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- Email – Guarantee@glasgow.gov.uk
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Phone - 0141 287 7282
Phone line is operational 9:00am to 4:30pm on Wednesdays and Fridays only
Glasgow City Council (GCC) is a local authority established under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Its head office is located at City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU, United Kingdom. You can contact our Data Protection Officer by post at this address, by email at dataprotection@glasgow.gov.uk, and by Phone on 0141 287 1055.
You are giving GCC your personal information to allow us to process your application for employment via the Glasgow Guarantee scheme, which includes National ERI access.
GCC use your information to verify your eligibility for the scheme, your identity where required, and to contact you to maintain our records. GCC may use your information to contact you by post, email or telephone, in relation to the service you have requested, if applicable.
GCC provide these services to you as part of our statutory function as your local authority. You can find more details of our role on our www.glasgow.gov.uk/privacy. Processing your personal information is necessary for the performance of a contract with you (or to take steps to enter into a contract with you) and for compliance with a legal obligation to which the council is subject e.g. Equal Opportunities legislation, Race Relations/Equalities legislation etc.
GCC also need to receive and process more sensitive personal information about you in order to meet our legal obligations in relation to employment, social security and social protection law if, in the initial on-line application process you have passed the eligibility check.
If you do not provide us with the information we have asked for, then we will not be able to provide this service to you.
GCC have the following legal obligations:
GCC may share this information with other public bodies such (and also receive information from these other bodies) for fraud checking purposes.
GCC will also comply with requests for specific information from other regulatory and law enforcement bodies where this is necessary and appropriate.
Your information is analysed internally to help us improve our services. This data sharing is in accordance with our Information Use and Privacy Policy and covered in our full privacy statement on our website. It also forms part of our requirements in line with our Records Management Plan approved in terms of the Public Records (Scotland) Act 2011.
Your data will be shared with any potential employers and also Glasgow Guarantee In Work Support service, if you secure employment. If you have registered with Glasgow Guarantee, we may share your information with Glasgow City Council services and the employability provider who referred you, to offer you other services for support in gaining employment.
This Project benefits from Scottish Government Funding. It is a condition of this funding that the project may be audited by the Scottish Government. Your personal details may therefore need to be shared with the Scottish Government in connection with any such audits.
GCC only keep your personal information for the minimum period amount of time necessary, which is 6 years for the purpose of the Glasgow Guarantee programme. Sometimes this time period is set out in the law, but in most cases, it is based on the business need. GCC maintain a records retention and disposal schedule, which sets out how long we hold different types of information for.
You can view this on our website at www.glasgow.gov.uk/rrds or you can request a hard copy from the contact address stated above.
Objecting to how we may use your information – You have the right at any time to tell us to stop using your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
Restricting how we may use your information – in some cases, you may ask us to restrict how we use your personal information. This right might apply, for example, where we are checking the accuracy of personal information that we hold about you or we are assessing the objection you have made to our use of your information.
This right might also apply if we no longer have a basis for using your personal information, but you don't want us to delete the data. Where this right is realistically applied will mean that GCC may only use the relevant personal information with your agreement, for legal claims or where there are other public interest grounds to do so.
If you have provided anyone else's details on this form, please make sure that you have told them that you have given their information to Glasgow City Council.GCC will only use this information to process your Glasgow Guarantee registration and contact them in an emergency situation.
If they want any more information on how we will use their information they can visit our web site at www.glasgow.gov.uk/privacy or email dataprotection@glasgow.gov.uk.
GCC also use your information to contact you by post, email or telephone regarding the situation relevant to the person being contacted.
GCC aim to directly resolve all complaints about how we handle personal information. If your complaint is about the department please contact us using the complaints procedures in place at https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/complaints.
However, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office, who can be contacted by post at: Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. By phone on 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745. Visit their website for more information at https://ico.org.uk/concerns
For more details on how GCC process your personal information visit www.glasgow.gov.uk/privacy
If you do not have access to the internet you can contact us via telephone to request hard copies of our documents.
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