- How we use your data
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The data will be used are to check eligibility for the disabled facilities grant and to carry out adaptations to a client's property. We are able to do this because the law on Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 says we must do it.
Data protection law provides you with certain rights, however not all of these rights will be available to you in all situations.Where we are under a legal duty to use data for a particular purpose you will not have the right to prevent it being used in that way.
Under data protection law:- you can ask to see the information we hold about you
- you can ask what is being done with the information we hold about you
- you can ask to have some of the data we hold about you deleted
- you can ask us to review a decision made about you by a computer, and ask for a new decision to be made by a person
- you can ask us to stop processing the data we hold about you
- you can ask us to make changes to data about you that you believe is inaccurate
- in some circumstances you can ask us to help you move your information to another organisation.
- you can ask us to restrict or limit what we do with your data, for example if you believe the data we hold is inaccurate, or if you believe the processing in unlawful
We may pass your information on to contractors and suppliers to enable the adaptation works to your home to be carried out. Only relevant personal information will be passed to the contractor and or the supplier.
We may share data with our internal audit team to evaluate the effectiveness of the organisation’s risk management, control and governance processes. We may also share your data with the council's fraud team to help to prevent and detect fraud.
- Who to contact if you have questions
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If you wish to contact us in relation to any of your information rights, email foi@stoke.gov.uk or write to Information Rights Team, Floor 2, Civic Centre, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH.
Complete the online form
If you wish to complain about how your personal information has been handled by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, contact the information rights team in the first instance using the details above. If you are not satisfied you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, or call 03031231113