Privacy Policy
What is the Don Valley Corridor website?
The Don Valley Corridor website is part of South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. SYMCA is working with Sheffield City Council and Rotherham Council to develop an approach to strategic growth between Sheffield and Rotherham, along the Don Valley. The work aims to enhance existing growth opportunities and bring them together into a co-ordinated wider whole to unlock further place-based regeneration and investment opportunities.
Who we are?
The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) is a public authority and the Data Controller for the information that is processed in relation to the Don Valley Corridor website.
Legislation requires the SYMCA to appoint a Data Protection Officer who is responsible for protecting individuals’ personal data according to current legislation. You can contact the SYMCA Data Protection Officer via email at data.protectionofficer@southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk.
How we get your personal data
The SYMCA will process the personal information that is provided to the Don Valley Corridor website. By giving your consent, you allow SYMCA to process your personal data and share it with third party organisations that support the delivery of this service.
- Our lawful basis for using your information
- SYMCA will rely on ‘consent’ as the lawful basis to process your data.
What information do we collect?
Personal information, which you provide when contacting us and providing the information.
What do we do with your information?
SYMCA will only use data provided to contact you if you have requested to be contacted or signed up to an email subscription.
Purpose of Data use
To help improve the economy of South Yorkshire by responding to enquiries and providing information on projects in the region.
- Personal information used
- Contact details and marketing preferences.
What do we do to make sure your information is secure?
The information you provide will be subject to rigorous procedures to make sure it can’t be seen, accessed or shared with anyone who shouldn’t see it. These include:
Maintenance of up to date, data handling policies and procedures (including personal data) and made available to all staff. These set out how your information is protected and what happens if the security of the information is breached.
All staff training in how to handle data including personal data, in accordance with data protection law.
All staff compliance with data handling policies and procedures.
All laptops used by staff being encrypted and needing a unique logon password and ID to access the computer systems; and
Staff only have access to the information they need to do their job. This means if they are not the right person in the right team, they will not be able to see your information.
The SYMCA has responsibilities to keep our computer systems secure and take steps to stop outside malicious access, also known as hacking. This requires us to comply with requirements specified by central Government.
How long will we keep your information?
The SYMCA will only keep your information for as long as is necessary.
How can I exercise my information rights?
The SYMCA must comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Under data protection law you have rights, including:
- Your right of access – you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
- Your right to rectification – you have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Your right to deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing.
- Your right to restriction of processing – you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
- Your right to object to processing – you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Your right to data portability – you have the right to ask what we transfer the information you give us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances;
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
If you have any requests in line with the above, please contact the SYMCA’s Data Protection Officer by:
Email: data.protectionofficer@southyorkshire-ca.gov.uk
Or in writing to:
Rebecca Brookes
The Data Protection Officer
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
11 Broad Street West
Sheffield
S1 2BQ
How to find out more
To find out more about how the SYMCA handle your data please visit our organisational Privacy Notice.
If you feel we have not handled your information appropriately, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. For further details on this and your information rights, please visit the Information Commissioner’s website.
Cookies
Like most websites we use ‘cookies’ to collect anonymous statistics about how people use the site, and to help us keep it relevant for the user. Cookies ‘remember’ bits of information from your visit to the site.
A cookie is a simple text file that’s stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server. Only that server can retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. So, if we put a cookie on your computer, it can’t be read by any other website.
We use two types of cookies:
‘session cookies’ last as long as your current visit to the site, or for up to a limited amount of time if you keep the site open without using it. They mean you don’t have to keep re-submitting information as you move through the site or carry out transactions.
‘persistent cookies’ remember information from previous visits, for example names and details for online forms. They are used to collect anonymous statistics about how many people use the site, and to maintain any settings (such as accessibility) you have changed.
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