Privacy Notice: five year housing land supply statement

Who we are: 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) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA).

How we use your information: We will use your personal information for the purposes of drafting and publishing an annual statement on the five year housing land supply within the Borough. The lawful processing ground for this information is defined under Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR i.e. the processing is necessary for the Council to perform a task in the public interest or for its official functions

Data sharing: The Council will store your name, address and contact details, but will not publish or share these with any other organisation. However, Information will always be shared for the prevention or detection of crime and the apprehension or prosecution of offenders.

Data Sharing and International Transfers: Your data will be processed by Esri that acts as a data processor on behalf of the Council, this means any data entered into the Council's Five-year housing land supply questionnaire will be processed and held by Esri in the United States of America. In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations, the Council has put in place safeguards to protect your personal data, these safeguards are in the form of standard contractual clauses. A copy of these safeguards is available upon request from the Council.

Retention: Your information will be kept strictly confidential. It will be stored in a secure, password-protected database/spreadsheet on the Council's computer system.Your personal data will be held indefinitely by the Planning and Growth department.

Your rights: You have a number or rights available to you, including the potential 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.

Further information: 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 846325 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/.