Here are the rights you have under the law and what they mean when we are in possession of your personal information.

The Right to be Informed

You have the right to be told what, why and how the Trust use your personal information. This Privacy Notice communicates to the public, the right to be informed.

The Right of Access

You have the right to know what personal information we hold about you. When you exercise this right, it is called a Subject Access Request.  The law mandates us to respond within one month of receiving your request, depending on the scope, complexity and volume involved.

The Right to Rectification

 If you discover that the information we hold about you is incomplete or wrong, you have the right to request that we correct it. Of course we will investigate and determine the validity of your claim depending on the reason for collecting that information, we can correct the information without delay.

The Right to Erasure

Where the purpose for processing your personal information has lapsed, you may have the right to request that we securely dispose of it. Not all records are subject to this right.

The Right to Restrict Processing

Instead of asking us to remove your personal information from our systems, in cases where you have concerns that the information is incorrect, or no longer needed by us, or you question the lawful reason we gave for holding your information, you can ask us to limit the use of the information. It might also be that you want us to hold on to the information because you might need it for a legal purpose.

When you make any request, we will investigate whether you are entitled to have your request granted. Even if we find out that you are not entitled to this right in a particular circumstance, we will still let you know before we continue to use your information.

The Right to Data Portability

If you had to give us permission to use your personal information (consent), or we collected your personal information to process an employment contract and this personal information is processed automatically by our computers, you can ask for a copy of this information in digital format (that is, in a format that another computer can read) and/or transferred to another local authority or organisation.

It is important that we let you know this right will not always apply, because we provide most of our services as a public authority and the law allows us to be exempt from this right most of the time.

The Right to Object

You have a right to ask us to stop processing information that refers to your particular circumstance. The law allows you to request that we do not continue to use the particular information, we will respect your wishes where the objection is valid or where we refuse your request, we will respectfully give you our reasons.

The Right to Object to Automated Processing

The law allows you to refuse or reject the results from the automated processing of your personal information regarding health, economic status, personal preferences, interests, performance at work, reliability, behaviour, location, movements and anything that affects you legally. You also have the right in such a case, to ask that a human processes the information instead.

However, this right will not apply in many of the functions we perform in our role as a public authority and if the processing involves entering into a contract with you.

The Right to Withdraw Consent

Where it is established that the lawful basis for processing your personal information is consent or explicit consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

You can make a request for any of the rights listed above by contacting the Trust using the contact details in Section 11.