Privacy policy

Data controller

North Lincolnshire Council is registered with the Information Commissioner (ICO) as a Data Controller. This is a legal requirement.

Data protection

The UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) details how organisations that process (use) personal information must protect it, how compliance must be demonstrated, what you as an individual should be told about how your personal information is being processed and what rights you have in relation to this information.

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy when you use our services and the following Privacy Notice explains how we use information about you and how we protect your privacy. In addition and to be transparent we have produced Privacy Notices for some of our services that use personal information to provide additional information.

North Lincolnshire Council’s Data Protection Officer is Phillipa Thornley, and she can be contacted using the details below.

• Address: North Lincolnshire Council, 30-40 High Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6NL
• Email: informationgovernanceteam@northlincs.gov.uk
• Telephone: 01724 296224
• Website: North Lincolnshire Council

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice tells you how North Lincolnshire Council uses personal data in relation to the Invest in North Lincolnshire website.

What do we mean by personal data?

Personal data relates to living persons and is information that can be used to identify an individual such as name, address or postcode.

What data do we have and what do we do with it?

1. Personal data

The Invest in North Lincolnshire website holds personal data in the form of names and email addresses used to create an account by users or register for updates. Passwords created will not be visible or known to anyone other than the account holder.

North Lincolnshire Council does not capture and store any further personal information about individuals who access this website, except where you voluntarily choose to give us your personal details. The personal data you provide will only be used to provide you with the information that you have requested.

The UK GDPR lawful basis relied upon to process this personal data is consent as set out under Article 6(1)(a)

2. How do we store your information and for how long?

Our employees have contractual obligations of confidentiality, enforceable through disciplinary procedures and receive appropriate training on confidentiality and other aspects of Information Governance.

We take organisational and technical measures to ensure the information we hold is secure – such as using secure locations, restricting access to authorised personnel, and protecting personal and confidential information held electronically.

For the purposes of the Invest in North Lincolnshire website data is retained for the time that the user maintains their log on account.

Personal data may be anonymised and kept for a longer period for statistical purposes.

Your data protection rights

Under Data Protection law, you have rights including:

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

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

How to complain

The main point of contact at the council for Data Protection matters is our Data Protection Officer (DPO). If you have any Data Protection concerns about the collection of personal data and wish to make a complaint please contact our DPO, as follows:

North Lincolnshire Council Data Protection Officer

• Contact: Phillipa Thornley
• Address: North Lincolnshire Council, 30-40 High Street, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN15 6NL
• Email: informationgovernanceteam@northlincs.gov.uk
• Telephone: 01724 296224
• Website: North Lincolnshire Council

If you remain unhappy you can also complain to the ICO, as follows:

Information Commissioner’s Office

• Address: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
• Telephone: 0303 123 1113
• Website: Information Commissioner's Office