The University also recognises the other rights afforded to individuals under the data protection legislation and is committed to fulfilling individuals’ requests to exercise these rights. This is a dedicated senior officer who will enforce how we collect and process personal data in line with the new data protection law. We are committed to protecting your personal data and complying with data protection legislation, which covers the collection, storage, processing, distribution and destruction of personal data.

But it is important to note that the right of access to your own information does not extend to information about other people who may be identified in the information that also refers to you. If your request is complex, we may need to extend the length of time required to respond. Depending on why we need to process your information, you will have rights to how your information is used. When data matching or data mining exercises identify records which do not match further investigations are carried out to establish the facts. Right to rectificationYou have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.Please note, Luton Council must only change facts that are wrong, for example your date of birth.

Outsourced Dpo/dpm

The GDPR allows data subjects to have their data corrected when it is wrong. This is easily managed by our clients within the Meddbase application as Data Controllers. itservice-datenschutz will not modify data other than in accordance with the specific instructions of our client. There are multiple layers of intrusion protection, intrusion detection and firewalls between the internet, our application servers and the databases.

Where Consent To Data Processing May Still Be Relevant

It does not apply to personal information handled for the purposes of law enforcement. You have the right to know how your personal information is collected, why it is collected and how it is used. The new law is specific about what we need to tell you when we collect your information; you do not need to make a request.

It enables organizations to manage the security of assets such as financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted by third parties. Our work is nearly always international, and we are constantly working with our network of overseas data protection counsel to provide a truly global perspective on the law. To simplify this, individuals can request access to data an organisation stores on them, or request to have the information updated or even completed removed. The implication is that all information your organisation stores on individuals must be readily accessible and interrogatable. “If you are holding personal data of residents from the UK and the EU on US servers, you’re caught within the UK and the EU legislation,” says Mr Weston. Data laws in the UK and EU apply to citizens, even if their data is processed overseas, he says.

Overview For Social Care

Data protection legislation trumps FoI legislation, so that you cannot, for instance, provide personal information about an individual, including an employee, in response to an FoI request. Just as you need to learn and comply with the rules which limit the scope for financial fraud so you need to learn and comply with your department’s rules which require the encryption, safe transmission etc. of personal data. If you are handling any form of such data, and don’t understand the rules, then you must ask.

We aim to explain what we do with your information through our set of customer privacy notices. The law on data protection says what we should do when we collect, use, store or do anything else with people’s personal information. Helen is a professionally qualified information governance practitioner with experience in delivering services across the public sector. She oversees Veritau’s schools, councils and access teams, focusing on business development and client relationship management. At Veritau we provide a variety of assurance services, including internal audit, counter fraud, risk management and information governance.

Qualtrics is a web-based survey software tool which can be used to conduct publicly-available surveys, or to give specific users access to a survey. Where MMS receives an SAR in respect of data that an individual believes is held within the Meddbase application, MMS will advise them to contact the Data Controller they believe is using the application. MMS will not take any other action in respect of an SAR unless in accordance with specific instructions from our client. The data centres have multiple physical controls including Biometrics and dedicated key passes that only allow access to authorised parts of the datacentre. It should not be regarded as an authoritative or definitive statement of the law. Helping organisations access the value of their data, create a vision, embed the change and build the future.

Your policies and procedures documents will be reviewed and updated to ensure that they reflect any changes to your business or the regulatory environment. Our data protection managed services provide a holistic approach to data protection. An extensive global team, with specialists in UK, EU and other global data protection regulations and strong relationships with regulators around the world, will meet your fluctuating data protection demands. You benefit from a one-stop, cost-effective solution for global data protection. The new Data Protection Act (2018) introduces more safety measures about how your personal data is used by organisations. It takes into account new mobile technology which captures personal data to help you trust how it is processed and shared.

We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site which helps us to improve our website service. We will keep personal information contained in complaint files in line with our retention policy, which is available on request. Information relating to a complaint will normally be retained for up to 7 years from when the complaint is resolved.