This notice provides details of what information we collect from you, what we do with it, and who it might be shared with.

The information is being collected for the following purpose:

1. To deal with your information request.

The legal basis for each purpose is set out below:

We are required by the following legislation to respond to your request:

• Data Protection legislation (including GPDR and the Data Protection Act)
• Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002
• Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
• Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015

We collect your name and contact details (which may be a postal address, email address and/or phone numbers) and, for data protection requests, information to check your identity. We also keep copies of your communications with us and our responses.

We collect information from you. If you have a third party acting on your behalf, for example, a solicitor, they may give us information about you so that we can respond to them about your request.

We do not share your information with anyone else, unless we are required to do so by law or with the Scottish Information Commissioner (freedom of information and environmental information) or the Information Commissioner (data protection and re-use of public sector information).

The Council has a duty to protect public funds. We may check your information within the Council for verification purposes and/or for the prevention of fraud. We may share your information with other organisations where we are required to do so for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime.

We do not transfer your information outwith the UK.

We keep your information as long as required by law or by our business requirements. We have a Business Classification Scheme in place which sets out the types of records we hold, and how long we hold them - you can access the relevant part of the scheme below.

If you want to make an information request, we need to know your name and contact details and and, for data protection requests, information to check your identity.