The Welsh Government has commissioned Wavehill to undertake an evaluation of Local Places for Nature 2020-25. The evaluation broadly aims to understand the impact of Local Places for Nature (LPfN) on wellbeing and social factors such as community cohesion, attitudes, and actions towards nature within communities and wider organisations.
As part of this, Wavehill will be gathering information through fieldwork and engagement with project leads including an initial interview, correspondence to arrange a site visit and site visit discussions. Wavehill have identified projects that would benefit from exploring further in a site visit from the following LPfN schemes:
Local Nature Partnerships (coordinated by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action)
Coastal capacity building (delivered by the Wales Council for Voluntary Action)
National Lottery Heritage fund – Local Places for Nature Capital Grants
National Lottery Heritage Fund – Local Places for Nature Breaking Barriers
Keep Wales Tidy.
The Welsh Government is the data controller for the research. Wavehill will delete any personal data provided in the interviews and anonymise any raw data before it is shared with the Welsh Government.
The information collected during the project will be included in a report published on the Welsh Government website.
Your Participation in this research is completely voluntary. However, your views and experiences are important in order to help inform Welsh Government policies.
The contact for this research at Wavehill is Endaf Griffiths
E-mail address: endaf.griffiths@wavehill.com
Telephone number: 0330 1228658
PRIVACY NOTICE
What personal data do we hold and where do we get this information?
Personal data is defined under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to an identifier’.
As delivery partners for the Local Places for Nature programme (LPfN), your Local Nature Partnership, the National Lottery Heritage Fund or Keep Wales Tidy hold your contact details because of your involvement in the programme.
The delivery partner through which your project received LPfN funding has asked your permission for your contact details (name and email address) to be shared with Wavehill so they can contact you to arrange an initial interview. Your contact details will only be shared with Wavehill where you give permission to do so.
The range of engagement activities are explained below, but in all cases, we will not be collecting any additional personal information other than, in the case of interviews, your image if you agree to an interview being video recorded.
You will be asked to take part in the following fieldwork:
An initial interview to understand more about your project, the activities that happen on the site and how you engage with volunteers and communities.
Following your initial interview, we will engage with you via email to arrange the most suitable time to visit your project site. In certain cases, you may not be selected for a further site visit. This could be due to the absence of scheduled events at your site or if volunteers are no longer actively working there. We will notify you of the outcome regardless.
A site visit where you will be part of informal discussions and formal group discussions. To note that the volunteers and members of the community involved in the group discussion will receive a separate privacy notice about the discussion.
Your participation is voluntary and if you do not wish to take part or be sent reminders at any stage of the research then please reply to the invitation email and you will no longer be contacted for this research.
We wish to video record interviews and audio record formal group discussions for operational reasons. We will make this clear to you before the discussion begins, and you will have the opportunity to tell us if you are not happy for the discussion to be recorded. A group discussion will only be recorded if no one objects. If discussions are recorded, personal data will be removed during the process of transcribing. Recordings will be deleted as soon as this process is completed. Where you are part of informal discussions at the site visit, or if a formal discussion is not recorded, written notes may be taken at the time. Personal data will not be included in written notes prepared during or following a discussion.
If you raise a query or complaint and provide personal data requesting a response, the researcher will forward the request only to the relevant official and subsequently delete it from the research data.
What is the lawful basis for using your data?
The lawful basis for processing information in this data collection exercise is our public task; that is, exercising our official authority to undertake the core role and functions of the Welsh Government.
Participation is completely voluntary. Research studies such as this are important for the Welsh Government to collect information and actionable evidence about its ability to deliver government priorities.
How secure is your personal data?
Personal information provided to Wavehill is always stored on a secure server. The data can only be accessed by a limited number of researchers working on this project. Wavehill will only use this data for research purposes. Wavehill has cyber essentials certification.
Wavehill has procedures to deal with any suspected data security breaches. If a suspected breach occurs, Wavehill will report this to the Welsh Government who will notify you and any applicable regulator where we are legally required to do so.
Wavehill will use the information gathered to produce a report that will be published on the Welsh Government website. This report will not include any information that could be used to identify individual participants.
How long do we keep your personal data?
Wavehill will hold personal data during the contract period, and any personal data will be deleted by Wavehill three months after the end of the contract. This includes your contact details.
Individual rights
Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to the personal information you provide as part of this evaluation, you have the right:
To access a copy of your own data;
For us to rectify inaccuracies in that data;
To object to or restrict processing (in certain circumstances);
For your data to be ‘erased’ (in certain circumstances); and
To lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is our independent regulator for data protection.
The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office are: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Phone: 0303 123 1113. Website: www.ico.org.uk
Further Information
If you have any further questions about how the data provided as part of this study will be used by the Welsh Government or wish to exercise your rights using the UK General Data Protection Regulation, please contact:
Name: Aimee Krishan
E-mail address: Aimee.Krishan@gov.wales
Telephone number: 0300 025 9321
The Welsh Government’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:
Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ, Email: DataProtectionOfficer@gov.wales.
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