North Somerset Council is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. The privacy notice explains how we collect, store, and use your personal data.
Please read carefully, and if you have any questions, contact North Somerset Council’s Data Protection Team using the details provided at the end.
The purpose of collecting this information is to inform North Somerset Council. We do this through consistent gathering of information across all 39 first tiers of local government in North Somerset. This survey form has been provided to allow you to engage in that survey.
We seek your specific comments and feedback on the measures and how they will directly affect you and engage with you.
Please note that your comments and potentially your details may be raised within the council to the extent that it is required to meet the purposes of the consultation or survey.
Parish Councils and their employees participating in the survey process.
We may ask you for details that include:
Any personal data that has been submitted will be received by North Somerset Council who will engage directly with you to explore your comments, concerns or queries.
We will need this information to communicate with you about service development. The information may be shared with other services within the council who may carry out actions to support or engage with you. This may include such services that the council provides, including:
There are no automated decisions in this process.
We process your personal data where required to do so under Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR. This is for a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.
The council uses Snap Surveys Limited to manage and distribute this survey.
Snap Surveys hosts the survey on its platform, who are prohibited from sharing your personal data with third parties.
Snap Surveys only processes the data in line with our instructions and data protection regulations. For further details on Snap’s data handling, please refer to their privacy policy.
Personal data will only be retained for 12 months after survey completion.
Your data will also be stored on our secured internal server and SharePoint system, which have restricted access. Only staff directly involved in processing they survey information will have access to this data.
All systems are protected in line with data protection regulations and council security protocols
Please contact the team conducting this consultation directly or foi@n-somerset.gov.uk or with any questions or concerns regarding your personal data.
If you are unhappy about the way we have treated your personal data or feel we have not properly respected your data subject rights, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and tell them about this. Advice is available on the ICO website.
The ICO may also be contacted on 0303 1231113.