Information on our data protection and privacy policies.
London Councils is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide any information about yourself, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
If you contact London Councils or use one of the services which we provide, we may collect personal information about you. This may simply mean registering your name and contact details. Other services may require more information.
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
London Councils needs to collect and use certain types of personal information in order to operate. This personal information must be dealt with properly however it is collected, recorded and used – whether on paper, in a computer, or recorded on other material or mediums such as call recordings – and there are safeguards to ensure this in the UK GDPR.
London Councils fully endorses and adheres to the six Data Protection Principles that are set out in the UK GDPR. Specifically, the principles require that personal information is:
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.
Under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, you have a right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you. You also have a right to ask us to correct any factual inaccuracies in your personal information or to delete it or stop using it in a certain way, subject to certain exceptions.
Please email dataprotection@londoncouncils.gov.uk or write to the Corporate Governance team at the postal address at the bottom of this webpage.
Further information about your rights under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 is available from the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. You should note that this privacy notice only applies to London Councils' website and does not apply to any other website that you may reach through a link on our website. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
London Councils may change this notice from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This notice is effective from May 2018.