Barnsley MBC Privacy Policy

Barnsley Council collects and stores information about customers. This is to ensure that we provide you with the best possible service.

However, we treat any information provided by you in the strictest confidence and in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We only collect and store information that is necessary for what we do.

When we collect information from you we will tell you what we need the information for and what we will use it for.

You have a right to see any information that we keep about you.

You have the right to ask us to correct any inaccurate information we hold about you.

You have the right to ask us not to send you promotional and marketing information

We will only share information with others if it is relevant and necessary to do so. Where we share information, we will make it clear to you that we may do this.

We assure you that the organisations we share information with will treat the information in the strictest confidence and will only use the information for the purposes it was supplied. We will agree with them how we expect them to store and treat the information.

We will keep information about you secure and only for as long as the law allows us to. We keep most of our information on our secure computer systems but in some cases we keep paper records in our offices.
When we dispose of information we will do so securely and properly.

We promise that while we hold your information we will not change it without your authority and we will protect it against damage, loss or theft.

Related Links

• Freedom of Information Act