Website Privacy Statement

Our privacy statement provides you with details of the information that the Museums Worcestershire website collects and uses about you.

We will record personal information if you:

  • subscribe to, apply for, or receive services that require personal information
  • contact us and leave your details for us to respond

In many normal circumstances we will ask your consent to use your personal information. However, there are some situations where the law requires us to use information without your consent. Increasingly we need to share information in order to provide efficient and effective services. The UK GDPR requires us to be careful when sharing personal information. Sometimes we will need to create an Information Sharing Protocol (a written agreement between partners) about how particular information should be handled and shared.

Cookies

We employ cookie technology to help log visitors to our web site. Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer. A number of cookies are created when you visit the website. The cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify an individual user.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies. If you do not know how to do this, contact us, giving details on the type of browser you are using, and we will do our best to help. Please note that if you do set your browser not to accept cookies many of the enhanced features may not work correctly. More information on the cookies we use online can be found on our cookies page.

Log files

When you visit this website we collect web statistics concerning your visit, which are stored in a log file. Log files allow us to record visitors’ use of the site. We use Google Analytics to record visitors’ use of the site and use this information to make changes to the layout of the website and to the information in it. Log files do not contain any personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of use of the site.

This statement only covers websites maintained by us and does not cover other web sites linked from our site.

Mailing List

Should you choose to sign up to our Museums Worcestershire mailing list, to receive email newsletters about activities, exhibitions and events, the Museums Service will use the external service Brevo. Read Brevo’s Privacy Policy.

Volunteering Privacy Information

Museums Worcestershire uses your data for administrative purposes to support and manage your volunteering role. These purposes may include, but are not limited to:

  • records maintenance
  • health and safety obligations
  • identifying volunteering and training opportunities
  • reregistration
  • communication about your volunteering role

Museums Worcestershire uses the health data you provide:

  • to keep you and others safe while volunteering
  • in risk assessments, and to put in place countermeasures for identified risks

Volunteering is a role carried out in the public interest. Museums Worcestershire must process your data to support and manage this role.

Museums Worcestershire must process your health data:

  • for public health reasons, such as keeping members of the public and other volunteers safe
  • to fulfill its duty of care for volunteers under Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

Please be aware, some administration of Museum Worcestershire volunteering may be facilitated by other volunteers. In this instance any volunteers who have access to contact details or private information will be required to sign a confidentiality agreement and work within the GDPR requirements noted above.