Food and Safety - simplified privacy notice
This is a simplified summarised privacy notice. Full privacy notice information is available at Food and Safety Team - privacy notice.
Purpose of data collection
The Food and Safety team collect this information to help you with your requests. As part of our public health and safety duties, we may investigate incidents such as food-related illness, accidents or complaints.
Types of data collected
Registering your food business - when you register your food business, we collect your name, address, email, and phone number to register and manage your business.
Information collected during investigations - we may investigate food poisoning, accidents, or complaints and collect extra details such as your date of birth, symptoms or injuries, family or other contacts, job details, GP information, and what food was eaten and places visited.
How data is used
We use this information to process applications, investigate complaints, contact you about inspections or legal updates, and help identify the cause or source of illness, outbreaks, or accidents.
Sharing of data
We share your information only when legally required or necessary to provide services, with:
- internal council departments such as Trading Standards
- external partners such as the Health and Safety Executive
Your Rights
- Access: You can ask for copies of your personal information held by the Council.
- Rectification: You can request corrections to any incorrect information.
- Deletion: You can ask for your personal information to be deleted, unless there's a legal reason to keep it.
- Portability: You can request your personal data to be transferred to other services or directly to you.
- Object / Restrict Processing: You can object to or limit how your data is used now and in the future.
- Prevent Automatic Decisions: You can challenge decisions made automatically without human involvement.
Contact
Derby City Council Data Protection Officer for queries or concerns via data.protection@derby.gov.uk