Strangeways and Cambridge area Enterprise Project

This privacy notice relates to Strangeways and Cambridge Street Enterprise Project and its aims to support local businesses to prosper and thrive. This project falls under the Council’s Work and Skills Service and we work with Salford City Council to deliver this project.

This privacy notice explains what personal information is collected, what it is used for and who it is provided to. The notice also describes why the Council requires your data, and the legal basis on which it does this. It provides additional information that specifically relates to this particular service, and should be read together with our general privacy notice.

Where you have opted in to receive support from us we collect and use personal information about you, including your name, ethnicity, health status, home and business addresses, date of birth, email, phone number, National Insurance number, gender, and employment status. We also gather business-related details such as your company registration number, industry type, the support you’ve requested or received, and your feedback on the outcomes.

To assess the effectiveness and take up of our information service and to identify the types of users so that it can be better tailored to meet the needs of our partners, local businesses and residents.

We may send you information about events and activities, but we will only do this with your consent. You can opt out any time.

We will only use your personal data where it is necessary and we are under a legal obligation to do so (Art 6(1)(c) of the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR)), or where it is necessary in order to perform our public tasks and duties as a Local Authority (Art 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR).

We rely on your consent under Article 6 (1) (a) of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (‘UK GDPR’) where this applies to information about events and activities that you have subscribed to receive.

Any personal information we hold about you will come directly from you. We may receive information, such as updates, about you from our providers where you have engaged with them e.g. agreed to attend a training course.

Information is shared between Manchester City Council, Salford City Council and The Greater Manchester Combined Authority, as our partners for the project, for monitoring and performance purposes as required for the Local Growth and Place Flexible Grant Funding Agreement.  Information may also be shared with a relevant third-party provider to directly arrange for the business support that we have discussed with you.

Our retention schedule sets out how long we keep personal information for.

You can find out more about your rights regarding the personal information used for this service. Your rights apply to the information held by the Council as a data controller, and the information we hold on behalf of the other data controllers.

If you have any questions or concerns about how we use your personal information, please contact the Council’s Data Protection Officer.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you're unhappy about how we process your information.