data protection

Homes for Haringey holds personal information about both its clients and its employees. The information is held for a number of reasons but mainly to ensure that we provide people with efficient and effective services. All the information we hold is protected under the Data Protection Act 1998.

What is the Data Protection Act 1998?

The Data Protection Act is the legal framework that ensures personal information is used fairly and lawfully.

By law, all organisations that hold such information must follow the eight principles set out in the Act. These principles make sure people’s rights are protected and state that all information must:

• Be processed fairly and lawfully and only if certain conditions are met.
• Be obtained for specified and lawful purposes.
• Be adequate, relevant and not excessive.
• Be accurate and where necessary kept up to date.
• Not be kept any longer than necessary.
• Be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects.
• Be kept secure.
• Not be transferred abroad, unless to countries with adequate data protection laws.

Homes for Haringey aims to meet all our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA). We will make sure that we tell the Information Commissioner about all our data-processing activities that are covered by the act. We will hold your personal information in confidence and treat it with all due care.

We try to make sure that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date, but if you find any mistakes you have the right to have them corrected.

If you have any concerns about the way we process information, you can contact the following:

Data Protection Officer,Feedback and Information team, 7th Floor, River Park House, 225 High Road, Wood Green, London. N22 8HQ

email: dataprotection@haringey.gov.uk

or

Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF