While this website does not use much personal information of its users, we have to tell you what processing of your personal information we will carry out and this privacy notice explains how we use your information.
To comply with Data Protection legislation, the Council is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The detail of this registration can be viewed by searching the public register on the ICO website (www.ico.org.uk) for ‘Brightlingsea Town Council’ or downloading the certificate here.
We have a Data Protection Officer to ensure that we respect your rights and follow the law. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
If you have any concerns or questions about how we look after your personal information or wish to exercise any of Your Rights, please contact:-
The Data Protection Officer (The Town Clerk)
Brightlingsea Town Council
Parish Hall
Victoria Place
Brightlingsea
Essex CO7 0BP
townclerk@brightlingseatowncouncil.gov.uk (link sends e-mail)
01206 303535
This website does include links to third-party websites and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit. Again, if you have any questions about Data Privacy please feel free to contact the Data Protection Officer/Town Clerk.
What is personal information?
Personal information is anything that identifies and relates to a living person. This can include information that when put together with other information can identify a person. For example, this could be your name and contact details. See the definition of personal data on Information Commissioner’s Office.
Why do we need your personal information?
We may need to use some information about you to:
- deliver services and support to you
- manage those services we provide to you
- train and manage the employment of our workers who deliver those services
- help investigate any worries or complaints you have about your services
- keep track of spending on services
- check the quality of services
- to help with research and planning of new services
- prevent and detect crime and fraud
We only use what we need
We only collect and use personal information if we need it to deliver a service or meet a requirement.
If we don’t need personal information we’ll either keep the information anonymous if we already have it for something else or we won’t ask you for it. For example in a survey we may not need your contact details.
If we use your personal information for research and analysis, we’ll always keep your information anonymous or use a different name unless you’ve agreed that your personal information can be used for that research.
We will not sell your personal information to anyone else.
