- How we use your data
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To enforce the public spaces protection order (PSPO), we will collect, store, and use:
- personal contact details – name, address, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses
- information relating to breaches of the PSPO
We collect personal information about individuals breaching the PSPO through enforcement officers patrolling the area, writing down observations, speaking to offenders, CCTV footage and bodycam footage.
We also collect information received from third parties where they report an alleged breach of the PSPO.
We will only use your personal information in ways the law allows us to.
Our lawful basis for processing your personal data is that we are carrying out this function in the public interest using our powers to enforce PSPOs under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014.
We may take action through a fixed penalty notice or prosecution. We may use your personal information:
- to issue a warning letter for breach of the PSPO
- to issue a formal caution for breach of the PSPO
- to issue a fixed penalty notice for breach of the PSPO
- to issue a court summons for breach of the PSPO
- to record statements given by you under caution for a breach of the PSPO
We will share your personal information with third parties where required by law, or where it is necessary to investigate or prosecute the breach of the PSPO.
Your personal information may be shared with and processed by Staffordshire Police at Stoke city case management meetings.This privacy notice describes how we collect and use personal information about you for the purposes of enforcing the PSPO within the restricted area within Hanley City Centre.
All of the council’s third party service providers are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies.
We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal information for their own purposes and they may only process your personal information for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or inappropriately disclosed.
In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees and third parties who have a business need to process it.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes we collected it for, including any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To decide the appropriate length of time to keep the personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal information so it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.
Your personal information will be retained for a period of six years from the date of the alleged breach of the PSPO.
Once we have collected your personal data for these purposes you must inform us if any details change, such as your contact details for example.
Data protection law provides you with certain rights, but not all 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 is unlawful
- 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