Privacy Policy

Who we are

Choose You is a service delivering smoking cessation and weight management programmes in Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes. The service will be delivered by the Public Health Department of Central Bedfordshire Council.
Central Bedfordshire Council will be the data controller for all of the personal information used to deliver the service.

What information do we collect?

In order to deliver services to you we will ask you to provide information about yourself. This may include:

  • basic personal identifiers (name, address, date of birth)
  • contact details (email address, mobile number, landline number)
  • occupation
  • gender
  • legal partnership type
  • preferred language
  • special category data such as:
    o ethnicity
    o disability
    o religion
    o sexual orientation
    o health information

For Smoking Cessation:

  • smoking history

For Weight Management:

  • BMI

 

In addition, we may record details of your sessions with us and the outcomes of those sessions.

Why we process this data

The information you provide to us and which we record will only be used to deliver the services you have requested and will not be used for any other purpose.

Our legal basis for processing this data is:

Article 6: (e) Public task: the processing is necessary to perform a task in the public interest or for our official functions, and the task or function has a clear basis in law.

Because we need to process special category data (such as information about your health) we also need a basis under Article 9 GDPR. This is:

Article 9(2)(h): processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health.

Who do we share your information with?

The information we use to deliver the Choose You service is held on a customer management system called Theseus provided and hosted by Cyber Media UK. Cyber Media may, on occasion, access personal information for the purposes of maintenance and support.

Cyber Media are a data processor and is bound by strict contractual obligations to process your information in accordance with this privacy notice and not to share, sell or use your data for any other purpose.

In order to monitor and evaluate the success of the service statistical information will be shared with Bedford Borough Council and Milton Keynes Borough Council.

No personal data will be shared with any third parties.

Where will information be stored?

All information will be stored by Central Bedfordshire Council and / or Cyber Media UK in UK data centres and will not be processed or stored overseas.

How long will the information be kept?

Your information will be retained for 2 years from the date of your last contact with the service.

Your rights

More information about your rights in relation to the information about you which is held by councillors or the Council, and who to contact if you have any concerns, can be found in the Council’s main privacy notice. Read Central Bedfordshire Council’s main privacy notice.