Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council & GDPR: manage your data
Rightly is a free service that helps you have more control over your data. Find out whether Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council has your personal data, and tell them what to do with it.
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Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council provides the following services:
- Council tax
- Waste & recycling
- Roads, travel & Parking
- Schools & Learning
- Benefits & Support
- Births, Deaths & Ceremonies
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How sending requests can help
Locate your data
Send a Subject Access Request (SAR)
If you want to know whether Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council has your personal data, what they have, and what they’re doing with it, we can help. Send a request to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council via Rightly and quickly find out.
Delete your data
Request to partially or fully delete your data
If you want Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council to delete all of your personal data, or only some of it, you can let Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council know via Rightly in a deletion request. Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council then has 30 days to reply, by law.
Adjust marketing
Change your Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council marketing preferences
Want to change how Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council communicates with you? You can easily alter your email marketing settings through Rightly, too. Just let Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council know in your request.
Rejected applications
Understand why decisions were made
Has Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council rejected an application of yours, or made an unfair decision? You can request all of the paperwork relating to how they made that decision through Rightly.
Employment disputes
Tackle an employment dispute with Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
If you are, or have been, an employee of Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, you can send a data access request to view all emails and documents that mention you, as well as your personal files.
Data breaches
Act if there’s a Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council data breach
If Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council has had a data breach, you can use requests to see if you’ve been affected, and to delete your data to prevent it happening again.
Pensions
Locate your Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council pension
Find out whether you have a pension with Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council, as well as its associated details, by sending a subject access request. Our support team is also here to help.
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Contact Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council
Making a subject access request without Rightly Alternatively you can send a subject access request to Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council in writing at the following address:
Information Governance Team Room 120
First Floor
Town Hall
Bolton
BL1 1RU
Please include your:
Full name
Any previous names
Your address
If you have moved whilst you have had the service we would recommend putting in all your previous addresses for the last 3 years.
Because requests must be in writing, you can’t make one over the phone. However, if you need to contact Bolton Metropolitan Borough Council for anything else, their contact number is 01204 331031.
You can also read more about how to send a subject access request in our blog.