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Talent Accelerator privacy notice

This notice explains what personal information we hold about you, how we collect it, how we use it and how we share that information.

Who we are

We are part of Kent County Council and we collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as data ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

Personal information we collect and use

Information collected by us

The Talent Accelerator Steering Group meets to help develop talent, skills training, apprenticeships and careers advice to secure growth of the creative industries. Kent County Council provides the Chairman and the secretariat for the steering group.

We collect the following data to enable it to provide the secretariat services for members of the working group or steering group for Talent Accelerator:

  • email addresses
  • organisation details (including names and postal addresses)
  • business telephone numbers (including mobile).

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

We rely on the fact that you (“the data subject”) have given consent to the processing of your personal data for one or more specific purposes as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data.

You may withdraw your consent at any time. If you do withdraw your consent no further personal information will be collected and the existing personal information shall only be retained in accordance with our data protection policy.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Who we share your personal information with

Information is shared with the members of the Talent Accelerator Steering/Working Groups:

  • Artswork Bridge
  • Royal Opera House Bridge
  • Jasmin Vardimon Company
  • Screen South
  • Always Possible
  • Creative & Cultural Skills
  • Ideas Test.

We may share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required to do so by applicable law.

How long your personal data will be kept

We will hold your personal information for as long you are a member of the Steering Group.  If we are informed that you are no longer a member all information will be removed from the Talent Accelerator mailing list.

Your rights

Under GDPR you have rights which you can exercise free of charge which allow you to:

  • withdraw your consent at any time
  • know what we are doing with your information and why we are doing it
  • ask to see what information we hold about you (subject access request)
  • ask us to correct any mistakes in the information we hold about you
  • object to direct marketing
  • make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office

Depending on our reason for using your information you may also be entitled to:

  • ask us to delete information we hold about you
  • have your information transferred electronically to yourself or to another organisation
  • object to decisions being made that significantly affect you
  • object to how we are using your information
  • stop us using your information in certain ways

We will always seek to comply with your request however we may be required to hold or use your information to comply with legal duties. Please note that your request may delay or prevent us delivering Inside Track to you.

For further information about your rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under GDPR.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Contact

Please contact the Information Resilience and Transparency Team at data.protection@kent.gov.uk to exercise any of your rights, or if you have a complaint about why your information has been collected, how it has been used or how long we have kept it for.

You can contact our Data Protection Officer, Benjamin Watts, at dpo@kent.gov.uk, or write to: Data Protection Officer, Sessions House, Maidstone, Kent ME14 1XQ.

GDPR also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted on 03031 231113.

Read our corporate privacy statement.