Privacy notice

Smokefree City & Hackney collect and store personal data about you in order to support you to quit.

Whittington Health NHS Trust is the data controller for Smokefree City & Hackney and will process your data in accordance with the regulations that apply to:

Article 6 (1)(e) and Article 9 (2)(h) of The General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) / Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA18)

The Trust is also required to produce datasets to submit for commissioning purposes by Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and national collections from NHS Digital. Your data may be provided in accordance with one or both of the above regulations. No personal data is shared with these organisations.

In cases where your personal data is needed for reasons other than those already stated, your explicit consent will be sought prior to processing.

Your data will be stored on secure Whittington Health NHS Trust systems and servers based in the UK and will not be transferred outside the EU.

Your data may be shared with our health or social care partners should they be involved or required to be involved in providing care or treatment to you.

If you have been referred to the service, it may be that your referrer will be informed of your progress, including attendance, service completion and outcomes.

You have the right to object to your data being used for the research, planning and running of the NHS via the National Data Opt-out programme as well as your ‘right to object’ under Article 21 of the GDPR/DPA 18.

Further details on data collection can be found on the NHS Digital website and more information on CCGs can be found on the NHS England website.

Records will be retained as per the guidance set out in the Records Code of Practice for Health and Social Care 2016.

You can contact the Data Protection Officer at InformationGovernance.Whitthealth@nhs.net or tel 020 7288 3077.

If you are dissatisfied with the service you have been provided and have exhausted the Trust’s complaints process, you can refer any complaints to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) or telephone them on 0303 123 1113.

Last updated 21st April 2022

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