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The Vale of Glamorgan Council is committed to protecting your privacy when you use Council services. The Council needs to collect and use certain types of personal information to operate effectively. This includes information on current, past and prospective employees, Members, suppliers, clients / customers, residents, tenants, partners and others with whom it communicates.
The Council regards the lawful and proper treatment of personal information as being fundamental to the effective delivery of its objectives and is key to the maintenance and confidence between the Council and the public it serves. There have been significant changes to Data Protection, a new European law called the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into force on the 25th May 2018.
The current Data Protection Act will be repealed and replaced with a new Data Protection Act 2018.The Act also implements the Crime and Justice Directive.
The link below explains how and why the Council uses information about you and the ways in which we protect your privacy, it explains how you can access your information what new rights you have in relation to information and how to exercise those rights.
The GDPR creates some new rights for individuals and strengthens some of the rights that currently exist under the DPA.
For further information regarding this please Click Here