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Privacy Notice

Blaby District Council (BDC) is the data controller collecting this personal information from you. BDC can be contacted by telephone on 0116 275 0555 or email customer.services@blaby.gov.uk

By filling in this form, we will be collecting your name, email address and village telephone number.

We collect this information to ensure we can send the email updates you have chosen to receive, and to receive village-specific emails should news be sent to the relevant areas of the district only.

We are allowed to use your information because you have given us consent to process your information for this specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing from this list. An unsubscribe link will be available at the bottom of every email we send.

This information will not be shared with anyone else as it serves no other purpose than to contact you with email updates.
 
We may also share your information with the police or other regulatory or law enforcement bodies where it is lawful to do so.

We do not use computers to make any decisions about you, and we do not send your information to other countries.

How long we keep your information, depends on why we need it, but we will only keep information for as long as there is a legal or business need for us to do so. You can find out how long we keep information for in our Records Retention Schedule available on the Council’s website.

You have a number of legal rights in respect of your personal data which are: the right to be informed about how it is being used and why; the right the right of access to it to check that we are acting lawfully and, in some cases, the right to rectify it or to have it erased; the right to restrict our processing of it; the right of data portability; and the right to object to automated decision taking.

Contact us
If you have any questions about the way in which Blaby District Council handles your personal information, or want to raise a concern, you may contact:

Name:             Louisa Horton, Data Protection Officer
Telephone:      0116 275 0555
Email:              gdpr@blaby.gov.uk

You can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office (The ICO) to find out more about your rights as a data subject (a person that we hold personal data about)  if you think there is a problem by email to casework@ico.org.uk  or by telephone on 0303 123 1113. You can also visit the ICO's website www.ico.org.uk