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, social factors such as community cohesion, attitudes, and actions towards nature within communities and wider organisations.
As part of this evaluation, Wavehill are setting up theory of change workshops or interviews with key stakeholders and Welsh Government officials. All workshops and interviews will be held online, using the Microsoft Teams platform. The aim of these workshops and interviews is to explore stakeholder views on the expected inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes of the Local Places for Nature programme. Wavehill will use these views to develop theory of change models for each of the schemes that make up the LPfN programme and an overarching theory of change model for the programme. Wavehill will also utilise the workshops and interviews to identify key projects and prospective communities to engage in the evaluation.
The Welsh Government is the data controller for the research. Wavehill will delete any personal data provided through the workshop or interviews and anonymise the 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’.
Wavehill have your contact details (name and email address) for one of the following reasons:
The Welsh Government have shared your contact details with Wavehill. The Welsh Government hold your detail because you are a scheme manager or your contact details are held by the Welsh Government due to your involvement in the Local Places for Nature programme.
The scheme management team in Wales Council for Voluntary Action, National Lottery Heritage Fund or Keep Wales Tidy have provided your contact details to Wavehill as you are someone involved in the delivery of the one of the LPfN programme schemes.
You are the lead of a LPfN funded project. You voluntarily provided your contact details to Wavehill for the purposes of further research at the end of a project mapping survey undertaken as part of the evaluation. This survey (with an associated privacy notice) was originally shared with you by your scheme manager from either Wales Council for Voluntary Action, National Lottery Heritage Fund or Keep Wales Tidy.
Wavehill will only use your name and email address for the purposes of this research project.
Your participation is voluntary and if you no longer wish to take part or receive reminders then please reply to the invitation email and you will no longer be contacted for this research.
This research does not require the collection of additional personal data from you other than your image if you agree to a virtual workshop being video recorded.
Wavehill will contact you and arrange either an interview if you are a scheme manager to discuss your specific scheme and will arrange workshops for all other participants. We wish to record interviews and workshops for operational reasons. We will make this clear to you before the interview or workshop begins, and you will have the opportunity to tell us if you are not happy for the discussion to be recorded. A workshop will only be recorded if all members of the group are happy for this to happen. If interviews and workshops are recorded, personal data will be removed during the process of transcribing. Recordings will be deleted as soon as this process is completed. If discussions are not recorded, personal data will not be included in written notes prepared following the focus groupinterview or workshop.
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 not already removed during transcription 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 Theory of Change Workshop, specifically 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 Marks
E-mail address: Aimee.Marks@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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