Privacy policy: what we do with your personal data
Your privacy is important to Proud to Care Hull and Hull City Council, we take great care to protect it. When you visit our website we will only use your personal data as stated within our privacy policy.
The privacy notice is designed to tell people about how Proud to Care Hull and Hull City Council processes personal information. This is a key requirement of the Data Protection Act and the General Data Protection Regulations.
Hull City Council is the data controller (on behalf of Proud to Care Hull) for the purposes of the Data Protection Act and other regulations including the General Data Protection Regulation which means it determines what your data is used for and why it is collected.
Personal information and data is collected on the Proud to Care Hull website when:
• Care providers fill in a form to submit a job vacancy
• Individuals visit the website
Data controller
A Data Controller is an organisation or an individual who determines the purposes and the manner in which personal data is processed. Processing can be taken to means ‘doing something’ with data.
Hull City Council is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (registration number – Z6005621)
Recruiting employers
• We use the information you submit to advertise the vacancy on the website.
• We may also use your information in some analysis of how the project is working.
• From time to time we may include you in our marketing activities. On some occasions we may share information with the close partners we work with, especially on employment and skills projects. You can opt out at any point and we will respect your choices.
• Proud to Care Hull reserves the right to decline, edit or un-publish any job vacancy at any time
Forms
The Proud to Care Hull website contains web-forms which can be used by care providers wishing to submit their contact details or other useful information to advertise a vacancy on the website. If you enter your details on the form, it is sent directly to a Proud to Care Hull / Hull City Council email address.
When the email reaches Proud to Care Hull it is subject to Hull City Council’s privacy policy. Please refer to our main privacy notice for more details of your legal rights and how we process personal data: https://www.hull.gov.uk/help/privacy-notices/general-privacy-notice
Emails sent to the Council will be retained for up to two years.
Any data you submit will be used solely by Proud to Care Hull and/or Hull City Council for getting in contact with you or where applicable providing the services that you’ve requested.
Legal Basis
Hull City Council will process the data you provide in order to deliver its public tasks in accordance with Article 6 1 e) of the GDPR
Links to social media
The Proud to Care Hull website has links to its social media pages and accounts. Proud to Care Hull doesn’t collect any personal data through these links. Please check each social media platform for their privacy policies or contact them directly if you have any questions.
Sharing button for social media
The Proud to Care Hull website has a share button which allows you to automatically post to your own social media account(s). We do not collect any data through this function.
Links
The Proud to Care Hull website has links to external websites. Proud to Care Hull and Hull City Council takes no responsibility for the content or data protection or security of these sites. Please check their privacy policies or contact the organisations directly if you have any questions.
When we may share your data
Proud to Care Hull and Hull City Council may share your information without asking you if:
• the law or a court says we must;
• there is a risk of serious harm to you or any other person.
Web statistics
Proud to Care Hull collects web statistics automatically about your visit to the Proud to Care Hull website based on your IP address. This information is used by Proud to Care Hull to facilitate its public task in providing services to as many people as possible. Proud to Care Hull uses Google Analytics for this purpose, your IP address will be deleted from the Google server after 38 months. Google’s privacy policy is found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Cookies
Proud to Care Hull sometimes stores small files called ‘cookies’ on your computer or other device to help improve your experience on the website. Our cookies cannot be used to identify you personally. On visiting our website you are given the option to select all cookies or opt out.
How to see the information we hold about you
Under the Data Protection Act, you can ask Proud to Care Hull and Hull City Council for the following information:
• confirmation that your personal data is being processed by Proud to Care Hull;
• a description and copy of the personal data;
• the reasons why the data is being processed;
• details of who we have, or might, give it to.
Data Protection Notification
Hull City Council is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (registration number – Z6005621)
Contact the data protection officer
As a public authority we are required to have a Data Protection Officer and you may contact them for more information or with any concerns about how your personal information is being used –
Hull City Council
Data Protection Officer
Room 11
The Guildhall
HULL
HU1 2AA
Telephone – 01482 300 300
Email – information@hullcc.gov.uk
