This privacy notice is designed to help you understand how and why the music service processes your personal data. This notice should be read in conjunction with our corporate privacy notice.
Who are we?
North Yorkshire Council is a ‘data controller’ as defined by Article 4(7) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The music service provides musical instruments and tuition. It stores and processes your data in order to fulfil its contractual obligations with music service users.
We have appointed Veritau Ltd to be our 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
What personal information do we collect?
In order to deliver our music service, we will need to collect both personal and special category data, for example:
- personal data collected:
- name
- date of birth
- address
- email address
- telephone number
- emergency contact details
- school attended and attendance information
- passport number and issue date (if child is attending a European coach tour with a county ensemble)
- whether you currently have an instrument on loan from us
- information about you, such as whether you are a looked after child, eligible for free school meals or have pupil premium
Special category data collected:
- characteristics such as special educational needs
- medical conditions
- special dietary requirements
- details of any support received
Why do we collect your personal information?
We need to collect this information to carry out the following tasks:
- process your application
- manage student registration
- manage student participation and progression in music activities
- provide music tuition
- support student learning
- monitor and report on student progress
- provide appropriate pastoral care and ensure welfare of children, particularly when on tours and courses
- offer appropriate additional activities to enhance learning
- assess the quality of our service
- manage applications for financial support
- research and statistics
- comply with contractual/regulatory obligations, for example, reporting to the arts council
- keep you updated with information relevant to you
- generate publicity
- promote events/concerts
- celebrate the success of our students
Who do we share this information with?
In the course of performing our duties, we may share your information with a number of agencies who are key to delivering our service.
Within the council:
- children and young peoples services, where required to ensure we are meeting safeguarding obligations
Agencies we share information with:
- schools where we are providing tuition services in partnership with the school
- educators and examining bodies
- financial organisations who process payments on our behalf
- aggregate data will be shared with the arts council (our funding applications may include numbers of pupils who have special educational needs and/or pupil premium.)
How long do we keep your information for?
| Data held | Retention period |
|---|---|
| Records relating to music tuition | Current year + 6 after the last lesson received. |
What is our lawful basis for processing your information?
We mainly process your personal data in order to fulfil our contract with you. (Article 6 (1)(b).
We may sometimes need to process your personal data as part of our legal obligations in the case of safeguarding (Article 6 (1) (c)).
We may also process special category data in line with the substantial public interest. (Article 9 (2)(g).
The legislations, policies and guidance that relate to this service includes but is not limited to:
- body of persons approval (BOPA)
For more information about how we use your data, including your privacy rights and the complaints process, please see our corporate privacy notice.