Calderdale Council is registered with the information Commissioners Office (ICO) under the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018. The Council takes its responsibilities under the Act very seriously.

The information provided by you is collected for the purposes of providing your business with an entry on the VisitCalderdale.com website as you have requested and for adding your business to our Tourism Database of local visitor economy businesses. We need to collect this information in order to maintain accurate records of your business so we can:

• Provide you with an accurate web entry on Visitcalderdale.com
• -Email you with relevant information about the local visitor economy (such as invitations to workshops we hold, notifications of grants or funding sources local businesses may be eligible for, etc)
• Maintain and improve the Tourism Team’s understanding of the local visitor economy.

Sharing your information with us constitutes explicit consent from you for us to process your data for this purpose. You may withdraw this consent at any time by writing to tourism@calderdale.gov.uk. In addition you have the right to see what information is held about you, to have inaccurate information corrected, to have information removed from our system unless we are required by law or a statutory purpose to keep it and the right to complain to the Data Protection Officer if you feel that your data has not been handled in accordance with the law.

The Council’s Data Protection Officer is Tracie Robinson and can be contacted at information_management@calderdale.gov.uk

Your details are recorded electronically on our system to maintain up to date records. This information will be kept for a maximum of 5 years; or until such time as the data is reviewed by us and we realise your business has ceased to trade; or it is removed at your request.