Notice

Hydrogen heating industrial survey: privacy notice

Published 1 November 2021

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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 UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).

Your data

We will process the following personal data:

For the person filling out the questionnaire on hydrogen on behalf of their company, we will collect:

  • name of the person
  • role description (technical/engineer, finance, management, business communication, sales and marketing, other)
  • work email address
  • work telephone number

Purpose

The personal data will be used to facilitate further engagement with industrial sites to support planning / scoping / selecting / arranging hydrogen site surveys, hydrogen demonstrations and the enablement of other hydrogen and decarbonisation work by DESNZ employees and suppliers contracted by DESNZ. Within the survey there are 4 subsequent questions that ask whether sites are interested in: having their sites surveyed, supporting potential demonstration work, supporting blending work and/or agree to being contacted by DESNZ related to responses given in the questionnaire. The responses given to those questions will determine whether the personal information collected earlier is used for those purposes.

Though not personal data, any commercial information you provide will be held in confidence and used for research purposes and to plan and scope the next phases of work. The data will not be shared outside the DESNZ Industrial and Hydrogen Teams and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The HSE is working with DESNZ to provide technical and regulatory advice of the strategic decision in 2026. No information gathered from the questionnaire that allows individual businesses to be identified will be made public.

  • consent: you consent to us doing so
  • public task: processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the data controller, such as the exercise of a function of the Crown, a minister of the Crown, or a government department; the exercise of a function conferred on a person by an enactment; the exercise of a function of either House of Parliament; or the administration of justice.

The task is to produce evidence on the safety, feasibility and cost of using hydrogen in industry ahead of a policy decision in 2026 on the strategic role of hydrogen for heating that will inform decisions about the natural gas grid.

Recipients

Your personal data will be shared by us with engineering contractors for the purpose of arranging industrial site surveys or industrial demonstrations. Consequently your personal data will be stored on their IT infrastructure for the purposes of arranging follow on activity.

Retention

Your personal data will be kept by us for duration of the hydrogen heating work (expected to conclude in 2026).

Automated decision making

Your personal data will not be subject to automated decision making.

Your rights

You have the right to:

  • request information about how your personal data are processed, and to request a copy of that personal data
  • request that any inaccuracies in your personal data are rectified without delay
  • request that any incomplete personal data are completed, including by means of a supplementary statement
  • request that your personal data are 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
  • object to the processing of your personal data where it is processed for direct marketing purposes
  • object to the processing of your personal data
  • withdraw consent to the processing of your personal data at any time. This can be done via the following email address: hydrogenheat_i_and_c@energysecurity.gov.uk

International transfers

Your personal data will be processed in the UK.

However, as your personal data is stored on our IT infrastructure and shared with our data processors Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, it may be transferred and stored securely in the UK and European Economic Area (EEA). Where it is the case that your personal data is stored outside the UK and EEA it will be subject to equivalent legal protection through the use of model contract clauses.

Complaints

If you consider that your personal data has been misused or mishandled, you may make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

Email icocasework@ico.org.uk

Contact form https://ico.org.uk/glo...

Telephone 0303 123 1113

Textphone 01625 545 860

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts.

Contact details

The data controller for your personal data is the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ).

Contact the DESNZ DPO:

DESNZ Data Protection Officer
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
3-8 Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2EG

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