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.
SEA is a Suffolk-wide scheme run by Suffolk's councils, designed to help residents save money on their energy bills and encourage the reduction of carbon emissions through energy efficiency improvements. The scheme is administered by Suffolk's Warm Homes Healthy People (WHHP) based at East Suffolk Council and is project managed by Suffolk County Council (SCC). SEA is a referral service only and should you decide to carry out works with any SEA installer you will enter into contract directly with them. As such Suffolk County Council and members of SEA cannot accept any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the works.
The categories of information that SCC/WHHP collect, process and hold to refer you to our installers and assess your eligibility for the various schemes delivered include:
SCC stores and uses your personal data to:
We will not use your personal data for other purposes other than for what it was collated unless we have obtained your consent or for other lawful purposes (e.g. detection and prevention of fraud).
The lawful basis on which we use this information is ‘consent’.
SEA is an optional service which you can use and the information that you provide to us is on a voluntary basis.
If you wish to withdraw your consent to SEA processing your data, please contact the Environment Strategy Team on 01473 264810 or email creatinggreenestcounty@suffolk.gov.uk
Your request will be actioned within ten working days.
We will hold your information until it is no longer needed for scheme verification eligibility and audit purposes, or your application ends because you have either withdrawn it or it has been completed. In some cases where required by our funders, data is stored for up to 6 years, for the purposes of occasional randomly selected audits by our funders.
We will share your personal information with:
We do not use your data for commercial or marketing purposes.
To provide Suffolk residents with access to council procured suppliers to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and access to funding for these improvements.
This will help to improve the energy efficiency of the housing stock within Suffolk which can help to reduce fuel poverty and the county’s carbon emissions.
Requesting access to your personal data
Under data protection legislation, individuals have the right to request access to information about them that we hold. To make a request for your personal information contact data.protection@suffolk.gov.uk.
You also have the right to:
If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we request that you raise your concern with us in the first instance. Alternatively, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you would like further information about this privacy notice, please contact the Environment Strategy Team:
Alternatively, if you would like to contact the Council’s Data Protection Officer & Compliance Manager please contact them using the following details:
Endeavour House,Email data.protection@suffolk.gov.uk
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