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Data protection

 

Middlesbrough Council has to process personal data in order to deliver services to you. Personal data can be defined as both facts and opinions about you.

Middlesbrough Council processes personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Personal data may be held in computer databases or in paper files. These may be processed by the Council or for the Council by one of its business partners. Wherever personal data are held and processed, Middlesbrough Council remains the “data controller” of your personal data and complies with the eight data protection principles of good information handling which state that data must be:

  1. fairly and lawfully processed;
  2. processed for limited purposes;
  3. adequate, relevant and not excessive;
  4. accurate;
  5. not kept longer than necessary;
  6. processed in accordance with the data subject's rights;
  7. secure;
  8. not transferred to countries without adequate protection.

Privacy Notices.
Privacy Notices are sometimes referred to as Fair Processing Statements. They are a fuller explanation of how Middlesbrough Council Services use the personal data you provide, who they share it with and for what reasons. Privacy Notices are especially useful where the use of your data may not be obvious to you.

See the links below for the Privacy Notices published by Middlesbrough Council

 
 

Fair Processing Statement - Housing and Council Tax Benefit

Middlesbrough Council Housing and Council Tax Benefit Section

While assessing your claim and checking the accuracy of your information, Middlesbrough Council may share information about you with Government Departments, the Police, Auditing bodies, Credit Reference Agencies, other Local Authorities and service departments within Middlesbrough Council. This is to prevent or detect crime and protect public funds. We may also receive information about you from these organisations for the same reasons as allowed by the law. We will not give anyone information about you unless the law allows us to.

Middlesbrough Council, is the data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. If you want to know more about the information we hold about you, or the way we use that information, please contact: The Data Protection Officer, PO Box 17, Rede House, 69-71 Corporation Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 1LY.

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Fair Processing Notice - Community Regeneration Service

Middlesbrough Council Community Regeneration Service

The contact information you provide to Middlesbrough Council’s Community Regeneration Service will be used to contact you about local Community Regeneration matters and events.

The Community Regeneration Service may share your contact information with other Middlesbrough Council Services who wish to contact you about matters concerning the community you live in, for instance about consultation on any proposed Council Strategies that may affect you.

In some instances our local partner organisations, such as the Health Service, and with whom from time to time we work on joint initiatives, may request contact details of local community citizens with whom they too wish to consult on local matters. We would only ever disclose your contact details to our local partner agencies if we were sure that their purpose was compatible with Community Regeneration and that they had secure arrangements to process your contact data.

If you have any concerns about how your contact data may be used, or wish to limit its use, in the first instance please inform your local Community Regeneration Team.

The Middlesbrough Council Community Regeneration Service processes your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. If you want to know more about the information Middlesbrough Council holds about you, or the way the Council uses that information please contact the Data Protection Officer, PO BOX 17, Rede House, 69 – 71 Corporation Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 2YW.

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