Electoral register and email addresses

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Open Rights Group

Dear Gwynedd Council,

I am interested to know whether:

(a) You hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral Register, and if so,

(b) how many emails you hold in the Electoral Register;

(c) What the source or sources of these emails is;

(d) Whether you have included all or some portion of these emails as part of the datasets you gave to election candidates at the 2019 General Election;

(e) If so, how many emails were supplied;

(f) Whether you supplied email details in other prior elections.

Yours faithfully,

Jim Killock
Open Rights Group

Rhyddid Gwybodaeth, Gwynedd Council

Dear Jim Killock,

Freedom of Information (Ref T624)

Thank you for your recent request. Please see below for the information requested:

As part of the registration process there is an option for the elector to provide an e-mail address for future contact purposes by ourselves. No e-mail addresses are provided to any other organisations including political parties.

Please note that where information is subject to copyright belonging to the Council, you will need to obtain the permission of the Council to re-use it for purposes other than private study or non-commercial research. The Council may charge for re-use. Where third party copyright material is disclosed, you must obtain permission to re-use from the copyright holders concerned.

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If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please see below for the contact details:

Information Commissioner’s Office
2nd Floor
Churchill House
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Cardiff
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Telephone: 02920 678400
Email: [email address]
Fax: 02920 678399

Yours sincerely,

Gwawr Owen