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How the Covid Status Certificate uses your data and what your rights are
Introduction
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is providing a service to you that will produce a COVID Status Certificate. This will allow residents in England to display (either electronically via a smartphone, or manually on paper) their COVID vaccination history.
How does the service work?
Digital users: Users of the digital service can use an NHS login to authenticate into the service. Data will then be retrieved from existing data we hold to provide a Certificate of your vaccination history on your smart device.
Non-Digital (Covid 119): Users will be asked to provide name, date of birth and postcode. If these identify a relevant history, then a letter will be produced and sent to the address we hold for correspondence.
What is the purpose for the processing of personal data?
The principle of the Covid Status Certificate programme is to ensure that illness and death from Covid-19 can be minimised as the UK’s social and economic life is re-established. This will apply both during and after the Government “roadmap” allows citizens to emerge from the restrictions placed on the country during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
The Covid Status Certificate provides citizens with evidence of their vaccination history. As the country resumes normal functions, this data will be useful for further aspects of unlocking as they arise, e.g for International travel or attendance at domestic events once these have been permitted by government policy and guidance.
Personal Data Used in Certificate
Full name.
Third parties’ contact details may be taken when they have agreed to be contacted on behalf of other adults.
Special Category Data Used in Certificate
Information relating to the individual’s physical or mental health condition.

https://covid-status.service.nhsx.nhs.uk/help/privacy-notice/
Introduction
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is providing a service to you that will produce a COVID Status Certificate. This will allow residents in England to display (either electronically via a smartphone, or manually on paper) their COVID vaccination history.
How does the service work?
Digital users: Users of the digital service can use an NHS login to authenticate into the service. Data will then be retrieved from existing data we hold to provide a Certificate of your vaccination history on your smart device.
Non-Digital (Covid 119): Users will be asked to provide name, date of birth and postcode. If these identify a relevant history, then a letter will be produced and sent to the address we hold for correspondence.
What is the purpose for the processing of personal data?
The principle of the Covid Status Certificate programme is to ensure that illness and death from Covid-19 can be minimised as the UK’s social and economic life is re-established. This will apply both during and after the Government “roadmap” allows citizens to emerge from the restrictions placed on the country during the COVID-19 pandemic response.
The Covid Status Certificate provides citizens with evidence of their vaccination history. As the country resumes normal functions, this data will be useful for further aspects of unlocking as they arise, e.g for International travel or attendance at domestic events once these have been permitted by government policy and guidance.
Personal Data Used in Certificate
Full name.
- To correctly identify of an individual.
- To correctly identify of an individual.
- To correctly identify of an individual.
- To correctly send Certificate letters to an individual’s home addresses if requested.
- Only registered address used
- To be able to contact those who have requested a Certificate, or require support
- As above
Third parties’ contact details may be taken when they have agreed to be contacted on behalf of other adults.
Special Category Data Used in Certificate
Information relating to the individual’s physical or mental health condition.
- Only vaccination events.

https://covid-status.service.nhsx.nhs.uk/help/privacy-notice/