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- Financial Support for Businesses Privacy Notice
- Last updated
- Wednesday, 31 January 2024
- Introduction
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The council has a number of financial support interventions to support businesses to grow or for new businesses looking to move into empty shops. This is in the form of grants or discretionary business rates relief.
- Information collected by this website
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We collect personal information to make sure that we can carry out our work. The personal information we collect includes:
- Name
- Address and contact details including email address
- Financial, for example bank details
- Who we collect personal information about
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When we collect personal information it may be about:
- Business owners
- Applicants
- How we use personal information
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We use your personal information to:
- Maintain accounts and records
- Conduct surveys or reviews
- Administer the collection or payment of taxes, benefits and other revenues
- Manage complaints and allegations
- Process applications, requests and appeals
- Undertake investigations and audits
- Why we use your personal information
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We are allowed to process personal and sensitive data for the following reasons under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Articles and the Data Protection Act:
- 6 (1) (a) Consent of the individual
- 9 (2) (a) Explicit consent of the individual
- Who we share your personal information with
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We collect information from and disclose information to individuals and organisations that can support our work including:
- Council departments
- Automated decision about your personal information
- This service doesn't make any decisions using computers or programmes that don't involve a human being when using your personal information.
- How long we keep your personal information
- There is no minimum legal time limit for how long this service needs to store your information so we will only keep your information for as long as is necessary to provide the service you have asked us for.
- Transferring personal information beyond the EEA
- This service doesn't transfer your information outside the EEA. We do not routinely share data with any organisation outside the UK, but our website is available across the internet and we communicate with applicants and stakeholders wherever they are.
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