Privacy Policy

General Policy

The Midlands Highway Alliance respects your privacy. The information that you provide us with, or that is gathered automatically, helps us to monitor our services.

Each time you visit our web website, our system automatically recognises your domain name, but not your specific e-mail address.

Leicestershire County Council Fair Processing Notice

This notice is to tell you about why we need your information and how we will handle it. This notice is for

 MHA                       e-update for this FPN

What Information do we need from you?

We need to know the following about you: name, company and email

Why do we need this?

We need this information so that we can provide you with the regular updates via our e-bulletins

Why are we allowed to process your information?

Data protection law allows us to process your information within certain conditions. In this case we are using your consent as the lawful condition for us to do this.

We also need an appropriate lawful reason to process sensitive data. In this case we are processing your sensitive personal data because you have given your consent.

How will we keep it secure?

We will take all reasonable steps to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Only the people who need to see your personal information will be allowed access to it. We will not send your information outside of the UK. If outside the EEA please contact the P&A team.

How long will we keep it for?

We will only keep this information for as long as necessary or as the law requires. For this service that would normally be two years. In some cases this may be more than one depending on the service.

What if something changes?

If the information you provided changes or your circumstances change, please contact MidlandsHighwayAlliance@leics.gov.uk. If we need to change something like who we want to share this information with, we will contact you to let you know.

What are your rights?

You may request to see a copy of the personal information we hold about you. The law also provides you with other rights regarding your information including some around; correction of inaccurate data, objection to processing, moving your information to somewhere else, and in some cases, getting your information deleted.

If you are unhappy with the way your data is being handled or if you need to contact Leicestershire County Council’s Data Protection Officer, please contact the Information Governance Team: informationgovernance@leics.gov.uk

If you are not satisfied with any response you may receive from us based on a complaint or concern about your personal information, you then have the option of contacting the Information Commissioners Office to take that complaint further. The Information Commissioners Office does like to see that you have raised a complaint with the Council first and received a response before contacting them.  If you do wish to contact them, the address details can be found below:

The Information Commissioners Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 (national rate)

Website: www.ico.org.uk

Email: casework@ico.org.uk

Cookies and Traffic Logs

We use cookies on our website to collect limited personal information. These cookies are used to assist in the delivery of services to you and for some technical reasons such as mapping co-ordinates. You can use your browser software to restrict or to refuse to accept these, or at a later point in time, to remove them. We do not pass on information gathered from these cookies to any third party without your express consent. Cookies will not be used where the data can be obtained anonymously

A cookie is small file placed on a user’s computer by a website, which logs information about the user and their previous/current visits for the use of the site next time the user makes contact. More information about cookies can be found in Guidance to the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 which can be accessed by going to the Information Commissioner’s website and following the relevant link.

What are Traffic Logs?

We use traffic logs to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our Website website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes.

Links

Our website contains links to other sites. The Midlands Highway Alliance is not responsible for the content or the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit which collect personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected on our website.

If you have any concerns, questions or comments please email MidlandsHighwayAlliance@leics.gov.uk.