Calderdale Council is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018. The Council takes its responsibilities under the Act very seriously.
The information provided by you is collected purely for the purposes of providing you with Calderdale Council press releases and media opportunities, including invites to election counts in Calderdale. We need to collect this information in order to maintain accurate records of your name and contact details to keep you up to date with Council news. Your information will be accessed by members of the Council’s Public Relations team in order to provide this service. Sharing your information with us constitutes explicit consent from you for us to process your data for this purpose. You may withdraw this consent at any time by writing to the Public Relations team at pressoffice@calderdale.gov.uk
In addition you have the right to see what information is held about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, to have information removed from our system unless we are required by law or a statutory purpose to keep it and the right to complain to the Data Protection Officer if you feel that your data has not been handled in accordance with the law.
The Council’s Data Protection Officer is Tracie Robinson and can be contacted at information_management@calderdale.gov.uk
Your information will be recorded on our systems to maintain up to date records. This information will be kept for a maximum of two years from 10 May 2018 and will be reviewed by the Public Relations team annually.