Data Protection
The Data Protection Act (1998) protects your privacy and ensures
that any personal data about you held by us is processed lawfully
and in accordance with eight principles.
The term ‘personal data’ refers to information that can be used
to identify a living individual. Personal data can be stored
either electronically or on paper and can include details such
as:
- Your name, address, date of birth, health, financial
details
- Other less obvious information the Council may hold about
you, for example: that you have a brown waste bin or CCTV
footage.
The term processing means storing, viewing, adapting,
retrieving, collecting, disclosing, deleting - in fact doing
anything at all with personal data.
We are registered as a data controller with the Information
Commissioner. You can read more about the
register .
As a council, we may legally collect and process personal data
about you so that we can:
- Provide you with services you need
- Fulfil our functions as a local authority
- Maintain a record of services that we provide
We take our responsibilities seriously and make every effort to
be open and fair about how we use your personal data. When we ask
you to provide information about yourself, you will find a
statement on our forms that explains who we are, the purpose(s) for
processing and anything else you need to know about how we process
your personal data.
If we need to process your personal data for a purpose required
by law e.g. to provide a statutory function such
as processing your council tax, we do not need your
consent. If we need to process your personal data for another
purpose e.g. mailing you with information about local events, we
will need your consent.
