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Your personal information, supplied for the purpose of safeguarding public security when authorising: the possession of prohibited firearms (s5), or possession of a shooting club authority, or the granting of a museum licence in accordance with the Firearms Act 1968, Firearms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969, Firearms Act 1982, Firearms (Amendment) Act 1988, Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006, Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997, Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, Implementing Regulation 2015/2403, Anti-Social Behaviour Act 2003, Policing and Crime Act 2017, will be held and processed by the
Home Office Drugs & Firearms Licensing Unit Fry 5 SE 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF
The Home Office is the controller of this information. This also includes when it is collected or processed by third parties on our behalf.
Details of the Department’s Data Protection Officer:
The Home Office may amend this PIN from time to time. If the Home Office makes any substantial changes in the way its officials use your personal information, the Home Office will make that information available by amending this and any associated notices.
The Home Office collects, processes, and shares personal information to enable it to carry out its statutory and other functions, including those related to law enforcement, safeguarding against, and the prevention of, threats to public security.
We are only allowed to process your data where there is a lawful basis for doing so.
We may share your information with other organisations in the course of carrying out our functions, or to enable others to perform theirs and which are consistent with the Home Office functions.
More information about the ways in which the Home Office may use your personal information, including the purposes for which we use it, the legal basis, and who we share your information with can be found at
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about/personal-information-charter
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/drugs-and-firearms-licensing-privacy-information-notices
The personal information we have collected about you will be shared with the with the Police, and other government departments, and other public bodies where necessary to perform this function or where it is required; to protect life, prevent crime, under the terms of any court order, or to comply with lawful obligations for the purpose of preventing crime, protecting the public, and preventing the diversion of prohibited weapons (firearms). If appropriate we may share this information with carriers & airport authorities when prohibited weapons are entering/leaving the UK.
We also share billing information for processing of payments.
Your personal information will be held for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it is being processed and in line with departmental retention policy. We retain your data for 25 years. More details of this policy can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/home-office-retention-and-disposal-standards
You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
Email: Info.access@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk Or write to us at: Information Rights Team, Knowledge and Information Management Unit Performance and Risk Directorate Home Office 3rd Floor, Peel Building 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF
In certain circumstances you have the right to:
If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of your personal information please contact us at
Email: dflu.firearmslicensing@homeoffice.gov.uk
Or by telephone on: 0300 072 5436 and ask for Firearms Licensing.
You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office about the way the Home Office is handling your personal information, or if you believe we should have provided you with more information about why/how we are processing it for law enforcement purposes. Details on how you do this can be found at https://ico.org.uk/concerns