Introduction

What are your rights ?

How to access personal information

What to do if access is withheld

Contacts

Data Protection Act 1998

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002

Freedom of Information policy

Information Commissioner's Website

What are your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998?

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you certain rights to control and access personal information held about you.

You have the right to ask sportscotland to inform you whether it processes any personal information relating to you and if so to provide you with a copy of such data.
This is called a Subject Access Request.

You are entitled to be told if any personal data is held about you AND, if so:

• To be given a description of the data
• To be told for what purposes and scope the data is processed
• To be told the recipients or the classes of recipients to whom the data may have been disclosed, or to whom the data may be disclosed in future
• To be given any information available to the data controller about the source of the data (i.e. how and when sportscotland acquired the data), and
• To be given a copy of the information with any unintelligible terms explained.

As well as having the right to access personal data that sportscotland holds about you, you also have the right to control such personal data.

If you as a data subject can demonstrate that any personal data sportscotland holds about you is:

• Not complete
• Outdated
• Untrue
• Collected in violation of the Data Protection Act 1998, or
• No longer required for the purpose for which it has been collected

sportscotland shall be obliged, without undue delay, to:

• Amend
• Update
• Correct, or
• Temporarily or permanently suspend the processing
  of the data.

If you wish to exercise these rights to control any personal data that sportscotland may hold about you, you should write to sportscotland’s Data Protection Officer, Lynda Vince, at the address listed on the contacts page of this section.