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Privacy notice for the offshore wind investment programme

Updated 1 June 2021

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This notice sets out how we will use your personal data, and your rights. It is made under Articles 13 and 14 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

This notice was last updated on 22 February 2021.

Your data

Purpose

The purpose for which we are processing your personal data is to support our assessment of bids in the Offshore Wind Manufacturing Investment Support (OWMIS) investment programme.

The data we collect

We will process the following personal data:

  • names and contact details of lead contacts at applicant organisations
  • names, contact details and key project personnel

The legal basis for processing your personal data is processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller. This includes:

  • the exercise of a function of the Crown, a minister of the Crown, or a government department
  • the exercise of a function conferred on a person by an enactment
  • the exercise of a function of either House of Parliament
  • the administration of justice

What we do with your data

Your personal data will be shared where necessary with colleagues at:

  • Department for International Trade (DIT)
  • HM Treasury (HMT)
  • Cabinet Office (CO)
  • National Audit Office (NAO)
  • Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (JBA)

Data will be shared with other governmental departments where necessary if they are involved in assessment or the issuing of grant funding.

JBA are contracted by UK government and are operating the online platform. They are under all the same date retention requirements of UK government and will not be assessing bids.

As your personal data will be stored on our IT infrastructure it will also be shared with our data processors Microsoft and Amazon Web Service.

How long we keep your data

Your personal data will be kept by us for the duration of the investment programme period. After the investment programme has closed your personal data will be deleted within 30 days, except that which is necessary to retain in order to ensure continued monitoring and evaluation of any winning bids. This data will be deleted within 30 days after the contract has ended.

Automated decision making

Your personal data will not be subject to automated decision making.

International transfers

As your personal data is stored on our IT infrastructure and shared with our data processors Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, it may be transferred and stored securely outside the UK. Where that is the case it will be subject to equivalent legal protection through the use of Model Contract Clauses.

Your rights

The data we are collecting is your personal data, and you have considerable say over what happens to it. You have the right to request:

  • information about how your personal data are processed
  • a copy of the personal data you submitted
  • that anything inaccurate in your personal data is corrected immediately
  • that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement
  • that your personal data are erased if there is no longer a justification for them to be processed
  • in certain circumstances (for example, where accuracy is contested) that the processing of your personal data is restricted

You can also:

  • object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes
  • lodge a complaint with the independent Information Commissioner (ICO) if you think we are not handling your data fairly or in accordance with the law

Contact us

The data controller for your personal data is the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

Contact the DESNZ DPO:

DESNZ Data Protection Officer
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
3-8 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2EG

The data processor of your personal data is Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (JBA).

You can contact the JBA Data Protection Officer at:

Jeremy Benn Associates Limited

1 Broughton Park
Old Lane North
Broughton
Skipton
North Yorkshire
BD23 3FD

Make a complaint

If you consider that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Email casework@ico.org.uk

Telephone 0303 123 1113

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.

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