Compliance
Compliance
Buckden Parish Council - Privacy Notice
We take the privacy of your data seriously. You have a right to know what information we collect and how it is protected and used.
Buckden Parish Council aims to collect and use your personal data only in ways that you would reasonably expect. Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’).
Collecting Information
We might obtain your information when you:
take part in activities that we run;
donate to us;
communicate with us;
volunteer as a helper with us;
work for us;
exchange e-mails with us;
visit us.
The information we hold about you may include (as applicable) your:
name;
date of birth;
residential address;
contact details, such as email addresses and phone numbers;
invoicing information;
payment processing information;
employment details;
We comply with the GDPR obligations by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data.
Using your data
We use your personal data to:
enable us to run Buckden Parish Council;
manage our employees and volunteers;
maintain our own accounts;
inform you of village news and of events, activities and services relating to Buckden Parish
respond to communications from you;
carry out our legal obligations;
keep a record of our relationship with you;
Sharing your personal data
We will not sell your personal data. We will not share it with any third parties other than as is required to fulfil legal and regulatory obligations.
Keeping your data safe and retention periods
Access to personal data in our possession is strictly controlled. It is stored and destroyed securely.
We will store your data for a maximum of six years after your relationship with us ends unless a longer timescale is required to comply with legal, operational or historic archive requirements.
Your rights
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have, in respect of your personal data, the right to:
request a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
request us to correct your personal data, if found to be inaccurate or out of date;
request that we erase your personal data where it is no longer necessary for us to retain such data;
withdraw your consent to the processing by us of your personal data;
request a restriction is placed on further processing, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data;
request a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details below. If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO).
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
Further Processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose not covered by this Privacy Notice, we will provide an updated notice explaining this prior to commencing the processing. Where necessary we will seek prior consent to the new processing.
Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints, please in the first instance contact as follows:
Email: clerk@pc.buckden.org
Post: Clerk to Buckden Parish Council, Wood View, Buckden, Nr Skipton, Nth. Yorks, BD23 5JA
We will deal with your request within 30 days of receipt. We reserve the right to request suitable proof of identity.
Buckden Parish Council October 2024
Data Protection Registration No: ZB789135
This accessibility statement applies to www.pc.buckden.org
This website is run by Buckden Parish Council]. We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
change colours, contrast levels and fonts using browser or device settings
zoom in up to 400% without the text spilling off the screen
navigate most of the website using a keyboard or speech recognition software
listen to most of the website using a screen reader
We’ve also made the website text as simple as possible to understand.
We have sought to ensure that this web-site is accessible including the following elements:
Alternative text on images
Support for mobile devices
Page overflow on zoom in
Provision of skip elements
Website functionality available using a keyboard only.
A logical page structure
Descriptive Page titles
Descriptive links
Readability of content
Avoiding use of colour to convey meaning
Sufficient colour contrast
Avoiding seizure triggers
However:
Legacy PDF documents may not be fully accessible to screen reader software
There is a small number of other minor issues mainly associated with certain frame titles and field labels
If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact: buckdenclerk@gmail.com
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille, please contact: buckdenclerk@gmail.com
We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 10 days.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS) (https://www.equalityadvisoryservice.com/).
Buckden Parish Council is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
The website has been tested against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA standard.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines version 2.1 (https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/) AA standard, due to the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.
The content listed below is non-accessible for the following reasons.
We are aware that:
some PDFs and other documents do not meet the accessibility standards
there are a small number of defects detected by the accessibility checker which primarily relate to missing screen-reader navigation elements.
Buckden Parish is a very small parish with fewer than 200 residents. The Parish Council therefore has extremely limited resources and has very simple requirements from a website. We have decided to develop the PC website in-house using a free service to minimise the demands on council funds. We believe that, within the limitations of the tools we are using, we have achieved a high degree of accessibility.
The website provides access to a number of legacy documents which are provided for archive purposes. Some of these documents go back to 2006 and these are not within the scope of the accessibility regulations (see below), but in addition, we do not intend to seek to test and rectify any legacy documents as we have assessed that this would be a disproportionate burden, given that they are of limited interest, are retained for archive purposes only and are likely to be accessed very infrequently, if ever. In the unlikely event that a more accessible version of any of these documents were requested, we would of course provide it.
There are a small number of defects primarily relating to missing screen-reader navigation elements which we have not been able to resolve. We do not believe that these issues are material as they do not seem to prevent access to any documents or services using a screen reader. Accordingly, we consider it would be a disproportionate burden on council resources to have to migrate to a commercial platform and support arrangement in order to address these issues.
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services. For example, we do not plan to fix historic meeting minutes.
Any new PDFs or Word documents we publish will meet accessibility standards.
This statement was prepared on 23/09/2024. It was last reviewed on 07/10/2024
This website was last tested on 24/09/2024 against the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. All pages were tested using an automated testing tool. In addition the website was tested using a screen reader.
The testing was carried out by Buckden Parish Council. The audit of the website was carried out to the WCAG 2.2 AA standard.
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