Privacy policy

This page and any pages it links to explains the privacy policy for projectdelivery.gov.uk. You must agree to these to use this website.

projectdelivery.gov.uk is provided by Government Project Delivery which is a part of the HM Treasury.

HM Treasury is the data controller for this website. A data controller determines how and why personal data is processed. For more information, read HM Treasury’s entry in the data protection public register.

A data processor is an organisation or company that handles personal information on our behalf, following our instructions. Data processors do not use your information for their own purposes; they only process it as directed by us.

The following organisations are directed to process your personal information on our behalf:

We currently collect and process the following information:

• first and last name
• email address
• organisation or government department you work for
• the region you are based in
• job role
• profile photo (optional)
• areas of interest (optional)
• telephone number (optional)
• whether you are a graduate of the Major Project Leadership Academy or Project Leadership Programme (optional)
• IP address
• cookie identifiers

Where a user is a prospective or current Government Project Delivery fast streamer, commonly known as a fast streamer, or an event speaker or volunteer at an event for fast streamers, we collect and process the additional  following information:

• personal email address
• home address
• work and personal telephone number
• dietary requirements based on health / faith / philosophical belief based (voluntary)
• accessibility data (voluntary)

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

• when you access the site and allow the use of cookies to track usage information
• when you register for an account on projectdelivery.gov.uk
• when you provide further optional information by updating your profile
• when you use certain features and services of the site (for example, using a “contact us” form and booking a ticket for an event)

We use the information that you have given us to:

• provide you with access to projectdelivery.gov.uk and its services
• gather feedback to improve our services
• respond to any feedback you send us, if you’ve asked us to
• send email alerts to users who request them
• monitor use of the site to identify security threats
• monitor the performance of the site to identify inefficiencies and errors

The information you provide may be shared with:

• other users of the site when they view your profile through the people finder function
• other users of the site when they view your comments and other posts in the community based services (for example, discussion forums)
• our suppliers of the site for technical customer support services only
• google Analytics for site usage information

At no point will your password or security question information be shared and is encrypted.

Where a user is a fast streamer, or an event speaker or volunteer at an event for fast streamers, information may be share with event venue coordinators.

We collect usage information about you whenever you use projectdelivery.gov.uk.

This includes which pages you visit, searches you make and when you log in, and the IP address from the device you use to access the site.

This usage data may be used to track behaviour at the aggregate level to identify and understand trends in the way users interact with the government project delivery website to improve the platform and services we provide.

IP addresses may be used to identify unknown/unauthorised access in your account. We process this information for legitimate interests, namely improving our services to you

We use Google Analytics cookies to collect information about how you use projectdelivery.gov.uk. This includes IP addresses.

Google Analytics processes information about:

• the pages you visit on projectdelivery.gov.uk
• how long you spend on each projectdelivery.gov.uk page
• how you got to the site
• what you click on while you’re visiting the site

We make sure you cannot be directly identified by Google Analytics data. We do this by using Google Analytics’ IP address anonymisation feature and by removing any other personal data from the titles or URLs of the pages you visit.

We will not combine analytics information with other data sets in a way that would directly identify who you are.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are your consent, which we ask you to provide when you register for an account with the projectdelivery.gov.uk.

You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by using our contact us form or by using the contact information at the end of this policy.

Where a user is a prospective or current fast streamer, or an event speaker or volunteer at an event for fast streamers the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information is:

• Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR, Public task
• Article 9(2)(g) of the UK GDPR, substantial public interest
• Schedule 1, Part 2, Paragraph 6(2)(b) of the Data Protection Act, necessary in the exercise of a government department.

Your information is securely stored on servers in the United Kingdom.

We keep the personal information given at registration and any further optional information given through your profile page for as long as you have an active account with us.

Accounts which have not been active for six months will be deleted within 30 days of becoming inactive, including all personal information associated with that account.

If you withdraw your consent to this privacy policy or request that your account is deleted, all personal information will be deleted from the site within 30 days of you contacting us.

Where a user is a prospective or current fast streamer, or an event speaker or volunteer at an event for fast streamers, We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected. The specific retention period/s for your personal data will be the duration of the scheme, plus 1 year. Data subjects will be contacted on an annual basis and can decide whether HM Treasury retain the information for a further year for event administration purposes, or whether the data is no longer required.

projectdelivery.gov.uk contains links to other websites.

This privacy notice only applies to projectdelivery.gov.uk, and does not cover other government or third party services, websites and transactions that we link to.

If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have 30 days to respond to you.

Please contact us using the information at the bottom of this policy if you wish to make a request.

If you wish to contact us or have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can do that by using our contact us form or by contacting:

[email protected]

National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority
Government Project Delivery
1 Horse Guards Road
London
SW1A 2HQ
United Kingdom

020 7270 5000

You can also contact HM Treasury’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) who provides independent advice and monitoring of HMT’s compliance with data protection legislation by contacting:

[email protected]

HMT Data Protection Officer (DPO)
Treasury Business Solutions
1 Horse Guards Road
Westminster
London
SW1A 2HQ

They will acknowledge receipt of a complaint about your own personal data within 30 days, and take appropriate steps to respond, and provide an outcome, without undue delay.

You can also make a complaint to the Information Commissioner, who is an independent regulator:

[email protected]
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Textphone: 01625 545860

Monday to Friday, 9am to 4:30pm

Find out about call charges

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF

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