Your Personal Data
澳门最准四不像 will act as the 鈥楧ata Controller鈥 for the personal data you provide to us. The Data Protection Officer, who is responsible for ensuring personal data is managed in accordance with data protection legislation, can be contacted as follows:
Address: Iain Jackson, Governance, Risk and Safety Manager, 澳门最准四不像, Governance and Law, Kilmory, Lochgilphead PA31 8RT.
Email: Iain.Jackson@argyll-bute.gov.uk or data.protection@argyll-bute.gov.uk
Telephone: 01546 604188 or 01546 605522
Legal Obligation: Under the Representation of the People Act 1983 each Local Authority must by law appoint a 鈥淩eturning Officer鈥. This is a personal appointment with its own statutory functions, separate to 澳门最准四不像.
The Returning Officer has a statutory duty to process certain personal data for the purpose of administrating election and referenda; and as such, is subject to the requirements of data protection regulations as a 鈥渄ata controller鈥. Pippa Milne is the Returning Officer for 澳门最准四不像 and is the registered Data Controller with the Information Commissioners Officer (ICO).
For many of the Returning Officer functions, the Council鈥檚 Election Office will not be processing personal data on behalf of the Council; it will instead be processing personal data on behalf of one or more of the following statutory office holders:
- the Registration Officer appointed by the Council under Section 8 of the Representation of the People Act 1983;
- the Returning Officer appointed for the purposes of local authority elections by the Council under section 41 of the Representation of the People Act 1983;
- the Counting Officer responsible for the administration, within the Council鈥檚 local authority area, of any local, regional or national referendum;
- any other statutory office holder whose duties relate to administering elections or referenda and whose office is held by virtue of holding one or more of the offices described above or is otherwise required by law to be held by an officer of the Council.
What information do we need?
Your personal data is used under the following legal basis: Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller (ie the Returning Officer).
The personal data required includes:
- name and address
- date of birth
- contact details (eg phone number(s) and email address)
- national insurance number
We will keep a record of your assigned payroll number and the gross amount payable to you. We may require evidence from you such as copies of your passport or identification or driving licence.
Why we need this information?
As temporary election staff for an election we require your data for the following purposes:
- To be included in the 鈥渟taff canvass鈥 to ascertain your availability and preference for forthcoming temporary election posts.
- Managing election processes in which you are involved. Eg appointment to temporary election posts and providing information relating to the same, attendance at training, pass and door checklists, ensuring security and efficient administration at polling places, providing contact information to supervisors and colleagues where you and whom you are working with.
- Transferring data to neighbouring local authorities elections offices with which the Council shares a cross constituency during certain elections.
- Transferring your data to Councils HR and payroll sections and HMRC for the purposes of staff fee payments.
What we will do with your information?
Your information will be shared with the following recipients or categories of recipient:
- The Council鈥檚 Returning Officer
- The Electoral Registration Officer
- The Council鈥檚 Election Office
- Presiding Officers, Polling Place and Count inspectors and other staff appointed by the Returning Officer to administer the poll
- Scottish Office, Scottish Government, Electoral Claims Unit (names and addresses only)
- The Council鈥檚 HR and payroll departments, HMRC
- Police Scotland and Security Colleagues (if required)
The 澳门最准四不像 and Bute Returning Officer is required by law to protect the public funds it administers. It may share information provided to them with other public bodies responsible for auditing, administering public funds, or where undertaking a public function, in order to prevent and detect fraud.
How long will we keep your information?
We will keep your information for the length of time specified in the Election Legislation if it is no longer required for the lawful purposes for which it was obtained, after which it will be destroyed under secure arrangements. More information on our retention policy can be obtained from the Data Protection Officer (contact details can be found above).
Automated Decision Making
No automated decision making will take place
Your Rights
When you provide information to the Council, you will have the following rights:
- to withdraw consent at any time, where the lawful basis specified above is consent
- to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office 鈥 see below for details
- to request access to your personal data 鈥 please contact the Data Protection Officer if you wish to submit a request.
- to data portability, where the Legal basis specified above is i) consent or ii) performance of a contract
- to request rectification or erasure of your personal data, as far as the legislation permits 鈥 please contact the Data Protection Officer and provide details of what data you wish to be rectified or erased.
You can find out more about your rights in relation to data protection here: www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/data-protection or from the Data Protection Officer by telephone or in writing, as detailed above.
Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office
The ICO is the UK鈥檚 independent body set up to uphold information rights.
Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF Telephone: 0303 123 1113 Email: casework@ico.org.uk
The Information Commissioner鈥檚 Office 鈥 Scotland, 45 Melville Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7HL Telephone: 0303 123 1115 Email: Scotland@ico.org.uk