This privacy statement sets out what you can expect from Cefas when we process your personal information. This is complemented by our personal information charter, which broadly sets out our standards for requesting or storing personal information.

Who are we?

Cefas are the government’s marine and freshwater science experts, working for healthy and productive oceans, seas and rivers and safe and sustainable seafood. Innovative, world-class science is central to our mission. We work to safeguard human and animal health, enable food security and support marine economies.

 

What is the Sustainable Blue Economies (SBE) Technical Assistance Platform?

The SBE Technical Assistance Platform is part of the wider Sustainable Blue Economies Programme, a UK-led programme funded by the UK’s Blue Planet Fund which is financed through the UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) budget. The programme forms an important part of the UK’s global leadership on marine issues, particularly the UK’s call to protect at least 30% of the global ocean by 2030 and the government’s commitments to tackle climate change and the loss of biodiversity globally. 

The SBE Technical Assistance Platform will work with ODA eligible Small Island Developing States to provide demand-led technical assistance to support the development of climate resilient, sustainable blue economies.

 

What data do we collect? 

The information that we collect from you may include:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Organisation
  • Telephone number
  • Occupation
  • Gender (for equality & diversity metrics)
  • Country of residence/Nationality
  • Photograph/Video (e.g. passport details)
  • Some elements of the project will record farm location data 


 

Why are we processing your personal data? 

Details of individuals will be collected in order to contact them about future work plans, and for keeping in touch on progress. Passport details will be needed if travel is to be arranged by the programme for individuals to attend events and work in areas not their home or office base. Gender information will be collected (not attributed to individuals) to provide gender equality metrics for the programme. Where surveys are conducted personal data will be required to link individuals to their responses.

 

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data? 

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Article 6 establishes the legal basis for processing your data as this is necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller. This is due to our joint responsibility with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office for delivering the SBE Technical Assistance Platform.

 

Who will we share your personal data with? 

To ensure the effective delivery, functioning and governance the SBE Technical Assistance Platform we may share your data with our partners only when deemed necessary to support the programme. Currently this includes bodies in the UK such as the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), the National Oceanography Center (NOC), the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), The Met Office and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), as well as bodies in SBE partner countries. We may also be required to share your information with suppliers in order to arrange travel on your behalf. The supplier used will depend on the travel booking and details can be supplied if requested.

 

Will your data be processed in a country outside of the United Kingdom or European Economic Area (EEA)? 

There are no plans to transfer personal data to 3rd countries or international organisations. Personal data may however be processed in 3rd countries under their applicable legal regimes.

 

Will your data be processed using automated decision making or profiling? 

Your information will not be processed using automated decision making or profiling.

 

How long will we keep your data for? 

The SBE Technical Assistance Platform is currently scheduled to run until 31st March 2028. Information will be retained by Cefas for the lifetime of project and an additional 12 months for administrative purposes before deletion. 

 

What are the consequences if I do not supply the requested data? 

If you do not supply the requested personal data, it is more than likely that we will not be able to arrange your participation in the planned activities. 

 

What are my rights to my personal data? 

Your rights and our commitments to your personal data are described in the Cefas Personal Information Charter as well as on the ICO website.

Where processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller, you have the right to:

  • Be Informed when we are processing your information
  • To access and request a copy of the information we hold about you
  • To correct inaccurate or complete incomplete personal data we hold about you
  • To request that we restrict how widely we process your personal data
  • To object to the processing of your personal data
  • To request human intervention where automated decision making or profiling

 

How to get in contact

For day to day use, please look to contact the team you are already communicating with or our Data Protection Team They are best placed to manage general enquiries or to update the accuracy of your data, or provide you with information. However, if they cannot help you, or you have a complaint about how your data is being handled, please use following contacts, making clear which right you wish to exercise:

Contact form: Contact - Cefas (Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science)

 

Complaints

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request and wish to make a complaint, you should write to Tim Green (Senior Information Risk Owner) at the address below, who will arrange for an internal review of your case.

Cefas 
Pakefield Road 
Lowestoft 
Suffolk 
NR33 OHT

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: 

 

Information Commissioner’s Office 

Wycliffe House 
Water Lane 
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113 

casework@ico.org.uk 

 

Any complaint to the Information Commissioner is without prejudice to your right to seek redress through the courts. Should you wish to exercise that right full details are available on the Information Commissioner’s website.