Fair processing notices - Decipher impact assist programme

Decipher assist is an evidence-based smoking prevention programme, which aims to reduce adolescent smoking.

Assist trains year eight students to work as ‘peer supporters’ and to have informal conversations with other year eight students about the risks of smoking and the benefits of being smoke free.
 
The data will be used to identify students nominated by their peers to take part in the programme and will typically include student name, gender, date of birth and school form or tutor group. 

Some of the data we collect falls into the special categories. We are able to process this data in line with the Data Protection Act 2018 for reasons of public interest in the area of public health under schedule one part one, paragraph three.

The data will be held securely for the duration of the project (12 weeks) and will be confidentially disposed of afterwards.  

Data protection law provides you with certain rights, but 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.

• 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 is 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.

If you wish to contact us in relation to any of your information rights, email foi@stoke.gov.uk or write to Information Rights Team, Floor 2, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH.

Complete the online form

If you wish to complain about how your personal information has been handled by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, contact the information rights team in the first instance using the details above. If you are not satisfied you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or call 03031231113

Information Commissioner's Office website

If you have any questions about the project, contact Liz Sourbutts, Abi Little or Elizabeth Beacon