Privacy policy

For GDPR purposes, Lancashire County Council acts as the lead party for the Lancashire IER and in order to comply with articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), where personal data relating to a data subject is collected, Lancashire County Council would like to provide you with the following details.

Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller

Lancashire County Council, PO Box 78 County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8X

Contact Details of the Data Protection Officer

Our Data Protection Officer is Paul Bond. You can contact him at DPO@lancashire.gov.uk or Lancashire County Council, PO Box 78 County Hall, Fishergate, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 8XJ

Purposes for Processing

The purpose of the IER (and the Call for Evidence with which data will be submitted) is to develop and consult upon a new analysis of the challenges and opportunities within the Lancashire economy and a shared cohesive narrative which draws these things together.

Category of Personal Data being processed

Personal data (information relating to a living, identifiable individual)

Special category personal data (racial, ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation)

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

The legal basis for processing your personal data, in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR: the individual has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for a specific purpose.

Legal Basis for Processing Special Categories of Personal Data

The legal basis for processing your special categories of personal data, in accordance with Article 9 (2) (a) GDPR: the data subject has given explicit consent to the processing of those personal data for one or more specified purposes.

Recipients of the Data

Funding Providers\Government Departments:

• Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
• Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

IER Core Partners:-

• Lancashire County Council
• Blackpool Council
• Blackburn with Darwen Council
• Lancashire Enterprise Partnership

Wider Local Authority Partners:-

• Burnley Borough Council
• Chorley Borough Council
• Fylde Borough Council
• Hyndburn Borough Council
• Lancaster City Council
• Pendle Borough Council
• Preston City Council
• Ribble Valley Borough Council
• Rossendale Borough Council
• South Ribble Borough Council
• West Lancashire Borough Council
• Wyre Council

Consultant Partners:-

• Metro Dynamics
• Deloitte LLP

Information we share

Each IER partner organisation will only share the necessary and relevant information required to provide your business with help, advice and relevant funding opportunities.

• Company Name
• Company Address
• Company contact details
• Company Personnel Contact details
• Nature of business
• Individual Client Name
• Individual Client Contact details
• Details of the client journey/hours spent
• Ethnicity of business owner
• Disability of business owner
• Age of business owner
• D.O.B
• Gender

The benefits of information sharing includes giving all partners involved a clearer picture of the clients’ requirements and tracking which services the client has received. Failure to appropriately share information would result in clients having to repeat their requirements to various organisations within the partnership. This would lead to the partnership not being able to track the allocated funding and support that the client has received from other partners.

Any Transfers to Another Country

GDPR restricts transfers of personal data outside the EEA, unless the rights of the individuals in respect of their personal data is protected in another way, or one of a limited number of exceptions applies. We will not transfer personal data outside the EEA.

Retention Periods

The IER Partner will only store information received from their involvement with you for as long as is legally required or in situations where there is no legal retention period they will follow established best practice. At the end of the retention period electronical data will be deleted and any physical files will be confidentially disposed of.

Your Rights

You have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), these are the right:

• to be informed via Privacy Notices such as this.
• to withdraw your consent. If we are relying on your consent to process your data then you can remove this at any point.
• of access to any personal information the council holds about yourself. To request a copy of this information you must make a subject access request in writing. You are entitled to receive a copy of your personal data within 1 calendar month of our receipt of your subject access request. If your request is complex then we can extend this period by a further two months, if we need to do this we will contact you. You can request a subject access request, either via a letter to Information Governance Team, address below.
• of rectification, we must correct inaccurate or incomplete data within one month.
• to erasure. You have the right to have your personal data erased and to prevent processing unless we have a legal obligation to process your personal information.
• to restrict processing. You have the right to suppress processing. We can retain just enough information about you to ensure that the restriction is respected in future.
• to data portability. We can provide you with your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine readable form when asked.
• to object. You can object to your personal data being used for profiling, direct marketing or research purposes.
• in relation to automated decision making and profiling, to reduce the risk that a potentially damaging decision is taken without human intervention.

If you want to exercise any of these rights then you can do so by contacting:

Information Governance Team
Lancashire County Council
PO Box 78
County Hall
Preston
PR1 8XJ

Or email: dataprotection@lancashire.gov.uk

To ensure that we can deal with your request as efficiently as possible you will need to include your current name and address, proof of identity (a copy of your driving licence, passport or two different utility bills that display your name and address), as much detail as possible regarding your request so that we can identify any information we may hold about you, this may include your previous name and address, date of birth and what council service you were involved with.

Further information

If you would like more information concerning Boost and their work then please contact hello@lancashireier.org

If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact DPO@lancashire.gov.uk

If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).