- 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 the Pause scoping exercise. In order to comply with data protection legislation we must be sure you understand how we use this information.
The Pause scoping exercise involves collecting Stoke-on-Trent City Council Childrens Social Care data to identify the pattern of repeated removals of children from women’s care in the local area and to explore the costs that could be avoided by delivering a Pause Practice.
We are allowed to do this because Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR – allows processing which is necessary to perform a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority.
Where we use more sensitive data in the “special categories”, Article 9(2)(g) of the UK GDPR allows processing which is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.
The conditions in Article 10 of the UK GDPR and section 10(5) of the DPA 2018 will also be met if it is necessary to process criminal offence data since processing is authorised under Schedule 1, Part 2, paragraph 6 of the DPA 2018.
None of your data will be used for direct marketing.
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 information 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 is unlawful.
- Who to contact if you have questions
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If you wish to speak to us in relation to this service please contact commissioningandpartnerships.sp@stoke.gov.uk. If you want to exercise your rights under information law, please contact the Information Rights Team at foi@stoke.gov.uk or Information Rights Team, Floor 4, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH.
If you wish to complain about how your personal information has been handled by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, please 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 at: The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, Tel: 0303 123 1113 or you can visit their website at ico.org.uk.
You can find details of how we handle your personal information by visiting stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection
For any general enquiries you can contact us using our contact form.