Privacy Policy
Marie Goldman MP is committed to respecting and protecting your personal data. This policy explains who Marie Goldman MP is, what personal data (“Data”) she collects, how she uses it, information on your rights, and how you can contact her. The way Marie Goldman MP is able to process personal data is governed by the General Data Protection regulations (GDPR) and Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018.
Who is collecting your data
Marie Goldman is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Chelmsford. For the purposes of UK data protection law, Marie Goldman MP is the Data Controller of all personal data sent to her by constituents in her capacity as the Member of Parliament for Chelmsford.
From 01 April 2019 elected representatives and prospective representatives (including police and crime commissioners) are exempt from paying a fee and registering with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). For more information on this visit: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/in-your-sector/political/.
How is your data collected, used and stored
When you contact Marie Goldman MP seeking assistance with a casework issue, to ask a question about local or national policy issues, or any other matter related to her role as the MP for Chelmsford you will be asked for some personal data to enable her and her office to respond.
Marie Goldman MP will use your data for the purposes for which you provide it.
Marie Goldman MP takes the security of your data extremely seriously. Your data will be stored on secure servers in a locked and protected environment. Access to your personal data will be limited to Marie Goldman MP and her staff for the purpose of dealing with your query/case and maintaining office records.
Marie Goldman MP may wish to write to you from time to time to keep you informed on issues that you may find of interest. Please let Marie know if you do not wish to be contacted for this purpose.
Categories of Personal Data Collected
The types of personal data collected may include:
- Full name/s
- Postal address
- Email address
- Phone number
- Correspondence related to your query/casework
- Case or identification numbers related to your query/casework
Who your data will be shared with
When taking up casework or policy questions on your behalf, it may be necessary for Marie Goldman MP and her office to share the personal data you provide with government departments, local authorities, including local councillors, [AB1] [GM2] and other public bodies. Marie Goldman MP will only share as much information as is necessary to take your case forward.
Other than in the circumstances above, Marie Goldman MP will not share your personal data with other organisations or individuals without your explicit consent.
How long your data will be kept
Marie Goldman MP and her office will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this policy. Marie Goldman MP and her office will retain your data for up to 5 years[GM3] after your case has been closed in case you get in touch again.
The legal basis for processing your data
Under GDPR personal data can only be processed using a lawful basis defined in Article 6.
Marie Goldman MP will process your data using the lawful basis of consent (Article 6(a)) and Public Task (Article 6(e)). Your data will be retained under the legal basis of Legitimate Interests (Article 6(f)) for the purpose of managing constituents’ casework and policy concerns effectively.
Special Category Data
It may be the case that you disclose personal data classified as special category data under GDPR as part of your casework or policy concern. This may include information related to health, sexuality, race, ethnicity and religion. Under GDPR this data can only be processed using a lawful basis under Article 6 and a condition of processing defined in Article 9. Marie Goldman MP will process such data under Article 6(a) (Consent) and Article 9(a) (Consent).
What your rights are
You have several rights in relation to your data and can choose how it is used. You can:
- Obtain copies of the data we hold about you (known as a “subject access request”)
- Request that we correct or update any data held about you
- Withdraw your consent and ask that we delete your data or restrict the ways in which we use your data
- Request that data you have given your consent for us to use is provided in an electronic format so it can be transferred to another data controller (known as “data portability”)
- Opt-out of receiving further communications from us via any medium at any time.
You also have the right to make a complaint directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office. They can be contacted at: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ and concerns can be also logged via: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.
Please note that Marie Goldman MP is not required to comply with Freedom of Information requests.
How to contact us
If you would like more information on any of the above or have any questions about this policy, then please contact our data protection representative by emailing marie.goldman.mp@parliament.uk or by phoning the office on 020 7219 6364.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We keep our privacy policy under regular review and as such it may be updated from time to time so you should check it each time you submit personal information to us. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use this website to submit personal information to us[RE4] . If material changes are made to this privacy policy we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on our website.
This Policy was updated on 28 August 2025.
Information from House of Commons Information Compliance Team
Privacy Policy
We are unable to directly review or amend Members’ privacy notices as the obligation to produce/maintain a privacy notice sits with each individual data controller, and must be specific to the Member and their office.
However, we do provide a point-by-point privacy notice guide for Members’ offices which covers every element that may need to be included, so you may wish to consider referencing your notice against this guide. The guide also contains links to privacy notices used across the House, which can serve as demonstrative examples of how you might structure or word such a notice.
Implied consent
In UK law, implied consent is not recognised as a lawful basis for processing personal data (which includes sharing). The lawful basis of consent requires an informed, specific, unambiguous indication of an individual’s wishes via an affirmative action (for detailed information I recommend referring to the ICO guidance on consent).
However, consent is just one of several lawful bases that Members can rely on in order to share or otherwise process personal data. Another lawful basis that Members will be able to rely on the vast majority of the time when undertaking constituency casework, is the ‘public task’ lawful basis. For further information I recommend referring to our guidance on ParliNet about this topic: ParliNet | Sharing constituents' personal data - guidance for Commons Members and their offices.
Whichever lawful basis or bases the Member decides to rely on, it must be referenced in the privacy notice. As you will be able to observe from the guidance linked in my previous email, a privacy notice must also detail the organisations/parties that the Member will typically share personal data with when undertaking casework matters, which keeps individuals informed on this aspect from the outset.
[AB1]Do we want to explicitly mention Councillors here?
[GM2]perhaps say: "local authorities, including local councillors, and other public bodies."
[GM3]Obviously, this isn't an issue for a while, but we should put in place a procedure to ensure we comply with this.
[RE4]This may presumably need to be changed if it is in an email? i.e. they would be emailing Marie, not using a website.