Privacy notices - Fire Alarm - Low Income Home-Owners Assistance Scheme

When you apply for this assistance, we will ask you for the following personal information:

• contact details – your name, address, phone number, email address,

• details to help us assess your eligibility including: date of birth; specific financial benefits you receive, your property’s council tax band

 How will we use the information

• assess your eligibility for the Fire Alarms Low Income Home-Owners Assistance Scheme and
• offer you assistance under this Scheme.

If you are eligible for this Scheme, we will share this information with the services that we are partnering with on this Scheme i.e. Lochaber Care & Repair Ltd.; Lochalsh and Skye Care & Repair Ltd; ILM Ltd, so that they can offer and provide you with assistance.

Public Interest Purposes

We also process your information where it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the exercise of official authority vested in The Highland Council to:

• prevent or detect unlawful acts;
• protect the public against dishonesty, malpractice or other seriously improper conduct; and
• prevent fraud (including data matching under local and national fraud initiatives and the Housing Benefit Matching Service).

If you do not provide your data, you will not be able to access this service.

Public Task - the council processes this data for the purposes of providing a public task under The Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (Tolerable Standard) (Extension of Criteria) Order 2019.

Contract - Processing your data is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.

• View personal data
• Change personal data
• Delete personal data
• Restrict processing of personal data

Find out more about your rights

If you are eligible for this Scheme, we will share this information with the services that we are partnering with on this Scheme i.e. Lochaber Care & Repair Ltd.; Lochalsh and Skye Care & Repair Ltd; ILM Ltd, so that they can offer and provide you with assistance. We may share your information with Scottish Fire & Rescue Service for the purpose of offering you fire safety advice

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Your personal 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/