Your Rights
You have certain rights under the Data Protection Act and the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), these are:
- the right to be informed via Privacy Notices such as this
- the right of access to any personal information the council holds about yourself
- the right of rectification, we must correct inaccurate or incomplete data within one month
- the right to erasure. You have the right to have your personal data erased and to prevent processing unless we have a legal obligation to process your personal information
- the right to restrict processing. You have the right to suppress processing. We can retain just enough information about you to ensure that the restriction is respected in future
- the right to data portability. We can provide you with your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine readable form when asked
- the right to object. You can object to your personal data being used for profiling, direct marketing or research purposes
- you have rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling, to reduce the risk that a potentially damaging decision is taken without human intervention