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Privacy statement

This statement only covers this web-site; it does not cover any linked web-sites.

Data Protection Statement

West Oxfordshire District Council is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 to allow it to hold and process personal data for a range of purposes. A full list of these purposes can be obtained from the Information Commissioner's website

Data Protection Policy

In order to operate, West Oxfordshire District Council needs to collect and use personal information about people with whom it deals and communicates with, its employees, elected members, clients and customers, suppliers and others with whom it communicates. We have a responsibility to ensure that this personal information is handled in accordance with statutory requirements; however it is collected, recorded and used; whether on paper, in a computer, or in other material. The Council will take all necessary steps to ensure that this duty is observed and that all personal information collected and used by it is managed and processed fairly and lawfully in line with the Data Protection Act 1998. To this end we are committed to following the eight Data Protection Principles to ensure that personal information is:

Fairly and lawfully processed;
Obtained and processed for one or more specific purposes;
Adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to those purpose(s);
Accurate, and where necessary kept up to date;
Not kept longer than necessary;
Processed in accordance with the data subject's rights;
Secure against unauthorised and unlawful processing and accidental loss or destruction;
Not transferred to countries without adequate protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.

Click on the following link for more information and access to a downloadable copy of our Data Protection Policy.