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Rail Privacy Notice

Our core data protection obligations and commitments are set out in the organisation’s primary privacy notice.

This notice provides additional privacy information for: individuals who are interested in the transport of freight, carbon reduction and air quality.

Purposes

We obtain your personal information for the following purpose:

  • To communicate with Station/Rail User Groups

Categories of personal data

In order to carry out these purposes we collect and obtain:

  • Personal details

We do not collect, store or use any special category personal information.

Legal basis for processing

The legal basis we rely on for processing your personal information is:

  • The processing is necessary in order to meet one of our obligations under Part II of the Transport Act 1968 or s99 of the Local Transport Act 2008;
  • The processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest; and
  • Marketing purposes: where we have asked and you have consented to receive electronic marketing information about our services (you may withdraw your consent at any time)

If you fail to provide certain information when requested, we may be prevented from complying with our legal obligations (for example, co-operating with the Station/Rail User Groups to promote and improve the social, economic or environmental well-being of Greater Manchester).

Information sharing recipients

We do not share personal information about you with the any other organisations.

Sources of personal data other than the data subject

As well as information directly collected directly from you, we also collect or receive information from:

  • Station/Rail User Groups

Automated decisions

For this processing, all the decisions we make about you involve human intervention

Data retention criteria

Our Retention Schedule outlines how long we retain certain types of information for.

Rights of individuals

You have a right to be informed about how and why your personal information is being processed. This notice fulfils that obligation. You also have a number of other rights.

Information about the following rights is available in our Guide to Exercising Your Rights:
• Contacting our Data Protection Officer;
• Raising a concern with us; and/or
• Making a compliant to the Information Commissioner

Updates

We may update or revise this Privacy Notice from time to time and provide supplementary privacy information as is necessary to TfGM’s current workforce.