Employers Survey 2024 Privacy Notice

1. Introduction

This notice provides additional privacy information regarding the Employers Survey 2024.

We will keep our privacy notice under regular review and will advise you of any updates on our website.

This Notice was last reviewed in (August 2024).

2. Who we are

For the purposes of Data Protection legislation, South Tyneside Council is the Data Controller.

3. What type of personal information do we collect?

We will collect the following types of personal information:

Name
Telephone number
Email address
Date of Birth
Sex
Ethnicity
Religion

4. How do we collect personal information?

We will collect your personal information by the data you provide in the online survey form.

5. Why do we collect your personal information?

We will collect your personal information only for the purposes of:

To understand more about support for carers in the workplace
To help inform our carers strategy ambitions to 'Increase access to stable and supportive employment and 'Improve the health and wellbeing of carers.'

6. Who might we share your personal information with?

We will only use your email address to contact you so that we can provide any additional information if you request this through our survey.

We will not share your email with any other third parties unless you have specifically asked us to, or if we have a legal obligation to do so.

7. How long will we keep your personal information?

We will only keep your personal information i.e. your email address and/or telephone number for the purposes of sending you additional information if you have requested this in the survey.

8. What is our legal basis for using your personal information?

To use your personal information there must be a lawful basis to do this, such as, through a contract, performing a public task or where there is a legal obligation.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting Jacqui.kaid@southtyneside.gov.uk.

9. How do we keep your personal information secure?

Information provided to the Council is held securely on our network.

Only officers working within Adult Social Care and Commissioning and system administrators have access to these records.

10. Is your personal information used overseas?

Your personal information is not used overseas.

11. What are your rights?

Your individual rights are set out in law. Subject to some legal exemptions, you have the following rights:

Right to be informed
Right of access
Right to rectification
Right to erasure
Right to restrict processing
Right to data portability
Right to object
Rights in relating to automated decision making and profiling

12. Contact us

If you would like to exercise your rights in relation to your personal information, or you feel that something has gone wrong with your personal information, you can contact us in either of the following ways:

By email: data.protection@southtyneside.gov.uk

By telephone: 0191 424 6539

In writing: South Tyneside Council, Information Governance, Town Hall and Civic Offices, South Shields, NE33 2RL

If you feel that the Council has not handled your information correctly you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). The ICO is the Government's Independent Body responsible for overseeing data protection. In most cases the ICO will only review cases that have exhausted the Council's internal procedures.

The ICO's contact details are as follows: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF. More information can be found on the ICO's website at www.ico.org.uk.

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