Housing Strategy - simplified privacy notice

This is a simplified summarised privacy notice. Full privacy notice information is available at Housing Strategy team - privacy notice.

Purpose of data collection

The Housing Strategy team collects data to ensures residents have safe housing. It focuses on improving homes, building affordable housing, and tackling homelessness. It also supports older people to live independently.

Types of data collected

• Contact details (name, address, phone, email)
• Date of birth and gender
• Financial data
• Health information (where relevant for support)

How data is used

• Follow housing laws.
• Answer queries and send information as needed.
• Understand housing problems in Derby.
• Learn landlord challenges.
• Plan affordable housing.
• Stop fraud and misuse of funds.
• Handle loans.
• Provide housing for health needs.
• Help tenants buy Council homes.

Sharing of data

We may share information with:

• Internal sources: Council departments like Housing, Social Care, and Legal Services.
• External sources: NHS, housing groups, charities, and public submissions to the Council.
• Public sources: Land Registry, voter lists, and planning applications.

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

Contact Derby City Council's Data Protection Officer for queries or concerns via data.protection@derby.gov.uk.