Privacy Notices - Responsive repairs tenant satisfaction survey Privacy Notice

You need to be aware of this Privacy Notice if you are completing a satisfaction survey after a repair has been carried out at your home.

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

Swindon Borough Council will act as a “Data Controller” for any personal data that you provide to us.  We will ensure that the data given to us is processed in line with our Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 18) and the EU General Data Protection Regulations. (GDPR)

Please note: If you do not provide your personal information we may not be able to resolve any issues you have put in the satisfaction survey. 
 

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 will hold personal information about you such as your name, address and contact details and council tenancy details (if applicable).

We comply with our 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 and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We will collect enough personal information to deliver the following services to:

• improve the repairs service we provide to tenants
• resolve issues you may raise in the satisfaction survey
• meet our regulatory duty under the Right to Repair Regulations 1994 
• help with the research and planning of any new service
• use for statistical and analytical purposes

Housing legislation, including The Housing Act 1985, Housing Act 1996, the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and the Localism Act 2011 are the legal basis for providing you with the service you require, and the need to collect, store and use your personal information. We are committed to protecting the personal information we collect about you. This privacy notice explains what happens to the information we collect for the purposes of finding out how well we carried out your housing repair and giving us feedback so that we can improve the service.

We collect and use this information under Article 6 (lawful processing), and Article 9 (special categories of data), of GDPR 2018:

Article 6 of GDPR:

Public task: the processing is necessary for the local authority to perform a task in the public interest or for official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law in terms of Housing service provision.

Your personal information will be seen by Swindon Borough Council staff and may be disclosed to third parties for the following reasons:

• Swindon Borough Council staff: to allow us to provide a responsive repairs service
• Police: for the detection and prevention of crime and anti-social behaviour
• National and Local Government statistical returns: statistical and analytical purposes
• Repair contractors: to provide any information to the Contractor for the purpose of their carrying out a repair to your home
• Equipment providers: to arrange delivery of items to specific address for a repair – such as building materials or specific equipment

When you provide us with information, you will be told what we will use it for and who we will share it with.

We will maintain the reliability, accuracy, completeness and currency of personal data in our databases and to protect the privacy and security of our databases. We keep your personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.

Our servers and databases are protected by industry standard security technology.

The employees who have access to personal data have been trained to handle such data properly and in accordance with latest regulation.

Function description: for the process of monitoring performance and remedying issues

Retention action: 12 months from the receipt of your feedback

Example: to aid with an issue about a responsive repair to your home that resolves the problem and prevents further complaint

Unless subject to an exemption under GDPR you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• The right to request a copy of your personal data which Swindon Borough Council holds about you
• The right to request that Swindon Borough Council corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date
• The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for Swindon Borough Council to retain such data
• The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing
• The right to object to the processing of personal data
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office

For further details on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information, and your rights to access information we hold on you please contact customerservices@swindon.gov.uk or contact the Data Protection Officer at:
Swindon Borough Council
Civic Offices
Euclid Street
Swindon
SN1 2JH
 

You also have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at www.ico.org.uk if you think we have dealt with your information in an inappropriate manner.

You can ask to see what information we hold about you and have access to it.  You can do this, by contacting: Data Protection Officer Swindon Borough Council dataprotection@swindon.gov.uk

Any further questions regarding the data being processed may also be sent to the Data Protection Officer at the above email address.
 

You are under no statutory obligation to provide personal data to Swindon Borough Council for the purposes of this survey.  However, if you choose not to do this we will not be able to action any feedback as we will be unable to relate it to a particular job at a property.

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

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