Privacy policy

Overview

This policy sets out how the Anson Engine Museum uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website. The Anson Engine Museum is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this policy.

The Anson Engine Museum may change this policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 June 2012.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure.

In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • information about your browser, network, and device

  • web pages you visited before coming to this website

  • your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • clicks

  • internal links

  • pages visited

  • scrolling

  • searches

  • timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

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 analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies 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.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Why we use cookies

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

Privacy legislation requires websites to obtain informed consent from visitors before they can store or retrieve any information on a computer or any other web connected device. The law states that cookies can be stored if they are essential to the operation of the site but that for all others permission is needed to do so.

How to manage or delete cookies

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

You can choose to manage or delete cookies. Find out how to do this on popular browsers:

To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

Buying products from our website

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • billing and shipping address

  • details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • email address

  • name

  • phone number.

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

Filling in forms on our website

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Visiting this website

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • information about your browser, network and device

  • web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • web pages you view while on this website

  • your IP address.

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Emails

Abandoned cart emails

You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

  • You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.

  • You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.

  • You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.

The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

Marketing emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Order and account emails

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • you’ve created a customer account

  • your customer account password has been reset or updated

  • you’ve made a purchase

  • your order has shipped.

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • information about your browser, network, or device

  • information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • your IP address.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • You may choose to decline cookies.

  • Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.

  • If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at enquiry@enginemuseum.org

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We will not use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please email us or write to us.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us or write to us as soon as possible and we will correct your information.