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Last updated: May 12, 2026

Publisher

The website osmetheca.be is published by Imperium SA, a Belgian company.

Registered office: Chaussée de Louvain 594A, 1380 Lasne, Belgium.
Company and VAT number: BE0755840133.
Contact address: sabrina.carlier@osmetheca.be.

Editorial direction: Sabrina Carlier.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, operated by Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, United States. Hosting is globally distributed through the Cloudflare points of presence network.

Official host website: pages.cloudflare.com.

Intellectual property

All content published on osmetheca.be (texts, entries, articles, illustrations, editorial classifications) is protected by Belgian and European copyright law. Total or partial reproduction, adaptation or distribution of the content is permitted only with:

Commercial use of the content is permitted only with the explicit written consent of the publisher. Any unauthorized reuse may constitute copyright infringement under applicable Belgian and European intellectual property law.

Trademarks cited

The names of perfume houses, perfumers, perfumes and institutions cited on osmetheca.be belong to their respective owners and are mentioned for editorial reference purposes only. The mention of a trademark does not imply any partnership, prior authorization from the trademark holder or commercial relationship.

Any house or trademark holder wishing to report a factual error, request a right of reply or contest a piece of information can write to sabrina.carlier@osmetheca.be. Justified corrections are published within fifteen days.

Personal data

Osmetheca is an editorial reference website without registration, user accounts, commercial transactions or active personal data collection. The site has no collection forms. The only available contact channel is the email address shown on the Contact page.

The data controller for data received through the contact address is Imperium SA (details above). The legal basis for processing is the performance of pre-contractual or contractual measures at the request of the data subject (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR), or the legitimate interest of the publisher in answering an editorial inquiry (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Emails received at sabrina.carlier@osmetheca.be are retained only for the time required to handle the request, then archived for a maximum of three years, in line with standard civil limitation periods. No personal data is sold, shared with third parties or used for commercial purposes.

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, Regulation EU 2016/679), any person whose data is processed has the rights of access, rectification, deletion, restriction, objection and portability. These rights can be exercised at any time by writing to sabrina.carlier@osmetheca.be.

Any person who believes that the processing of their data does not comply with the regulation can lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority (APD), the competent supervisory authority in Belgium: rue de la Presse 35, 1000 Brussels, www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be.

Cookies and audience measurement

Osmetheca uses Google Analytics 4 (provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) to understand site usage for statistical purposes. No advertising cookies, no social network pixels, no data sharing for marketing purposes.

Audience measurement is configured in Consent Mode v2: by default, no analytics cookie is placed and no data is sent to Google. Data is only collected after explicit consent through the banner displayed on first visit. IP addresses are anonymized before any processing; cross-device sharing (Google Signals) and advertising personalization are disabled.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR (user consent for statistical analysis). Retention: 14 months maximum. You may withdraw your consent at any time by clearing site data for osmetheca.be in your browser settings.

Your GDPR rights: access, rectification, erasure, objection, portability. To exercise them, write to contact@osmetheca.be. You may also file a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (autoriteprotectiondonnees.be).

Google privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy. Google Analytics operations: support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Technical infrastructure logs from Cloudflare (IP address, browser type, visited URL) remain collected for security and performance purposes on the basis of the legitimate interest of the publisher and the host (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR), for a maximum of thirty days.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

The site osmetheca.be is published from Belgium and governed by Belgian law. Any dispute related to the use of the site falls under the jurisdiction of Belgian courts, without prejudice to the consumer protection rules provided by European law.