Data protection
We have to keep your personal information confidential and process it fairly. This means being clear about what information we hold, who we share it with and how you can see it.
Accessing your data
Subject access requests – how to submit a request and what to expect from the council
Sharing your data
We share information between council services, external organisations like the Home Office and with the Audit Commission. This is to prevent crime – we never disclose data unless it is lawful to do so.
Use and protection of data
Different Council departments use different systems to manage and monitor their services and have produced Data Privacy Notices to set out how they use and protect your personal information:
Adult care
- Adult Care Forums: Data Privacy Notice
- Adult Social Care: Financial Assessment and Benefits Data Privacy Notice
- Adult Social Care: Privacy Notice
- Adult Social Care retention schedule
- Charles Clore Court Data Privacy Notice
- Community Reablement Team Data Privacy Notice
- Drug and Alcohol Team: Data Privacy Notice
- Food Groups and Reading Food Partnership Data Privacy Notice
- Learning Disability Day Service Data Privacy Notice
- Oracle Fusion Data Privacy Notice
- Places of worship and community groups data privacy notice
- Respite Data Privacy Notice
- Shared Lives: Data Privacy Notice
- The Maples: Data Privacy Notice
Business
- Business rates (NNDR) and BIDS privacy notice
- Food Safety and Health: Data Privacy Notice
- Licensing Authority: Data Privacy Notice
Council
- Access and Disabilities Working Group: Data Privacy Notice
- Channel: Data Privacy Notice
- CitizenLab privacy notice
- Citizens panel privacy notice
- Committee Services: Data Privacy Notice
- Consultations: Data Privacy Notice
- COVID 19 Data Privacy Notice
- COVID 19 Community Testing Booking System Data Privacy
- Customer Relations and Information Governance Team: Data Privacy Notice
- Electoral Services: Data Privacy Notice
- Employees: Data Privacy Notice
- Funding for Voluntary Organisations: Data Privacy Notice
- Homes for Ukraine Scheme Privacy Notice
- Insurance: Data Privacy Notice
- Job Applicants: Data Privacy Notice
- Local Land Charges Privacy Policy
- Local Track and Trace Privacy Notice
- Mayoralty: Data Privacy Notice
- Reading Play: Data Privacy Notice
- Self Isolation Payment Scheme Privacy Notice
- Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: Data Privacy Notice
- Web Team: Data Privacy Notice
Environment
- Plastic bags and wrappings recycling trial: data privacy notice
- re3 Fair Processing Notice – trade waste trial
- re3 Fair Processing Notice – Marketing
- re3 Fair Processing Notice – recycling centre booking procedure
Housing, benefits and assistance
- Anti-Social Behaviour Team: Data Privacy Notice
- Benefits: Data Privacy Notice
- Corporate Lettings: Data Privacy Notice
- Council Tax: Data Privacy Notice
- Focus House Data Privacy Notice GDPR July 2023
- Homelessness Support Services: Data Privacy Notice
- Household Support Fund: Data Privacy Notice
- Housing and communities – tenant engagement team: data privacy notice
- Housing Building Maintenance: Data Privacy Notice
- Housing Needs: Data Privacy Notice
- Neighbourhood Initiatives: Data Privacy Notice
- Property Development Team: Data Privacy Notice
- Rent Guarantee Scheme – Landlords: Data Privacy Notice
- Tenant Services: Data Privacy Notice
- Tenant Services surveys and consultations: Data Privacy Notice
- Winter Watch: Data Privacy Notice
Leisure
- Events: Data Privacy Notice
- Libraries: Data Privacy Notice
- Reading Sports Aid Fund: Data Privacy Notice
Life events
- Coroner’s Service: Data Privacy Notice
- Cemetery and Crematorium: Data Privacy Notice
- General Register Office: Data Privacy Notice
- Registration service enquiries: Data Privacy Notice
Neighbourhood transportation and street care services
- Abandoned Vehicles
- Allotments: Data Privacy Notice
- Environmental Enforcement: Data Privacy Notice
- Flyposting: Data Privacy Notice
- Household collection assisted and bins: Data Privacy Notice
- Publishing fly-tipping and environmental crime cases privacy notice
- Reading Adopt Your Street (RAYS): Data Privacy Notice
- Skip permit: Data Privacy Notice
Planning
- Emergency Planning: Data Privacy Notice
- Emergency Response: Data Privacy Notice
- Planning: Data Privacy Notice
- Regulatory Services: Data Privacy Notice
Transport
- CCTV Surveillance Including Bus Lane Enforcement: Data Privacy Notice
- Network Management (Transport and Street Care): Data Privacy Notice
- Parking Services Data Privacy Notice
Some of our departments produce notices explaining how they use and protect your data.
Last updated on 23/09/2024
Data protection