Privacy and data protection

We will keep your information secure and confidential. This means that we will:

• recognise that you are sharing personal information with us and treat it as confidential, as directed by the Code of Practice for Statistics
• only use your information for statistical purposes, or to help us run our surveys
• not publish anything that identifies an individual, household or business
• only hold your information for as long as it is being used for producing statistics
• provide survey information to other government departments, approved organisations and approved researchers for statistical purposes only, subject to the same standards of protection we apply (and according to the provisions of the Data Protection Legislation, the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and the Code of Practice for Statistics
• ensure our staff are aware of their obligations to protect your confidential information
• maintain the security of our systems and our buildings

Access to information

We employ third-party providers to assist us in survey data collection. These third parties work under our instruction, and are strictly used as technical service providers in a capacity as a data processor. We retain your data and control how this is used. The third parties we work with are:

• Google Cloud Platform service
• GOV.UK Notify

Further information

If you have a question about how we process your data or want to find out more about your rights under data protection legislation, see our protection page.