Privacy Notices - The Pride of Swindon Awards nominations Privacy Notice

You need to be aware of this Privacy Notice if you are submitting a nomination in relation to the Pride of Swindon Awards.

A Privacy Notice is a statement issued by an organisation, which explains how personal and confidential data about individuals and events is collected, used and shared.

Swindon Borough Council is the data controller. This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

To find out more about Swindon Borough Council’s data protection policies please contact our Data Protection Officer, by email: dataprotection@swindon.gov.uk or in writing to:

Data Protection Officer
Civic Offices
Euclid Street
Swindon. SN1 2JH.
 

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession.

The processing of data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”).

We collect a range of data about you during the process of nominating an individual or team for a Pride of Swindon Award.

This includes:

• your name, address and contact details, as well as email address and telephone number
• details of the person you are nominating, to include their name, email and telephone contact details as well as 400 words detailing why you are nominating them for an award

Swindon Borough Council complies with its obligations under the GDPR by:

• keeping personal data up to date
• by storing and destroying it securely
• by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data
• by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure
• by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data

We need this information to:

• enable us to communicate with you when you have made a Pride of Swindon nomination
• enable us to perform our task and acknowledge your nomination
• be able to advise the person you have nominated that they have been nominated for a Pride of Swindon Award

We collect and use personal information in circumstances where:

• you have nominated a person or team for a Pride of Swindon Award and for us to put that nomination through the award scheme
• we have relied upon consent to use your personal information, you have the right to remove your consent at any time
• you want to remove your consent, contact DataProtection@Swindon.gov.uk and tell us which service you are using so we can deal with your request.

We will share your personal information with our partners and sponsors of the awards, Voluntary Action Swindon, for the purpose of administering the awards only. 

Swindon Borough Council is committed to protecting your privacy when you contact us or use our services

We will do what we can to make sure we hold records about you, on paper and electronically, in a secure way. We will only make them available to those who have a right to see them.

Examples of our security include:

• encryption, meaning that information is hidden so that it cannot be read without special knowledge, such as a password. This is done with a secret code, or what is called a 'cypher'. The hidden information is said to then be 'encrypted'.
• pseudonymisation, meaning that we will use a different name so we can hide parts of your personal information from view. This means that someone outside of the Council could work on your information for us without ever knowing it was yours.
• controlling access to systems and networks allows us to stop people who are not allowed to view your personal information from getting access to it
• regular testing of our technology and ways of working including keeping up to date on the latest security updates - commonly called patches

In accordance with the council’s Retention and Disposal Policy, Mayoral correspondence is retained for 5 years.

The law gives you a number of rights to control what and how personal information is used by us.

If you have any worries or questions about how your personal information is handled, contact the Data Protection Officer at DataProtection@Swindon.gov.uk.

For independent advice about data protection, privacy and data sharing issues, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545745 (if you prefer to use a national rate number).

Alternatively, visit the ICO website or email casework@ico.org.uk.
 

You are under no statutory obligation to provide personal data to Swindon Borough Council regarding Pride of Swindon nominations.

However, if you do not provide the data, we may not be able to process your nomination properly or at all.

A yearly audit will take place on personal data to ensure that we remain legally compliant in accordance with current data protection legislation.
 

You are viewing the Privacy Notice for submitting a nomination in relation to the Pride of Swindon Awards.

Read the main Privacy Notice