Who are we?
Dundee City Council is a local authority established under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Its head office is located at City Chambers, 21 City Square, DD1 3BY United Kingdom.
Why we need your personal information and what we do with it?
To help Funding Officers better respond to your query and identify potential funding sources, to assess eligibility for funding, and to communicate with your organisation about the enquiry.
How long do we keep your information for?
We will retain your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined e.g. providing support to identify funding and develop a project.
Legal Basis for using your information
We provide these services to you as part of our statutory function as your local authority. You can find more details of our role on our website. Processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest by the council.
The Council will process all data according to the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (UK GDPR) and all applicable laws and regulations relating to processing of Personal Data and privacy, including, where necessary, the guidance and codes of practice issued by the Information Commissioner and any other relevant data protection regulations (together “the Data Protection Legislation (as amended from time to time)”).
The Data Protection Legislation sets out when we are lawfully allowed to process your data. The lawful basis that applies to this processing is Article 6 (1) (e) of the UK GDPR; in practice, administration of Prosperity Fund matters from start to finish is a task carried out in the public interest and under official authority vested in the Council– the data you supply in and within your Expression of Interest is necessary for the performance of this task.
If you do not provide us with the information we have asked for then we will not be able to process your note of interest or funding enquiry.
Your rights under data protection law
- Access to your information - you have the right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you.
- Correcting your information - we want to make sure that your personal information is accurate, complete and up to date. Therefore you may ask us to correct any personal information about you that you believe does not meet these standards.
- Deletion of your information - you have the right to ask us to delete personal information about you where:
o you think that we no longer need to hold the information for the purposes for which it was originally obtained
o you have a genuine objection to our use of your personal information
o our use of your personal information is contrary to law or our other legal obligations.
Please contact us at externalfunding@dundeecity.gov.uk if you wish to exercise any of these rights.