Please see our full Privacy Notice
Updated: 13 February 2023
Reviewed: 13 February 2023
The reasons we use your data
- to procure a contract
- to manage petitions
- to process customer feedback
- to manage civic recognition and rewards
- to process complaints against councillors
- to process declarations of interest
- to manage a councillor's directory
- to administer an Independent Remuneration Panel
- to administer committees and working groups
- to manage honours and awards
- to record political office staff
- to process councillor requests
- to maintain a Staff Interests and Disclosures Register
- to keep and maintain records of allowances and expenses paid to councillors including the publication of these records
- to maintain a record of Members to Outside Bodies
- to retain accountability statements
- to manage the book of condolences
- to process incoming post and email enquiries
Why we are allowed to use your data
Legal obligation or public task under various UK laws including but not limited to:
- Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970
- Digital Economy Act 2017
- Income Tax Earning and Pensions Act 2003
- Local Authorities (Committee System) (England) Regulations 2012/1020
- Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements) (Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012/2089
- Local Government Act 1972
- Local Government Act 1988
- Local Government (Contracts) Act 1997
- Local Government Act 2000
- Localism Act 2011
- Police and Justice Act 2006
- Public Contracts Regulations 2015/102
- Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015/1415
- Registration Service Act 1953
- Transport Act 1985
- Transport Act 2000
Consent – Petitions, Customer feedback, recognition and awards.
We may process some special category data when we deal postal or email enquires from yourself. The legal basis to do so is: UK GDPR Article 9 (2)(g) – Substantial Public Interest and the Data Protection Act 2018 Schedule 1 Part 2(6)
Who we can share your data with
- councillors
- independent investigator
- interested parties
- internal departments
- legal services
- media
When computers make any decisions about you
Not applicable
When your data gets sent to other countries
Not applicable