Optional, but useful: your name and street let us spot an answer sent twice, your e-mail and phone let us contact you if a clarification would help. An answer with an e-mail counts as more reliable.
What happens to your data?
Who processes your data. The Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB), a federal scientific institution, Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Brussels.
What we receive. Your answers to the questionnaire; where you were (country, postcode, town, and the street or the position on the map if you give them); your contact details if you give them (name, e-mail, phone). With each answer we also record the IP address, the host name that goes with it, the browser used, and the date and time it was sent.
Why. To estimate the intensity of the earthquake where you were, draw the macroseismic maps and carry out seismological research. Your contact details are only used to contact you if a clarification would help. The IP address and browser are used to spot answers sent twice and automated submissions.
What is published. Intensities by commune and by 5 or 10 km grid cell, and the points of answers rounded to about one kilometre. The individual answers to the questions are also available through the ROB’s public data interface, with the country, postcode, town and date. Your name, street, exact position, e-mail, phone, IP address and comments are never published.
Who has access. The ROB’s seismologists and the people who run its servers. Your data are neither sold nor used for advertising.
The map. The map background is loaded from Esri’s servers (ArcGIS Online, United States): as with any online map, they receive your IP address and the map areas shown, but not your answers.
Your rights. You can ask to see, correct or erase your answer, or object to its use: write to the ROB’s Data Protection Officer (dpo-as@oma.be), giving the earthquake, your postcode and, if you gave it, your e-mail address. You can also lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority. The procedure is described in our Privacy policy.