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Council Tax

How We Collect and Process Your Personal Information

The Data Controller is the London Borough of Newham and we are responsible for the collection and processing of your personal information. Processing includes the organisation, retrieval, consultation, use and deletion or destruction of information and its disclosure to other agencies.
The information you provide will continue to be processed mainly in connection with the administration, collection and recovery of Council Tax.

Your personal information may however be processed by other council services where appropriate to facilitate the provision of services in respect of any of the council's activities including (but not limited to) benefits, to verify data accuracy, housing, environmental health and care services.

There may be a need to share with external partners and organisations e.g. health and other local authorities or information may be used in the prevention and detection of fraud and crime.

A full list of what information we control and process and for what purposes is set out in the council's data protection notifications filed annually with the Information Commissioner.

All information collected will be processed and held securely under the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998.

For further information on data protection, the Council's use of information sharing, please contact the Information Governance Team on 020 8430 3737 or information.governance@newham.gov.uk.

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