Website Privacy Notice

This Website Privacy Notice explains how Milton Keynes Council uses any information you give to us via our websites (www.milton-keynes.gov.uk and Groundbreakingbletchleyandfenny.co.uk), and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

Should you have any queries about the sites, you can contact us at Milton Keynes Council, Civic Offices, 1 Saxon Gate East, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3HQ. Telephone: 01908 691691 or email customerservices@milton-keynes.gov.uk 

This Privacy Notice is specific to our websites.  For further information about how we use any personal information you share with Milton Keynes Council please see our Corporate Privacy Notice.

MKC Corporate Privacy Notice

The Council complies with the Data Protection Act 2018. Further detailed information is provided in the Council’s Recruitment Privacy Notice below. This includes what personal data is collected, stored and processed while during the recruitment process.

MKC Recruitment Privacy Notice (DOCX, 36KB)

General policy – automatic collection of information

Under Data Protection laws, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. Milton Keynes Council respects your privacy. The information that you provide us with or that is gathered automatically helps us to monitor our service and ensure that our web services are effective and useful.

What information do we collect?

We collect three kinds of information from visitors to our sites:

Cookies - Milton Keynes Council Website

A cookie is a small text file that's sent to your computer when you visit a website. When you visit the website again, the cookie allows that site to know that you've visited it before and in some cases tailors what pops up on screen to take account of that fact. They do not hold any personal information and we cannot use them to find out who you are.

A cookie typically contains the name of the website it's from, the lifespan of the cookie and a value. The value is usually a unique code that will only make sense to the website that has issued it.

Cookies remember things like your colour scheme preferences, what's in your shopping cart or that you've already logged in, so you don't need to do it for every page you visit on a website. They are also used to measure how people use websites.

How Government websites like this one use cookies 

Watch this short video on cookies

Controlling and deleting cookies

You can set your web browser to accept or reject cookies or tell you when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookies from your computer. Please be aware that some websites may not work properly with the cookie option turned off.

The AboutCookies.org website tells you how to control and delete cookies on most browsers.

Controlling cookies

Deleting cookies

Cookies - Twitter

We use Twitter to keep residents of Milton Keynes up to date with our latest news.

Twitter uses cookie technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve their site and service. They do not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information. For more details please view the Twitter Privacy Policy.

Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. We analyse log file information from our visitors, which we use to make changes to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it.

Log files do not contain any personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of use of the site.

Disclosure - person and enquiry information

We use leading technologies to safeguard your data and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass your details to any third party or government department.

You can access www.milton-keynes.gov.uk and Groundbreakingbletchleyandfenny.co.uk without disclosing personal information.

You do not have to register to use milton-keynes.gov.uk, but particular parts of the site do require you to submit information including name, address and email address. In addition to this, some services require you to provide information relating to the enquiry or service being used.

We do not use this information to trace your identity and do not pass it on to any third party or government department.

External links

Milton-keynes.gov.uk and Groundbreakingbletchleyandfenny.co.uk contain links to other websites. These include other local authorities, government agencies and other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our sites, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site that collects personal information.

We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback. You can contact us by emailing customerservices@milton-keynes.gov.uk.

If you send an email asking for information, we may need to contact other council departments to find that information. If your question is technical, we may need to pass it to our IT section. We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so. Once we have replied to you, we may keep a record of your messages for reference and audit purposes.