Privacy Policy
What is GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union. The GDPR sets out the principles for data management and the rights of the individual. The General Data Protection Regulation covers all organisations that deal with data of EU citizens.
The Principles of Data Protection
When we process your data we must do so in line with the following principles:
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Privacy Notice
Under GDPR, Women’s Aid Armaghdown must provide you with a Privacy Notice where we outline certain information for example what personal data we use, what purpose(s) we use it for, how long we keep it, to whom we disclose it etc.
You are entitled to receive a copy of our Privacy Notice so please ask for your copy today from your support worker or any other member of staff.
What Lawful Basis Do We Have?
The collection, processing and recording of your information will be in line with the General Data Protection Regulations.
Before we even collect your data we must ensure that we have a ‘lawful basis’ to process it. There are six lawful bases upon which we can rely to process your data:
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What Are Your Rights?
The GDPR enhances your rights in respect of your personal data.
You have a right to:
- ACCESSÂ your data, information, and copies of your data.
- INFORMATIONÂ about our processing of your data, this is detailed in our Privacy Notice.
- RECTIFYÂ your data where it might be incomplete or inaccurate.
- ERASUREÂ of your data in certain circumstances.
- RESTRICTÂ the processing of your personal data.
- OBJECTÂ to the processing of your personal data.
- PORTABILITY:Â to request and reuse your data.
- AUTOMATED DECISIONS:Â Know about and intervene in automated decision making including profiling.
Complaints
You have a right to complain to the relevant Supervisory Authority (Data Protection Commissioner in ROI) (Information Commissioners Office NI) about any of our processing.
For More Information
We have appointed a Data Protection Lead.
You can contact them in respect of the information contained in this leaflet on:
The Data Protection Lead: 028 30250765
Or alternatively in writing to:
The Data Protection Lead
Women’s Aid Armaghdown
7 Downshire Place
Newry
BT34 1DZ