Privacy notice

We sometimes need to share your information within the council or with other organisations. We will only share your information when necessary and when the law allows us to. We will only share the minimum information we need to. For Council Tax matters we may need to share your information with:

• our Benefits Department to allow them to process and award claims or recover payments
• your Councillor or MP (for example, if you have made a complaint to them about the Council)
• DWP to request deductions from certain benefits or to request additional information about you
• Enforcement Agents, who are under contract with us to recover unpaid Council Tax
• other Local Authorities, as permitted under Regulation 4 of the Council Tax (Administration and Enforcement) Regulations 1992 (S.1.1992/613)
• Policing Authorities for the prevention and detection of a crime
• The Valuation Office Agency, to identify and value properties to be entered into the Council Tax list
• The Valuation Tribunal Service, to determine appeals

We may also share your information with other individuals and organisations. For example, if the sharing would help with a safeguarding issue, or help prevent a crime. Sometimes, we share your information without your knowledge. We will never sell your information to anyone else.

By law we must give out some information if we are asked - for example by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) or HM Revenue and Customs.

We are required by law to join in National Fraud Initiative (NFI) data matching exercises.