This policy covers the treatment of personal data that Huntingdonshire District Council may collect including when you e-mail us, or when you complete and submit an online form on our web site.
When completing forms you may be asked for personal information such as name, address, postcode etc. It is only when you supply this type of information that you can be personally identified.
Information may be collected:
- To fulfil your request for information or services
- To provide and improve our services
- As part of the process of consultation
- To prevent and detect fraud
Huntingdonshire District Council is registered as Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998 for the purpose of processing personal data in the performance of its legitimate business. Any information held by the Council will be processed in compliance with the principles set out in the Act.
The Council is responsible for ensuring the confidentiality of personal data that it holds. It also has a duty to protect the public funds it administers and to this end may use the information you have provided to us to prevent and detect fraud. This may include sharing the information for these purposes with other persons or bodies involved for example in administering or auditing public funds or appointed as collection agencies responsible for collecting local taxes on the Council's behalf or for data matching. Further information about data matching can be found on the link to the right.
If you have concerns about the processing of your personal data by Huntingdonshire District Council, you may contact the Council’s Data Protection Officer via the link on the right hand side or at its offices at Pathfinder House St Mary's Street Huntingdon Cambridgeshire PE29 3TN or the Office of the Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Security Policy
Some of the services on our website do give visitors the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data.
Where this is the case you will see a gold padlock symbol at the foot of the page on the right hand side. A message may also appear stating that you are
viewing information over a secure connection.
Where this is not the case, your attention is drawn to the fact that any information provided over the internet is not secure; e-mails can be intercepted, lost, redirected, changed and read by other people.
We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
- Unauthorised access
- Improper use or disclosure
- Unauthorised modification
- Unlawful destruction or accidental loss