Skip to navigation The City of Edinburgh Council My Account SEARCH MENU Home Council and Committees Managing information Privacy and data protection Privacy and data protection In this section… You are here: Overview Data protection Data collection and personal data categories Purpose of processing personal information Information sharing Retention periods and your rights Incidents, complaints and comments Data Protection Officer Overview To deliver our services we need to collect, store, use, share and dispose of personal information. This is known as data processing. When we collect personal data, we must tell you why we need it, and what we will do with it. This information is called a privacy notice. This privacy notice explains how we process your personal information as a Council. More specific information will also be provided by Council services when you use them. If this privacy notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. By regularly reviewing this page you will ensure that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we share it with others. In processing personal information, The City of Edinburgh Council must comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. We refer to this as data protection legislation. Register of privacy notices Data controller Data controllers are the organisations or individuals that determine how your personal information will be processed. By law, data controllers must pay a fee to register with the UK Information Commissioner who is the data protection regulator within the UK. The City of Edinburgh Council data controller registration number: Z5545409. Previous page : You are on the first page Next page : Data protection News Contact us Work for us Cookies Privacy Terms and disclaimer Languages Accessibility Find us on Facebook Youtube Follow us on Twitter Flickr Linkedin Pinterest © The City of Edinburgh Council Designed and Powered by Jadu. BACK TO THE TOP This site uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some cookies are necessary for the site to work. You can only disable these by changing your browser preferences. We'd also like to use analytics cookies, as they help us improve our website by providing information on its usage. For more information visit our cookies page (Opens in a new window) OK to use analytics cookiesDon't use analytics cookies