Isle of Anglesey County Council

Privacy notice: Highways, Waste and Property Service

How we use your personal information

You have a right to know about the way information about you is used by us.

Please read the following information as it refers to additional rights which you should know about. 

Isle of Anglesey County Council is the data controller for your information. This means that the council protects your information and decides on how it is used.

The legal term for using information is processing. Also, the legal term for information about you is personal data. In addition, the Highways Waste and Property Service may share your data with contractors who are also a data controller for the purpose of providing services to you.

Purpose of processing

The council will use your personal information to provide services in relation to Highways Waste and Property functions, this is the intended purpose of processing.

The information will not be used for purposes that are not compatible with why it is gathered in the first instance.

The council collects and uses your personal information because it has a legal duty or right to do so; or to perform a public interest task; or because you have given your consent. The legal term for this is called legal basis of processing. 

Sharing your personal data

The council will collect and share information with public bodies that contains some personal data.  Please note that the Council will collect and share data with the Auditor General for Wales’ (AGW’s) in connection with his audit work and studies. Data sharing will also take place pursuant to the duty at Section 33 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009.

The personal information you provide may be shared with county council services and external contractors. 

The council will not use your information for automated decision making or profiling. Profiling means any form of automated processing of your personal data to evaluate or analyse or predict things about you. This could include your economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests or behaviour. The council will not transfer your personal information to another country.

Retention period

The information you supply will be kept for as long as is required or necessary, and will be destroyed securely. The retention periods are set out in the council’s list of retention periods, known as a retention schedule.

For further information please contact the data protection officer. 

You have legal rights, and it is important that you know what they are.

You have the right to obtain confirmation that information about you is being used.  The council will provide confirmation if you ask for it. 

You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data. You will be provided with copies of your personal data within the statutory period of one month (or if providing your personal data is a complex matter, this will be done as soon as is reasonable within 3 months).

Your personal data will be provided to you free of charge, however, if your request is deemed manifestly unfounded or excessive, a reasonable fee will be charged. You ask to obtain your personal data by contacting the council’s data protection officer. 

You have the right to have information about you corrected.  This is known as the right of rectification. You have the right to ask that your personal data is rectified if it is incorrect or incomplete. This will be done within one month, or if your request is complex, within 3 months. The right to have personal data erased. You have a right to have personal data erased in specific circumstances:

  • Where the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was originally collected/processed.
  • When you object to the council’s processing and there is no overriding legitimate interest for continuing the processing.
  • If the personal data was unlawfully processed.
  • When the personal data has to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation.
  • When the personal data is processed in relation to the offer of information society services to a child, for example an app developed specifically for children.

The right to restrict processing

Where it is claimed that data is inaccurate or the right to erasure has been exercised you can require the council to restrict processing until verification checks have been completed.

The right to object

In addition to the right to object to your information being used for direct marketing, you have the right to object to processing based on the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling), and processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.

Rights in relation to automated decision making

You have the right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects on you or affects you in a significant way. 

How to contact us

Please contact our data protection officer by email, post or telephone if you have any queries about this privacy Notice or the information we hold about you.

The council’s data protection officer (DPO) can be contacted by email: DPO@anglesey.gov.uk or SDD@ynysmon.gov.uk .

We hope that our DPO can resolve any query or concern you may raise about our use of your personal information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner.

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Email: casework@ico.gsi.gov.uk

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

This Privacy Notice was published on 24 May 2018 and last updated on 24 May 2018.

Version 1.0

Date: 24 May 2018