North Somerset Council is carrying out this survey of adult carers in North Somerset, for NHS Digital, which is a body acting on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
North Somerset Council is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office for the purposes of processing personal data. This survey is administrated on behalf of North Somerset Council by our partner Agilisys Ltd, who can be contacted at www.agilisys.co.uk.
The information you provide will be held and used in accordance with the requirements of UK and European data protection law. Your personal information (e.g. name and address) is only used to administer the survey, so that we know who to address the letter to and do not need to ask you things which we already know from our records (like the social care you receive). As soon as the survey administration is complete, your personal information is removed from all survey files. The paper questionnaires are stored securely for 6 months, then destroyed securely.
The only exception, where we keep your name and address, is if you ask never to be contacted with any more of these surveys which we administer for NHS Digital. We keep a list of people who have asked for this ‘opt-out’. The list is held securely.
Unless otherwise agreed with you, we will only collect the minimum personal data required to conduct the survey.
The processing of this information is lawful as it is necessary for the provision of our social care information-collection service as laid out in section 259(i) of The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (GDPR Article 6(1)(d) and Article 9(2)(h)).
We will not use your personal information in a way that may cause you unwarranted nuisance. Failure to provide the information does not result in any consequences for you. You are free to take part or not, as you like.
At no point is your data shared or processed outside of the UK.
We may lawfully disclose information to public sector agencies to prevent or detect fraud or other crime, or to support the national fraud initiatives and protect public funds under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014. Under the conditions of the Digital Economy Act 2017, we may also share personal data provided to us with other public authorities as defined in the Act, for the purposes of fraud or crime detection or prevention, to recover monies owed to us, to improve public service delivery, or for statistical research. We do not share the information with other organisations for commercial purposes.