Welcome to Stockroom

This privacy policy governs the manner in which Stockroom collects, uses, stores, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the www.stockrm.org website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the site and all products and services offered by Stockroom. Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council is the data controller for this website

We collect your information to:

• To improve customer service
• To personalise user experience
• To improve our Site
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other Site feature
• To send Users information they agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to them.

What types of information do we use?

• Personal identification information
• questions, queries or feedback you leave, including your email address if you contact us
• your email address and subscription preferences when you sign up to our email alerts
• Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.

Cookies

We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilised and other similar information.

Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience (primarily for admins logging-in to manage the site). User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Users may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. We utilise Google Analytics to track aggregate site usage data and do not use any of the information collected to personally identify individual users of the site.

What is the legal basis for using your information? 

In most circumstances, the legal basis for processing your personal data is that it’s necessary: 

• to perform a task in the public interest

Where you have provided consent to allow us to use your data, this can be withdrawn at any time, please contact stockroom@stockport.gov.uk

How we protect your information

We are committed to doing all that we can to keep your data secure. We have set up systems and processes to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure of your data - for example, we protect your data using varying levels of encryption.

Sharing your personal information

The data we collect may be shared with other local authority departments. It may also be shared with our technology suppliers, for example our hosting provider.

We will share your data if we are required to do so by law - for example, by court order, or to prevent fraud or other crime. 

We will not: 

• sell or rent your data to third parties
• share your data with third parties for marketing purposes
• How long will we keep your information?
• Data is retained from year record created + 3 years.

Transferring your information outside of the European Union (EU)

We will not transfer your information outside of the EU.

Automated decisions using your information?

For this service all the decisions we make about you involve human intervention.

Your rights

In our guide on exercising your rights you can find information about how to:

• exercise your rights
• contact our Data Protection Officer
• raise a concern with us
• make a complaint to the Information Commissioner
• You can find out what information we hold about you and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.

Updates

We may update or revise this privacy notice at any time. If you are reading this as a printed copy please refer to https://www.stockport.gov.uk or the most up to date version.

Further information

If you would like further information about this privacy policy or would like us to update or delete the data we hold on you, please email dpa.officer@stockport.gov.uk