Langdale area wildfire
You can find the latest information about the wildfire in the Langdale area near Scarborough and Whitby on our Langdale area wildfire page.
This privacy notice is designed to help you understand how and why the communications team, 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).
The communications team works with all council services to deliver, and advise on, communications including media relations, internal communications, campaigns, marketing, corporate identity, public information and engagement. The head of communications leads the service.
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
The communications team processes personal data sent by members of the public seeking answers to queries via social media. The team does not routinely collect special category personal data although residents may share this with us if it relates to a question they would like answered.
Information is automatically shared with our social media management platform, Orlo.
Data provided by members of the public in order to answer queries.
Members of the public can delete this data at any time using their personal social media accounts, this is then replicated in Orlo.
If members of the public do not delete this data themselves, it will be deleted from Orlo 4 weeks after our contract with them ends.
We rely on the following lawful basis to process your personal data:
When processing special category data, the council will rely on the following lawful basis:
For more information about how we use your data, including your privacy rights and the complaints process, please see our corporate privacy notice.