Who we are
Our website address is : http://dartmouthplan.org
Collecting personal data
The Dartmouth Neighbourhood Planning Group (DNPG) will collect your personal data when you respond to Neighbourhood Plan consultations and this privacy notice explains how we use this information.
The DNPG will:
- collect and use your information in order to process your response to DNPG run Neighbourhood Plan Consultations
- only ask you for the information that is necessary to provide you with updates on Neighbourhood Plan progress
- store your information securely and ensure it is only accessed by people who are authorised to do so
- confidentially and securely destroy and delete your information when we no longer need it, following the adoption of the Neighbourhood Plan
The DNPG requires you to:
- provide accurate and up to date information
- inform us of any relevant changes/updates to the information previously provided at your earliest convenience
- inform us if there are any mistakes in the information you have provided, or in the information that we have sent to you at your earliest convenience
Using personal data
The information you provide to the DNPG will be used as part of the Neighbourhood Plan process and comply with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).
Sharing personal data
Your response in full including your personal data will be shared with the Planning Inspector examining the Neighbourhood Plan to be in line with Regulation 17 of the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended).
Sharing data under Data Protection legislation
We may be required or permitted, under data protection legislation, to disclose your personal data without your explicit consent, for example if we have a legal obligation to do so, such as for:
- law enforcement
- fraud investigations
- regulation and licensing
- criminal prosecutions
- court proceedings
We must protect public funds and may use personal data and data matching techniques to detect and prevent fraud collect taxes and ensure public money is targeted and spent in the most appropriate and cost-effective way. To do this, your personal data may be shared with other bodies responsible for auditing or administering public funds, including the Department for Work and Pensions, HM Revenue and Customs, the Police and other local authorities.
Retaining personal data
The response you submit relating to the Neighbourhood Plan consultations can only cease to be made available 6 weeks after the date of the formal adoption of the Plan. When we no longer have a need to keep your information, we will delete or destroy it securely.
Your response will be stored securely on our electronic storage system used in connection with Neighbourhood Plans.
Further processing of personal data
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Privacy Notice, then we’ll provide you with a new notice.
The new notice will:
- explain this new use before we start the processing
- set out the relevant purposes and processing conditions
Where and whenever necessary, we’ll seek your consent to the new processing, if we start to use your personal data for a purpose not mentioned in this Privacy Notice.
Your rights relating to personal data
When we collect your personal data we’ll tell you how we are going to use it. Where we process your personal data, you have a number of rights under data protection law.