Food Standards Scotland (FSS) is known as the ‘Controller’ of the personal information provided to us.
What information do we hold?
We hold your personal Information on the application for appointment as an OV-HoP which may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, and details of your professional qualifications.
Why we need it?
We need to collect this information for the purposes of vetting and processing your application and maintaining your details once appointed OV-HoP.
We do this to enter into and carry out the contract between us. We will not collect any personal data from you which we do not need.
Providing us with this information is a contractual requirement and failure to provide the information, or provision of inaccurate information, could result in us not being able to provide you with a contract, administering your role, or removing your existing appointed status.
What we do with it?
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to carry out these functions, and in line with our retention policy. This means that this information will be retained for as long as you are appointed as an OV-HoP, and six years from the date you cease to be appointed. If your application is unsuccessful, we will also maintain a record of your information for a period of one year.
FSS has put in place appropriate and adequate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information. FSS data is located within the European Union. Our cloud based services procured through the government framework agreements, and assessed against the national cyber security centre cloud security principles.
What we may also be required to do with it
Food Standards Scotland may sometimes share data with other government departments, public bodies, such as Local Authorities, and organisations which perform public functions to assist them in the performance of their statutory duties or when it is in the public interest.
We use or work with contractors and other third-party service providers, such as IT service providers, who will process your personal data on our behalf. These third parties can only process your personal data on our instruction or with our agreement for specific purpose to enable us to maintain, improve and provide our services in order to fulfil our statutory obligations and tasks carried out in the public interest.
Your rights
You have a right to see the information we hold on you by making a request in writing to the email addresses below. If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to have it corrected. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your information, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your information in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at: www.ico.org.uk.
Our Data Protection Officer at Food Standards Scotland is the Interim Director of Policy, Science, Finance and HR who can be contacted at the following email address: dataprotection@fss.scot
Last updated: 26 March 2020
