Guidance

Data Science Accelerator privacy notice

Updated 30 January 2019

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The Data Science Accelerator is a capability-building programme which gives analysts from across the public sector the opportunity to develop their data science skills. It started in 2015 and is backed by:

  • Government Digital Service (GDS)
  • Office for National Statistics
  • Government Office for Science and Civil Service analytical professions (statistics, economics, operational research and social research)

This notice sets out how we will use your personal data, and your rights. It is made under Articles 13 and/or 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. What data we collect from you

For all applicants, mentors, hub leaders, and volunteers (such as sift panels), the personal data we collect from you will include:

  • names
  • email addresses
  • department names

When organising events, we will also gather accessibility and dietary requirements that may include health data.

When tracking participants, we will collect information about your role and profession.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is in the exercise of:

  • a public task
  • an official authority vested in the data controller

In this case, that is the Government Digital Service’s cross-government function to build capability in data science among public sector officials.

The legal basis for processing your sensitive personal data is in the exercise of our obligations as the data controller.

2. Why we need your data

The purposes for which we are processing your personal data are:

  • to organise the Data Science Accelerator events
  • to measure the impact of the course by collecting feedback from participants and their line managers after completing the course
  • to track participants once they’ve graduated so that we can see the impact of their development - for example, whether they move into a data science role
  • to ask for support in promoting or running future iterations of the programme

3. What we do with your data

We will share personal data with:

  • sift panellists and mentors from the public sector
  • our data processors who provide email, and document management and storage services (as your personal data will be stored on our IT infrastructure)

4. How long we keep your data

We will keep your personal data for 5 years, to allow us to assess the impact of the course on participants.

5. Where your data is processed and stored

As your personal data is stored on our IT infrastructure, and shared with our data processors, it may be transferred and stored securely outside the European Union. Where that is the case, it will be subject to equivalent legal protection through the use of Model Contract Clauses.

6. Your rights

You have the right:

  • to object to the processing of your personal data
  • to request information about how your personal data is processed, and to request a copy of that personal data
  • to request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay
  • to request that any incomplete personal data is completed, including by means of a supplementary statement
  • to request that your personal data is erased if there is no longer a justification for them to be processed in certain circumstances (for example, where accuracy is contested) to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted
  • to object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes

If you have any of these requests, get in contact with our Data Protection Officer.

7. Changes to this notice

We may change this privacy notice. When we make changes to this notice, the ‘last updated’ date at the beginning of this page will also change. Any changes to this privacy notice will apply to you and your data immediately. If these changes affect how your personal data is processed, GDS will take reasonable steps to make sure you know.

8. Questions and complaints

The data controller for your personal data is the Cabinet Office.

Public enquiries
Correspondence Team
70 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2AS

Email: publiccorrespondence@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Telephone: 020 7276 1234

Contact the data controller’s Data Protection Officer if you either:

  • have any questions about anything in this document
  • think that your personal data has been misused or mishandled
  • want to make a subject access request (SARS)

Data Protection Officer

Cabinet Office
70 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2AS

You can also complain to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator.

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

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