectify, delete and object to your data, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission de protection des Données personnelles (CDP), the Senegalese data protection authority. Users located in the European Union may also contact the data protection authority in their country of residence. To exercise these rights, write to [email protected].

7. Cookies and trackers

This site uses Matomo, a web analytics tool self-hosted on the site's own infrastructure (not a third-party service like Google Analytics), which sets an analytics cookie on the visitor's device. This tool is used solely to produce internal traffic statistics (pages viewed, approximate origin): the data is never transmitted to any third party, never used for advertising purposes, and never cross-referenced with any other site. No advertising cookie or cross-site tracker is used.

Setting up a consent banner dedicated to this cookie, if required under the regulations applicable to the visitor, remains to be finalized with a qualified professional.

8. Governing law and disputes

This site and this legal notice are governed by Senegalese law. In the event of a dispute, and failing an amicable resolution, the competent Senegalese courts shall have sole jurisdiction, subject to the application of the uniform law of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), of which Senegal is a member state, for disputes falling under business law, with the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) then potentially having jurisdiction as a last resort.

For disputes involving a party residing in a State bound to Senegal by a cooperation or judicial assistance agreement, the provisions of that agreement shall apply, where applicable, in addition to the jurisdiction rules above.