Privacy notice - Schools mental health mailing list
Overview
This privacy notice covers school staff who have agreed to receive regular information from us about mental health support for their school and pupils and information about training.
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?
When you joined the mailing list we asked for your name, job title and email address.
If you completed the survey using our online consultation hub Delib, our data processor, will collect your IP address (Internet Protocol address) to find out more about your visit – for example, what pages you visited, how long you were on the site and what browser you use – to help them improve the performance and features on the website. This information is not used directly by East Sussex County Council. For more information please read the Delib Privacy Policy.
If you chose to receive a copy of your response to the survey you will have needed to provide your email address. As soon as you have been sent a copy of your response Delib immediately deletes your email address from their system.
How will your information be used?
We will use your data to send you information about mental health support and training opportunities.
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?
When you joined the mailing list, we asked you to consent to your information being processed as set out in this privacy notice by ticking a box and providing your contact details.
How long will your information be kept for?
You can ask to be removed from the mailing list at any point. We will ask you to opt-in annually to keep receiving emails about mental health from us.
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.
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:
Judy Perraton,
Schools Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing Adviser,
East Sussex County Council
County Hall, St Anne’s Crescent
Lewes
BN7 1UE
Email: Judy Perraton
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)