Privacy Policy - Kenny MacAskill MP

Website Privacy Policy

Who we are

I am Kenny MacAskill, the MP for East Lothian. My website address is: https://kennymacaskillmp.scot.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Contact forms

If you use the contact form my office will collect your name (should you provide it) and your email address. This is done solely so I can respond to your enquiry.

If you sign up to receive my newsletter, my office will collect your name (should you provide it) and your email address. This is done to subscribe you to my newsletter.

My office uses Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology we use to provide services on our website. A cookie is a piece of code that is sent to your internet browser and is stored on your system.

You can also control what cookies you accept through your internet browser. For details on how to do this, please visit aboutcookies.org.

You can see my cookie policy and your current consent state at this page.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with any other organisation without your consent. Should we need to share your data with someone else in order to advance a case we are working on with you, your consent will be sought.

My office uses Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing to my newsletter, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here.

How long we retain your data

Contact data is held for as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry, or while you remain signed up to the newsletter. Data provided to us via other sources is governed by seperate privacy policies regarding casework. For more information please contact me.

What rights you have over your data

If you have signed up for my newsletter, or used the ‘Contact Me’ form, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.