About data protection

West Highland Housing is responsible for ensuring that the requirements of the legislation are met by adhering to the six data protection principles:

• Lawfulness, fairness and transparency
• Purpose limitation
• Data minimisation
• Accuracy
• Storage limitation
• Integrity and confidentiality

You have the right to find out what information Link and other organisations store about you. These include the right to:

• Be informed about how your data is being used
• Access your personal data
• Have incorrect data updated
• Have data erased
• Stop or restrict the processing of your data
• Data portability (allowing you to get and reuse your data for different services)
• Object to how your data is processed in certain activities