Privacy Policy

This privacy policy will explain how our organisation uses the personal data we collect from you when you email us, sign up for a newsletter or use our “Contact Us” form.

Transition Town Milton Keynes is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and our registration number is ZA874299.

What data do we collect?

Transition Town Milton Keynes (TTMK) collects your name, email address and any additional information that you provide us in the body of your email, your sign up request or in the comments box on our “Contact Us” form.

How do we collect your data?

The “Contact Us” form generates an email that is sent to a secure server using the account transitiontownmk@protonmail.com. All the information submitted on the “Contact Us” form is put into the email.

A request to sign up for a newsletter will be submitted to an automated emailing system that is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) compliant. Since the software that manages and generates the mailing list is usually located outside Europe, you will be asked to explicitly consent to your email address and name being exported. You must be over 16 to subscribe to a newsletter.

How will we use your data?

The data that you provide us through the “Contact Us” form or an email will be used to respond to your comment, request for information or, if you request that we do this and we agree, to add information about you, your group or your organisation to our website.

If you send us an email, the information you send us will be used to respond to your email.

In either of the above cases, your information will only be passed onto third parties outside of Transition Town Milton Keynes with your explicit permission. (For example, you requested information that we cannot provide directly, but we know who can).

If you request sign up to a newsletter, the information you send will be used to subscribe you to a mailing list. Since the software that manages and generates the mailing list is usually located outside Europe, you will be asked to explicitly consent to your email address and name being exported. You must be over 16 to subscribe to a newsletter.

How do we store your data?

Your data is stored in the form of emails on secure servers located in Switzerland.

If you request sign up to a newsletter, your data (email address and name) can also be stored in GDPR compliant servers used by the software that generates and manages the mailing lists. Since these servers are usually located outside Europe, you will be asked to explicitly consent to your email and name being exported.

Marketing

Transition Town Milton Keynes does not take part in any marketing and does not collect any data either from visitors to its website or from email contacts for marketing purposes.

What are your data protection rights?

Transition Town Milton Keynes would like to make sure that you are fully aware of all your data protection rights.

Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Transition Town Milton Keynes for copies of your personal data (this will be copies of any email communications that we are holding on our mail servers relating to you, details of any newsletters that you signed up to, and any entries on our website relating to you).

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Transition Town Milton Keynes correct any information that you believe is inaccurate and to complete any information that you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Transition Town Milton Keynes erase your personal data, under certain circumstances.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Transition Town Milton Keynes restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain circumstances.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Transition Town Milton Keynes’s processing of you personal data, under certain circumstances.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Transition Town Milton Keynes transfer your personal data to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain circumstances.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: transitiontownmk@protonmail.com

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our website, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information visit allaboutcookies.org

How do we use cookies?

We do not currently use any cookies on our website.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and allaboutcookies.org will tell you how to remove cookies from your browser.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Transition Town Milton Keynes’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you or would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us at transitiontownmk@protonmail.com

Our Data Controller is Greg Fairley who can be contacted via transitiontownmk@protonmail.com with the subject “FAO Data Controller”.

Transition Town Milton Keynes is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office and our registration number is ZA874299.

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Transition Town Milton Keynes has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Email: dpo@ico.org.uk

Address:

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