Privacy notices - Highland Opportunity (Investments) Limited Business Loan Application

You are giving us your personal information to allow us to determine whether your business is eligible to receive funding from Highland Opportunity (Investments) Limited, and to administer that funding to your business. We also use your information to verify your identity where required, contact you by post, email or telephone and to maintain our records.

If you don't provide personal data we will not be able to process your application.

Article 6(1)(b) UKGDPR - processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (or to take steps to enter into a contract with you). 

• Access your data
• Change personal data
• Delete personal data
• Object to the processing of you data

Find out more about your rights

We are legally obliged to safeguard public funds so we are required to verify and check your details internally for fraud prevention. We may share this information with other public bodies (and also receive information from these other bodies) for fraud checking purposes. We are also legally obliged to share certain data with other public bodies, such as HMRC and will do so where the law requires this.

 We will also generally comply with requests for specific information from other regulatory and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary and appropriate. Your information is also analysed internally to help us improve our services. It also forms part of our requirements in line with our Records Management Plan approved in terms of the Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011.

We will give information about you and your application to our employees and employees of Highland Council, Highland Councillors, who are members of the Board of Highland Opportunity (Investments) Limited, and agents on the understanding that they will keep your information confidential. We may pass your name and business address to other business support services operated by Highland Opportunity (Investments) Limited in order that they can write to you with relevant information about the services they provide.

We may liaise with officers of the Enterprise Company operating in the area of your business address to confirm grant assistance for the past three years and discuss aspects of your business proposal.

We will contact credit reference agencies or other organisations who may use or give out information for credit assessments, to trace debtors and prevent fraud. We may seek to publicise the business and the assistance provided by Highland Opportunity (Investments) Limited on The Highland Councils media channels.

We will retain data for 7 years after the loan has been repaid.

Your data is not subject to automated processing.

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 (external link)/