Car Parks Privacy Notice
Details of what information we collect from you, what we do with it, and who it might be shared with.
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council, Mount Pleasant Road, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 1RS.
Email: dataprotection@tunbridgewells.gov.uk
Telephone: 01892 526121
We collect information from you when you visit tunbridgewells.gov.uk; also when you contact us in writing, provide evidence, speak to us on the phone, by email or any other type of electronic communication, or talk to us face to face.
We collect personal information about you such as name, email address and vehicle registration number. Sometimes we collect other information you may feel is sensitive to you. This might be your age, financial information, or gender, for example.
We collect this information to provide you and other visitors parking facilities. If you do not give us your personal information, we may be unable to provide this service to you.
We use your information to enforce the Parking Places Orders within our car parks. We won't use it for any other purposes without your consent, or without telling you first.
Sometimes we have to give it to other authorities, organisations or people. This would be for the prevention or detection of crime, or because of legal matters, for example. We don't need your consent to do this, but if we can, we'll let you know if we've passed your information on.
We use three software providers, Blue Scorpion, Cale, and RingGo, who will also use your information, but only on our instructions. They won’t use it for any other reasons, and they have to look after it in the same way. You can view their privacy information by clicking here:
- Access – you can request copies of any of your personal information that is held by the council.
- Rectification – you can ask us to correct any incorrect information.
- Deletion – you can ask us to delete your personal information. The council can refuse to delete information if we have a lawful reason to keep this.
- Portability – you can ask us to transfer your personal data to different services or to you.
- Right to object or restrict processing – you have the right to object to how your data is being used and how it is going to be used in the future.
- Right to prevent automatic decisions – you have to challenge a decision that affects you that has been made automatically without human intervention, for example an online form with an instant decision.
We will only keep your information for as long as we need it. Once we no longer need it, we will keep it for a set period (a retention period) but not use it. When the retention period expires, we will delete your information from our records.
See our Retention Schedule for further details.
What security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information?
We are strongly committed to data security and will take reasonable and appropriate steps to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or corruption. We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard the information you provide to us.
We want to ensure any information we hold is accurate. You can help us by promptly informing us of any changes to the information we hold about you.
There are no automated decisions in this process.
If you are accessing online services and are aged 13 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
What are cookies and why are they used?
Cookies are small text files which identify your computer to our servers. They are used to improve the user experience.
View what cookies we use and how you can manage them on our privacy and cookies page.
If you would like to make a complaint regarding the use of your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer:
Email: dataprotection@tunbridgewells.gov.uk
For independent advice about data protection, privacy, and data sharing issues, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at:
Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
Telephone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a national rate number.
Alternatively, visit the Information Commissioner's Office website or email casework@ico.org.uk.