Privacy Policy
What this policy covers
We, Staffordshire County Council, take our privacy obligations seriously and we’ve created this privacy policy to explain how we treat your personal information collected on this website. Personal information is information we hold which is identifiable as being about you.
Our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information is regulated by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (‘UK GDPR’) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
The software platform this website runs on and associated technology operations are provided by Bang the Table Pty Ltd. Click this link for the Privacy Policy governing their service.
What personal information we collect
Profile Information
We collect information from you when you register to use this site. This includes your date of birth, gender, email, the District or Borough where you live, and topics you may be interested in, as provided by you on the registration form.
Please note that you are able to browse any publicly accessible sections of this website completely anonymously without signing up.
Engagement Information
The content you create as part of your interactions with this website. These can include responses to surveys, comments on discussion forums, or any of the other engagement opportunities available here.
Details you share an any ‘Quick Poll’, ‘Survey’ responses, or in registration (as above) will not be available to the wider public. Beyond these, your further interactions on this website which could be publicly visible are advised to avoid sharing or uploading personally identifiable or special category data. For example, data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a person's sex life or sexual orientation.
Usage Information
The software platform this website runs on and associated technology operations are provided by Bang the Table Pty Ltd, and will collect information about your usage of the site, such as pages visited, documents downloaded, etc.
How we use the information we collect
We collect this information in order to:
- analyse and interpret it to help meet our objectives and obligations;
- communicate information to you about engagement opportunities, events and other initiatives; and
- respond to enquiries and otherwise engage with stakeholders.
External links
This website may contain links to other websites. Those links are provided for convenience and may not remain current or be maintained. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of linked websites and we suggest you review the privacy policies of those websites before using them.
Security
While no online service is completely secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take all reasonable measures to do so.
Data subject rights
Under the UK GDPR you, as the Data Subject, you have the right to:
- Access the information we hold about you. This information is usually provided free of charge but we may charge depending on the administrative costs of providing the information. You have the right to request this in machine-readable form so that it can, if required, be transferred to a third party.
- Request that we rectify any information about you that is incorrect. Simple inaccuracies, such as address changes will be made. Depending on the purpose for processing, records (including statements and opinions) may not be changed. However, there may be the option for you to provide a supplementary statement which will be added to the file.
- Request that records we hold about you are erased.
- Restrict processing of the information we hold about you if you have an objection to that processing, whilst your objection is investigated.
- Request that any information that you have provided to us is given back to you in a format that you can give to another service provider if required.
- Object to processing of your personal information including automated decision making and profiling.
- Make a complaint to a supervisory authority if you are not satisfied with how the information held about you has been handled.
Contact Us
For further information about our privacy policy, including to access your personal information see here Privacy notice - Staffordshire County Council. To feedback including comments, compliments and complaints see further information here Comments, compliments and complaints - Staffordshire County Council