Data Protection Policy

3.1      The Council is committed to fulfilling our obligations under data protection legislation, and accordingly the Council’s aims are:

a)        To ensure there is a strong understanding of the Council’s obligations and the steps that are taken to maintain compliance.

b)        To process all personal information securely and appropriately.

c)        To identify risks of processing personal information in advance and work to mitigate identified risks.

d)        To uphold the value of Data Protection By Design and being proactive in our data protection obligations. 

e)        To raise awareness of our data subjects’ rights and to ensure they have a clearly specified set of expectations.

f)          To promote transparency surrounding the organisational accountability measures utilised.

g)        To maintain a balanced approach to complying with data subject rights that both holds the Council accountable whilst not prejudicing the Council’s obligations to other data subjects and rights.