Privacy Policy

This notice sets out how we will use your personal data, and your rights. It is made under Articles 13 and/or 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR).

Your data
We will process some or all of the following personal data:
Name, address, email address, date of birth, employment history and achievements, diversity information, political involvement, political donations, place of domicile for tax purposes.

Purpose
The purpose(s) for which we are processing your personal data will include some or all of the following:
Processing nomination forms
Vetting to assess propriety/suitability following nomination to the House of Lords
Providing advice on general enquiries

Legal basis of processing  
The legal basis for processing your personal data is as follows:
Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller following the creation of the House of Lords Appointments Commission by the then Prime Minister in May 2000. It is an advisory non-departmental body.

Recipients
As your personal data will be stored on our IT systems it will be shared with our data processors who provide email, and document management and storage services to us. It will also be shared with other public bodies for vetting purposes.

Retention
Your personal data will be retained by us in order to inform the Commission in its work assessing nominations. Nominations forms will be deleted within three months of confirmation that the individual will not be considered as a cross- bench peer. Some of your data, specifically name, address, date of birth, and whether you are politically active, and nomination forms/interview notes of successful candidates may be retained for up to twenty years in order for the Commission to maintain a record of past applicants.

Your rights
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
You have the right to request information about how your personal data are processed, and to request a copy of that personal data.
You have the right to request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay.
You have the right to request that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement.
You have the right to request that your personal data are erased if there is no longer a justification for them to be processed.
You have the right in certain circumstances (for example, where accuracy is contested) to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted.
You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes.

Complaints
If you consider that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113
casework@ico.org.uk

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.

Contact details
The data controller for your personal data is the Cabinet Office. The contact details for the data controller are:

Cabinet Office
70 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2AS
0207 276 1234
publiccorrespondence@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

The contact details for the data controller’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) are:
Stephen Jones
DPO
Cabinet Office
70 Whitehall
SW1A 2AS
dpo@cabinetoffice.gov.uk