Last updated: 21 January 2025
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Heathrow Airport Ltd (Heathrow) collects personal information about you when you use the Heathrow Community Relations forums. Heathrow is committed to protecting your personal information when you use Heathrow services.
Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal data, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.
When you use the Heathrow Community Relations services we may collect the following information about you:
If your contact is to register your interest in Heathrow’s future property compensation schemes and Home Relocation Support Service. The above details will be collected as well as the below to help deal with your application.
You may choose to include special category information about you or a member of your household (e.g. information in respect of additional support that might be needed in regard of access, illness or disability etc).
For information collected for those interested in Heathrow’s future property compensation schemes and Home Relocation Support Service.
We will provide you with information about future property compensation schemes, deal with your requests and enquiries related to them and to advise you of upcoming news and information which may be relevant to you given your interest in the future property compensation schemes. Anonymised data may also inform the planning application impact assessments, e.g. to evidence appropriate engagement has been undertaken and to understand what additional types of support may be required.
Your information will be handled and used by the following recipients in order to deal with your scheme application:
We will not transfer or disclose your personal information, other than: as identified in this Privacy Notice, to our trusted third party suppliers, to the police, tribunals, courts, regulators, or other authorities to assist them with their investigations or requests or for us to report security incidents or suspected or actual unlawful acts and/or as may be otherwise required by law. Your personal information is processed and stored wholly within the European Economic Area and the UK.
Your information will be retained for the purpose of dealing with your enquiry and kept afterwards for statistical purposes. All information relating to your enquiry will be deleted after a period of ten years. Your call recording will be deleted after a period of 6 months.
Your information will be retained in a secure environment with access controlled according to the ‘need to know principle’; access rights will be monitored regularly.
Under the provisions of the Data protection Act 2018, you have the following rights in respect of our use of your personal information:
Object to the processing of your information where this is justified
To exercise your rights please contact the Heathrow Data Protection Officer using the following contact details:
By email: privacy@heathrow.com
Should you find our response unsatisfactory, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority – the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). You can find more information on the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/concerns regarding the complaints process.
We will keep this privacy notice under regular review and we will place any updates here. At the start of this privacy notice we will tell you when it was last updated.