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Resident Travel Scheme Privacy Notice

Resident Travel Scheme Privacy Notice

City of York Council (CYC) current data protection notification is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) - reference Z5809563.  We regularly review this privacy notice, and it was last updated in November 2023.

CYC is committed to ensuring that personal data is handled in accordance with the principles set out in data protection legislation and guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

This privacy notice tells you what to expect when we collect personal information about you, when you take part in the Resident Travel Scheme.

However, the information we will process about you will vary depending if you apply for free bus travel, a discount on a cycle/equipment purchase or free initial use of the car club.

CYC is the controller for this information unless we specifically state otherwise in this privacy notice.

You can contact the council’s Data Protection Officer by email: information.governance@york.gov.uk, on telephone: 01904 554145, or by post at:

Data Protection Officer
City of York Council
West Offices
Station Rise
York
YO1 6GA

This privacy notice should be read in conjunction with other relevant CYC privacy notices and/or policies and procedures.

We get information about you from the following sources:

  • directly from you when you apply for free bus travel, a discount on a cycle/equipment purchase or free initial use of the car club

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To encourage sustainable travel, City of York Council occasionally offers a period of free bus travel in York, a discount on a cycle/equipment purchase or initial free use of the car club. This is specifically for the first residents of some new housing estates/blocks. As a potential applicant you will have been contacted by City of York Council about the offer with information about how the process works, the criteria for applying and what you can apply for.

We ask you for information that is necessary to consider your application such as:

  • your name
  • contact details
  • address and home postcode
  • information relevant to your application

When we identify it is relevant, we may also process certain ‘special category’ data such as:

  • disabilities and/or accessibility

We will also ask you what kind of bus, cycle or car club journeys you intend to make and how you make those journeys now. We will use your home postcode to see where your journeys begin. This will help us understand whether, for everyone taking part, the offer will increase bus use and cycling.

We will also use your contact details to get back in touch with you to get your feedback about whether the bus, cycle or car club offer helped you and whether it affected how you travel.

The above feedback and the information you give in the application form (about how you intend to travel) will also be analysed to produce summary statistics about to what extent this scheme is changing how people travel.

We ask that you:

  • give us accurate information
  • tell us as soon as possible of any changes
  • tell us as soon as possible if you notice mistakes in the information, we hold about you

If you do not provide the personal information requested by us, we may not be able to process your application.

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We do not carry out any automated decision making without any human intervention when you apply for free limited bus travel in York or a discount a cycle/equipment purchase.

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Please see our cookies page for further information about the information we collect automatically when you use our website.

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Any personal data including special category data that we process about individuals is done so in accordance with Article 6 and 9 of the UK GDPR and Schedule 1 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

The legal basis for processing your personal data is in accordance with the following:

  • Article 6(1)(a) - Consent of the data subject
  • Article 6(1)(e) - 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
  • Article 6(1)(f) - Necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests, rights or freedoms of the data subject

The legal basis for processing your special category data is in accordance with the following:

  • Article 9(2)(a) - Explicit consent of the data subject, unless reliance on consent is prohibited by EU or Member State law
  • Article 9(2)(g) - Processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest on the basis of Union or Member State law which is proportionate to the aim pursued and which contains appropriate safeguards

Some of the Schedule 1 conditions for processing special category and criminal offence data require an Appropriate Policy Document (APD) to be in place, that sets out and explains the procedures for securing compliance with the principles in Article 5 and policies regarding the retention and erasure of such personal data. This document explains this processing and satisfies the requirements of Schedule 1, Part 4 of the DPA 2018 and supplements this privacy notice.

Our Appropriate Policy Document provides further information about this processing.

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We will keep your personal data for 6 years and then we will delete or destroy it securely in line with CYC confidential waste/destruction polices.

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We will only share your personal information with other council services as appropriate, for example Finance Services.

We may also share summary statistics with property developers. This will not identify you or individuals.

In some circumstances, such as under a court order or safeguarding, we are legally obliged to share information. We may also share information about you with third parties including our data processors, government agencies and external auditors. For example, we may share information about you with HMRC for the purpose of collecting tax and national insurance contributions.

We will always satisfy ourselves that we have a lawful basis on which to share the information and document our decision making and satisfy ourselves we have a legal basis on which to share the information.

Additionally, we are required under the Public Records Act 1958 (as amended) to transfer records to the City or National Archives (TNA) for permanent preservation. Some of these records may include the personal data of our current and former employees. Full consideration will be given to Data Protection and Freedom of Information legislation when making decisions about whether such records should be open to the public.

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Where we have third parties providing parts or all of our services for us, we will have contracts in place with them.

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We don’t routinely transfer personal data outside of the UK but when this is necessary, we ensure that we have appropriate safeguards in place and that is done in accordance with the UK data protection and privacy legislation.

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We are committed to keeping your information safe and secure. There are several ways we do this, such as:

  • IT security safeguards such as firewalls, encryption, and anti-virus software
  • on-site security safeguards to protect physical files and electronic equipment
  • training for all staff and elected councillors
  • policies and procedures

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To find out about your rights under Data Protection law, you can go to the Information Commissioners Office website (ICO).

See further information about your rights relating to your personal information.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, want to exercise your rights, or if you have a complaint about how your information has been used, please contact us at information.governance@york.gov.uk or 01904 554145, or write to:

Data Protection Officer
City of York Council
West Offices
Station Rise
York
YO1 6GA

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