Guidance: Privacy Policy for the Open Innovation Team

How the Open Innovation Team uses your data

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We are the HM Government Open Innovation Team, a unit within the Department for Education (DfE), who work with government officials and external experts to improve and facilitate the use of expert insight in policy-making. For the purpose of data protection legislation, the DfE is the data controller for any personal data processed as part of any contract, event, partnership, commissioned work or products delivered between the Open Innovation Team and any potential customer, event attendee or project partner.

The purposes for which we are processing your personal data are to:

We will process the following personal data: names, email addresses, phone numbers, employer, and in the case of civil servants, job title and grade

There are a number of different ways we could receive your personal data which could include: video calls, chats, shared virtual workspaces, shared documents, event registrations and mailing lists.

We use your information in the course of our duties to enable and promote the use of expert insight within government policy-making.

Updated privacy information will be provided to colleagues/customers who take part in activities which may involve sharing of further personal data items beyond those covered in this notice

In order for our use of your personal data to be lawful, we need to meet one (or more) conditions in the data protection legislation. For the purpose of this project, the relevant condition is: Article 6(1)(e) UK GDPR, to perform a public task as part of our function as a department.