PN117 - Economy & Environment Consultations Privacy Notice

Torfaen County Borough Council is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services. This Privacy Notice is designed to give you information about the data we hold about you, how we use it, your rights in relation to it and the safeguards in place to protect it.

TCBC Service Area: Economy & Environment
Work area: Economy & Environment
Contact Details: Donna Edwards-John
Privacy Notice Name: Economy & Environment - Consultations

Data Controller: Torfaen County Borough Council, c/o Civic Centre, Pontypool, NP4 6YB

If you wish to raise a concern about the handling of your personal data, please contact the Data Protection Officer on 01495 762200 or email dpa@torfaen.gov.uk

The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to inform you how personal data provided to the Economy & Environment department through consultations is collected and stored.

Who provides your data to the Council?

The personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for the purposes of a consultation.

We may receive personal information indirectly from other partner organisations taking part which may be relevant to the process.

How does the Council collect this information:

Public Consultation Events
Workshops
Online Consultation Forms from Consultation Platforms
Face-to-face Interviews
Paper Consultation Forms
Phone Calls
Emails
Surveys

What information does the Council collect about you?

The Economy & Environment department collects;

Names
Addresses
Telephone numbers
Email address
Information Relevant to the Consultation

Why does the Council process your personal data?

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bas is we rely on for processing this information is:

(e) We need it to perform a public task.

Special categories of personal data

Dependent on the consultation we may collect the following special category data:

personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin
data concerning health

We collect this under Article 9 of the UK GDPR.

We do not collect any criminal data.

Who has access to your data?

Your data is shared internally only with the appropriate staff where it is necessary for the performance of their roles.

Anonymised data may be shared externally with organisations for reporting, service improvement and statistical analysis. These may include, but not be limited to:

Anonymised reports may also be produced and made available for public viewing on our website.

Apart from where previously stated, we do not pass your details to third parties unless we are lawfully required do so.

Is the Data transferred out of the UK?

How does the Council keep your data secure?

The Council has internal policies in place to ensure the data it processes is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed. Access to this data is restricted in accordance with the Council’s internal policies and in compliance with the UK GDPR.

Data will be stored securely in;

Paper Files
Electronic Files on secure network drive
Online Consultation Partners may store relevant information on Data Clouds.

Where the Council engages third parties to process personal data on its behalf, they do so on the basis of written instructions. These third parties are also under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate measures to ensure the security of data.

How long does the Council keep your data?

The Council will hold your personal data only for the period that is necessary and will follow organisational and Local Authority standards in this area. At the end of the retention period the Council will securely destroy or dispose of the data in line with retention schedules.

Online platforms will delete information when consultation process has concluded.

Are we making automated decisions/profiling with your data?

Your rights

You have a number of Rights you can exercise:

Access - to obtain a copy of your data on request
Rectification – to require the Council to change incorrect or incomplete data
Object, Restrict or Delete - under certain circumstances you can require the Council to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing
Data portability – to receive and/or transmit data provided to the Council to other organisations (this applies in limited circumstances)
Withdraw your consent at any time (where consent has been given)
To know the consequences of failing to provide data to the Council
To know the existence of any Automated Decision-making, including profiling, and the consequences of this for you.
To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Information Commissioners Office)

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact : Linda Ash, Business Support Officer, 01495 766712 Linda.ash@torfaen.gov.uk

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (Wales), 2 nd Floor, Churchill House, Churchill Way, Cardiff, CF10 2HH. Telephone 0330 414 6421 or e-mail Wales@ico.org.uk.

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