How we use the information we collect about you

How we use the information we collect about you

We process personal information to enable us to provide a range of government services to local people and businesses which include:

• Maintaining our own accounts and records
• Promoting the services we provide
• Marketing our local tourism
• Carrying out health and public awareness campaigns
• Managing our property
• Providing leisure and cultural services
• Provision of education
• Carrying out surveys
• Administering the assessment and collection of taxes and other revenue including benefits and grants
• Licensing and regulatory activities
• Local fraud initiatives
• The provision of social services for all ages
• Fostering and adoption
• Crime prevention and prosecution of offenders including the use of CCTV & Mobile Cameras
• Corporate administration and all activities we are required to carry out as a data controller and public authority
• Undertaking research
• The provision of all commercial services including the administration and enforcement of parking regulations and restrictions
• The provision of all non-commercial activities including refuse collections from residential properties
• Internal financial support and corporate functions
• Managing archived records for historical and research reasons
• Data matching under local and national fraud initiatives
• Administration of welfare and other benefits
• Debt collection including council tax, non-domestic rates and other sundry debts
• Management of children and young people subject to an offending prevention programme
• Protection of public health
• Housing
• Planning including applications and decisions, building control, local plans and conservation
• Administration and maintenance of highways