Notice

HBM / NZHF Electrolytic Allocation Round 2022: privacy notice

Updated 31 August 2023

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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/or 14 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Purpose

The purpose(s) for which we are processing your personal data is to support:

  • our assessment of applications for the 2022 Hydrogen Business Model (HBM) / Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF): Electrolytic Allocation Round
  • monitoring of successful projects
  • communications about the 2022 Electrolytic Allocation Round
  • longer term research and evaluation related to the NZHF and HBM, for example surveys

Should you contact the enquiries service, we will be processing your personal data so that we can continue to liaise with you and your company about your projects that may apply to the 2022 Hydrogen Business Model (HBM) / Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF): Electrolytic Allocation Round for support.

Your data

We will process the following personal data:

  • names and contact details of lead contacts at applicant organisations
  • names and contact details of key project personnel
  • names and contact details of other parties which are relevant to the project
  • names, contact details, age, qualifications and experience of employees whose CVs are submitted as part of the bid

The legal basis for processing your personal data is that 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 under Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR, such as:

  • 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 for the assessment of potential awarding of grant / subsidy funding

In this case, our assessment of applications for the 2022 Hydrogen Business Model (HBM) / Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF): Electrolytic Allocation Round

Recipients

Your personal data will be shared by us with Jeremy Benn Associates Limited (JBA) and other third party contractors appointed by DESNZ for the purposes of assessment, monitoring, communication, research and/or evaluation relating to the 2022 Hydrogen Business Model (HBM) / Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF): Electrolytic Allocation Round. JBA are contracted by the UK government and are operating the online platform. They will not be assessing bids.

Data may be shared with other governmental departments, our partner organisations and the devolved administrations.

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

Retention

Your personal data will be kept by us for a period of 5 years following the end of the 2022 Electrolytic Allocation Round, whether or not your application is successful or unsuccessful. In this case the end of the 2022 Hydrogen Business Model (HBM) / Net Zero Hydrogen Fund (NZHF): Electrolytic Allocation Round means the date on which the final payments are made under the scheme. Data shall be retained for the purposes of evaluating and developing the scheme. This may involve contacting you to participate in surveys as part of the evaluation of the Round.

Automated decision making

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

Your rights

You have the right to:

  • request information about how your personal data are processed, and to request a copy of that personal data
  • request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay
  • request that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement
  • request 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) request that the processing of your personal data is restricted
  • object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes
  • object to the processing of your personal data

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 in the UK and European Economic Area. Where it is the case that your personal data is stored outside the UK and EEA it will be subject to equivalent legal protection through the use of Model Contract Clauses.

Contact us

Data controller

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

Data processor

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

Complaints

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

Email [email protected]

Contact form https://ico.org.uk/glo...

Telephone 0303 123 1113

Textphone 01625 545 860

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

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