Privacy and Bucks Rural Business Grant

This privacy notice explains how the Strategy & Partnership service at Buckinghamshire Council (the data controller) will use the personal information we collect about you when you use this service and apply for funding.

We can hold the following information on you:

• your name
• your contact details, including address, telephone number and email address
• contact we have had with you (such as correspondence)
• your bank details
• information relating to you as a sole trader, partner and company director

We need your information to:

• to process your grant application
• to detect and prevent fraud

The legal basis for processing the data under the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 is:

• Article 6(1)(e) We need it to perform a public task

We will share your information, if appropriate, with:

• third parties (data processors) contracted by Buckinghamshire Council to work on behalf of the Council to support the Strategy & Partnership service - such third parties include:
  • Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership
  • Buckinghamshire Business First
  • National Farmers Union (NFU)
  • Buckinghamshire Local Enterprise Partnership
  • credit reference agencies
• other bodies in connection with the prevention of crime, criminal or legal investigations or proceedings including fraud (and the National Fraud Initiative) or regulatory functions (such as the Local Government Ombudsman)
• other relevant services within the council

We will securely hold your information and keep it for 6 years. Where information is no longer needed it will be confidentially disposed of.

We do not carry out any automated decision making in relation to this information.

You have legal rights over your information. For details of those rights, see our corporate Privacy Policy. Your rights will differ depending on our lawful basis for processing your data.

Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:

Buckinghamshire Council
The Gateway
Gatehouse Road
Aylesbury
HP19 8FF

[email protected]

0300 131 6000

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to the Data Protection Officer. You can also then complain to the ICO if you remain unhappy with how we have used your data.

Date of publication/last update: 22 June 2023

Date of completion of project/processing: 30 June 2031