General privacy notice

Scottish Welfare fund

We will use the information you give us to administer Crisis Grants and Community Care Grants.

We ask for your email address and phone number/s in case we need to contact you about your application.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us to

confirm that we are using personal information about you, detail what that information, to whom we have disclosed your information and a copy of the information that we have about you (The right of access)
correct any incorrect or misleading personal information that we have about you (The right to rectification)
stop using any or all of your personal information (The right to object)
to delete or destroy your personal information (The right to erasure) and
stop using your personal information until we can look into correcting your personal information or our justification for using your personal information or to stop us deleting your personal data where you need it in connection with any legal claims (the Right of Restriction) and
pass your personal information to someone else

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