Isle of Anglesey County Council

Access to information complaints


Complaints relating to the Data Protection Act only

Isle of Anglesey County Council has a policy for dealing with complaints relating to the Data Protection Act.

You can use this policy if:

  • you are not satisfied with the way we have dealt with any data protection issue relating to you
  • you have not been able to resolve this by discussing the matter with the council officer dealing with the matter

How to complain

To make a complaint, contact our data protection officer.

Email

DPO@anglesey.gov.wales or SDD@ynysmon.llyw.cymru

In writing

Data Protection Officer
Legal and Committee Services
Isle of Anglesey County Council
Council Offices
Llangefni
Anglesey
LL77 7TW

Tel: (01248) 750 057

When you will get a reply

We must acknowledge your complaint within 30 days, by law. This means that we must confirm that we have had your complaint.

We may need to contact you for more information before we respond to your complaint.

There is no law that says how long we have to give you an answer to your complaint. We are required to give you an answer within a reasonable timescale.

If the investigation into your complaint is going to take longer, we will keep you informed of our progress and try to give you a realistic date when we expect to complete our investigation. We will explain the reasons if there is likely to be a significant delay.

We will also give you details of how to contact us if you have any questions.

Data breach complaints

We will respond more quickly if your complaint is about a data breach which we were previously unaware of.

How we deal with your complaint

We will review all relevant evidence and information to understand what happened and why.

We will compare the information you give us with the information we hold, and check that we have upheld our own procedures, policies and standards.

We will then send you a response in writing to let you know:

  • how we have investigated the complaint
  • what we found
  • what we think needs to be done to resolve the issue

We will provide information to help you understand how we reached our decision. We will also let you know what actions we have taken and about any improvements we intend to make, if that is necessary.

If you are still not satisfied

If you are still not satisfied with the time Isle of Anglesey County Council is taking to deal with your complaint, or with a response, you can contact the Information Commissioner.

About the Information Commissioner

The Information Commissioner is an independent official who upholds information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and protecting individual data privacy.

You can contact the Information Commissioner by sending an email to casework@ico.org.uk

You can also write to:

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

Telephone: 0303 123 1113