We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains information about how we are collecting information about you relating to the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
We may collect, process and share your personal data in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure your safety and the wellbeing of residents, tenants, leaseholders, service users, contractors, our employees and general members of the public. Some of the information we collect will be in relation to your health and will include information required so that we are able to manage and complete essential repairs and servicing to your property.
Any information we collect will be limited to what is proportionate and necessary, taking into account the latest guidance issued by the government, the Information Commissioner’s Office and health professionals, in order to manage and contain the virus. It will enable us to effectively fulfil our functions and to keep people safe, put contingency plans into place to safeguard those vulnerable and aid business continuity. You may also wish to consider our main Privacy Notice which sets how we process your information.
We are a registered charitable Community Benefit Society that provides social housing and support. We are a controller of personal information and collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so, we are regulated under The Data Protection Act 2018, including The UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Our contact details for data protection purposes are as follows.
Information Governance Team WDH Merefield House Whistler Drive Castleford WF10 5HX Email: informationgovernance@wdh.co.uk
The individual responsible for data protection compliance is our Data Protection Officer, who is contactable using the above details.
We may collect the following information.
We may already have some of your personal data that you have provided as an applicant, tenant or an employee and which has been provided for a specific reason. In the current crisis, we may need to share this information for a different reason and it may not always be possible to inform you of this in advance. We may also request further information from you or from a third party which we have not previously collected or processed. If you do not provide the information we need then we may not be able to provide all services to you.
We will use the information you provide to:
The legal basis for processing the data is that it is in the public interest for us to deal with the outbreak of COVID-19.
Please see our Data Protection Rights Notice.
Your personal information relating to COVID-19 is stored on our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system which may be copied for testing, backup, archiving and disaster recovery purposes. Access to your information is limited to those who require it to provide services to you.
To deliver services to you, it may be necessary for us to share your personal information outside the UK, for example if we were to use a cloud service provider based outside the UK. These transfers are subject to special rules under UK data protection law. In such a situation, we will make sure that we have adequate safeguards and security measures in place as required by the GDPR.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.
The GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 also gives you the right to complain to a supervisory authority where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who can be contacted at Information Commissioner, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF or by phone on 0303 123 1113.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do we will inform you by an update on our website at www.wdh.co.uk.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information we hold about you.
If you wish to contact us, please email informationgovernance@wdh.co.uk or write to our Information Governance Team, WDH, Merefield House, Whistler Drive, Castleford, WF10 5HX or email informationgovernance@wdh.co.uk or call us on 0345 8 507 507.
We are committed to giving everyone equal access to information. If you would like this information in another format please phone us on 0345 8 507 507.