Privacy notice
Updated 22 August 2022
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Your personal information (name, organisation, email address and any other identifying material), supplied for the purposes of this consultation, will be held and processed by the:
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
The Home Office is the controller of this information. This also includes when it is collected or processed by third parties on our behalf.
How and why the Home Office uses your information
During the consultation period the Home Office will engage with a wide range of external stakeholders and individuals to gather views which will be used to inform future policy and legislation. The Home Office collects and processes personal information, including that collected during the course of this consultation, to enable it to carry out its statutory and other functions.
The Home Office is only permitted to process your data where there is a lawful basis for doing so and your personal information will only be used for the purposes of this consultation. The Home Office relies upon the lawful basis of article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR, which allows us, as a government department, to process personal data for the purpose of a public task, such as this consultation.
The personal data collected will assist us in understanding the views of respondents and to assist future policy development. Where respondents provide an email address and state that they are content to be contacted, we may contact them to discuss specific topics set out in the consultation. We may also illustrate findings through quotes provided to the consultation. We will ensure these are appropriately anonymised and do not include any personally identifiable information.
More information about the ways in which the Home Office may use your personal information, including the purposes for which we use it, the legal basis, and who your information may be shared with can be found here: Personal information charter.
How we will process your personal data
We will not publish names, email addresses, IP addresses, or any personal information inadvertently provided in the responses. The Home Office will process your information in accordance with data protection legislation and the Home Office Personal Information Charter.
For the purposes of this consultation, the Home Office will not share your information with other organisations, apart from those processing personal data on its behalf.
Your personal data will not be used for any automated decision making.
More information about how the Home Office looks after your personal information can be found here: Personal information charter.
Storing your information
Your personal information will be retained for a period of up to 12 months following the closure of the consultation period, after which it will be securely destroyed, in line with the Home Office’s retention policy. More details of this policy can be found here: Personal information charter.
Requesting access to your personal data
You have the right to request access to the personal information the Home Office holds about you. Details of how to make the request can be found here: Personal information charter.
Other rights in relation to your personal data
In accordance with Article 15-22 of the GDPR you have the right of subject access to your personal data, right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection to processing as well as the right to data portability. Further details can be found here: Personal information charter.
Questions or concerns about personal data
We will process your personal data lawfully in compliance with data protection legislation. Should you have any questions or concerns about the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information or feel that your data is being processed in breach of data protection legislation, you can contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details provided below.
Email: dpo@homeoffice.gov.uk
Telephone: 020 7035 6999
Or write to:
Office of the DPO
Home Office
Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the way the Home Office is handling your personal information. Details on how you can do this can be found here: Personal information charter.