Privacy Information Statement
Updated 27 July 2023
Applies to England and Wales
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Personal information you provide as part of responding to the consultation will be handled by the Home Office and third parties under agreed terms and conditions.
The Home Office is the controller for this information. This means we take decisions about the information such as where or how it is stored, this includes where information is handled by third parties on our behalf.
If you contact us at [email protected] to ask about submitting a British Sign Language video consultation response, we will let you know that a request will need to be raised with a third party organisation who helps us to receive and translate these responses.
They will be able to give you details to upload your video onto their secure site.
Your video will be translated, then it and the translation will be sent on to the Home Office.
Under Data Protection Legislation and the UK General Data Protection Regulation, we have to make sure we are only doing what is legal when we handle your personal information – this is called having a ‘lawful basis for processing’.
Personal information you provide as part of responding to this consultation is being processed on the basis of performance of a public task. It is allowing us as a government department to get your views on the guidance that is to be finalised.
Information will only be kept by the Home Office and third parties for as long as:
- it is needed for the consultation, and
- the law requires
In general, this means that your personal data would only be held for a maximum of 7 years.
More information about the ways in which the Home Office may use your personal information can be found in the Personal Information Charter.
The Charter includes reference to the Home Office Information rights privacy notice and the Home Office retention and disposal standards.