Privacy Notice for Parish Councillors
Carlisle City Council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy in terms of how we collect, use, store and destroy your personal information.
We are the data controller of the personal information we will collect from you and under the General Data Protection Regulation, this privacy notice is designed to provide you with all the information you have a right to be provided with on why we need to collect your personal data and what we will do with it. In some circumstances, councillors are also data controllers in their own right. However, any handling of personal data in that capacity is not covered by this privacy notice
Please note: Information about your election and the personal information gathered during the election process, including your nomination papers and expense returns etc, is held by the Returning Officer for the period specified in the Council’s Retention Schedule. It is not covered by this notice.
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Why are we collecting your personal information?
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Carlisle City Council provides a range of democratic services because the law states that we must do so. The services provided include the following areas:
1. To ensure Parish Councillors comply with their Code of Conduct 2. To allow the Parish Councillors' Registers of Interest to be created and maintained
In order to deliver these services Democratic Services require to collect, store, use, share and dispose of personal information, known as data processing.
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What allows us to collect your personal information?
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Data processed by the Council about democratic services provision is processed because:
- It is required by law
- It is necessary to provide a Council service which is part of our public task
- The legislation, policies and guidance that allow us to do this includes, but is not limited to:
- The Local Government Act 1972
- The Local Government Access to Information Act 1985
- The Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements)(Meetings and Access to Information)(England) Regulations 2012 • Localism Act 2011, Sections 28 & 29
- Carlisle City Council’s Constitution
If we require your permission to process your personal information, we will ask you. If you wish to withdraw your consent, you can do so through contacting [email protected]
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What personal information will we collect?
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Democratic Services will collect the following information from you:
- Names, addresses and signatures
- Correspondence and e-mails
- Registerable interests:
- Employment
- Details of financial benefit
- Details of any contract with the authority
- Details of any beneficial interest in land Details of any licence (alone or jointly with others) to occupy land in the area of the relevant authority
- Details of any tenancy where –
- (a) The landlord is the relevant authority; and
- (b) The tenant is a body in which the relevant person has a beneficial interest.
- Details of shares or beneficial interest of business or land in the authority’s area
- Details of any bodies you appointed to
- Details of gifts and hospitality
- Remuneration • Memberships (committees, panels/outside organisations that you sit on)
- Salary, Allowances and Expenses
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What will we do with your personal information?
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Your information is held securely within the UK. Your registrable interests which includes your name, address, employment and holdings will be made available on the Carlisle City Council website for your term of office and are available for public inspection. We will redact all signatures from documents that are published on the website
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How long will we keep your personal information?
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All records are kept in compliance with the Democratic Services Retention Policy. The length of time we need to keep information collected varies but it will usually be for the term of your office, information on register of interests will be kept for three years after your term of office ends in line with statutory legislation but it will not be on the website
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Your rights are:
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- To be informed
- To access your personal information
- To have inaccurate personal information rectified
- To have personal information erased
- To restrict processing of your personal information
- To obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purpose
- To object to the processing of your personal information
- To not be subject to decisions based solely on automated means, including profiling
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Right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
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Should you be unhappy with the way Carlisle City Council has handled your personal information, we encourage you to let us know so that we can look into this for you and provide a response.
Should you then wish to lodge a complaint with ICO you can contact them at:
Website: https://ico.org.uk/
Address: Information Commissioner’s Officer, Wycliffe House,
Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Email: [email protected]
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Carlisle City Council can be contacted at:
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Carlisle City Council’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:
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Address: Civic Centre, Carlisle,
Cumbria, CA3 8QG
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01228 817200
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Address: Civic Centre, Carlisle,
Cumbria, CA3 8QG
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01228 817200
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