Guidance

Farming Recovery Fund privacy notice

Published 18 July 2024

Applies to England

Farming Recovery Fund privacy notice relating to personal data collection to enable scheme payments.

1. Purpose for Processing

To allow RPA to administer the Farming Recovery Fund scheme and make compensation payments.

We process the personal data necessary to provide support to businesses affected by weather related events. Farmers in affected areas who have suffered uninsurable damage to their land are identified and compensation paid through the Farming Recovery Fund, towards reinstatement costs to bring land back to productive use.

2. Why we are able to process your personal data

The law allows us to process your personal data under article 6(1)(e) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). We are allowed to process personal data when we need to carry out a public task.

3. What personal data we process

The information that we collect and process is:

• customer registration information
• information on claims and payments
• details of anyone who acts for you, for example an agent

We may process your personal data including your email address in any questions or feedback you send to us. We may also use your information to contact you about future grants and updates to farming policy that would be relevant to you.

Defra may like to contact you with a follow-up survey or interview to evaluate the Farming Recovery Fund. They would use the main contact details held by RPA for this scheme.

4. Your responsibility with other people’s personal data

If you’ve included personal data about other people in your records, you must tell them. You must provide them with a copy of this privacy notice so that they know how their personal data will be used.

5. Where your personal data is stored

We store, transfer and process your personal data on our servers in the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU).

6. How long we keep your personal data

We keep your information for 7 years.

Please refer to our Personal Information Charter and the section ‘How long we will keep data’ for information on any potential exceptions.

7. Who we share your personal data with

Alongside Defra and RPA we will share this information with:

• Environment Agency
• Natural England
• Forestry Commission
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• Scottish Government Rural Payments and Inspections Directorate
• Welsh Government Rural Payments Wales

8. Your rights

Read our Personal Information Charter to find out your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018).

9. How to make a complaint

If you have concerns about how RPA uses your personal data, please read how to get in touch or make a complaint.