Housing Standards - simplified privacy notice
This is a simplified summarised privacy notice. Full privacy notice information is available at Housing Standards team - privacy notice.
Purpose of data collection
The Housing Standards team collect this information to help you with your requests. If you're a landlord, it helps us investigate and take necessary actions regarding living conditions in rented properties.
Types of data collected
- Contact details (name, address, phone, email)
- Date of birth and gender
- Inspection and enforcement data
- Complaint and issue records
- Legal and regulatory information
- Health data
How data is used
If you're a landlord of a privately rented home, we'll use your information to:
- Contact you about housing inspections and any required actions.
- Reach out if there's money owed or needs collecting.
- Update you on new rules and guidelines.
If you're a tenant of a privately rented home, we'll use your information to:
- Communicate with you about housing inspections.
- Keep you informed on our actions if we need to address your landlord's issues.
- Contact and help investigate complaints or service requests.
- Conduct investigations to meet our legal responsibilities.
Sharing of data
We share your information only when legally required or necessary to provide services, with:
- Internal council departments such as building control.
- External partners such as Derbyshire Fire and Rescue.
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.