Overview

Lancashire County Council is responsible for compliance with UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act (2018) and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.

Being transparent and providing accessible information to individuals about how we use personal information is a key element of the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR). The most common way to provide this information is in a privacy notice.

Alongside this privacy notice we also provide service and project specific privacy notices that give further details on how we process your personal data.

Data controller

A Data Controller is an individual or organisation that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.

Lancashire County Council is registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner's Office (registration number: Z542705X).

Contact details for the council's data controller are:
Information Governance Team
Lancashire County Council
PO Box 78
County Hall
Preston
PR1 8XJ

Email: dataprotection@lancashire.gov.uk