Privacy notice - Just Checking - pilot project
Overview
This Privacy notice covers the data collected by the activity-monitoring AI (Artificial Intelligence) sensors in your home, provided by the Just Checking project. The data from the sensors would help to inform your care assessment and help ensure care is provided at the right time and at the right level based on your activity and needs.
East Sussex County Council takes data protection seriously. Please be assured that your information will be used appropriately in line with data protection legislation, will be stored securely and will not be processed unless the requirements for fair and lawful processing can be met.
What information is being used?
In order to provide the service, we will use:
- Client name
- Client home address
- Client location-based data (this will be the nearest telecommunications tower 'mast' to your home)
- Client Adult Social Care ID number
- Client representative email address (where this is appropriate)
How will your information be used?
For this pilot project we are seeking to trial the sensors in client homes to inform client assessments and care provision. Our aim is to improve client care planning, promote independence and improve outcomes for clients.
We aim to maintain high standards, adopt best practice for our record keeping and regularly check and report on how we are doing. Your information is never sold for direct marketing purposes.
Our staff are trained to handle your information correctly and protect your confidentiality and privacy.
Your information is processed in the UK or in a country with an adequacy agreement with the UK.
What is the legal basis for processing your information?
We are processing the project Just Checking data under the lawful basis of a task carried out in the public interest. This is in line with GDPR Article 6, 1 (e). This pilot is also in line with Care Act 2014 aims for Local Authorities to promote individuals' wellbeing.
How long will your information be kept for?
Your information will be kept for no longer than 3 months after the project Just Checking has closed. If any of your information is held on your client care record, this will be kept under the retention schedule policy for client records retention schedule.
Sharing your information
Any sharing of personal data is always done:
- on case-by-case basis
- using the minimum personal data necessary
- with the appropriate security controls in place
- in line with legislation.
Information is only shared with those agencies and bodies who have a "need to know" or where you have consented to the sharing of your personal data to such persons.
We may use the information we hold about you to assist in the detection and prevention of crime or fraud. We may also share this information with other bodies that inspect and manage public funds.
Use of third party organisations
East Sussex County Council may share your information with trusted external organisations to process your data on our behalf.
For project Just Checking, we will share some of your data with the provider. However, this will not be personally identifiable to you.
Any organisation commissioned by the Council will be under contractual obligation to comply with data protection legislation.
Your rights
Under data protection legislation, you have the right:
- to be informed why, where and how we use your information
- to ask for access to your information
- to ask for your information to be corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete
- to ask for your information to be deleted or removed where there is no need for us to continue processing it
- to ask us to restrict the use of your information
- to ask us to copy or transfer your information from one IT system to another in a safe and secure way, without impacting the quality of the information
- to object to how your information is used
- to challenge any decisions made without human intervention (automated decision making)
Please visit data subject rights for further details.
How to find out more or complain
Should you have any further queries on the uses of your information, please speak directly to our service:
Being Digital Delivery Team,
Business Development and Insight.
Email: Beingdigital@eastsussex.gov.uk
To complain about the use of your information, please contact our Customer Services Team or our Data Protection Officer.
Further information on making a complaint.
You can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for further information or to make a complaint:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Phone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate)