Tourism competition privacy notice

1 Council Contact Details

1.1 North Northants Council
Registered Office:
Sheerness House
41 Meadow Road
Kettering
NN16 8TL

Website:www.northnorthants.gov.uk

North Northamptonshire Council is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services. This Privacy Notice explains how we use information about you and how we protect your privacy.

This Privacy notice relates to the Dragon’s Den event.

2 Information that we hold

2.1 North Northamptonshire Council (the data controller) needs to collect your personal information, in the form of your name, age and email address.

We do not collect or hold any special categories data for this processing.

3 How the information is obtained

3.1 Why we collect information about you

North Northamptonshire Council (the data controller) needs to collect your personal information, in the form of your name, age and email address, in order to make contact with you regarding the competition for which you are entering.

3.2 What is the basis for us to process your data?

4 What we do with the information

4.1 How will we use the information we hold about you?

The information you provide will be used for the purpose of verifying the entry criteria for the competition and to contact you if you have been successful / unsuccessful with your application.

4.2 We will not share your data with any third parties, internally or externally, unless required or permitted to do so by law.

4.3 Automated decision-making is where decisions are made about you without any human influence on the outcome. These may affect your legal rights or have an impact on your circumstances, behaviour or choices.

4.4 Profiling is where you analyse parts of an individual’s personality, behaviour, interests and habits to identify their preferences, make predictions or decisions about them.

5 How long we keep your information for and how we securely dispose of it after use

5.1 We keep your personal information for all aspects of processing in line with the council’s retention schedules.

We will keep your personal information (name and email address) for one month from the date the competition closes, after which it will be securely destroyed.

The council takes data security seriously. The information you provide will be held securely in our file management system. Access is only provided to authorised staff.

5.2 All information will be held securely and will be securely destroyed when no longer needed.

6 How we store your information

6.1 Your information is securely stored on the council’s systems.

7 Your data protection rights

7.1 The law gives you a number of rights to control what personal information is used by us and how we can use it. Please see section 15 of the council’s Corporate Privacy Notice for further information.

7.2 Please be aware that your rights may differ depending on the lawful basis for processing your personal data.

7.3 The right to withdraw consent (if applicable). You can ask that we no longer use your details for this [processing/groups of processing]. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact the Data Protection Officer detailed in section 8.1 below.

8 Who to contact

8.1 If you would like further information about how we use your personal information, or you wish to exercise one of your data rights or you wish to complain about the use of your personal information please contact the Data Protection Officer.

8.2 If you are still dissatisfied once you have contacted the Data Protection Officer, you have the right to complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number:0303 123 1113

9 Changes to this privacy notice

9.1 Privacy notices are live documents, which will be updated or revised in line with legislation.

Last updated 29 April 2022