Privacy policy

Privacy Notice

Our privacy notice detailed below applies to anyone contributing materials to the Thamesmead Community Archive.

You can also find further information on our contributor forms which can be downloaded here for general material, and here for oral histories. If you are contributing to the archive you will be asked to sign one of these to protect your rights.

Who is responsible for your information?

Thamesmead Community Archive is commissions by Peabody Trust and Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office (TACO!), they are the data controller for the purposes of any personal data held as part of this archive.

How we use your information 

Where the information you provide contains personal data this information will be used solely for historical research and archiving purposes and may be published on the Thamesmead Community Archive which will be available online.

Our legal basis for processing the information you give us

We process the information you give us under the General Data Protection Regulation (”GDPR”) on the basis of legitimate interests”. We consider that we have a legitimate interest in documenting the development of Thamesmead for historical/​research/​archiving purposes and that there is a wider social interest in publishing that information for the same purposes.

Your Privacy Rights

You have several rights which we need to tell you about. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contactAdriana Marques – Adriana.​Marques@​peabody.​org.​uk

Transparency: You have the right to be informed about how we are using your data. If you think we are doing something with your information that we have not told you about in this Privacy Notice, you can object to this.

Access: You have the right to ask us what personal information we hold about you, and to request a copy.

Objection/​erasure: You can object to the processing of your personal data and ask us to either remove it from publication on the archive or delete it completely from our records.

Appeal: If you are not satisfied with the way that we have dealt with your personal data, please let us know and we will try and resolve your concerns. If you are still not happy with our response, you have the right to appeal directly to the regulator – the Information Commissioners’ Office https://​ico​.org​.uk, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Telephone: 0303 123 1113.