Personal data

This page is addressed to you as a visitor and user of the website. It explains how your personal data (that is, any information that can identify you) is processed when you visit this site. Processing covers all operations carried out on your data, whether it is collected, used or transmitted. Only processing carried out on or through this website is covered. You will also find a reminder of the rights you have over your personal data, together with how to exercise them.

The Government of French Polynesia is the controller of your personal data.

Why is my data processed?

Your data is processed for the following purposes — that is, the objectives we pursue when processing it:

Purpose Legal basis Retention period
Receiving and responding to your contact requests, through the contact form The performance of our public interest task 1 year from the closure of your request
Receiving and responding to your messages, through the suggestion box Your consent 3 months from receipt of the request
Ensuring the proper functioning and security of the site, by means of cookies and other trackers Our legitimate interest Up to 25 months from their collection by the tracker
Measuring the site's audience, by means of cookies and other trackers Your consent, obtained when you click "accept" in the cookie banner Up to 25 months from their collection by the tracker
Where does my data go?

Your data is shared only with the departments of the Government of French Polynesia, its technical service providers (hosting, maintenance, IT tools, etc.) and authorities with a legal right to access it. Apart from these cases, no data is made accessible to a third party without your prior agreement.

Some of our technical service providers are located outside the European Union. When your data leaves the Union, the transfer is governed in accordance with personal data protection regulations, so as to maintain an equivalent level of protection. When your data is transferred to the United States (for example to an IT-tools provider whose parent company is established there) the transfer relies on an adequacy decision issued by the European Commission.

What are my rights?

Personal data protection regulations (the French Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulation) grant you rights over your personal data:

  • Access: obtain and check the data an organisation holds about you
  • Rectification: correct inaccurate information about you
  • Erasure / right to be forgotten: delete data concerning you
  • Objection: object to an organisation using certain of your data
  • Restriction: freeze the use of your data
  • Portability: take a copy of your data away to reuse it elsewhere
  • Instructions after your death: give instructions on the retention, erasure and disclosure of your data after your death
Make a rights request or ask a question about how my data is used

You can also exercise your rights by post: Data Protection Officer, Direction du système d'information, BP 4574, 98713 PAPEETE.

If, after contacting us, you consider that your data protection rights are not being respected, you can lodge a complaint with the CNIL.

Policy last updated: [2026]