Community Renewal Fund

Privacy Notice

Hampshire County Council collects information about you as an essential part of the UK Community Renewal Fund bidding process.

We will use the information so that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and Hampshire County Council can contact you regarding your bid and for monitoring purposes. MHCLG and Hampshire County Council may also use it to contact you about matters specific to the Fund.

The legal basis for our use of this information is that processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller; data being processed belongs to business contacts processed during the routine course of business of a government department.

As part of the process of selecting and monitoring the UK Community Renewal Fund Hampshire County Council may share your data with relevant parties to enable us to assess the bids. This could include:

  • Local Enterprise Partnerships
  • Consultants working for Hampshire County Council

As part of the selecting and monitoring the Community Renewal Fund, data will be shared with MHCLG who will share your personal data with the relevant government departments including:

  • Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
  • Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT)
  • Cabinet Office
  • Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland
  • Office of the Secretary of State for Wales
  • Northern Ireland Office
  • Department for Education
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
  • Department of International Trade

If your bid is successful Hampshire County Council and MHCLG will keep your data for up to two years, from the closure of the bidding process. This is currently estimated to be July 2023. As part of the monitoring process, we will contact you regularly to ensure our records are up to date. Should your bid be unsuccessful, we will erase your personal data.

Further information

The above information is the specific privacy notice for this service. For more information about your rights in relation to your personal data, see the County Council’s general privacy notice.

You have some legal rights in respect of the personal information we collect from you. See our Data Protection page for further details.

You can contact the County Council’s Data Protection Officer by email [email protected].

If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office.