Privacy Policy

This Website Privacy Notice explains how Milton Keynes Council uses any information you give to us via our website (explorefw.org.uk), and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

Should you have any queries about the site, 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 website.

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.

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.

We collect three kinds of information from visitors to explorefw.org.uk:

• personal information (name and email address) for our mailing list.
• feedback (through emails to culture@milton-keynes.gov.uk and other email addresses)
• site usage information from log files.

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

More information on cookies can be found on the Information Commissioner’s Office website.

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.

A number of websites provide detailed information on cookies. Links can be accessed below:

• Controlling cookies
• Deleting cookies

Log files allow us to record visitors’ use of the site. We may 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.

You can access explorefw.org.uk without disclosing personal information.

Milton Keynes Council uses leading technologies to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party or government department.

You do not have to register to use explorefw.org.uk, but particular parts of the site may require you to submit information including name, address and email address.

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

explorefw.org.uk contains links to other websites. These include other local authorities, government agencies, and other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to this site, 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.

We welcome your feedback. You can contact us by emailing culture@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 inquiry 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.