Privacy notices - Allotments Register of Interest

We maintain and manage the Highland register of interest in allotments. By maintaining this register, we can use the data to help direct our work to support allotment provision, and alert those on the register about opportunities to join a local allotment association. Your contact details are held by the Council and are used to contact you about relevant allotment opportunities. You may be contacted at a future date if new allotment opportunities become available in your local area.

If you choose not to give us your information, you will not be contacted about opportunities to join local allotment associations and the Council will not have your interest registered when considering our allotments work plan.

Article 6(1)(e) UK GDPR (Public Task) - processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.  The council needs to process this personal information to fulfil our statutory duties under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.

The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 requires local authorities to maintain waiting lists and take reasonable steps to provide allotments if the waiting lists exceed certain trigger points. It also strengthens the protection for allotments and clarifies the rights of local authorities and plot holders.

There is a requirement for local authorities to develop a food growing strategy for their area, including identifying land that may be used as allotment sites and identifying other areas of land that could be used by a community for the cultivation of vegetables, fruit, herbs or flowers.

• Access to personal data
• Rectification of personal data
• Erasure of personal data
• Object to processing of personal data

Find out more about your rights

We do not share your information.

Unless you tell us otherwise, we will continue to hold your information for as long as necessary to perform our statutory functions.

Your information is not subject to automated decision making or profiling.

The data controller is The Highland Council.

Data Protection Officer
Highland Council Headquarters
Glenurquhart Road
Inverness
IV3 5NX
01463 702029   

dpo@highland.gov.uk

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/