Privacy notice
Last updated 19 December 2022
3. What we use your information for
Your personal information can be collected and used for one or more of our services, regulatory functions and/or administrative activities. This will depend on your relationship with us and what your contact with us is about.
We can use information about you to:
- deliver services and support by ensuring other statutory or voluntary agencies who we work with, are able to deliver ‘joined up’ services to you
- plan future services
- collect taxes, administer grants and welfare benefits
- manage and check the quality of our services
- keep track of spending on services
- ensure the health and safety of our staff
- help investigate any concerns or complaints you have about our services and for answering enquiries under access legislation
- carry out our regulatory activities, such as enforcement, planning, safeguarding, licensing etc.
- improve the general experience of our customers and visitors to our websites
- manage any online transactions you may choose to make and marketing choices or preferences you may have expressed
We can also use the information:
- if you apply for a job or become employed by us
- in the event of civil disasters and/or emergencies
- for archive, research, or statistical purposes - including the research and evaluation we do ourselves or in combination with neighbouring authorities to help us plan for the future