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Privacy Statement

The Octavia Hill Birthplace Museum Trust Ltd (the “Trust”) respects your right to privacy. When you visit our website, we may collect information on two different levels about your visit:

Personal information you knowingly give us
Statistics collected as you browse the site

We want you to be aware of how we collect and handle information on our website.

Information gathering
The Trust collects Personally Identifiable Information such as name, organisation, address, telephone number and email address, when you knowingly provide it to us.

Our web servers automatically collect statistical information about your visit, such as pages visited and which browsers are used to visit our site.

Contact information
If you contact us, we may keep a record of your correspondence or comments, including Personally Identifiable Information, in a file specific to you. We use this information to help us provide better service in the event you contact us again.

When you choose to contact us via our website, we request accurate contact information and preferences that help us better serve you. Your contact information may be used to send you information about Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House.

At anytime you may:

  Opt out. At any time after the initial registration, you can opt out by emailing us your request
  Update your contact and personal information by notifying us of changes to this information previously collected from you online

Third parties
We do not sell, share or disclose individually identifiable information obtained online about our visitors to anyone outside of the Trust. The only exception to this rule is if it is required by law.

On occasion, the Trust shares non-personally identifiable information with other companies in order to assess the results of a promotion or event. This information is used in aggregate only, and does not contain any information that would personally identify you.

 

Links to other sites
Parts of our website contain links to third-party websites for your convenience and information. When you access a third-party website, we do not control the content and are not responsible for the privacy practices of that site. We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each site you visit. This Online Privacy Statement does not cover the information practices of those websites linked to from our site. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

E-mail
At times, we may utilise email for any of these reasons:

To respond to a site visitor's email
To send information that a visitor has requested
To send information about Octavia Hill’s Birthplace House
To conduct voluntary online surveys

In all of these situations you will be provided with direction on how to opt out of future emails of this nature.

Protection
The Internet is not a secure medium. However, we make every effort to protect your privacy.

We keep your information confidential. Our internal procedures cover the storage, access and disclosure of your information.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a small data file transferred by a website to your computer's hard drive. We send cookies when you browse our site or request information. Accepting the cookies used on our site does not give us access to your Personally Identifiable Information, but we can use the cookies to identify your computer. The aggregate information collected permits us to analyse traffic patterns on our site. This can enable us over time to provide you with a better experience on our site by improving the content and making it easier to use. Cookies are only held on the user’s system for 30 days. You can refuse to accept cookies from our site by adjusting the preferences in your browser if you wish.

Changes to this Site
If there are changes or additions to the terms of this Online Privacy Statement, we will post those changes here so that you will always know what information we collect online, how we use it, and what choices you have.