- Purpose
- Scottish Welfare Fund
- Description
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The Scottish Welfare Fund is intended to offer grants or in-kind support to provide a safety net for people in a disaster or emergency or when there is an immediate threat to health or safety (Crisis Grants).
The Scottish Welfare Fund also offers Community Care Grants to enable independent living or continued independent living, preventing the need for institutional care.
- If you do not give us your information
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If you don't provide personal data we can't process your application.
- Conditions for processing personal information
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Official Autority. We process personal data because we have authority to do so (Article 6(1)(e) of GDPR).
- Your rights
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- View personal data
- Change personal data
- Delete personal data
- Restrict processing of personal data
- Who we share your information with
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Information is shared with the Scottish Government.
- How long we hold your information
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The current year plus 6 years.
- Automated processing
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Your personal information is not subject to automated decision making or profiling.
- Data controller
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The data controller is The Highland Council
- Data Protection Officer
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Contact our Data Protection Officer:
Data Protection Officer
Highland Council Headquarters
Glenurquhart Road
Inverness
IV3 5NX
01463 702029 - Supervisory authority
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If you are unhappy with the way we have processed your personal information you can contact the Information Commissioner:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113
https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
