Employability Services and Opportunities Fife Partnership - Privacy Notice

The Opportunities Fife Partnership - Who we are:

The Opportunities Fife Partnership (OFP) is Fife’s local employability partnership, with responsibility for delivering activity under the “Inclusive Growth and Jobs” priority in Fife Council’s Local Outcome Improvement Plan.

The OFP manages Fife’s Employability Pathway activity, which is part funded by the UK/Scottish Government Funding. The services provided by the Employability Pathway are currently delivered by a range of Partners, including Fife Council’s Employability Services, BRAG, Clued Up Project, Fife ETC, Fife Employment Access Trust, SAMH, Fife Voluntary Action, Ecology Centre, Fife Works, Fife International Forum, Fife Gingerbread, Triage, Venture Trust and Princes Trust, Kingdom Works, Rural Skills Scotland, Link Living.

This privacy notice includes No One Left Behind (NOLB), Tackling Child Poverty (TCP) and UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).


Your Personal Data

What information do we need?

Fife Council is what’s known as the ‘data controller’ of the personal data you provide to us and the personal data we collect and use about you. The Data Protection Officer can be contacted:-

Data Protection Officer

Fife House,

Glenrothes,

KY7 5LT

Email: dataprotection@fife.gov.uk

For the purposes of this specific service, the personal data we require includes special category information about you (also known as “sensitive personal data”), such as health, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

Participants - To deliver, monitor and evaluate NOLB/TCP/UKSPF, we will ask also you for:

  • your contact details (i.e. your home address, home telephone number, mobile number, email address);
  • other personal data (i.e. your age, gender, National Insurance Number);
  • special category data (i.e. about your health, ethnicity, religion)
  • we will also ask about your employment history and will hold information on the support you receive through NOLB/TCP/UKSPF.

Employers - To deliver, monitor and evaluate NOLB/TCP/UKSPF we will ask you for:

  • your contact details (i.e. company contact, company name, company address, telephone number, mobile number, email address);
  • other company details (VAT registration number, company registration number)

What we will do with your information?

All of the information we collect from you will be processed by staff in the United Kingdom. Your information will be shared with the recipients or categories of recipients listed below:-

Who we will share your information with:

*The UK/Scottish Government, their representatives of the Auditors General for Scotland may require to carry out any auditing, monitoring and compliance checks of No One Left Behind/Tackling Child Poverty/ UK Shared Prosperity Fund in this case a confidentiality contract will be completed on request.

We will also generally comply with requests for, and share, specific information from other regulatory and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary and appropriate.

You should also be aware that your data will be stored on servers located within the United Kingdom; the data will not be processed outside the European Union. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is kept securely and more information on how we do this is provided on the Council website (www.fife.gov.uk).

How long will we keep your information?

We will keep your information for 5 years following the last day of participation on NOLB/TCP/UKSPF, after this period it will be destroyed under secure arrangements if it is no longer required for the lawful purpose(s) for which it was obtained. More information on our retention schedule is provided on the Council website (www.fife.gov.uk).

Automated Decision Making

No automated decision making will be undertaken.

Your Rights

When you provide information to the Council, you will have the following rights:

  • to withdraw consent at any time, where the legal basis specified above is consent
  • to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office
  • to request access to your personal data
  • to data portability, where the Legal basis specified above is i) consent or ii) performance of a contract
  • to request rectification or erasure of your personal data, as so far as the legislation permits

You can find out more about your rights in relation to data protection here: www.fife.gov.uk/data-protection or from the Data Protection Officer by telephone or in writing, as detailed above.

Information Commissioner’s Office

The ICO is the UK’s independent body set up to uphold information rights.

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

Email: casework@ico.org.uk

The Information Commissioner’s Office – Scotland

45 Melville Street, Edinburgh EH3 7HL

Telephone: 0303 123 1115

Email: Scotland@ico.org.uk