Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice has been prepared in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 and explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit our site.

We do update this policy from time to time so please do review this policy regularly.

Milton Keynes College is the “controller’ of the personal data you provide to us. We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), registration number: ZA206718

We have data protection policies in place to oversee the effective and secure processing of your personal data.

Contacting us

You can contact our Data Protection Officer in writing or by email:

Data Protection Officer
Chaffron Way Campus
Woughton Campus West
Leadenhall,
MK6 5LP
Tel: 01908 684444
dpo@mkcollege.ac.uk

Types of information collected

Visitors to the website:

When you visit our website, we ask your consent to use traffic log cookies.

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps us analyse web traffic. Cookies also allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Our cookies help us to:

  • Make our website work as you’d expect
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Continuously improve our website for you.

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
  • Pass data to advertising networks
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  • Pay sales commissions.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies, though declining cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

User Profiles

Where you have registered for a user profile on the website to access training material, your contact details, name, and the organisation you work for will be recorded.

Use of the courses available via the site will be logged.

Where students or pupils are assigned user profiles, these will be anonymised, with user credentials set by the school where they study.

General Enquiries

If you complete our enquiry form, we collect your name and contact details, and the details of your enquiry.  This information is then passed to the relevant department or person for a response.

This information is stored in our marketing database, and you can opt out of this at any time.

Sharing your data

We shall not disclose the information you provide to us with to third parties except those who we contract to process data on our behalf, where we have a statutory duty (for example, sending learner record information to the Department for Education), other contractual duty to do so (including to your employer, if sponsored), where you have given prior approval, or where an official third-party data sharing agreement (which has been subject to an impact assessment) exists.

The website and training material provider will only produce anonymised and aggregated performance data and reports, though they may require individual user profile information to provide technical support to users.

Anonymised and aggregated performance data will be shared with the project sponsor and partners, Red Bull, and may be shared with the local authority, the

Department for Education, or other interested parties – no personal data will be shared through these reports.

We may invite individuals or organisations/schools to be involved in the production of case studies to demonstrate the impact of the project. These will ONLY be produced with the consent and cooperation of all parties involved.

What are your rights?

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
  • Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
  • Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights.

If you make a request under these rights, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at the address above if you wish to make a request.

You can find more information about your rights at the website of the Information

Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us on how we have handled your personal data. You can contact our Data Protection Officer, at the address above. You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113ICO

Website: https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/how-to-make-a-data-protection-complaint