You can read Suffolk County Council's statement on our website.
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You can read Suffolk County Council's statement on our website.
This privacy notice explains how Counter Fraud Services uses information about you when carrying out its range of business activities and how we protect your privacy.
The processing of personal data is governed by the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), collectively referred to as data protection law.
Suffolk County Council is the controller for the personal information that is being processed. If you have any queries about how Counter Fraud Services is collecting or using your personal data, you can contact the service on:
Call us at: 01473 264399
Email us at: fraud@suffolk.gov.uk
Write to us at: Internal Audit & Counter Fraud Service, Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 2BX
Contact details for the Council’s Data Protection Officer and Compliance Manager can be found in the council’s corporate privacy notice, which is available on the Council’s website.
Personal data includes information about you, which can be used to identify you as an individual. Examples include:
Special category data is the most sensitive type of personal data and includes:
The personal and special category data that is collected by Counter Fraud Services includes:
We also collect information concerning criminal convictions and offences.
As well as information that you provide to us, we also collect information from:
Information is used to receive and investigate referrals of fraud and other criminal offences and to research, analyse and report intelligence requirements.
We respond to referrals/allegations from members of staff, service users, members of the public, other Local Authorities, third party agencies and contractors to prevent and detect fraud and other criminal offences, and to ensure service delivery, planning and improvement.
We may also use information in other ways compatible with the above purposes to enable us to deliver our service for the residents of Suffolk.
Under data protection law, the Counter Fraud Service can only process your personal data if it is lawful to do so. Please see the details below of the lawful bases that we rely on for processing different types of personal data.
For processing personal data, we rely on the following lawful basis:
When we process special category data we rely on the following additional lawful basis(es):
The UK GDPR gives extra protection to the processing of criminal offence data. Counter Fraud Services also processes criminal offence data which may include:
In addition to the lawful bases that we have identified under “Personal data” above, we process criminal offence data under the following condition(s) of Schedule 1 of the DPA 2018:
Counter Fraud Services is a competent authority for the purposes of Part 3 of the DPA 2018 and we process personal data so that we can prevent, investigate, and prosecute criminal activities, or exercise criminal penalties.
This means that we can process personal data for law enforcement purposes when there is a basis in law for personal data to be processed and:
In addition to the above, we undertake sensitive processing for law enforcement purposes when:
We share your personal information with:
Any information which is shared will be shared securely, with appropriate individuals and only the minimum information needed will be shared.
We do not transfer any personal data to any countries or international organisations outside of the EU, the EEA (European Economic Area), or any other country that does not have an equivalent level of data protection to the UK.
Your information is securely stored electronically on the County Council’s network.
We will stop using your data after 7 years from the conclusion of the matter for which it was collected, or where is it necessary and permitted for a longer specified period in accordance with our retention policy. Your data will be securely and permanently deleted one year after we stop using it.
The Counter Fraud service does not use automated decision-making processes or profiling in respect of your information.
Under data protection law, you have the right to request access to the information that we hold about you. If you would like to make a request to access your personal information, please contact data.protection@suffolk.gov.uk.
You also have other rights regarding your personal data. You can find out more information about these rights by looking at the council’s corporate privacy notice.
If you would like independent advice on this privacy notice or other matters about how Suffolk County Council processes your personal data, including how to make a complaint, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office at:
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Email: casework@ico.org.uk