Data Protection

We are bound to protect your privacy and personal data. It must follow the rules set by the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act. Following these rules ensures the processing of your data is fair and lawful.

Personal data can be any information that identifies you, such as your name or address. Information can relate to your home, work or personal life. It can also include other information such as social care information.

All organisations now have to follow a set of six principles as part of GDPR. We use these principles when dealing with your personal information.

The six principles ensure information is:

  • processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to individuals;

  • collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes;

  • adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed;

  • accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date;

  • kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed;

  • processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of the personal data, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage, using appropriate technical or organisational measures.

Your rights

You have the right to:

  • find out what information is held about you

  • ask for inaccurate data to be corrected, erased or destroyed - if you believe that inaccurate data has caused you damage or distress, you may be able to claim compensation.

  • request that your personal data is not used to send you junk mail

  • request that decisions about you are not made solely by an automated process, for example, credit scoring on a computer

  • request that your data stops being processed, if you believe that the processing will cause you damage or distress

For more information please see our Privacy Notice.

 

How we use cookies

What are cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org . To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout .

YouTube cookies

We embed videos from our official YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page .