Effective from 27 August 2014

This privacy policy applies to our Website www.cmktowncounci.org (the “Website”).  If you do not accept this privacy policy, you must not use this Website.

Collection Of Personal Information

We collect personal information from you (such as name, address, telephone number, email address etc) when you complete registration or enquiry forms, submit comments, or send emails to us.  Please do not submit your personal information to us if you do not wish us to collect it.

Use Of Your Information

By using this Website, you agree that we may collect, hold, process and use your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with the Website services and ensuring appropriate content for all users, which shall include (without limitation):

• Verifying your identity (for example when you return to the Website);
• Personalising your visits to the Website to improve the services provided to you;
• Informing you about the latest changes to the Website, or news or events or services that you might find interesting;
• customer service and support;
• Enabling you to share our content with others e.g. using our ‘Share this article’ functionality;
• Communicating (and personalising such communication) with you;
• Conducting market research; and/or
• Carrying out technical and statistical analysis to measure the performance of our services and the Website.

Sharing Your Personal Information

We may share information about you with suppliers that we engage to help us provide certain services and/or functionality e.g online payment processing. We will use reasonable endeavours to control and be responsible for the use of your information by such suppliers. Furthermore, by using the Website, you consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European Union (which may not provide the same protection for such information as the European Union provides) in the event that the processing of your information involves such a transfer.

Subject to your consent, we may supply personal information about you to selected third parties (for example to local event organisers) so that they may contact you with information and offers which may be of interest to you.

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to comply with applicable laws and government or regulatory bodies’ lawful requests for information.

Comments and Other Public Forums

The Website makes facilities available to users to post comments and other content, and registered users can provide content for and participate in these facilities.  Any information that is disclosed in these areas of our Website becomes public information and you should always be careful when deciding to disclose your personal information. For more information, please click on our Website’s Terms & Conditions.

Share This Article Facilities

When you use these facilities and provide us with personal data (e.g. your name and email address) of a third party, please ensure that you have their consent before giving us their details.

Keeping Your Personal Information Secure

We take the security of your personal information very seriously and have appropriate physical, technical and administrative procedures in place to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure as required by law in England.

Accessing Your Personal Information

If you wish to review or receive copies of the personal information we hold about you, change your subscription preferences or have any other queries about this privacy policy, please write to us (including full details of your request) at the following address:

CMK Town Council
45 Stokenchurch Place
Bradwell Common
Milton Keynes
MK13 8AU

We may charge a small administration fee (not exceeding the maximum permitted by law) in relation to fulfilling a request for access to personal information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we change this privacy policy, we will post the revised privacy policy here with an updated effective date. If we make significant changes to the privacy policy, we may also notify you by other means such as sending an email or posting a notice on our home page.