How and why Avon Pension Fund is using your personal information
The Avon Pension Fund (APF) is surveying its members for their views on investments including investments in aerospace and defence companies.
We are contacting a representative sample of members to invite you to take part in this survey. There is no obligation to take part, however it will help us greatly if you choose to do so. APF is contacting all selected members via email addresses which have been provided to us by you for the administration and management of your pension.
Please see APF’s full privacy notice for more information about how we use your personal data and your data protection rights.
About the survey
In preparing the survey APF have used gender and age details to select a representative sample of the Fund’s membership to take part in the survey. Members from each category of age and gender have been selected randomly.
Selected members are being asked to take part in the survey by accessing a third-party portal operated by Prevision Research. No personal data will be disclosed by APF to Prevision Research. You will be asked to confirm gender and age as part of the survey. This data will be used for the analysis and reporting of the survey results only and all results will be anonymised.
Prevision Research is Market Research Society (MRS) Fair Data accredited, UK GDPR compliant and abides by the MRS code of conduct. More details about Prevision can be found on their website https://www.previsionresearch.co.uk/privacy-policy/
Legal basis
Our lawful basis for collecting or using personal information to survey members in line with our fiduciary duties is:
Public task – the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. All your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure and the right to portability.
How long is the personal data retained
All data collected for the purposes of conducting the survey will be destroyed by APF and Prevision Research on completion of the survey and once the results have been published. The anonymised results of the survey will be presented to APF’s committee and form part of a report pack published on Bath & North East Somerset Council’s website: https://democracy.bathnes.gov.uk/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=212
Questions or concerns
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal data, please email Avon Pension Fund APF_governance@bathnes.gov.uk or contact us at:
Avon Pension Fund
Bath & North East Somerset Council
Lewis House
Manvers Street
Bath
BA1 1JG
You may also contact our data protection officer at: i-west@bathnes.gov.uk
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113