Privacy Notice: Festival of Bowls

About us: Great Yarmouth Borough Council (the Council), Town Hall, Hall Plain Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2QF, 01493 856100, is the data controller for the purposes of the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR), Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and any associated domestic law.

How we use your information: We will use your personal information for the purposes of entering you into the Festival of Bowls. The processing of this information is necessary, and you have given your consent for the Council to undertake the processing as defined under Article 6(1)(a) of the UK GDPR, i.e. the processing is necessary for the Council to perform a task and you have given your clear consent for us to process your information for this task. If at any time you wish to withdraw your consent and not participate in the tournament, please contact marketing@great-yarmouth.gov.uk

Data Sharing: Your data will be used for this specific purpose although your details will be shared between Council departments and Great Yarmouth Festival of Bowls Committee where there is lawful authority to do so. Your information will be kept strictly confidential. It will be stored in a secure, password-protected data base/spreadsheet on the Council's computer system.

Retention: Your personal information will be kept for 3 years from the conclusion of the tournament. We will only use your data within the terms of data protection laws, will delete your data securely and only keep it for as long as necessary. We will review dates for keeping personal data in the future and if necessary, update these privacy notices.

Your rights: You have a number of rights available to you, including the right to see copies of all the data held about you, to ask for it to be corrected or deleted, to request the Council to restrict what it does with your data in certain circumstances, to object to what the Council may do with your data, and to data portability. Please note that these rights are not absolute and there are circumstances where they do not apply or the Council may override these rights, however, if this is the case you will be informed of this.

If you want more information you may contact the Council's Data Protection Officer, at gdpr@great-yarmouth.gov.uk or telephone the Council on 01493 856100 and ask to speak to the Data Protection Officer. If you are unhappy with the way your personal information is being handled, you can contact the independent Information Commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/.