Public holiday - Monday 25th September
We will be closed on Monday 25th September for the public holiday
A new data protection law was introduced on 25th May 2018. As a result, we've updated our Privacy Notice to make it easier for you to find out how we use, process and protect your information.
Argyll and Bute Council will act as the ‘Data Controller’ for the personal data you provide to us. The Data Protection Officer, who is responsible for ensuring personal data is managed in accordance with data protection legislation, can be contacted as follows:
Address: Iain Jackson, Governance and Risk Manager, Argyll and Bute Council, Governance and Law, Kilmory, Lochgilphead PA31 8RT
Email: Iain.Jackson@argyll-bute.gov.uk or data.protection@argyll-bute.gov.uk
Telephone: 01546 604188 or 01546 605522
The personal information we need about you or a member of your household is your name, date of birth, address, contact telephone number(s) and email address, car registration (regional centre only), employer, GP name and address.
We also need information relating to your health, in particular, current or previous symptoms related to Covid-19.
We use personal information to enable us to process a referral for you or a member of your household to the Covid-19 priority antigen testing programme.
Our legal basis for processing your personal data is:
The personal information you provide on the referral form are sent to the HSCP Covid-19 referral centre, the completed form is then forwarded to the relevant assessment centre. Your basic details will be saved by the data team for Covid 19 and only used in an anonymised way. You will only be identified if we need to follow up your test for contract tracing.
Within Argyll and Bute Council we keep personal information in line within the Scottish Council on Archives Records Retention Schedules, adapted for our own business requirements where appropriate. The schedules set out the retention periods for information, including personal information, held in different types of records including social work records and administrative records. The relevant retention schedules can be found here: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/resources/scarrs/ and some examples are provided below.
We take care to ensure your personal information is only accessible to authorised people.
Our staff have a legal and contractual duty to keep personal information secure, and confidential. The following security measures are in place to protect personal information:
When you provide information to the Council, you will have the following rights:
You can find out more about your rights in relation to data protection here: www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/data-protection or from the Data Protection Officer by telephone or in writing, as detailed above.
Information Commissioner’s Office
The ICO is the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights.
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Email: casework@ico.org.uk
The Information Commissioner’s Office – Scotland
45 Melville Street, Edinburgh, EH3 7HL
Telephone: 0303 123 1115
Email: Scotland@ico.org.uk