Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme (HCRS): privacy notice
What data is collected when you apply for the Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme (HCRS) - how it's used, where it's stored, your rights.
- From:
- Department for Business and Trade
- Published
- 30 July 2024
- Last updated
- 20 January 2025 — See all updates
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The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the controller for this information. This includes when the information is collected or processed by third parties on our behalf.
Updates to this page
Published 30 July 2024
Last updated 20 January 2025
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Privacy notice updated to ensure it reflects the purposes for which DBT processes personal data across various stages of HCRS. Updated notice includes details of who DBT may share personal data with in order to progress any registration or claim made within the scheme.
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Details
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the controller for this information. This includes when the information is collected or processed by third parties on our behalf.
Updates to this page
Last updated 20 January 2025 + show all updates
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Privacy notice updated to ensure it reflects the purposes for which DBT processes personal data across various stages of HCRS. Updated notice includes details of who DBT may share personal data with in order to progress any registration or claim made within the scheme.
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First published.
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Update history
2025-08-08 14:04
‘Right to data portability’ amended to indicate the right does not apply under the public task lawful basis, and details on ‘Right to erasure’ added.
2025-07-11 13:37
Privacy notice updated to reflect the merging of the Overturned Convictions process, previously run by the Post Office, into the Horizon Convictions Redress Scheme (HCRS), which is delivered by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).
2025-01-20 16:24
Privacy notice updated to ensure it reflects the purposes for which DBT processes personal data across various stages of HCRS. Updated notice includes details of who DBT may share personal data with in order to progress any registration or claim made within the scheme.
2024-07-30 10:53
First published.