Privacy notice

The purpose of this document

This privacy notice explains how the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), as a 'data controller', processes personal data for the 'DBT domestic licensing' service on GOV.UK.

This notice is supplemented by our main privacy notice which provides further information on how DBT processes personal data, and sets out your rights in respect of that personal data.

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Information sharing

In addition to the open publishing of company director names, we may share personal data you provide:

  • with other government departments, public authorities, law enforcement agencies and regulators
  • with other third parties where we consider it necessary in order to further our functions as a government department
  • in response to information requests, for example, under Freedom of Information (FOI) law or the Environmental Information Regulations (EIR)
  • to a court, tribunal or party where the disclosure is necessary in order to exercise, establish or defend a legal claim
  • where we are ordered to do so or where we are otherwise required to do so by law
  • with third party data processors as governed by contract

You can find out more detailed information about how we share data and further processing in the main privacy notice.

How long will DBT hold your data for

DBT will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

Your rights

You have a number of rights available to you under UK data protection legislation, including:

  • the right to request copies of the personal data we hold about you
  • the right to request that we rectify information about you which you think is inaccurate or incomplete
  • the right to request that we restrict your data from further processing (in certain circumstances)
  • the right to object to the processing of your data (in certain circumstances)
  • the right to data portability (in certain circumstances)
  • the right to request that we erasure your data (in certain circumstances)
  • the right not to be subject to a decision based on solely automated data processing

You can contact DBT's Data Protection Officer for further information about how your data has been processed by the department or to make a complaint about how your data has been used. Please contact: data.protection@businessandtrade.gov.uk

You can also submit a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at:

Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Website: https://ico.org.uk/

Telephone: 0303 123 1113

You can find out more about your rights as a data subject, and details of how to contact our Data Protection Officer and the ICO in our main privacy notice.