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If you have provided to, or updated your details with, Welsh Government’s Rural Payments Wales (RPW) scheme administrators between 2021-2025 then this privacy policy applies to you. If not, please see here.
Field-Survey Privacy Statement (if registered with RPW between 2021-2025)
The Environment & Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) is a Welsh Government project contracted to the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH). It is a successor to the successful Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP). The Programme collects data across the Welsh landscape and links any changes to their impacts on a range of benefits. The programme provides monitoring and evaluation of the Glastir scheme and research supporting policy development. In order to run the evaluation we need to contact you for the purposes of the seeking permission to access your land.
Welsh Government will be the data controller for the personal data used in ERAMMP and UKCEH will be the processors of this information on Welsh Government’s behalf. Your information will be processed as part of Welsh Government’s public task and in exercising its official authority. We will only hold and use information relating to land-owners who own or manage land in survey areas. Your personal data will be used to organise field surveys and the findings of the ERAMMP evaluation process will be summarised with no reference to individuals.
Your personal information will be shared within the relevant parts of the ERAMMP consortium and with third parties directly involved in the delivery of the project, such as contracted surveyors, independent survey quality controllers and our bulk postage company.
Your personal data will be stored on secure systems. Personal, identifiable data shared will only be transferred using existing, accredited secure data transfer systems.
Your personal information will be held only for the duration of the ERAMMP contract after which point UKCEH will ensure a copy is returned to Welsh Government and securely removed from their systems. Welsh Government will hold your personal information for a period of 5 years from the end of the contract in line with its Information retention policy.
Under GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to the personal information you provide us to enable to support you, specifically you have the right:
- To access a copy of your own data
- For us to rectify inaccuracies in that data
- To object to or restrict processing (in certain circumstances)
- For your data to be ‘erased’ (in certain circumstances), and
- To lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is our independent regulator for data protection.
The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office are: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF. Phone: 01625 545 745 or 0303 123 1113. Website: https://ico.org.uk/
Further Information
If you have any questions about the use of data for the ERAMMP project please contact:
Bronwen Williams. UKCEH, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, Gwynedd. LL57 2UK
If you have any further questions about how the data provided will be used by the Welsh Government or wish to exercise your rights using the General Data Protection Regulation, please contact the Welsh Government’s Data Protection Officer at:
Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff. CF10 3NQ
Email: DataProtectionOfficer@gov.wales
If you have not made any claims with the Welsh Government’s Rural Payment Wales (RPW) scheme(s) or otherwise updated or provided your contact details to RPW, then the UKCEH privacy policy below applies to you. If you have provided to, or updated your details with, Welsh Government’s Rural Payments Wales (RPW) scheme administrators between 2021-2025 please see here.
Field-Survey UKCEH Privacy Statement
The Environment & Rural Affairs Monitoring and Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) is a Welsh Government project contracted to the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH). ERAMMP is the successor to the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) and both projects included a national field survey (NFS) which collected data across the Welsh landscape.
ERAMMP provides monitoring and evaluation of the Glastir land management scheme to determine the impacts and benefits of Glastir to support policy development by the Welsh Government. In order to deliver a successful NFS, UKCEH contact land-owners and land managers to seek permission to access their land.
UKCEH will be the data controller and data processor for the personal data you provide for the ERAMMP National Field Survey. Your information will be processed under UKCEH’s legitimate interest in exercising UKCEH’s assigned work.
Your personal data will be held only for the duration of the ERAMMP programme after which UKCEH will erase your personal data from UKCEH systems.
UKCEH will only retain personal data for land-owners and land managers with land within ERAMMP field survey areas. This personal data will be used to organise and execute field surveys. The findings of ERAMMP will not reference individuals.
Your personal information may be shared with third parties directly involved in the delivery of the ERAMMP NFS. This includes ERAMMP consortium members involved in the delivery of the NFS, contracted field surveyors and UKCEH’s bulk postage company.
Your personal data is not shared with the Welsh Government.
Your personal data will be stored on secure systems. Personal, identifiable data will only be transferred using accredited secure data transfer systems.
Under UK data protection legislation, you have the following rights in relation to the personal data you provide us:
- To access a copy of your own data
- For us to rectify inaccuracies in that data
- To object to or restrict processing
- For your data to be erased
- To lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office who is our independent regulator for data protection.
We can only action any of those 5 rights for you where your data is individually identifiable as yours; not where is it anonymised or combined with other data.
The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office are: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF. Phone: 01625 545 745 or 0303 123 1113. Website: https://ico.org.uk/
Further Information
If you have any questions about the use of data for the ERAMMP project please contact:
Bronwen Williams. UKCEH, Environment Centre Wales, Deiniol Road, Bangor, LL57 2UW
If you have any concerns or complaints about how your personal data is being used within ERAMMP, we will try to answer any questions you have. The UKCEH Data Protection Officer can be contacted at email: cehdataprotection@ceh.ac.uk