Public roles only, and your rights over them

What Govpedia holds

• Name, and the public offices held, with their dates.
• Party affiliation where it is part of the public role.
• Information the person or their institution has published about their public career, such as an official CV.
• The sources for each of these, and the date they were checked.

What it never holds

No home addresses, private phone numbers or email addresses, no family details, no health, religious or other special-category data, and no photographs other than official portraits released for publication. People who have left office keep only the record of the offices they held.

Why it may hold it

Under the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation, Govpedia relies on legitimate interests and on the exemption for journalism: the public has a strong interest in knowing who exercises public power, and the record is limited to that public role. IQGov is the controller of the data; IQGov’s general privacy notice applies to everything else on the site.

Your rights

If you are named in Govpedia, you can ask to:

• see what Govpedia holds about you;
• correct anything inaccurate or out of date;
• restrict or remove information that goes beyond your public role, or a record of an office you held only briefly or long ago, where the public interest no longer outweighs your privacy;
• object to the processing, which will be weighed against the public interest in the record.

You can also complain to a data protection authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or the authority in your country.

Making a request

Use the request form and choose “Privacy or removal”. Say which record it is about and what you would like changed. Govpedia may ask for proof of identity before acting, and will reply within one month, as the law requires.