Data Protection Rights Information

Our Corporate Privacy Notice will tell you in clear language:

• Who we are
• Why we collect your personal information
• How we use it
• Who we may share it with
• How long we may keep the information for

We also publish additional information in relation to our directorates and service areas on our Corporate Privacy Notice page.

Further information is available on the right to be informed page on the Information Commissioner's website.

You have a right of access to the information that we hold about you. This is called subject access and also includes access to CCTV images of yourself. You can find further information on our dedicated subject access requests page.

Further information is available on the right of access page on the Information Commissioner’s website.

If you feel that the information that we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to ask us to rectify it. We will consider requests and rectify inaccurate information within one month. Although, we can extend this by two months for complex rectification requests.

If we feel that the information we hold is accurate and does not require rectification, we will provide you with a written explanation.

Further information is available on the right to rectification page on the Information Commissioner's website.

Also known as the right to be forgotten, you may request that information we hold about you is erased. This is not an absolute right and we will assess the information and in specific circumstances the information may need to be kept.

For example, if we require the information for compliance with a legal obligation, we may need to retain information relating to safeguarding referrals or council tax liability.

Further information is available on the right to erasure page on the Information Commissioner's website.

This allows you to block or suppress the processing of your personal data. This means that we can retain your information, but not process it any further. We will need to keep some information to ensure that we are able to maintain the restriction. For example, an individual may contest the accuracy of the data we hold about them and we need to stop processing the data until the accuracy is verified.

Further information is available on the right to restrict processing page on the Information Commissioner’s website.

This allows you to obtain and reuse your own data for your own purposes. This only applies to data provided to the council by the data subject, where the processing has been on the individual’s consent or for the performance of a contract and that processing has been carried out by automated means. An example of this could be transactional data.

Further information is available on the right to data portability page on the Information Commissioner’s website.

You may object to processing based on the legitimate interests, public interest or exercise of official authority or direct marketing or for the purpose of scientific / historical research and statistics. Individuals must have an objection on grounds relating to their own particular situation. We must stop processing unless we have compelling legitimate grounds which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the individual concerned or the processing is for the exercise of legal claims.

Further information is available on the right to object page on the Information Commissioner’s website.

You have the right not to be the subject of a decision if it is based on automated processing and it produces a legal effect or other significant effect on you. This right does not apply where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract, authorised by law (including fraud) or there is explicit consent.

Further information is available on the rights related to automated decision making including profiling page on the Information Commissioner’s website.