Privacy and Personal Data

West Devon Borough Council are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and will inform you of how we process your information.

Personal Information

To enable us to deliver services to you, we may collect and process the following types of information provided by you:

Name
Address
Email Address
Telephone number
Employment history
Bank account and payment card details
Computer IP addresses and website usage statistics

Additionally, depending on the services you receive from the Council, we may collect and process information including:

Physical or medical information
Religious beliefs or similar beliefs
Racial or ethnic origin information
Your sexual orientation
Trade union membership
Political opinions and political affiliations
The commission or alleged commission of an offence by you

Your data and privacy rights are protected by law.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gives you control over your data and you are able to control the personal data we, or our partners, collect about you.

How we handle your information will vary depending on how you interact with us. Privacy notices will set out details of how we process your information, how long we'll keep it for and who we'll share it with for each service and process.

Your privacy rights include the right to make a request to:

access your personal data we hold
correct your personal data
restrict our use of your personal data
export your data to another data controller
erase your personal data

To register a request under GDPR, please contact Data.Protection@swdevon.gov.uk

Please refer to the following privacy notices for more information:

Planning and your Data

The notices below relate to the various planning services we operate

How can I see the data the Council holds about me?

All individuals have the right to access and receive a copy of their personal data, and other supplementary information.

This is known as a Subject Access Request, or SAR.

If you would like to submit an SAR, please use the button below.

Submit a Subject Access Request

Cookies

This website uses cookies to provide additional functionality and to help us to continue improving our online services.

What are Cookies, and why are they used?

Cookies are small text files which identify your computer to our server. They are widely used on the internet to make websites work, or work more efficiently. We send these to your computer for the following reasons:

To tailor the website to your browser.
To help us analyse the use of the website.
To allow applications on our website to work correctly - for example, making sure that we know when you have logged on or off and which part of an application you are accessing.

We will not use cookies to store any personally identifiable information about you. We will not make any attempt to find out the identities of people visiting the website without their prior permission.

If we want to collect personally identifiable information through the website - for example when you request a service from us - we will tell you beforehand. We will make it clear when we collect this information and will explain what we intend to do with it.