- How we use your data
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At Stoke-on-Trent City Council we take your privacy seriously and will only keep and use your personal information for reasons the law requires or allows. We are a data controller for the personal information we hold about you in relation to school governor services. In order to comply with data protection legislation we must be sure you understand how we use this information.
The purposes for which the data will be used are: school governance support and information services.
We are able to do this because you have already given your consent to do it or your school or academy has entered into a contract with us and we can’t fulfil it without doing this.
Data protection law provides you with certain rights, however not all of these rights will be available to you in all situations. Where we are under a legal duty to use data for a particular purpose you will not have the right to prevent it being used in that way.
A full list of the rights you may have, under data protection law, is given below:
- you can ask to see the information we hold about you.
- you can ask what is being done with the information we hold about you
- you can ask to have some of the data we hold about you deleted
- you can ask us to review a decision made about you by a computer, and ask for a new decision to be made by a person
- you can ask us to stop processing the data we hold about you
- you can ask us to make changes to data about you that you believe is inaccurate
- in some circumstances you can ask us to help you move your information to another organisation
- you can ask us to restrict or limit what we do with your data, for example if you believe the data we hold is inaccurate, or if you believe the processing in unlawful
We may share data with our internal audit team to evaluate the effectiveness of the organisation’s risk management, control and governance processes. We may also share your data with the council's fraud team to help to prevent and detect fraud.
- Who to contact if you have questions
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If you wish to contact us in relation to any of your information rights, contact the information rights team at foi@stoke.gov.uk or Information Rights Team, Floor 2, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH or you can complete the online form.