General privacy notice

Coronavirus Business Support Fund - Tenant/Occupier Grant Fund

You are giving us your and other people’s personal information to allow us to determine whether your business is eligible to receive funding from the Coronavirus Support Fund, 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. South Lanarkshire Council is administering the Scottish Government Coronavirus Business Support Fund.

By submitting the information about other people, you are confirming that you have complied with the requirements of data protection laws in relation to that person.

Information sharing

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 partners such as Business Gateway 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.

Your information will be shared with the Scottish Government for the purposes of determining your application and administering it.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us to:

tell you that we are using personal information about you, tell you what that information is and who we have shared it with. You can also ask us for a copy of the information we have about you. This is called the right of access.
correct any wrong or misleading personal information that we have about you. This is called the right to rectification.
stop using any or all of your personal information. This is called the right to object
delete or destroy your personal information under certain circumstances. This is called the right to erasure.
stop using your personal information until we can correct your personal information, give you our reasons for using your personal information or stop us deleting your personal data if you need it in connection with any legal claims. This is called the right of restriction.
pass your personal information to someone else under certain circumstances. This is called the right to data portability.

For more information on how we use and handle your information and rights and how to exercise them and how to make a complaint you can ask for a copy of the council’s explanation from our Data Protection Officer by email to dp@southlanarkshire.gov.uk or see our general privacy notice.