In applying to Creative Scotland (CS) for funding you are supplying CS with personal information about yourself and/or organisation. CS requires this personal information to fully assess your application and make decisions on the allocation of public funding. The following sections contain details of how CS will use this personal information. To help clarify some of the wording, a ‘Definitions’ Section is located at the bottom of this Privacy Notice.
CS shall be the controller of the personal information and shall comply with the Data Protection Laws when processing the personal information.
CS shall ensure that if the processing of the personal information, as mentioned above, involves the transfer of the personal information to organisations established in countries outside the European Economic Area, then such transfer(s) shall comply with the Data Protection Laws.
If your funding application and / or supporting information contains personal information about other data subjects, you must comply with the Data Protection Laws when providing their personal information to CS.
CS will be unable to enter into a contract with you to provide funding for your project.
When personal information about a data subject is processed, the data subject has the right to:
Any changes CS may make to this Privacy Notice in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
If you have any concerns with how CS has processed your personal information, you should contact CS’ Data Protection Officer in the first instance, as CS would welcome the opportunity to work with you to resolve any complaint.
The contact details for CS’ Data Protection Officer are:
Data Protection Officer
Creative Scotland
2-4 Waterloo Place
Edinburgh, EH1 3EG
Telephone: 0330 333 20000
Email: dataprotection@creativescotland.com
If you are still dissatisfied, you can submit a complaint to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) either by telephone or by completing an online form. The ICO’s contact details are as follows:
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Further information on the information that CS collects when you visit the CS website is available in our Website Privacy Notice
CS means Creative Scotland
Controller determines the purposes and means of processing personal information
Data Subject means the living individual who the personal information is about
Funding Applicant is the individual and/or organisation that has submitted an application to receive funding from CS
Personal Information means information obtained by CS from and regarding the individual/organisation as part of the application and assessment process
Processing means any act that is performed in relation to the personal information including collecting, recording, organising, structuring, storing, adapting, altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing, aligning, combining, restricting, erasing or destroying
Access to Information Laws include the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and any legislation supplementary thereto introduced in Scotland
Data Protection Laws include the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003; any legislation implementing the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive 2002/58/EC of 12 July 2002; the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR); and any legislation supplementary to the GDPR introduced in the United Kingdom, including the Data Protection Act 2018’
European Economic Area means the Member States of the European Union, Iceland, Norway and Lichtenstein
