Privacy Notice

 

Milton Keynes City Councils Transport Policy Privacy Notice 

 

This Privacy Notice for Transport Policy needs to be read in conjunction with Milton Keynes’s Corporate Privacy Notice. For more information about that – click here: www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/privacy 

 

Everything we do with information about people, such as how we collect it and who we share it with, has to comply with Data Protection. A key part of this is being open about how we use information and what rights you have in respect of information we hold about you.  

 

The Transport Policy Team for Milton Keynes City Council is committed to preserving your privacy. If anything in this notice is not clear, or if you have further queries, please get in contact with the Data Protection Officer using the details at the end. 

How we may collect information  

This privacy notice explains why we obtain, store and process data that can identify you and describes our practices in connection with information that we collect.  

 

We obtain information about you when you use our website or services we offer, including but not limited to;  

  • When you contact us about a service or have an enquiry,  
  • If you register to receive further information about our services 
  • If you register to use one of our services  
  • When we engage with you through any of our social media platforms  
  • When we meet you in person or  
  • Correspond with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise.  

 

Information held about you:  

In order to provide services, it is necessary for us to collect and hold personal information about you. The information held will vary and depend on the nature of the services ‘used’.  

Examples of when we collect personal information are:  

  • Cycle Training (Bikeability) 
  • Via the Get Around MK website and Transport App 
  • Rental of cycle lockers and facilities 
  • Rental of eCargo Bikes 
  • Correspondence 
  • Travel surveys, such as Travel Plans, Modeshift STARs 
  • Through behaviour change initiatives such as Love to Ride, Better Points 
  • Card payments for services, such as cycle training, cycle lockers and facilities, eCargo bikes 
  • Bike registration 
  • Through projects such as Access to Bikes Scheme, eBike Experience Project, Grants for schools and workplaces 
  • At events 

 

This information may include:  

  • Basic details about you such as name, address, telephone number, email address, gender, ethnicity, special educational needs, medications or allergies 
  • Contact we have had with you, such as any emails or letters 
  • Direct debit details, if you pay for an ongoing service 
  • Images of you whilst at an event, ride or during cycle training 
  • Information around the way that you travel 
  • Essential training dates, relevant certifications for employees 
  • Safeguarding incidents and complaints 

 

Why do we gather this information? 

All the information we gather about you is for a legitimate reason. It helps us to serve and engage with you regarding opportunities that may be of benefit or interest to you.  

We collect information when we deliver cycle training, and we do this so that we can better safeguard and understand the needs of the riders and support the Bikeability cycling instructors. It is also a requirement of our grant conditions for cycle training which is managed by the Bikeability Trust on behalf of the Department for Transport. We do this to ensure cycle training is delivered to everyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, age and ability and also to ensure that instructors have sufficient information about riders to understand their needs and keep them safe.  

The training provider and instructors will use consent data to ensure that any special requirements needed are considered and implemented in order for you or your child to participate in Bikeability training. This information will also be used to record you or your child’s progress and provide a rider report detailing you or your child’s training outcomes which will be sent upon completion of the training to the participant/parent/carer. 

Milton Keynes City Council and / or the Bikeability Trust may use this data in an aggregated and anonymised format only, in order to provide monitoring and reporting data for the Bikeability programme and to Active Travel England. 

 We also collect and retain details about our Bikeability cycling Instructors to take steps to fulfil our contractual obligations with the Bikeability Trust. This includes cycling instructor names and details of their relevant certifications including; 1st4sport Level 2 award in Instructing Cycle Training; DBS certification date; Essential training completion dates and any safeguarding incidents or complaints.  

If you join the MK Move Ticketing Scheme we require certain personal data in order to manage the service for you and provide support. This includes name, address and date of birth for identification. You can register via the website and see what information we hold for you and update it yourself at any time. 

 

Access to your personal information 

Under GDPR, the data subject has the right to access and amend any of their personal data that you hold.  

You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer at data.protection@milton-keynes.gov.uk 

Should you wish to have your details removed from the system for the MK Move Ticketing Scheme we will require the return of your card and you will be removed from the ticketing scheme. 

 

Who is processing my data and how will we use the information we hold about you? 

 

Data Controller   How will your information be used? 
Milton Keynes City Council 
  • To communicate with you about our services  
  • For the provision of services that we provide  
  • For in-house research and statistical analysis  
  • To notify you about changes to our services  
  • To help inform Council policy  
  • Providing that you have given to us the necessary consent, to provide you with information through our newsletter or other electronic bulletins. 
  • To gather information about the way that people travel so that Milton Keynes City Council can allocate time and money to the areas that most need it. 
  • To know who has or is using our equipment, such as bikes, see sense lights, lockers.  
  • To keep track of essential training dates, relevant certifications for employees. 

 

 

MK:Smart 
  • Data will be stored on the MK Data Hub, a data management facility created by the MK:Smart project as a collaboration between Milton Keynes City Council and the Open University for the purpose of the Trial.  
  • The Partners involved reserve the right to also use this data in an anonymised form for research purposes.  

 

Bike Register 
  • Hold your name, address, telephone number, email address and bike details on their database, which is used by every Police Force in the UK to search for stolen and recovered bikes. 

 

Modeshift STARS 
  • Hold information about schools and businesses ‘transport infrastructure’ and travel patterns 
Cycle Saviours 
  • We will provide your contact details – name, address and telephone number so that Cycle Saviours can verify your identity when you collect your free bike.  
Fully Charged Silverstone 
  • We will provide Fully Charged Silverstone with business name, telephone number and address so that Fully Charged can service and maintain eCargo bikes on loan from the council. Personal information, such as name and telephone will also be shared between Milton Keynes City Council and Fully Charged Silverstone under the eBike experience project so that the council can provide cycle training courses to people who loan electric bikes.  
The Bikeability Trust 
  • The LINK system is used to manage the Councils cycle training programme. The LINK platform is provided to us by the Bikeability Trust. We will arrange a cycle training course via a school or community group, and a link to a consent form will be sent to the participant or the parent / guardian of a child under the age of 18. The consent form requests some personal information from you, which may include your name, email address, an emergency contact, the child’s name if they are under the age of 18, gender, ethnicity and any special educations needs, allergies, or medication that the instructors should be aware of.   
  • MK City Council and the Bikeability Trust may process personal data using consent. Where this concerns the personal data of a child we will rely upon the consent of a parent, guardian, or other responsible person. Consent or third-party consent may be gathered in advance by a school or other party on behalf of Milton Keynes City Council and Bikeability.  
  • Via the LINK system Milton Keynes City Council and the Bikeability Trust may also receive some information about participants concerning riders’ characteristics for research and statistical purposes which could include but may not be limited to personal data that identifies a child’s ethnicity and gender. Please also note that this information along with information about a child’s special educational needs may be shared with Bikeability, Milton Keynes City Council, or the instructor by the school your child attends. This will be to ensure amongst other reasons that a child attends the designated course and to safeguard in their best interests. Milton Keynes City Council and Bikeability will process such data in its legitimate interest and in the public interest where there is special category data. Each party acting as a data controller may process this information according to their policy and UK data protection law. 
  • For Bikeability instructors – the qualification status and essential training will be retained and regularly reviewed. Personal data may also be shared with associated instructors and schools where delivery is taking place (or host organisation). Instructor names will be shared with parents/riders via the rider report but no other personal details will be shared. 

 

Who else has access to your information? 

  • We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.  
  • We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.  
  • Although through the normal course of business it may be necessary or beneficial to you that we introduce you to third parties, we would never give your details to a third party without your prior consent.  
  • In the normal course of business we would share your details without asking for your consent with internal Milton Keynes City Council departments if we felt this was either beneficial to you, required to provide a service, or would improve the delivery of our services. 
  • For the MK Move Ticketing Scheme, when you register online you will be asked to opt in if you want to hear from us or other operators in the scheme regarding offers and updates. 
  • When you register for the MK Move Ticketing Scheme, scheme you will need to opt in for terms and conditions and scheme updates. This relates only to the operation of the scheme. 
  • For the MK Move Ticketing Scheme, there will be a separate opt in for marketing. The Marketing opt in will allow information to be shared among Milton Keynes City Council and operators within the scheme, however in the ‘preferences’ you will be able to select specific operators and the Council to determine exactly who can contact you with offers and information. 
  • For Bikeability Cycle Training, when you give your consent for a child to participate in training, there will be an opt in for further information from Milton Keynes City Council and the Bikeability Trust about events, campaigns and activities that may be of interest to you.  
  • For Bikeability Cycle Training when you sign the consent form you will receive some email updates from the Bikeability Trust about how to check your bike, fit a helmet, and also a reminder of the upcoming course date. You will also receive feedback at the end of the training session.   

 

How long do we keep your information for? 

We only keep information for as long as it is needed. This will be based on either a legal requirement (where a law says we have to keep information for a specific period of time) or accepted business practice, this is generally 6 years. All information will be held securely and destroyed under confidential conditions.   

 

How we store your information  

We place great importance on the security of all information provided to us.  

Information that is held by Milton Keynes City Council is held securely on our own servers which are also compliant with IT security requirements.  

 

Cookies 

Our Get Around MK website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file stored in your computer containing text data. We use cookies for certain functions to improve the usability of the website. These cookies do not contain any personal information about you. However, enabling cookies in your web browser is necessary if you wish your selections to be remembered for future visits on the same computer. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. For more information about cookies and instructions on how to adjust your browser settings to restrict or disable cookies, see the IAB website at www.allaboutcookies.org 

 

Analytics 

Our Get Around MK website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how our visitors use the site. The tool uses cookies to store information, such as what time the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before, and what site referred the visitor to the web page. 

A different cookie is used for each website, and visitors are not tracked across multiple sites. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information may then be used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Milton Keynes Get Around MK. To disable this type of cookie, some browsers will indicate when a cookie is being sent and allow you to decline cookies on a case-by-case basis. In addition to declining cookies, you can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on in your browser, which prevents Google Analytics from collecting information about your website visits. 

We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website. 

 

Analytics in place for the Get Around MK Transport App will be sent from Apple and Google and will only detail how many individuals have downloaded the App. There are no analytics in place to show usage or how the App is used. 

What rights you have  

You have various rights around the data we hold about you.  

  • Right of access (to receive a copy of your personal data)  
  • Right to rectification (to request data is corrected inaccurate)  
  • Right to erasure (to request that data is deleted)  
  • Right to restrict processing (to request we don’t use your data in a certain way)  
  • Right to data portability (in some cases, you can ask to receive a copy of your data in a commonly-used electronic format so that it can be given to someone else)  
  • Right to object (generally to make a complaint about any aspect of our use of your data)  
  • Right to have explained if there will be any automated decision-making, including profiling, based on your data and for the logic behind this to be explained to you.  

 

Any such request can be submitted to the Data Protection Officer. Whether we can agree to your request will depend on the specific circumstances and if we cannot then we will explain the reasons why.  

 

If we are processing your information based on you giving us your explicit consent to do so, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Doing so may mean we are unable to provide the service you are hoping to receive and the implications of you giving or withdrawing your consent will be explained at the time.  

 

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how your information has been collected and/or used, you can make a complaint to our Data Protection Officer. You can also report concerns to the national regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office. Their details can be found on their website: 

 

https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/ 

Data Protection Officer Contact Details 

Email: data.protection@milton-keynes.gov.uk 

Tel: 01908 691691 

Post: Data Protection, Milton Keynes City Council, 1 Saxon Gate East, Central Milton Keynes, MK9 3HS 

 

 

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