OSPS Data Protection

The Trustees hold personal information about you and your dependents. They need this information in order to work out and pay your benefits. The Trustees are the Data Controllers for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act"). This means they are responsible for ensuring your personal details are used only in accordance with the Act. This includes telling you why they might use your details and who they can share your details with.

Why do the Trustees need my details?


Essentially, your details are used to decide your eligibility for, and work out and pay, your pension and other benefits from OSPS.

Who can the Trustees share my details with?


The Trustees use your details to run OSPS effectively – even if, in future, OSPS were closed, wound up or merged with another scheme. To do this, the Trustees may ask others for information about you, or give information about you to others. For example, your details may be given to or received from:

  • your current, past or prospective employer;
  • any other employers associated with your employer, or any prospective associated employers (whether or not they are based within the European Economic Area);
  • the advisers to the Trustees;
  • any financial organisations with whom the Trustees deal, employees and agents of the Trustees, claimants, beneficiaries or Government agencies;
  • any other scheme to which your Trustees are asked to transfer your benefits, or have the power to transfer your benefits; and
  • anyone else the Trustees may need to pass your details to in order to administer OSPS effectively.
  • The Trustees are not allowed to use your data unless it is for a legal and specified purpose.