Fair processing notices - Libraries: Universal Credit digital support

How we use your data

We are a data controller for the personal information we hold about you in relation to additional services provided by Stoke-on-Trent libraries and archives.

The data will be used to enable you to access digital support provided by Stoke-on-Trent libraries and archives to help you complete and manage your Universal Credit claim.

We are able to do this because we are carrying out a task in the public interest.  

To enable you to access this service we will share your information with the Department of Work and Pensions.

Data protection law provides you with certain rights, but 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.

  • 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
Who to contact if you have questions

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

Information Commissioner's Office website