Corporate privacy notice
This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information when you make contact with the council or use council services. We also have service specific privacy notices that are more detailed
Haringey Council is the data controller as defined by Data Protection legislation. Our registration number is Z5793648.
We are committed to protecting your privacy when you use our services. We have a Data Protection Officer who makes sure we respect your rights and follow the law.
The council’s Data Protection Officer:
- Name: Deborah McManamon
- Email: DPO@haringey.gov.uk
You can read our full data protection policy
Why we collect and use your personal information
Haringey Council holds and processes personal information to enable us to provide a range of services to local people and businesses as required to fulfil our duties as a local authority.
This includes:
- provision of social services
- provision of social housing and housing services
- provision of library, leisure and cultural services
- provision of children’s services and education
- environment and waste services
- administering benefits and grants
- assessment and collection of taxes and other revenue
- licensing and regulatory activities
- planning and building control
- promoting the services we provide
- public health
- trading standards
- undertaking research
- parking enforcement
- fraud prevention
- managing our workforce
- use of CCTV for crime prevention and prosecution of offenders
- managing archived records for historical and research reasons
For more detailed information about the personal information that we hold and how we use it, please see our Record of Processing Activities (ROPA).
Keeping your data safe
We hold any personal information you give us - whether online via e-forms or through other means - securely and will only use it for council purposes.
We will only share your information where that is necessary to deliver the services we provide to you unless the law requires us to share the information or where it is necessary to protect public funds or detect and prevent fraud or other criminal activity.
We will not share your information with third parties for commercial or marketing purposes.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights over the handling and use of your personal data:
- You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.
- You have the right to access your personal data.
- You have the right to have inaccurate information corrected.
- You have the right to ask us to delete your data (in some circumstances)
- You have the right to ask us to stop using your data (in some circumstances)
- You have the right to data portability (in some circumstances).
- You have rights in relation to automated decision-making and to be informed about such decision-making.
- If you have given us your consent to use your personal information, you have the right to withdraw it at any time.
You also have the right to make a complaint to the Council if you think we have not handled your personal data responsibly.
Read more about your rights and how to exercise them.
You can also visit the Information Commissioner's Office website for more information.
Further information
Further information about the data protection can be found at the Information Commissioner’s website. We may change this privacy statement from time to time to reflect changes in processing or security updates. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information.
Third-party hosted websites
Please note that other council websites we link to will use different cookies and will also have their own privacy and data protection statements.
- See also our advertising and cookies pages