Overview
The City of Edinburgh Council provides a range of Housing Services to make sure that we meet our obligations to manage the Council’s Social Housing stock in the way that the law says that we must.
The services we provide are in the following areas:
- Processing applications for social housing
- Management of social housing tenancies, including processing of rent payment, undertaking of repairs and provision of tenants’ support services
- Provision of temporary accommodation, advice and support to homelessness applicants
To deliver these Housing services we need to collect, store, use, share and dispose of personal information. This is known as data processing.
When we collect personal data, we must tell you why we need it, and what we will do with it. This information is called a privacy notice.
This privacy notice explains how we process your personal information for the purposes of providing Housing Services. If this privacy notice changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. 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.
In processing personal information, The City of Edinburgh Council must comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. We refer to this as data protection legislation.
Data controller
Data controllers are the organisations or individuals that determine how your personal information will be processed. By law, data controllers must pay a fee to register with the UK Information Commissioner who is the data protection regulator within the UK.
The City of Edinburgh Council data controller registration number: Z5545409.