The Government of Jersey has established an independent Taskforce on violence against women and girls (VAWG) with the purpose of undertaking research on the issue in order to make recommendations as to how it can be reduced and prevented. Their report is due in April 2023.
The Taskforce is made up of representatives of the following organisations and independently chaired by the Chair of the Jersey Community Relations Trust:
- States of Jersey Police
- Probation
- Health and Community Services
- CYPES
- SARC or Victims First
- Jersey Domestic Abuse Service
- Women’s Refuge
- Jersey Action Against Rape
- Brook
- Liberate
As part of its workplan the Taskforce will be undertaking research in the following ways:
- Undertaking a public engagement exercise between October and January 2023. The public engagement exercise will involve the following elements:
- a survey for the general public
- a testimony collection (Share Your Story)
- a safe spaces heatmap
These elements of the research have separate privacy notices.
- Undertaking focused qualitative research with victims-survivors, children and young people, and professionals and service providers working in this field. The qualitative research will involve a mix of survey work, focus groups and one-to-one interviews with the stakeholders outlined above.
This privacy notice covers the research with victims-survivors element of the Taskforce on Violence Against Women and Girls Call for Evidence. We will refer to this as the “VS Qualitative Research” in this privacy notice.
This work is being delivered by the Justice Policy Team which sits within the Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance Department.
The Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance Department is registered as a 'Controller' under the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 (the “Data Protection Law”), as we determine the purpose and means of the processing of the personal information collected about you for this service.
As a Government Department, we generally process and hold your information in order to provide public services and meet our statutory obligations. This notice explains in more detail how we use and share your information in order to provide the service described above.
For information on how the Department uses your personal data for other services, see the
States of Jersey privacy policies.
We will continually review and update this privacy notice to reflect changes in our services and feedback from service users, as well as to comply with changes in the law.
How we collect information about you
The majority of the information we will collect as part of the VS Qualitative Research will not be linked to you or directly identify you. This is because the responses to the survey are anonymous and any email addresses you provide to the platform used are not linked to your responses or comments.
However, if you opt-in to taking part in a follow-up call with the research team then you will be asked to provide contact details for the purpose of arranging that call and keeping you informed about the outcome of the research. We will store and use that personal data as set out below.
Information about you will, in most cases, be collected directly from you. This may be done in any of the following ways:
- by you completing our online VAWG victims-survivors survey
- by you emailing us directly
- in a focus group or interview should you choose to take part in one
The online VAWG victims-survivors survey is provided through a platform called Citizen Space. Citizen Space may require you to provide further personal data in order to use their website or if you sign up to their marketing communications. This personal data is not shared with the Government of Jersey and Government of Jersey do not control how Citizen Space use this personal data. See
Citizen Space’s privacy policy on Delib for information on how they use that personal data.
Our research partner Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) have been commissioned to undertake this research on behalf of the Taskforce. AVA will use the contact details you provide if you opt-in to a follow-up call solely for the purposes of arranging that call with you and to inform you of the outcome of the research. Any other data you provide if you choose to take part in a focus group or interview will be held confidentially by AVA and used to inform a report which sets out their findings form undertaking the research. No information which could identify you will be published in the report.
Types of information we collect
The types of personal data collected will vary depending on what information you volunteer and the information we need in each circumstance. However, we have listed below the most common categories of information we may collect about you:
Contact details, such as email address
Where you choose to opt-in to a follow-up call with where you choose to email us directly, where you choose to receive a copy of your submission via the survey platform.
Survey responses
Your demographic data, opinions, views and experiences on the subject matter. Your responses to the survey questions are optional and will be anonymous. You may choose to opt-in to take part in a focus group or interviews, in which case your contact information will be required to make arrangements for this. No information will be published which attributes response to you or that could identify you.
Qualitative Information
This is information you choose to provide to us if you engage in a focus group or interview with AVA. No information will be published which attributes response to you or that could identify you.
How we will use the information about you
We need to collect and hold information about you, in order to carry out the public functions of the Strategic Policy, Planning and Performance Department. Our legal basis for processing personal data in most cases is that it is necessary for the exercise of the Strategic Policy, Performance and Planning Department function of the States or any public authority (Schedule 2 para 4(c) of the Data Protection Law). We also ask for your consent for processing in some instances.
We have set out in further detail below why we use your personal data.
| Contact details (email address general) | Answering your queries or responding to a request from you to remove your submission.
| Public functions: The processing is necessary for the exercise of any function of Crown, the States or any public authority (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 4b) |
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| Survey responses (received through Citizen Space) | Policy development purposes. Survey responses will be reviewed by AVA and used to produce a report of the analysis of the findings. This report will be used by the Taskforce in the development of its final report and recommendations to the Government of Jersey. Any information that may identify you or another individual won't be shared with the Taskforce or published. Demographic data collected in the survey is used for the purposes of assessing the representativeness of the research compared to the wider population and for identifying if any particular groups are experiencing VAWG. | Consent (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 1) |
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| Qualitative information (follow-up calls) | Policy development purposes. Survey responses will be reviewed by AVA and used to produce a report of the analysis of the findings. This report will be used by the Taskforce in the development of its final report and recommendations to the Government of Jersey. Any information that may identify you or another individual won't be shared with the Taskforce or published.
| Consent (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 1)
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Who we may share your personal information with
Other Data Controllers
We may disclose information to other public authorities where it is necessary, either to comply with a legal obligation, or where required under other legislation. Examples of this include but are not limited to:
- where the disclosure is necessary for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime
- for national security purposes
- for the purposes of meeting statutory obligations
- to prevent risk of harm to an individual
In some instances, this data sharing may require us to transfer your personal data outside Jersey and the EEA, however, we shall only do this with the necessary safeguards in place and where it is lawful. For details of the safeguards we rely on if we do this, contact the Strategic Policy, Performance and Planning’s Data Governance Officer using the contact details below.
Service Providers
Your personal data may be processed on our behalf by certain third parties who provide services to us, so that they can provide those services. We have strict contracts in place with these service providers to ensure they process your data only on our instructions and with appropriate security in place. The categories of third parties who may receive your personal data in order to provide us with a service are:
- online survey providers Delib LTD (Citizen Space platform)
- researchers from Against Violence and Abuse (AVA)
At no time will your information be passed to organisations for marketing or sales purposes or for any commercial use without your prior express consent.
Publication of your information
We may need to publish your information on our website as part of the taskforce report outlining their findings and recommendations. The report will be based on analysis of the call for evidence submissions. This will only contain analysis of the findings from the call for evidence and nothing that could identify you or another individual will be used in the report or published.
How long do we store the information about you
We will keep your information accurate and up to date and not keep it for longer than is necessary in order to inform the findings and recommendations of the Taskforce on Violence Against Women and Girls. All third parties who are involved with this project will only store data for a maximum period of 12 months.
Ask to see our retention schedule for more detail about how long we retain your information.
Where do we store the information about you
Government of Jersey systems store data in Jersey, the UK and the European Union.
Delib Ltd. hosts the Citizen Space platform which is being used for a number of elements of the VAWG call for evidence. Delib Ltd systems store data in the UK and the European Union (Germany).
Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) is a UK charity committed to ending gender-based violence and abuse who have been contracted to undertake research with key stakeholder groups on behalf of the Taskforce. AVA systems store data in the UK. See the AVA privacy policy.
The UK has been granted adequacy status by the European Commission and personal data stored there will be protected to the same standards as personal data held in jersey and the EU.
Cookies and the gov.je website
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. See the
gov.je privacy notice for details of the cookies used on gov.je websites.
Statutory or contractual obligations to provide personal data
You are not obliged by any law or contract to provide us with your personal data. However, if you choose not to provide certain information when requested, you may not be able to take part in some elements of the VS Research. For example, you will not be able to take part in a focus group or interview with our research partner AVA.
Your rights
See
your personal data rights for details of your rights under the Data Protection Law and how to exercise them.
Contact details
If you wish to contact the Department in relation to this Privacy Notice, email the Data Governance Officer at
r.young3@gov.je.
Complaints
If you have an enquiry or concern regarding processing your personal data you can email the Central Data Protection Unit at
DPU@gov.je.
If you wish to make a complaint about how your personal data is processed, you can email the Government’s Data Protection Officer at
DPO@gov.je.
If you believe that the Strategic Policy, Performance and Planning Department has contravened the Data Protection Law and the contravention affects your data protection rights, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the
Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner (JOIC). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the JOIC, so contact the DPO in the first instance.
Changes to this notice
We may, from time to time, revise this privacy to ensure it remains up to date. It’s advisable to check it regularly to keep aware of any changes.
This version was last updated on 16 December 2022.
There are no previous versions of this privacy notice.
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