Privacy Notice - Oldham Enterprise Trust

What this privacy notice is for

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the council’s primary privacy notice at:

This notice provides additional privacy information for:

Applicants to the Oldham Enterprise Fund
Public enquiries for Business Support
Employers and the general public Updating our privacy notices

We may update or revise our privacy notices at any time so please refer to the version published on our website for the most up to date details

What do we use your information for?

We collect your personal information for the following purpose(s):

To progress your application for funding via the Oldham Enterprise Fund (including funding via the Stoller Charitable Trust donation, the Start-Up Loan Scheme, and other funding provided via Growth Company)
To inform business support partners of The Growth Company, People Plus, and Learn Direct to enable them to deliver business support to you
To notify Employers and the general public of business support services and networking events

What categories of personal information do we use?

Personal information can be anything that identifies and relates to a living person. This can include information that when linked with other information, allows a person to be uniquely identified. For example, this could be your name and contact details.

The law treats some types of personal information as ‘special’ because the information requires more protection due to its sensitivity. This information consists of:

Racial or ethnic origin
Sexuality and sexual life
Religious or philosophical beliefs
Trade union membership
Political opinions
Genetic and bio-metric data
Physical or mental health
Criminal convictions and offences

In order to carry out these purposes we collect and obtain the following personal information.

Legal basis for processing

Category of personal data	Special/Sensitive
Racial or ethnic origin
Gender
Disability status
Criminal convictions
Address
Age
Employment status
Telephone number
E-mail address
Eligibility to work in the UK

The legal basis for processing and or sharing your personal information is:

Consent to participate
Marketing purposes: where we have asked and you have consented to receive electronic marketing information about our services (you may withdraw your consent at any time)

Information sharing/recipients

We may share personal information about you with the following organisations/types of organisations:

Oldham Council
Service providers
Local and Central Government

As well as information collected directly from you, we also obtain or receive information from:

Safeguarding
You raise a specific personal issue or concern that requires addressing
You ask us to share your personal data

Data Transfers beyond European Economic Area

We do not transfer any of your personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)

Automated Decisions

All the decisions we make about you involve human intervention

How long do we keep your data?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as the law specifies or where the law does not specify this, for the length of time determined by our business requirements.

We will keep your data for

12 months if you are not successful in your application to the Oldham Enterprise Fund; or
If you are successful, then 60 months from the date of any Grant funding, or 60 months beyond the length of any loan term.

Where can I get advice?

More information on how to seek advice in order to exercise your rights, raise a concern or complain about the handling of your personal information by the council can be found in the council’s privacy notice which can be found at:

Data Protection - web page