Guidance

Pathogens and toxins notification: personal information notice

Updated 7 October 2019

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Your personal information, supplied for the purpose of a notification to keep or use a dangerous substance under Section 59 of the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 will be held and processed by the

Home Office Pathogens and Toxins Team
5th Floor Peel
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:

  • Postal address:

Office of the DPO
Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Changes to this personal information notice

The Home Office may amend this personal information notice (PIN) from time to time. If the Home Office makes any substantial changes in the way its officials use your personal information, the Home Office will make that information available by amending this and any associated notices.

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, including those related to law enforcement, safeguarding against, and the prevention of, threats to public security.

We are only allowed to process your data where there is a lawful basis for doing so.

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

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 we share your information with.

The personal information we have collected about you will be shared with the with the National Counter-Terrorism and Security Office, Police and emergency services, and other government departments, agencies and public bodies where necessary to perform this function or where it is required; to protect life, prevent crime, under the terms of any court order, or to comply with lawful obligations for the purpose of preventing crime, protecting the public.

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. We retain your data for 25 years.

Requesting access to your personal data

You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.

Email: [email protected]

Or write to us at:

Information Rights Team
Knowledge and Information Management Unit
Performance and Risk Directorate
Home Office
3rd Floor Peel Building
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

Other rights

In certain circumstances you have the right to ask us to erase or correct your personal data if it is inaccurate.

Questions or concerns about personal data

If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the way the Home Office is handling your personal information, or if you believe we should have provided you with more information about why/how we are processing it for law enforcement purposes.

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