Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
This privacy notice is designed to help you understand how and why North Yorkshire Council, processes your personal data. This notice should be read in conjunction with our corporate privacy notice.
North Yorkshire Council is a ‘Data Controller’ as defined by Article 4(7) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
In 2020, the Government announced a financial support scheme for those required to self-isolate under the national Coronavirus Test and Trace scheme. Further information about this scheme can be found here.
North Yorkshire Council acted as the data controller for the purposes of assessing eligibility, administering and managing the payments of those who have applied for support, under the test and trace support scheme. The department of health and social care (DHSC) commissioned NHS test and trace on behalf of the government and, at the time of the scheme, were the data controller for the purposes of providing test and trace data to North Yorkshire Council in order to validate the applicant’s isolation status.
The council has appointed Veritau to be its data protection officer. Their contact details are:
Information Governance Office
Veritau
West Offices
Station Rise
York
North Yorkshire
YO1 6GA
Email: infogov@northyorks.gov.uk
Tel: 01904 552848
To administer the Covid-19 self-isolation payment scheme, the council processed the personal information you provided when completing your application for a self-isolation support payment. This included:
When you applied for the self-isolation support payment, we were required to process your personal data to assess whether you were eligible to receive financial support, and if so, to provide a payment to you.
We continue to process relevant information held in relation to the payment outlined above in accordance with legislative or regulatory obligations.
The department of health and social care (DHSC) administered the NHS test and trace scheme. We shared information with test and trace in order to validate a claim and to confirm if the applicant has been told to self-isolate, either because you had tested positive for Covid-19 or because you had close contact with an individual who tested positive for Coronavirus.
Internally, we shared information with the following areas of the council:
Externally, we shared information with the following organisations:
We will only keep your personal data for as long as it needed for the purposes of Covid-19 emergency, and for audit and payment purposes.
North Yorkshire Council relies on the following lawful basis to process your personal data:
When processing special category data, the Council relied upon the following lawful basis:
UK GDPR Article 9(2)(i) – processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health, such as protecting against serious cross-border threats to health or ensuring high standards of quality and safety of health care and of medicinal products or medical devices, on the basis of domestic law meeting Schedule 1, Part 1 of the Data Protection Act 2018 as below:
The legislations, policies and guidance that relate to this service includes, but is not limited to:
For more information about how we use your data, including your privacy rights and the complaints process, please see our corporate privacy notice.