Privacy Notice for FSA LINK

The Food Standards Agency will be what is known as the ‘Controller’ of the personal data provided to us.

Purpose and law basis of processing

We need to collect your personal data for the purpose of communicating and sharing information with you in relation to the delivery and monitoring of food and feed official controls. We also need to collect your personal data for the purpose of contacting you in relation to FSA consultations, policies, incidents and events of relevance to you. Local authority officer contact details are also used to produce the LA Directory for use by the FSA and local authorities only.

How and where we store your data and who we may share it with

We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to carry out these functions, and in line with our retention policy. This means that this information will be retained for as long as you are an active user and no longer than 12 months after last login. We will remind you when your account is to be deleted due to inactivity. If you notify us that you no longer wish to access FSA Link we will delete your information immediately.

The Food Standards Agency will sometimes share data with other government departments, public bodies, and organisations which perform public functions to assist them in the performance of their statutory duties or when it is in the public interest

Contact us

If you have any queries concerning this Privacy Notice, your personal information or any questions on our use of the information, please email our Data Protection Officer in the FSA, who is the Information Management and Security Team Leader using the address below.