1 April 2019

The following privacy notice applies to Public Protection.

This includes:

  • Environmental Health & Housing Standards
  • Food & Farming
  • Health & Safety
  • Trading Standards & Licensing

Information collected

  • Name
  • Address
  • Date of Birth
  • Ethnicity
  • Email Address
  • Contact Telephone numbers
  • Medical Details
  • Training Qualifications
  • Licenses/Passports
  • Video and sound recordings (investigations)
  • Property information and amount of people within a property (investigations)
  • Digital Images/Photographs
  • Mental/physical well-being information
  • Social media posts (investigations)
  • Evidence relating to criminal and civil breaches
  • Intelligence relating to suspicious activity
  • Data relating to criminal offences and convictions

Agencies we might share the information with

  • Local Authorities (externally)
  • Council departments (internally)
  • County Courts
  • Public Health Wales
  • Natural Resources Wales
  • Police
  • Food Standards Agency
  • Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra)
  • HMRC
  • National Trading Standards
  • Regional Organised Crime Unit
  • Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
  • RSPCA
  • Veterinary Practices
  • Regulators (CIW, HSE)
  • Third Party Providers
  • Health Board
  • Rent Smart Wales
  • North Wales Fire & Rescue Service - NWFRS (emergencies, HMO Land Lord contact details)
  • Home Office / Immigration Service
  • Registered Social Landlords (RSLs)
  • Utility Companies (for example Dee Valley Water, Electricity suppliers)
  • Government Enforcement Agencies
  • Warm Wales
  • OFGEM

Purpose for processing

  • Carrying out surveys
  • Corporate Administration (Including all activities as a data controller)
  • Licensing and Regulatory activities
  • Provision of all non-commercial activities
  • Provision of all commercial services
  • Undertaking Research
  • Crime prevention and prosecution of offenders (including the use of CCTV)
  • Data matching under local and national fraud initiatives
  • Health and public awareness campaigns
  • Local fraud initiatives
  • Assessment and collection of taxes and other revenue, including benefits and grants