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ENL privacy notice

The purpose of processing

Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Council and the Joint Air Quality Unit (JAQU), that is composed of parts of the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Department of Transport (DfT), and are acting as Joint Controllers to ensure that people who are likely to be affected by the introduction of Clean Air Zones have sufficient warning of it coming into place. Therefore, we have instructed the Driving and Vehicle Licencing Authority (DVLA), as Processors, to notify vehicle keepers of this ahead of the launch of the B&NES Clean Air Zone.

Data subjects

Registered vehicle owners

Personal data

We will use your VRM and registration details held by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), which include your name and address.

How is it used?

VRMs captured in Bath by the ANPR system will be passed to the Joint Air Quality Unit of Defra, they will determine whether or not your vehicle would be subject to enforcement action using data provided by the DVLA and the DVLA will send you an ENL.

Profiling and automated decision making

Not applicable

GDPR condition relied upon for processing personal data:

Article 6.1 e - Exercise of official authority
The monitoring and identification of contraventions of Part III and Schedule 12 of the Transport Act 2000 and Parts 2 and 6 of The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement)(England) Regulations 2013 pertaining to Bath's Clean Air Zone Charging Order.

GDPR condition relied upon for processing special category data

Not applicable

Sharing of personal data with external recipients

The data captured by the ANPR system will be shared with the DVLA for the purposes of vehicle identification and qualification.

How long is the personal data retained by the Council?

Information is only retained for the time taken to issue of an ENL.

Questions or concerns?

Please email data_protection@bathnes.gov.uk 

Appeals to the Information Commissioner’s Office

If you are unhappy about the way we have treated your personal data, or feel we have not properly respected your data subject rights, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and tell them about this.

You can also contact the ICO by phone on 0303 1231113.