How we handle your personal data
The Food Standards Agency is what is known as the ‘Controller’ of the personal data we collect from you or which is provided to us.
When we collect your personal information, we will:
- make sure you know why we need it and why we are legally allowed to hold it
- only ask for what we need, and not to collect too much or irrelevant information
- protect it and make sure nobody has access to it who shouldn’t
- let you know if we share it with other organisations
- make sure we don’t keep it longer than necessary
All the personal data we process is located on servers within the European union. Our cloud based services have been procured through the government framework agreements and these services have been assessed against the national cyber security centre cloud security principles.
Visitors to our websites
This privacy statement only covers Food Standards Agency websites. It does not cover links within our sites to other websites.
The system will record your email address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used for internal review and to notify you about updates to our websites.
Your rights
You have a right to see the information we hold on you by making a request in writing to the email address below. If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to have it corrected. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer who will investigate the matter.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Our Data Protection Officer in the FSA is the Information Management and Security Team Leader who can be contacted at informationmanagement@food.gov.uk
Privacy notices
We provide privacy notices for the following services:
- Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes
- Advisory Committee for Social Science
- Animal Feed, TSES and animal by-products legislation and policy
- Animal Feed Third Country Representation List
- Annual surveillance to monitor levels of acrylamide and furans
- Approved meat establishments and applications for approval
- Better Training for Safer Food courses
- Board Members
- Campylobacter retail survey
- Committee on Toxicity (COT)
- Correspondence regarding policies on food and feed hygiene, safety and standards
- Criminal Investigation and Prosecution Team
- Exception reports for Approved Assurance Schemes
- External complaints against the FSA
- Feed Registrations and Approvals Lists
- Food and feed importers
- Food and You Survey
- Food chain information
- Food contact materials
- Food Hygiene Rating Scheme
- Food incidents
- Freedom of Information and Environmental Information requests
- FSA Consultations
- FSA Evidence Portfolio including Strategic Evidence Fund
- FSA Guest User Access
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Invitation and circulation of information about FSA board meetings
- Policy development records for meat hygiene
- Private Office correspondence
- Procurement contracts
- Procurement tenders
- Records from GM research programmes
- Register a food business
- Register a food business support service for Local Authorities
- Registering as a milk production holding
- Regulating Our Future Newsletter
- Reporting a food problem
- Shellfish sanitary survey data
- Social science research
- Stakeholder contact information
- Stakeholder contact information in Northern Ireland
- Temporary Certificate of Competence and Certificate of Competence
- UK Food Surveillance System
- UK Wine Producers
- Welsh Food Advisory Committee
- Welsh language services
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