How will your information be used?
Your personal data will only be used to deliver a safe, caring, and tailored service that meets your individual needs. We will never share your data without your consent unless we believe that you may be in danger or that your wellbeing is at risk. In this case, we would only share the information necessary to help you stay safe and well, and only with the proper authorities (e.g. police, ambulance) and/or your emergency contacts. While it is in our care, your data will be kept securely and only viewed by authorised HILS / AgeUK / HertsHelp staff. All team members are trained in how to keep your data safe and your rights as a data subject, we do not use any automated decision-making or data profiling processes – meaning all decisions regarding your service are made by humans.
What are your rights?
HILS, AgeUK, and HertsHelp comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016, meaning that we are committed to keeping your personal data safe and will always respect your rights as a data subject. These rights are:
The right to be informed and to limit data processing – this means that we need to tell you about how we are using your personal data and will only use it in the way we describe above. If we want to use your personal data for anything else, we will always tell you and ask for consent if necessary. You have the right to disagree with the way we process your data and to ask for this to be changed, these requests would be reviewed on a case by case basis.
The right to access, ask for corrections, and to delete personal data – this means you can ask to see all the data that we hold on you, to ask for data to be changed and/or deleted from our records.
The right to data portability – this means that you can request for us to provide you with all the personal data we hold on you in a format that you can take with you (e.g. if you want to take your information to another service provider).
To find out more about your rights and how HILS processes personal data, please see our Privacy Notice on our website at: www.hertsindependentliving.org/privacy-policy/. You can also contact us via email on data@hils-uk.org or call 0330 2000 103 and ask for the HILS Data Protection Officer.
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