Privacy

Privacy

Privacy is all important to you and to me. This is the boring bit I’m afraid, but I am required by law to inform you of your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998. They are your rights to request data about yourself from me and they are in summary form shown below (taken from direct.gov.uk).

Protecting your information

The Data Protection Act's rules are quite complex, but at the heart of it are eight common sense rules known as the 'data protection principles'.

These principles require any organisation, corporation or governmental body that collects personal information to handle it safely. Anyone collecting personal information must:

• fairly and lawfully process it
• process it only for limited, specifically stated purposes
• use the information in a way that is adequate, relevant and not excessive
• use the information accurately
• keep the information on file no longer than absolutely necessary
• process the information in accordance with your legal rights
• keep the information secure
• never transfer the information outside the UK without adequate protection
 

All organisations collecting and using personal information are legally required to comply with these principles.