Privacy Notices - Annual resident survey Privacy Notice

You need to be aware of this Privacy Notice if you are completing the Annual Resident Survey.

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 2028/UK GDPR.

To find out more about Swindon Borough Council’s data protection policies please contact our Data Protection Officer. dataprotection@swindon.gov.uk or in writing to Data Protection Officer, Civic Offices, Euclid Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, 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 Data Protection Act 2028/UK GDPR.

We will collect the following personal data about you when you respond to the survey:

Your age band, gender, ethnicity, post code, email address and whether you consider yourself to have a disability.

Your reference number or postcode will also be linked back to your address and will be used to ensure we have a representative response from across the Borough.

This information will help us to understand the demographics of our residents, however your participation in the survey is voluntary and you are free to decline to answer any question you wish to.

 Your personal information will be anonymised before being used to evaluate feedback.

We comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Act 2028/UK 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 use your personal information to better understand the concerns and priorities of Swindon residents.

The information that you provide as part of this survey will also be used to better understand how opinions and experiences vary according to demographic and to help identify ways of making improvements across the borough.

We are also asking residents to provide their email address, this is so we can email you the results of the survey to improve engagement.

We must always ensure that processing your data is generally lawful, fair and transparent and complies with all the other principles and requirements of the Data Protection ACT 2018/UK GDPR. As some of the personal data we are asking for is categorised as special category data we are required to identify an Article 6 basis for processing data and meet a specific condition of Article 9 of the Data Protection ACT 2018/UK GDPR.

Our lawful basis for processing is Consent - Article 6(1)(a) of the Data Protection ACT 2018/UK GDPR.

In relation to any special category data, our lawful basis is Explicit Consent -  Article 9(2)(a) of Data Protection ACT 2018/UK GDPR.

Swindon Borough Council is the Data Controller and have instructed  SmartSurvey to process the residents’ survey on our behalf. They will act as the Data Processor.

If you choose to call customer services and ask them to complete on your behalf the customer services staff member will be party to your responses but will treat your call in strict confidence and will not require your name and/or address.

The customer services staff member will not be able to identify you.

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

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.

We will retain this information for a period of 12 months from completion of the survey to support in design of any future survey.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:
 

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

In the event that you wish to complain about the way that your personal data has been handled by Swindon Borough Council, you should write to our Data Protection Officer and clearly outline your case. Your complaint will then be investigated in accordance with our customer complaint and data protection incident procedures.

Data Protection Office

You can contact our Data Protection officer by email:

DataProtection@swindon.gov.uk

If you remain dissatisfied with the way your personal data has been handled, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk.

You may refer the matter to the Information Commissioner’s Office whose contact details are below:
Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Email: casework@ico.org.uk

The ICO website also contains information on data protection and your rights and remedies.
 

You are under no statutory obligation to provide personal data to Swindon Borough Council.

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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