- Privacy notice name
- Library Events Privacy Notice
- Last updated
- Monday, 22 June 2026
- Introduction
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Rochdale Borough Libraries provide a range of services including events, providing newsletters and providing other promotions.
We collect personal data in order to make bookings, manage bookings, and to make contact to discuss bookings.
- What personal information we collect
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We collect personal information to make sure that we can carry out our work. The personal information we collect includes:
- Name
- Address and contact details including email addresses
- Age and date of birth
- Health or medical information including accessibility requirements or disabilities (where required)
- Other information relevant to your booking, including event details and how you heard about the event.
- Who we collect personal information about
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When we collect personal information it may be about:
- Customers
- Service Users
- Residents
- Families, including parents and children
- How we use personal information
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We use your personal information to:
- Administer bookings and manage attendance
- Communicate with you about your booking
- Facilitate your participation in events
- Improve our services
- Send information about similar events (where you have given consent)
- Why we use your personal information
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We are allowed to process personal and sensitive data for the following reasons under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Articles and the Data Protection Act:
- Consent of the individual
- Who we share your personal information with
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We collect information from and disclose information to individuals and organisations that can support our work including:
- Council departments
We do not routinely share your information outside Rochdale Borough Council unless required to do so by law.
- Automated decision about your personal information
- This service doesn't make any decisions using computers or programmes that don't involve a human being when using your personal information.
- How long we keep your personal information
- There is no minimum legal time limit for how long this service needs to store your information so we will only keep your information for as long as is necessary to provide the service you have asked us for. Unless consent is revoked, we keep personal information collected as part of this process for a minimum of 1 year from the date of collection, or for an additional length of time if necessary.
- Transferring personal information beyond the EEA
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This service doesn't transfer your information outside the EEA.
We do not routinely share data with any organisation outside the UK, but our website is available across the internet and we communicate with applicants and stakeholders wherever they are. - Related content
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