Privacy notice – Anti-Fraud and Corruption

What we do

• Before we provide services, goods or financing to you, we undertake checks for the purposes of preventing fraud and money laundering, and to verify your identity. These checks require us to process personal data about you.
• We process your personal data on the basis that it is necessary in the public interest or in exercising official authority for us to prevent fraud and money laundering, and to verify identity, in order to protect ourselves and to comply with laws that apply to us.
• Fraud prevention agencies can hold your personal data for different periods of time, and if you are considered to pose a fraud or money laundering risk, your data can be held for up to six years.
• If we, or a fraud prevention agency, determine that you pose a fraud or money laundering risk, we may refuse to provide the services or financing you have requested, or to employ you, or we may stop providing existing services to you.
• A record of any fraud or money laundering risk will be retained by the fraud prevention agencies, and may result in others refusing to provide services, financing or employment to you. For further information about this, visit: www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.
• Whenever fraud prevention agencies transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area, they impose contractual obligations on the recipients of that data to protect your personal data to the standard required in the European Economic Area. They may also require the recipient to subscribe to ‘international frameworks’ intended to enable secure data sharing.
• Your personal data is protected by legal rights, which include your rights to object to our processing of your personal data; request that your personal data is erased or corrected; request access to your personal data.

What information we collect

The information we collect from you may include your:

• name
• date of birth
• address
• ethnicity
• relationships information
• health information
• financial information
• contact details
• referral/assessment information
• relevant history and case information
• employment details
• device identifiers including IP addresses
• vehicle details
• document images.

Purpose for collecting your data

The personal data you have provided, we have collected from you, or we have received from third parties will be used to prevent fraud and money laundering, and to verify your identity. We and fraud prevention agencies may also enable law enforcement agencies to access and use your personal data to detect, investigate and prevent crime.

Who do we share the data with?

• Police
• Health agencies
• Education providers
• Fraud prevention agencies
• Other local authorities
• Housing
• DWP
• Home Office
• Ofsted
• DBS
• National Anti-Fraud Network (NAFN)

Why we process your data

• Service delivery
• Service improvement
• Prevention and detection of crime and fraud
• Service planning