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Privacy notice for births, deaths and marriages.
London Borough of Waltham Forest Registration Services: registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships, Nationality Checking Service (NCS), Nationality Document Checking Services (NDRS), European Passport Return Service (EPRS) and Citizenship Ceremonies.
Personal information which you are required by law to provide for registration will be kept by the Superintendent Registrar, Aydin Sipaloglu. A copy of the information you supply will also be sent to the General Register Office (GRO) for England and Wales so that a central record of all registrations can be maintained.
In accordance with the data protection act 2018, we need a "lawful basis" for collecting and using information about you. There are a variety of different lawful bases for processing personal data which are set out in the data protection act.
The lawful basis on which we rely in order to use the information which we collect about you for the purposes set out in this notice will be:
Confidential information for statistical purposes which you are required by law to give to the Superintendent Registrar, and other information provided voluntarily, will be passed to the UK Statistics Authority for the preparation and supply of statistics. As well as providing certificates, the Superintendent Registrar and the GRO may make registration information available to other organizations, for the following purposes:
We are required under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, the Marriage Act 1949 and the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 to keep information. We keep records of civil registration indefinitely as a record to which the public has access.
Personal information which you are required by law to provide for registration will be kept by the Superintendent Registrar, Mrs Julie Coulson. A copy of the information you supply will also be sent to the General Register Office for England and Wales so that a central record of all registrations can be maintained.
A copy of any register entry will be provided to any applicant, provided that they supply enough information to identify the entry concerned and pay the appropriate fee. The copy may only be issued in the form of a paper certified copy (a ’certificate’). An application for a certificate may be made to either the Local Register Office or to the General Register Office.
The General Register Office makes indexes, for the central record for registrations, publicly available in order to help members of the public identify the registration they might need. The Register Office also makes a local index available for this purpose.
Confidential information for statistical purposes which you are required by law to give to the Superintendent Registrar, and other information provided voluntarily, will be passed to the UK Statistics Authority for the preparation and supply of statistics.
As well as providing certificates, the Superintendent Registrar and the GRO may make registration information available to other organizations, for the following purposes:
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
Please see the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
These are included in the relevant section of the Corporate Privacy Notice.
If we’re unable to resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).