The Returning Officer for Tendring Electoral Area is committed to protecting your privacy rights as a resident and when you use our services.
The Returning Officer has a Data Protection Officer to ensure that we respect your rights and follow the law. In return, to ensure that your information continues to be correct and up to date, we ask you to provide us with accurate information and tell us as soon as possible if there are any changes to this information (for example you change address).
In accordance with Article 6 of the GDPR, the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest (administering of elections) and exercise of official authority vested in the RO (or relevant designation) as set out in the Representation of the People Act 1983 and associated regulations.
Whether you voted in a particular election/referendum, the method by which your vote was cast (for example, at a polling station or by post) but not how or for whom you voted.
If you have been appointed as a proxy to vote on another elector’s behalf.
Your details will be kept in accordance with our legal obligations and published retention periods. Please see the Returning Officer’s Retention Policy for further details.
The verification of postal voters personal identifiers (date of birth and signature) is carried out using specialist scanning software. Where these cannot be automatically verified, manual intervention is conducted by a member of the Returning Officer’s staff.
If you need to make a complaint about how your personal information is being used by the Returning Officer, please provide as much information as possible so that we can conduct an investigation.