Guidance

Home Office privacy notice: Building a Stronger Britain Together (BSBT) programme

Updated 19 April 2021

Who we are

Home Office (HO)
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Email:dpo@homeoffice.gov.uk

What is Building a Stronger Britain Together (BSBT) programme

Building a Stronger Britain Together (BSBT) has been the main delivery programme under the government’s 2015 Counter Extremism Strategy. Launched in 2016, it aims to support civil society and community organisations across England and Wales in standing up to extremism in all its forms and offering vulnerable individuals positive alternatives

Privacy notice

Your personal information, supplied for the purposes of your BSBT support, in-kind support application and delivery; event registration; or programme participation, 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.

Details of the Department’s Data Protection Officer can be found in the Home Office personal information charter.

How and why the Department uses your information

The Home Office collects, processes and shares personal information to enable it to carry out its statutory and other functions.

The Home Office is only allowed to process your data where there is a lawful basis for doing so. Applicant data is processed for the purpose of delivering the public task of protecting the public through the activities conducted as part of the Building a Stronger Britain Together Programme.

The Home Office may share your information with other organisations in the course of carrying out our functions, or to enable others to perform theirs.

The Home Office will share your personal data with contracted processors M&C Saatchi who will process the data provided on the application, registration, or participant release forms to conduct financial, reputational and extremism due diligence checks. The personal data may also be shared with the Charity Commission in order to conduct these checks.

Personal data in the application and registration forms will also be shared with other government departments where it is determined that the department will sit on the cross-government panel to assess your application. Personal data may also be shared with Counter Extremism Community Coordinators based in local authorities relevant to your application. Any information shared with either government departments or local authorities will be subject to their retention and disposal practices.

You must provide evidence of DBS checks prior to in-kind support delivery dated within the last 3 years from the date submitted. The Home Office may share your personal data shared with the Disclosure and Barring Service. Further information may be required from DBS cleared individuals who will be contacted separately.

Should the Home Office suspect an individual or an organisation of improper use of support, your personal data can be shared with the Charity Commission and law enforcement organisations. The personal data provided will also be used by the Home Office and M&C Saatchi and with the Home Office’s selected evaluator(s) for the purpose of research and evaluation related to the programme.

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 in the Home Office personal information charter.

Storing your information

Your personal information will be held for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it is being processed and in line with departmental retention policy.

Sources and categories of information

Data will be sourced from the BSBT support, in-kind support application forms; event registration forms; and participant release forms. Where further personal data is required for DBS checks, the Home Office will use the data provided in the application form to contact the nominated individuals with a request for the data. Personal data including special category data (politics) may also be sourced online as part of the due diligence process under conditions (e) and (g) in line with Article 9(2) of UK GDPR.

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 at in the Home Office personal information charter.

Other rights

In certain circumstances you have the right to:

1. object to and restrict the use of your personal information, or to ask to have your data deleted, or corrected
2. Where you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal data and that is the lawful basis for processing: the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your data and the right to data portability (where processing is carried out by automated means).

Questions or concerns about personal data

If you have any questions or concerns about the collection, use or disclosure of your personal information please contact the Home Office using the contact details found in the Home Office personal information charter.

You 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 do this can be found in the Home Office personal information charter.

Changes to this notice

We may modify or amend this privacy notice at our discretion at any time. When we make changes to this notice, we will amend the last modified data at the top of this page. Any modification or amendment to this privacy notice will be applied to you and your data as of that revision date.