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Housing Support Service Privacy Notice

Read the privacy notice for Housing Support Service. When you are entering into Housing Support Services delivered by Dudley Council, you will need to provide us with some personal data or information.

You may have been referred to Dudley Council’s Housing Support Service, this service consists of the Generic Housing Support Floating Support Service, Substance Misuse Floating Support Service, Housing Support Intensive Family Support Service, Housing Support Employability Service, the Housing Support Telephone Support Service and Pre tenancy Workshops when looking for advice and support in order to maintain your housing support needs, if appropriate. The purpose of this service is to provide support to residents of Dudley Borough to manage their homes whether they are in council owned properties, private sector rented accommodation or homeowners.

As the 'data controller' for the personal information - or data - we hold about you, Dudley Council decides how your personal information is used/processed, and what it is used for.

This statement provides more details about how the Housing Support Services use your personal data and provides information on how to get in touch with us if you need to know more.

What are your rights?

The lawful basis for processing/using your personal data directly impacts which rights are available to you. For example, some rights will not apply, in this case we are not required to:

•  erase your personal information.
•  enable the right to data portability.

However, you do have the following rights and can ask us to:

•  correct your personal information if it is inaccurate.
•  complete your personal information if it is incomplete.
•  restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information.

If you would like more information on your rights and the exemptions, please see these websites:

Dudley Council
The Information Commissioner’s Office

How can you get in touch with us?

Housing Support

Tel. 01384 812504

Housingsupport.dachs@dudley.gov.uk

Further information

See the Council‘s Corporate Privacy Statement. A hard copy can be provided upon request.

This Privacy Notice may change from time to time and will be subject to annual review.

By regularly reviewing this page you will ensure that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we share it with others.

 

03/04/2025