PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy notice explains what personal data we collect from you and how it is used. We only store information about you that is necessary for our specific purposes as the Coastal Communities Museum. The personal data we hold will have been provided directly by you – if you contact us using the contact form on our website, sign up to receive our email newsletter or call us using the telephone number displayed on our website.
Other information will have been collected from browsing our website:
Website Hosting
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 analyses the data in a de-personalized form.
Squarespace complies with GDPR laws, you can read their Privacy Policy here.
Cookies
Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The Cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Check your cookies
For the most common browsers, you can:
Review which cookies are active in your browser’s settings.
Clear cookies from your browser or device, either globally or from a specific website.
For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation:
Chrome
Firefox
Safari
Microsoft Edge
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
Form Block Submissions
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 email newsletter marketing provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
Email Newsletter
If you have signed up to receive our newsletter via our newsletter sign up form, 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.
Clients & Suppliers
We only use your contact details when conducting agreed activities relating to Coastal Communities Museum.
Third Party Processing
The Coastal Communities Museum will never share your personal contact information with third parties except where they are processing information on our behalf, on our instruction.
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. In general we have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Data Retention
We only keep your personal data for the length of time we need for business purposes. When no longer required, this information is deleted from our systems.
Security
We use reasonable measures to protect our website and any personal information we collect through it. It’s also important that you take appropriate steps to protect yourself when using the internet, such as keeping your software up to date and having anti-virus software on your devices.
If we plan to change how we process your personal information, such as changing the cookies we use, we will let you know before we make the changes and will publish the revised policy on our website.
Your Rights
As a data subject, you have a number of rights:
The right to be informed; why data is held and how it is used (the purpose of this Privacy Policy)
The right of access; access and obtain a copy of your data on request
The right to rectification; ask CCMT to change incorrect or incomplete data
The right to erasure; you to ask CCMT to delete or stop processing your data, e.g. where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing;
The right to restrict processing; you can ask CCMT to limit the way that your data is used e.g. you no longer want to receive circulars and marketing emails
The right to data portability; this applies to digital information only. CCMT does not hold any data in formats which are not transferrable via email or printed materials.
The right to object; you can ask CCMT to stop using your personal information in certain circumstances which would exclude the legitimate purpose of the organisation. You can object however to direct marketing emails and communications
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling; CCMT does not use personal data to make automated decisions about any of its functions
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, or believe that CCMT has not complied with your data protection rights, or you have any questions about the privacy notice, please contact the Data Protection Lead, Jo Palmer
As a small, voluntary not for profit organisation, CCMT is exempt from registration with the Information Commissioner however, you can find useful information about the rights of data subjects and how your information should be handled on the ICO website.