## Foi Request Form

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 gives you the right to request official information held by Blaby District Council. 


 
Personal information is not covered by the act. You can however request this information under General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). 

 
  
Information may be withheld from disclosure in certain circumstances; in this case we will provide a full explanation as to how we reached the decision. 


## Section 1 - Your Details Section 2 - Details Of The Information Requested

To help us deal with your request as quickly and efficiently as possible please provide us with as much information as possible about the information you require. Where appropriate, please specify the time period you are requesting the information for. Continue on a new page if required. 


 

 
 
☐ Paper format (By Post) 
What format would you prefer to receive the information? 
  
 
☐ Electronic format (By Email) 

## Privacy Notice

Blaby District Council (BDC) is a data controller, which means that BDC decides what personal information we need from you to provide you with this service. You can find out more about the services we provide and the things we are required by law to do by visiting the BDC Website: www.blaby.gov.uk or you can contact us by telephone on 0116 275 0555 
or email customer.services@blaby.gov.uk . 


 
 
  
We will only ask for the information we need about you and your circumstances to enable us to fully understand your application. If you decide not to provide us with the information we need it might mean that we won't be able to proceed with your request. 



We will need your name, address, telephone number and email address in order to keep you up to date on the progress of your request and to supply you with our final response. 


 
We may share information about you with other council departments, as well as other councils, the police, health care providers, government departments, Ombudsmen, and organisations delivering services in partnership with, or on behalf of, Blaby District Council, where it and lawful to do so. 



We will keep the information that you provide to us and that we collect as part of this process for 2 years from the date of our final response to you. 


 
We do not routinely share information with third parties in other countries, however we do use cloud hosted software. We don't use any computers or automated means to make decisions about you based on the information that you provide. 


 
You have a number of legal rights in respect of your personal data which are: the right to be informed about how it is being used and why; the right the right of access to it to check that we are acting lawfully and, in some cases, the right to rectify it or to have it erased; the right to restrict our processing of it; the right of data portability; and the right to object to automated decision taking. 


## Contact Us

If you have any questions about the way in which Blaby District Council handles your personal information, or want to raise a concern, you may contact: 


Name: 
Louisa Horton, Data Protection Officer Telephone: 
0116 275 0555 
Email: 
gdpr@blaby.gov.uk 

 
 
  
  
You can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office (The ICO) to find out more about your rights as a data subject (a person that we hold personal data about)  if you think there is a problem by email to casework@ico.org.uk or by telephone on 0303 123 1113. You can also visit the ICO's website www.ico.org.uk