The councils try to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information in accordance with data protection law.
This Privacy Notice tells you what to expect when Adur District Council and Worthing Borough Council collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about the visitors to our website.
For information on how we use cookies and other tracking technologies please see our – Cookies page
Our website search is powered by Cludo. Search queries and results are logged anonymously to help us improve our website and search functionality. No user-specific data is collected by either the council’s or any other third-party.
Please see: Cludo search engine website
We take great care to ensure the security of this website and your personal information. We have put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the safety and security of the information we collect online. Any third-party processing such information on the councils’ behalf, is contractually obliged to put in place similar measures.
If you go to another website from this one, please read the Privacy Notice on that website to find out what it does with your information.
If you come to timeforworthing.uk from another website, we may receive information from the other website, however we do not use this data. We recommend that you should read the Privacy Notice of the website you came from to find out more.
The councils use a range of social media services to publicise council news, stories, offers and events. We do this in order to receive comments and feedback from residents via direct messages, which are private, and through posts which are public to other social media users.
The information you provide via social media is subject to the social media service providers’ privacy notices and policies. Any information you post on the councils’ social media platforms is also subject to the councils’ social media policy.
People who email us
Any email sent to us, including any attachments, may be monitored and used by us for reasons of security and for monitoring compliance. Email monitoring or blocking software may also be used for security reasons. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send to us is lawful.
When someone visits timeforworthing.uk they may complete an application (online form) to list a business or an event. This maybe added to our website once it has been vetted. The information requested will be your name, address, phone number, email address or any other personal information. We ask for this information so that we can process your enquiry, request/survey.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the personal information you enter into any form or document on our website is processed using the Legal Basis stated in the respective Privacy Notice.
For online forms and surveys, we use Formidable. Their website can be found HERE
This Privacy Notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of the councils’ collection and use of personal information. Please refer to the specific service ‘Privacy Notice’ you are using for details of how your personal data is being used.
The councils use commercial companies and partners to either store personal information or to manage it on our behalf. Where we have these arrangements there is a contract, memorandum of understanding or information sharing protocol in place to ensure that the organisation complies with data protection law.
For legal reasons we may have to share personal information with organisations or individuals outside the councils. If that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:
● meet any applicable law, regulation, court order, legal process or enforceable governmental request.
● for the detection and prevention of crime/fraudulent activity.
● if there are serious risks to the public, our staff or to other professionals.
● to protect a child or to protect adults who are thought to be at risk.
Under the Data Protection law, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.
Individuals are able to find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection legislation.
See: Data Protection
The council’s Information Disposal Schedule below contains details of when information and records can be disposed of. Committee Reports, for example maybe kept on a permanent basis. Other data such as business/personal/financial & VAT records have to be kept for a longer period of time to comply with the law. Most other information need only be kept for as long as the information is of value and is being used for business or audit purposes.
See: Information Retention and Disposal Schedule (DP42)
If you have any questions about how we collect, store, or use personal data please email us at contact@timeforworthing.uk
In addition to the information covered above, Adur & Worthing Councils privacy policy can be found HERE
The Councils’ Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:
Adur & Worthing Councils
Worthing Town Hall
Chapel Road
Worthing
West Sussex
BN11 1HA
Email: data.protection@adur-worthing.gov.uk
If you have a concern about the way that we are collecting or using your personal data, we ask that you contact us in the first instance. Alternatively, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office. Further information about your rights is available on the Information Commissioner’s Office website