Privacy notice: Music Opportunities in South Tyneside

1. Introduction

This notice provides additional privacy information regarding the collection of data for Music Opportunities in South Tyneside which appears on the South Tyneside Council website.

We will keep our privacy notice under regular review and will advise you of any updates on our website.

This Notice was created in June 2024.

2. Who we are

For the purposes of Data Protection legislation, South Tyneside Council is the Data Controller.

3. What type of personal information do we collect?

We may collect the following types of personal information:

title of the opportunity / event
details of the offer
named contact
email address

4. How do we collect personal information?

We may collect your personal information in several ways, for example:

in person
in writing - for example letter or email
telephone calls
online forms

5. Why do we collect your personal information?

We collect this information to highlight music opportunities and events available to the public in our local area.

6. Who might we share your personal information with?

Your contact email will be shared on the South Tyneside Council website. We will not share your personal information with any other third parties unless you have specifically asked us to, or if we have a legal obligation to do so.

7. How long will we keep your personal information?

We will hold your personal information for a period of 12 months, unless we are notified to remove details directly by the provider contact prior to that period. At the end of this period, it will be deleted unless there is any special reason for keeping it.

8. What is our legal basis for using your personal information?

To use your personal information there must be a lawful basis to do this, such as, through a contract, performing a public task or where there is a legal obligation.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

(a) Your consent: You can remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting Lynn Freer - Operations Manager lynn.freer@southtyneside.gov.uk.

9. How do we keep your personal information secure?

Except for the contact email address all information provided to the Operations Manager is held securely on our network. Only officers working within the Music service and system administrators have access to these records.

10. Is your personal information used overseas?

We will not process your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).

11. What are your rights?

Your individual rights are set out in law. Subject to some legal exemptions, you have the following rights:

Right to be informed
Right of access
Right to rectification
Right to erasure
Right to restrict processing
Right to data portability
Right to object
Rights in relating to automated decision making and profiling

12. Contact us

If you would like to exercise your rights in relation to your personal information, or you feel that something has gone wrong with your personal information, you can contact us in either of the following ways:

By email: data.protection@southtyneside.gov.uk

By telephone: 0191 424 6539

In writing:

Information Governance
South Tyneside Council
Town Hall and Civic Office
South Shields
NE33 2RL

If you feel that the Council has not handled your information correctly you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

The ICO is the government's independent body responsible for overseeing data protection. In most cases the ICO will only review cases that have exhausted the Council's internal procedures.

The ICO's contact details are as follows: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF.

More information can be found on the ICO's website at www.ico.org.uk.