This Privacy Notice sets out:

 

• Who we are;

• Why we need to collect your personal data;

• The general categories of personal data that we may process;

• The purposes for which we may process your personal data;

• The legal bases of the processing;

• Who has access to your data and who the data may be shared with;

• How we will protect your data;

• How long we will retain your data;

• Your rights as a data subject;

• Consequences of failure to provide personal data

 

Who we are

 

The Home Office is the lead government department for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and police. The Home Office plays a fundamental role in the security and economic prosperity of the UK.

 

The Preventing Radicalisation Grant Scheme is administered by EMB Limited (EMB) on behalf of the Home Office.

 

More information about EMB can be found at: www.embltd.co.uk

 

The Home Office is the controller and EMB is the processor of the information that we collect about you.

 

Contact Details

 

The contact details for the Home Office’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) are:

 

Office of the DPO

The Home Office

2 Marsham Street,

London

SW1P 4DF

 

The Home Office’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at: dpo@homeoffice.gov.uk  

 

EMB’s Data Protection Lead can be contacted at: dataprotectionenquiries@embltd.co.uk

 

The Home Office and EMB are committed to being transparent about how they collect and use personal data and to meeting their data protection obligations.

 

Your Information

 

This information which we are required to collect and process includes:

 

• Name, job title, address and contact details, including email address and telephone number

• Information relating to the organisation that you represent to allow us to process your application.

 

Why we collect information about you

 

In accordance with Article 6(1)(e), the lawful basis for processing personal data is ‘public task’. The processing is necessary for the exercise of the function of the Home Office, a government department which is the data controller.

 

Who might we share your information with?

 

Your information may be shared internally, including with project staff and managers and IT staff if access to the data is necessary for performance of their roles.

 

The Home Office and EMB may also share your data with third parties that process data on their behalf and which provide services to the Government and applicants as part of the Preventing Radicalisation Grant scheme. The Home Office and EMB do not permit third parties to use the data for any other purpose.

 

Information may also be shared with other government bodies and funding organisations in order to detect and prevent fraud.

 

How long do we hold you information for?

 

The Home Office and EMB will retain the data pertaining to the Preventing Radicalisation Grant scheme until at least seven years after the project is closed.

 

How we protect your information

 

The Home Office and EMB take security of your data seriously. The organisations have internal policies and controls in place to try to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by employees in the performance of their duties. EMB holds Cyber Essentials Plus and ISO27001 accreditation.

 

Where the Home Office or EMB engages third parties to process personal data on their behalf, they do so on the basis of written instructions, and under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data.

 

Your information rights

 

You have several rights in relation to the information that we hold about you:

 

• Access – you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information;

 

• Rectification – you have the right to ask us to rectify information which you believe to be inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information which you think is incomplete;

 

• Erasure – you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances;

 

• Restriction of Processing – you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances;

 

• Object to Processing – you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances;

 

• Data portability – you have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances;

 

• Automated decisions and profiling – you have the right to prevent your information being processed and decisions made about your solely by automated means (without any human involvement).

 

The Home Office and EMB do not use automated decision-making in the delivery of the administration of the Preventing Radicalisation Grant Scheme.

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

 

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are not satisfied with the way that either the Home Office or EMB has handled your information.

 

The ICO is an independent body set up to upload information rights in the United Kingdom. They can also provide advice and guidance and can be contacted through the Information Commissioner’s website (www.ico.org.uk), via the helpline on 0303 123 1113, or in writing to:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5A