Elected Members Privacy Notice
Elected members are elected to represent their community on the Council.
Elected Members must ensure that any personal information they hold or use in their office as an elected member for council business is treated in line with data protection legislation (UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA)).
Elected Members will receive information from 51²èÂ¥ as a part of their role as an elected member (e.g. where an elected member sits on a committee or panel). In such cases, 51²èÂ¥ is the data controller for this information. 51²èÂ¥'s Full Privacy Notice provides information about how the Council handles your data.
Each individual Elected Member at 51²èÂ¥ is also an individual data controller in respect of the casework that they undertake for their residents. As part of their work in the community, elected members contact officers of the Council and other organisations on your behalf to investigate your concerns and respond to your enquiries, this is often referred to as ‘casework’.
This privacy notice sets out how Elected Members will use your personal data to process enquiries and / or correspondence.
Downloadable version of the notice: Elected Members Privacy Notice (PDF).