The Public Health team at Devon County Council are committed to supporting individuals and families affected by alcohol and other drug use. We aim to reduce alcohol and drug related harm and improve individual and community health and wellbeing. In order to achieve our aim, it’s necessary that we collect insights from members of the public who wish to participate in our survey.

Please be aware, if you’ve given consent to share your contact information to support our survey, we’ll store it for up to 2 years. The purpose of storing your contact information on our records is so we can contact you to better understand your view. Your insight will support us to ensure we commission and deliver Public Health Services which are as inclusive and effective as possible.

Devon County Council (DCC) is collecting and or processing your personal data as a Data Controller under Data Protection Legislation and our ICO registration number is Z6475582. This privacy notice concerns the processing of personal data that takes place in Public Health Devon.

The below notice provides further detail on the information we collect, why we collect it and how we keep it secure. It also explains your rights and our legal obligation. Should you wish to find out more about Devon County Council’s data protection policies please email: keepdevonsdatasafe-mailbox@devon.gov.uk

We will notify you of any changes to this privacy notice

This privacy notice was last updated April 2025. If we use your personal data for any new purposes, updates will be made to the policy information and changes communicated, where necessary in accordance with current data protection legislation. Any queries relating to this privacy notice please contact the Data Protection Officer

What information are we processing?

We may collect, store or otherwise process information about you which may include:

age, gender, location of residence (first part of postcode), ethnicity and disability.
health data – experience of substance misuse or substance misuse service.

Purpose of collecting or processing your personal data

DCC may need to collect or otherwise process your personal data so that we can:

determine whether the survey response is representative of Devon’s population
identify any differences within survey responses between different groups in the population
identify different ways to commission and deliver Drug and Alcohol Public Health Services

The legal basis for us collecting your personal data

Where we are collecting personal data about you for the provision of one of the purposes outlined in this privacy notice, we rely upon your consent:

Article 6(1)(a) – consent, as stated in UK general Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR).

Personal data that is collected for any of the purposes outlined in this notice is never used for direct marketing purposes and is not sold on to any other third parties.

Recipients or categories of recipients that we may share your personal data with

If we feel that it is necessary to share your personal data with professionals to ensure you or someone you work with is safeguarded from harm, we rely upon the provisions of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 and Children Act 1989 & 2004.

We may also need to share some personal data about you, so that we can support third party organisations to discharge their regulatory requirements. This includes organisations such as;

the data protection regulator (the Information Commissioner’s Office)
the Care Quality Commission

How long will we hold your personal data?

Devon County Council will retain your personal data for 2 years.

Your data protection rights

Under Data Protection Legislation, you have the right to obtain a copy of their personal records held by us, this is called a Subject Access Request (SAR).

Further details on your rights under data protection legislation and how to exercise them.

International transfers

The information you provide us will not be subject to international transfer.

Complaints

If you have any comments, queries or complaints about this privacy notice or the processing of your personal data please email : keepdevonsdatasafe-mailbox@devon.gov.uk

Alternatively, if you are not happy with the way that DCC is handling your personal data, you are entitled to appeal to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO). The Information Commissioners Office enforces and oversees the Data Protection Regulations.

Contact details are below:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Email: casework@ico.org.uk

Automated decisions

Devon County Council does not propose to make automated decisions using your personal data for any of the purposes outlined in this notice.