Privacy notice housing register
Our housing register privacy notice explains how we use your personal information and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Our housing register privacy notice explains how we use your personal information and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Some of the information we ask you for is essential – we can’t consider your application without it. Other information is optional, however if you choose not to tell us something, we may not make the right assessment. This means we may not be able to give you the help you need or be able to fully assist you to find a suitable home.
When you apply, we’ll ask you for the following essential information:
Other information that is not essential but optional includes:
We collect your information for the following purposes:
We might share your information with the following organisations:
With your consent we may also share your details with:
We use the information you provide so we can meet our public duty under:
If you don't qualify to join the housing register and have made a homeless application, your information is kept in accordance with our homeless and housing options services data retention policy.f you haven’t made a homeless application we will keep your personal information for 6 months after our decision that you don't qualify.
If you do qualify to join the housing register we will keep your personal details all the time you have an application on the housing register.
If you ask to be removed from the housing register and have made a homeless application your information is kept in accordance with our homelessness and housing options services data retention policy. If you haven’t made a homeless application we will destroy your personal information within one month.
If you move into a council owned property your information will be kept in accordance with our neighbourhood services data retention policy.
You do have some legal rights in respect of the personal information we collect from you. Please see our Privacy policy page for further details.
If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.
You can also contact our Data Protection Officer by email at data.protection@arun.gov.uk.