Benin: complain to APDP about a personal-data rights infringement, such as refusal of access, correction or deletion. This is the public supervisory authority, not an account-recovery service.
Explain the processing’s connection with Benin and the infringement of your own rights. Citizenship or residence does not automatically establish APDP jurisdiction over every dispute with foreign company Meta. Ask about jurisdiction first if the connection is unclear. A suspension alone, without a data-rights issue, does not establish that this route applies.
What to do
First make a separate request to the controller about the specific data and keep the correspondence. APDP’s guidance provides for a dated, signed correction or deletion request by post or electronically; an ordinary suspension appeal is not a substitute.
Prepare your name and reply contact, profile URL, dates, disputed data and requested action, plus your request to the controller and its reply or proof of sending. This is a practical checklist for a clear complaint, not a verified exhaustive list of mandatory documents. Do not send passwords, login codes or unnecessary third-party data; ask APDP about attachments and identity checks.
Article 483 provides for postal and electronic complaints. The email contact@apdp.bj and headquarters filing appear in the complaints section of APDP’s own website-data policy; their use for complaints against an external controller was not separately verified. First ask the official contact whether it accepts a complaint against Meta, how to file and what documents are needed. Then follow the confirmed instructions and retain a copy and acknowledgement.
Checked 3 November 2026: live APDP pages, official archived guidance and the 2021 amendment. The policy dated 17 January 2023 concerns APDP’s website data: its complaints section does not separately establish email intake against Meta. Statutory competence is distinguished from the specific filing channel. Submission, delivery and handling were not tested.
Your connection to the country matters, not your account language. Individual bodies have additional requirements.
Benin · Appeal an account restriction
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