What would we use your personal data for?
We use your information to provide you with appropriate support, monitor your progress, to improve our services and analytics for Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authorities.
What information about you would we use?
Depending on how we are interacting with you we will use the following:
- Name
- Address
- Phone number
- Email address
- Date of birth or age
- Employment status
- Number of children
- Current or historic physical health information
- Current or historic sexual health information
- Current or historic mental health information
- Current or historic sexual orientation
- Current or historic gender
- Racial or ethnic origin
- Current or historic religious or other beliefs of a similar nature
We also collect the following information on your next of kin;
- Name
- Address
- Phone number
- Age
- Relationship status to you
We also collect details on others which include;
- Contact details of your GP or HIV clinic
- Contact details of any social worker or health worker where relevant
- Contact details of any schools that are relevant
- Where you are referred to us, who referred you and the nature of that referral
Who will be using your personal data?
METRO will be the main Controller of your information where we provide you with support. Because this service is commissioned by Lambeth, Southwark, and Lewisham Clinical Commissioning Groups and Councils some information may be passed over to them should this service be taken over by another supplier.
In order to send you emails about our services and news we use a system called Mailchimp. This is hosted and maintained by The Rocket Science Group LLC, you can find their Privacy Policy on their website.
What gives us the right to ask for it and use it?
Once you have agreed to receive support through the network your information is collected and used under our legal obligations to provide you care and look after your wellbeing. We only use anonymous information about clients for the purposes of reporting to our commissioner the numbers of people using this service. No identifiable data is passed to the commissioner as part of this reporting.
How long will your data be kept?
Your information is kept for 20 years from the date you finish your support with us.
Our use of your data will be subject to the following legal rights:
- Your right to be informed as to how we use your personal data
- Your right to access personal data we hold and use about you
- Your right for us to rectify your personal data if you believe it is incorrect
- Your right to object to us using your data for specific reasons
- Your right to restrict our use of your data for specific reasons
- Your right to delete any personal data we may use and hold on you
- Your Right to object to any profiling we may do on you
We may also receive personal information about you from others:
Where you are referred to us from another agency we will receive relevant information about you in order to start your support with us. We may verify this information with you and collect additional information as outlined above.
Visit the following links for more information about Privacy Law, our obligations and your Rights:
If you have concerns over the way we are asking for or using your personal data, please raise the matter with our Data Protection Lead by the following means:
Post
METRO Data Protection Lead
METRO Woolwich
1st Floor Equitable House
7 General Gordon Square
London
SE18 6FH
Phone
020 8305 5000
If you still have concerns following our response you have the right to raise the matter with the Information Commissioner's Office:
Post
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Web Contact
Phone
0303 123 1113
For our full privacy notice:
www.metrocharity.org.uk/privacy
Last updated: June 2019