Privacy Statements
Eden Academy Trust
GOVERNORS & TRUSTEES
Privacy Notice: General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)
The Department for Education (DfE) collects personal data from educational providers and local authorities. We are required to share information about individuals in governance roles with the Department for Education (DfE), under:
We are required to share information about individuals in governance roles with the Department for Education (DfE) under the requirements set out in the Academies Financial Handbook academy trust handbook
Requesting access to your personal data
Under data protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information about you that we hold. To make a request for your personal information, contact Mrs Gillian Slimings, Chair of Trustees.
You also have the right to:
- ask us for access to information about you that we hold
- have your personal data rectified if it is inaccurate or incomplete
- request the deletion or removal of personal data where there is no compelling reason for its continued processing
- restrict our processing of your personal data (i.e. permitting its storage but no further processing)
- object to direct marketing (including profiling) and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics
- not be subject to decisions based purely on automated processing where it produces a legal or similarly significant effect on you
If you have a concern or complaint about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at Information Commissioner’s Office.
For further information on how to request access to personal information held centrally by the Department for Education (DfE), please see the How Government uses your data‘’ section of this notice.
Withdrawal of consent and the right to lodge a complaint
Where we are processing your personal data with your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent. If you change your mind, or you are unhappy with our use of your personal data, please let us know by contacting Mrs Gillian Slimings, Chair of Trustees.
Contact
If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please contact: Mr Neil Nottingham, CEO
How government uses your data
The governance data that we lawfully share with the Department for Education (DfE) via GIAS will:
- increase the transparency of governance arrangements
- enable local authority maintained schools, academies, academy trusts and the Department for Education (DfE) to identify more quickly and accurately individuals who are involved in governance and who govern in more than one context
- allow the Department for Education (DfE) to be able to uniquely identify an individual and in a small number of cases conduct checks to confirm their suitability for this important and influential role
Data collection requirements
To find out more about the requirements placed on us by the Department for Education (DfE) including the data that we share with them, go to https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-database-of-governors
Some of these personal data items are not publicly available and are encrypted within the GIAS system. Access is restricted to authorised Department for Education (DfE) and education establishment users with a Department for Education (DfE) Sign-in account who need to see it in order to fulfil their official duties. The information is for internal purposes only and not shared beyond the Department for Education (DfE) unless the law allows it.
How to find out what personal information the Department for Education (DfE) hold about you
Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 2018, you’re entitled to ask the Department for Education (DfE):
- if they are processing your personal data
- for a description of the data they hold about you
- the reasons they’re holding it and any recipient it may be disclosed to
- for a copy of your personal data and any details of its source
If you want to see the personal data held about you by the Department for Education (DfE), you should make a subject access request (SAR). Further information on how to do this can be found within the Department for Education’s (DfE) personal information charter that is published at the address below:
To contact DfE: https://www.gov.uk/contact-dfe