North Wales Together

Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice tells you what to expect when North Wales Together collects your personal data. Flintshire County Council will act as the data controller for the purposes of work carried out by North Wales Together: Seamless services for people with Learning Disability.

We are committed to compliance with data protection legislation, as well as your rights to confidentiality and respect for privacy. North Wales Together will ensure that it keeps your personal data accurate and secure to provide you with efficient services.

We will only use the data it holds about you in accordance with the law. We will also only collect the minimum data necessary, and when it no longer has a need to keep your data, it will be disposed of in a secure manner.

Flintshire’s privacy policy can be viewed here.

Why do we need your personal data?

We may need to use some information about you to:

  • Manage the response to your queries and provide information requested by you.
  • Train and manage our employees who provide those services
  • Investigate any complaints or concerns you have about our services
  • Monitor the quality of our services
  • Research and plan for new services or changes to current services

When processing your personal data we must have legal reason to do so. Generally we collect and use your personal data where:

  • You, or your legal representative, have given consent
  • It is necessary to protect someone in an emergency
  • It is required by law
  • It is necessary for employment purposes
  • It is necessary to deliver health or social care services
  • It is necessary for legal cases
  • It is in the public interest and to the benefit of society as a whole
  • It is necessary to protect public health
  • It is necessary for historic, research or statistical purposes

Who do we share your information with?

We have a range of sources for the collation of the information we provide to citizens. Where we have arrangements that involve contact with individuals and carers, there is always an agreement in place to make sure that those organisations comply with data protection law.

How does North Wales Together keep your personal data secure?

North Wales Together secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. North Wales Together secures the personal data you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure.

We may store your personal information we receive using European Union based cloud providers, but only where a data processing agreement is in place that complies with obligations equivalent to those of the General Data Protection Regulation.

For information on individual rights please see our Data Protection Page.

Data will be kept for the duration of the programme and will be reviewed at that time. The programme will end in 2027