Your data: Public Health Funerals

Service Specific Privacy Notice - Environmental Health Public Health Funerals

This notice contains service specific privacy information and should be read in conjunction with our pages detailing privacy information common to all service areas, such as how to contact the Data Protection Officer, Exercising of Your Rights, Data Storage and Retention and Feedback and Complaints.

Lawful Basis for Processing of Personal Data

The Data Protection Act requires that personal data is collected and processed only where there is a lawful basis to do so. The lawful basis' which applies in this instance are as follows:

• Public Task - processing is necessary for us to perform a task in the public interest and for your official functions, and has a clear basis in law.

Purpose of Processing Personal information

We are collecting your personal data for the following purposes:

• Activities we are required to carry out as a public authority

Personal Data Collected from Third Parties

Please note that the following information:

• Personal details

May be obtained from third parties such as:

• Members of the public such as friends or neighbours of the deceased
• Healthcare, social and welfare organisations such as care homes
• Local and central government such as the coroner's office
• Contractors such as funeral directors

Information Sharing

We may share information with third parties that support the delivery of the services you receive or where we are legally obliged to do so. Information we hold may be shared with the following types of organisation:

• Contractors, for example funeral directors
• Healthcare, social and welfare organisations such as care homes
• Local and central government for example the coroner's office
• Legal representatives and defence solicitors

We will only ever share your information if we are satisfied that our partners or suppliers have sufficient measures in place to protect your information in the same way that we do.

We will never share your information for marketing purposes.

Obligation to Provide Personal Data

Any failure to provide your personal information may prevent or delay us meeting our statutory requirements or in providing you with a timely and effective service.

Automated Decision Making

There are no automated decision making processes used in the provision of this service.