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Privacy notice for food, hygiene and safety.
The Council has a responsibility for a wide variety of activities, including; undertaking food hygiene inspections, investigating food complaints, responding to national food hazard warnings, providing advice to new and existing businesses, investigating of foodborne illnesses, sampling and providing food hygiene courses.
If you have questions regarding this service or our privacy practices, you can contact us by e-mail or in writing at the address below:
Food Safety Team
3 The Square
Leyton
E10 5NR
We collect information from you in the following ways:
If you are a food business operator (FBO), when we register/approve your business we collect the following information from you:
If you are making a complaint about food or food business or you are requesting advice we collect the following information:
When we investigate cases of infectious disease (including food poisoning), we collect the following information:
The Food Safety Team may use your data for the following purposes:
Our legal basis for data processing comes from Articles 6 and 9 of GDPR.
Article 6(1)(c) - processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.
Article 6(1)(e) – processing is necessary for us to perform a task carried out in the public interest or for our official functions.
Article 9(2)(i) - processing is necessary for reasons of public interest in the area of public health.
We rely upon the following laws to process your personal data:
Your personal information may be shared with internal departments or with external partners and agencies these will be primarily the Food Standards Agency, Public Health England and the Health and Safety Executive.
There may be occasions where we share information with other government organisations such as the police, the fire service and CPS and with the Health and Safety Executive; this is a legal requirement under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013.
We will keep your information for as long as it is required by us or other regulatory bodies in order to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or for other operational reasons. In most cases, this will be 6 years (Limitation Act 1980) from the date of the expiry of the information.
Our Data Protection Officer is Mark Hynes. Email: Data.Protection@walthamforest.gov.uk.
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 complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)