Your personal data – what is it?

 

“Personal data” is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified from that data (for example a name, photographs, videos, email address, or address).  Identification can be directly using the data itself or by combining it with other information which helps to identify a living individual (e.g. a list of staff may contain personnel ID numbers rather than names but if you use a separate list of the ID numbers which give the corresponding names to identify the staff in the first list then the first list will also be treated as personal data).  The processing of personal data is governed by legislation relating to personal data which applies in the United Kingdom including the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR) and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act.

Who are we?

This Privacy Notice is provided to you by the Louth Town Council which is the data controller for your data.

Other data controllers the council works with:

·                     Other local authorities

·                     Community groups

·                     Charities

·                     Other not for profit entities

·                     Contractors

We may need to share your personal data we hold with them so that they can carry out their responsibilities to the council.  If we and the other data controllers listed above are processing your data jointly for the same purposes, then the council and the other data controllers may be “joint data controllers” which mean we are all collectively responsible to you for your data. Where each of the parties listed above are processing your data for their own independent purposes then each of us will be independently responsible to you and if you have any questions, wish to exercise any of your rights (see below) or wish to raise a complaint, you should do so directly to the relevant data controller.

A description of what personal data the council processes and for what purposes is set out in this Privacy Notice.

The council will process some or all of the following personal data where necessary to perform its tasks:

·                     Names, titles, and aliases, photographs;

·                     Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses;

·                     Where they are relevant to the services provided by a council, or where you provide them to us, we may process information such as gender, age, marital status, nationality, education/work history, academic/professional qualifications, hobbies, family composition, and dependants;

·                     Where you pay for activities such as use of a council hall, financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers;

·                     The personal data we process may include sensitive or other special categories of personal data such as criminal convictions, racial or ethnic origin, mental and physical health, details of injuries, medication/treatment received, political beliefs, trade union affiliation, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning and sexual life or orientation.

How we use sensitive personal data

·                     We may process sensitive personal data including, as appropriate:

­        information about your physical or mental health or condition in order to monitor sick leave and take decisions on your fitness for work;

­        your racial or ethnic origin or religious or similar information in order to monitor compliance with equal opportunities legislation;

­        in order to comply with legal requirements and obligations to third parties.

·                     These types of data are described in the GDPR as “Special categories of data” and require higher levels of protection. We need to have further justification for collecting, storing and using this type of personal data.

·                     We may process special categories of personal data in the following circumstances:

­        In limited circumstances, with your explicit written consent.

­        Where we need to carry out our legal obligations.

­        Where it is needed in the public interest.

·                     Less commonly, we may process this type of personal data where it is needed in relation to legal claims or where it is needed to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests) and you are not capable of giving your consent, or where you have already made the information public.

Do we need your consent to process your sensitive personal data?

·                     In limited circumstances, we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain sensitive personal data.  If we do so, we will provide you with full details of the personal data that we would like and the reason we need it, so that you can carefully consider whether you wish to consent.

The council will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal data we hold about you must be:

·                     Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.

·                     Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.

·                     Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.

·                     Accurate and kept up to date.

·                     Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.

·                     Kept and destroyed securely including ensuring that appropriate technical and security measures are in place to protect your personal data to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure.