Published 12
th
December 2018
Version 1.0
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
Please complete and return to: Information Governance Team, BDC, Desford Road, Narborough,
Leicestershire, LE19 2EP or Freedom.Information@Blaby.gov.uk
