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Data protection

Introduction

These pages outline your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 and explain how you can exercise those rights.

Your rights

The Data Protection Act provides individuals with certain rights that Data Controllers must respect. Those rights are:

• To ask the Council if it holds personal information about you.
• To ask what it uses the information for.
• To be given a copy of the information.
• To be provided with details of the purposes for which the Council uses the information and to which sections of the Council or other organisations the information is disclosed.
• Where automated decisions are taken (that is, by computer and not an officer) you have the right to ask about the logic involved in that decision taking.
• To ask for incorrect data to be corrected.
• To ask the Authority not to use personal information about you for direct marketing; which is likely to cause damage or distress.
• To apply to the courts for compensation for damage or distress should these be caused by our failure to comply with certain requirements of the Act.

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