Skip to navigation Logo: Visit the www.kingston.gov.uk home page Accessibility Translate Search Services Menu Home Your council Privacy Notice and Data Protection Privacy Notice and Data Protection In this section You are here: Privacy notice Data Protection and Your Rights Cookies policy Accessibility statement Advertising on our website Adult Social Care Blue Badge Policy Business intelligence Council tax, Business rates and Benefits Councillors Electoral Services Housing options and accommodation Housing Landlord Service Kingston Heritage Service Parking Services Planning Strategic Planning Public Health Registration Services Regulatory Services School Admissions Requesting a Subject Access Request Privacy notice Privacy notice - COVID 19 (Coronavirus) This privacy notice is in response to the Covid-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic and supports our overarching Privacy Notice to explain how the Royal Borough of Kingston (as a Data Controller) will collect, use and protect personal data. The council already holds data regarding residents, employees and stakeholders. You may have provided this information for a specific reason. Normally, the council would seek to inform you that the data provided would be used for a different purpose. Due to the rapidly emerging situation regarding the current pandemic this will not always be possible. If we already hold information regarding vulnerability as defined in the current guidance from the Government and Public Health England, we may share this for emergency planning purposes or to protect your vital interests by sharing with services both inside and outside the council. There will be other council services such as Housing Benefit, Council Tax and the Electoral Register which we may use to help us identify groups of individuals who may need our support because they meet the vulnerable criteria. We may in this current crisis need to ask you for personal information including sensitive personal information for example if you have any underlying illnesses or are vulnerable, that you have not already supplied. This is so the council can assist and prioritise it's services. Please also see the Council’s GDPR and Data Sharing Policy The Information Commissioner's Office has published its own FAQs on data handling during the pandemic. The council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Through this privacy notice we have sought to be as transparent as possible to fully explain how your personal information is held and processed. This notice explains how we collect, use and share your information and how we keep it and how we keep it secure. This privacy notice also explains when and why we collect personal information about people who engage or come into contact with us, whether via applying or receiving our services, living or visiting the borough or our website. Upon visiting our websites we will use third party service providers to collect technical information from your device, including standard internet log information such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, and certain page interaction information. In addition to this privacy notice some services have their own dedicated privacy notice to tell people in more detail how they use your information and the legal basis for using the information all service specific data protection and privacy notices should be read in conjunction with this over arching notice. Your personal data Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller's possession or likely to come into such possession. Some of your personal data is classed as 'special category data' because it is the information that is considered to be more sensitive and therefore requires more protection. This includes your medical data. Legal basis for processing your personal data How we are processing your personal data will determine the legal basis for processing. The legal bases for processing by the council as a public authority will be: Where disclosure is in the vital interests of yourself or another person (Article 6(1)(d) and 9(2)(c) GDPR) Where it is necessary in the public interest (Article 6(1)(e)) Where it is necessary for the reasons of substantial public interest Article 9(2)(g) Where it is in the interest of public health Article 9(2)(i) Sharing your personal data In this current pandemic, and to support test and trace, we may share your information with government departments, other public authorities, emergency services, volunteer groups and other stakeholders as necessary and where it is proportionate to do so. Changes to this privacy notice We will keep this privacy notice under regular review and if we make any changes, we will publish the updated version on our website. Data Protection Officer contact information Data Protection Officer – dpo@kingston.gov.uk Privacy statement The council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. Through this privacy notice we have sought to be as transparent as possible to fully explain how your personal information is held and processed. This notice explains how we collect, use and share your information and how we keep it and how we keep it secure. This privacy notice also explains when and why we collect personal information about people who engage or come into contact with us, whether via applying or receiving our services, living or visiting the borough or our website. In addition to this privacy notice some services have their own dedicated privacy notice to tell people in more detail how they use your information and the legal basis for using the information. What information do we collect about you? We collect information about you when you register with us, contact us or use our services. The information we collect may include your: contact details (including name, title, address, email address and telephone number) date of birth gender UK/EU/EEA residency details proof of identity national identifiers (including NHS number and NI number) Information about your family IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed and when lifestyle, social and personal circumstances financial details for purposes of receiving or making payments employment details(when you apply for jobs) education records next of kin information signature housing information relating your council tenancy visual images, personal appearance and behaviour licenses or permits business activities voice recording the services you receive Council data is shared for election register purposes as required by law We may also record and monitor telephone calls to our Contact Centre for quality and training purposes and also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys and provide feedback. We may also collect sensitive personal data that may include: racial or ethnic origin political opinions religious or philosophical beliefs trade union membership health or sex life and sexual orientation data criminal convictions and offences (including alleged) From May 2018, genetic data and biometric data will be treated as sensitive personal data. Why we need your information? We need your personal data in order to provide you with council services that you apply for or receive from us and also where we are required to use information in order to meet our statutory obligations. We will only collect personal data that is absolutely necessary and any information we collect about you will be strictly in accordance with the data protection law and other statutory obligations which we are bound by. In general we will use your information to: fulfil our legal duties and obligations (including safeguarding children) provide efficient and effective services help you access the right services collect debts prevent, detect and prosecute fraud, corruption or other crimes personalise repeat visits to our website deliver national government programmes and initiatives. We process your information for the following services: Council tax business rates housing benefits social housing needs parking permit blue badge adults and children’s social care services planning applications building control applications licensing landlords Licensing voting and elections school admissions and education services youth services birth, marriages and deaths employment health and wellbeing bins, recycling and waste collection crime and public safety Housing Benefit Discretionary Housing Payments Council Tax and the Council Tax Reduction Scheme (CTRS) Business Rates Local Social welfare Schemes To do so we may share your information between services and with other organisations, including: government departments, agencies and other public bodies other local authorities our subsidiary companies housing associations schools charities and voluntary organisations third party service providers. Who your information may be shared with The council has statutory obligations to collect, process and share personal information without consent, with our partners such as the NHS, housing associations, schools, central government, such as DWP, HMRC, Home Office, Dept. Of Education, Dept. of Health, other councils and law enforcement agencies such as the Police and the Crown prosecution service, for the following purposes: health and wellbeing and public health safeguarding of vulnerable adults and children the prevention and detection of crime the assessment of any tax or duty collection of debt if we are required to do so by any court or law prevention of fraud the national fraud initiative protect you or other individuals from serious harm protect public funds public safety and law enforcement criminal or civil prosecution of offenders national security To ensure that the council provides you with an efficient and effective service we will sometimes need to share your information between teams within the council. We may also share your information with our partners to deliver national government programmes and initiatives such as the Troubled Families programme, or improving services we deliver, or provide the services you agreed to receive. We may share with: NHS (GP’s, Hospital, Mental Health, CCG’s etc.) schools voluntary sectors central government other councils housing associations In most cases this will be done where there is a lawful basis under the conditions set out in data protection laws. We may also share your information with third party service providers working on our behalf for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example; domiciliary care providers). However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure, as required by the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR), and not to use it for any other purposes. We will never use or share your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes without your permission. We may share some of your information, for example your name and address, internally with other departments in the Council if this: helps you to access services more easily promotes the more efficient and cost effective delivery of services helps recover monies owed to the council We match Council Tax data with Electoral Registration records We are required by law to participate in National Fraud Initiative (NFI) data matching exercises. Council Tax information may be provided to the Audit Commission for NFI purposes and will be used for cross-system and cross-authority comparison for fraud prevention and detection. We will also share our data with companies who undertake data matching exercises for Single Person Discount, this is to identify discrepancies. We share our data through LOCTA - the Local Authority Council Tax data sharing hub, who locate debtors who no longer reside in the council. For some debts, we also use external bailiff collection. We use an external provider to process our online claims and to identify changes in circumstances. Lawful basis to process your information The council must have a lawful basis for processing your information. In most cases the information will be collected and used where we have statutory obligations to collect, use or share your information; in those instances we have a public interest basis for processing your information. In some instances the services we provide are optional, which means that the council will only provide the service if the customer has requested the service or the customer consents to the service. In that instance, consenting to the service does not necessarily mean that the lawful basis for processing your information is consent; the council may rely on the public interest basis where it has specific powers to provide the service. Where your consent is required to process your information we will seek your consent. However, where your consent is not required to process your information, for example the council has a lawful basis for processing your information, your consent will not be sought. Where we need to disclose sensitive or confidential information such as medical details to other partners, we will do so only with your prior explicit consent unless we are legally entitled to share the data. The council may also process your information where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract and where processing is necessary to protect your vital interest or the vital interest of another person. The council may also process your information where we are obliged to process your information to comply with the law. We have statutory authority to collect and process your personal information for the provision of our service, your consent therefore is not required to process your information. Where the service is optional, we will not process your information until you have consented to receive the service. Once we have your consent for the service, your information will be processed under our statutory authority to provide the service. How long we keep your information We review our retention periods of the information we hold about you on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as it is necessary for the relevant activity or service that we provide to you, or as required by law. We will retain your information for the period in which your information is being used for service provision or for our wider functions including debt collection. We have legal authority to process your information; your right to be forgotten does not apply to our functions and services How to contact us Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you. You can contact us via email dpo@kingston.gov.uk or write to us at: Data Protection Officer, Digital and IT, Royal Borough of Kingston, High Street, KT1 1EU. You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the way we are handling your personal information. Details on how you can do this can be found on the ICO website. Last Modified: 24/12/2020 11:02:04 Next page : Data Protection and Your Rights Previous page : You are on the first page Was this information useful? 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