Privacy Notices - Spring Gardens survey Privacy Notice

You need to be aware of this privacy notice if completing the Spring Gardens 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, Place making team.

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”).

Your name and contact details, age, gender and whether or not you have children.

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 and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

Help with research and planning improvements to Spring Gardens open space. Contact details will be used to plan and organise future meetings and engagement events.

There are a number of legal, legitimate or lawful reasons why we need to collect and use your personal information.

For the purpose of this survey we are using Consent as defined under Article 6 of the Data Protection Act 2018

If you want to remove your consent, please contact DataProtection@Swindon.gov.uk and tell us which service you are using so we can deal with your request.

We will only use your personal information within Swindon Borough Council and not share your information with any other organisation.

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

We will keep your information for the duration of the project.

Under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the EU General Data Protection Regulations you have the following rights:

• The right of access to you own personal data.
• The right to request rectification or deletion of your personal data.
• The right to object to the processing of your personal data.
• The right to request a copy of the information you provide us in machine-readable format.
• The right to withdraw your consent to any processing that is solely reliant upon your consent.

Should you wish to exercise any of your rights, you should contact the Data Protection Officer.

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 the Data Protection Officer and clearly outline your case. Your complaint will then be investigated in accordance with our customer complaint procedure.

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

This 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 during the casual worker recruitment process. However, if you do not provide the data, we may not be able to process your application 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.

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