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Chasewater Railway Museum
Brownhills West Station
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Staffordshire
WS8 7NL
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Chasewater Railway Museum GDPR Statement.
CHASEWATER RAILWAY MUSEUM
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Museum Privacy and Data Retention Policy
Effective from 25th May 2018, last updated 30th April 2019
This document describes the nature of personal information held by the
Museum in relation to its curatorial and other activities; the manner in
which it is held; the purposes for which it is held;
the periods of time for which it is retained and the review mechanisms
associated with them; and any particular circumstances which influence
the retention of data.
Particulars of Museum Volunteers
* Contact details of museum volunteers: names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses.
* Held by means of Word document maintained by the Museum Management Committee (MMC) Convenor.
* Information on volunteers is required for Museum Accreditation.
* Information is removed with cessation of engagement with the Museum.
* Reviewed annually by the MMC Chairman.
Particulars of persons who have donated items to the Museum
* Use of item Museum Entry Forms (manual) and inventory database (electronic).
* To identify details of donors to maintain the integrity of the collection.
* To ensure and protect the provenance of historically significant objects.
* The Entry Form is retained in perpetuity.
Particulars of persons who have loaned items to the Museum
* Use of item Museum Loan Forms (manual) and inventory database (electronic).
* To identify owners of items on loan to ensure certainty of ownership.
* To ensure the avoidance of uncertainty regarding returned objects.
* Reviewed annually to identify loans due to terminate or be renewed.
* The Loan Form is retained in perpetuity.
Particulars of persons who have used Museum provided on-line resources
* Use of electronic databases integral to the resources provided for use.
* To identify details of users to enable functionality and provide services requested.
* To enable statistical analysis to improve the museum and its resources.
* To inform users of activities and Museum resources that may be of interest to them.
* The data is retained until the provider requests deletion, whereupon personal information is removed.
* Following removal from the live database(s) data may persist in system
backups but will be removed upon data restoration should these backups
be put to use.
Images, including photographs, scans, paintings and other media
* Images are held as an essential component part of the Museum's collections.
* Entry and loans procedures are as described above.
* Images of all museum objects are held with their respective inventory entries.
* Images of persons alive or deceased are held for archive and
historical research purposes to assist with an understanding of the
history of railways and tramways and the role played by their
employees, and of the passengers and goods traffic conveyed by them.
Exemptions and Derogations from provisions of GDPR
* The UK can provide exemptions and derogations in relation to data
processed for [inter alia] archive purposes and for historical research.
These purposes are consistent with the Museum's
responsibilities set out in the Articles of Association of the
Chasewater Light Railway & Museum Company.
* This principle also includes the historical membership records of the
Company and its predecessors, and other organisations depositing their
archives with the Museum.
* Reference 1: Extract from Association of Independent Museums Guide to
successfully managing privacy and data regulations in small museums.
* Reference 2: Extract from Information Commissioner's Office Guide to the GDPR
Right of Access
* Individuals have the right to access any personal data and supplementary information which may be held by the Museum.
* The right of access allows individuals to be aware of and verify the lawfulness of the processing of any such personal data.
* Requests for disclosure of information can be made free of charge to
any member of the Museum staff, using any means of transmission.
* Once received, such requests shall be referred at the earliest opportunity to the MMC Convenor.
* Reference 1: Extract from Association of Independent Museums Guide to
successfully managing privacy and data regulations in small museums.
* Reference 2: Extract from Information Commissioner's Office Guide to the GDPR
Date and Review of this Policy
* This policy document was originally approved by the MMC on 6th March
2018 and became effective on 25th May 2018 (the date upon which the
Regulation came into force).
* Updated to add on-line resources section and approved by MMC on 30th April 2019.
* The contents of this document will be regularly reviewed and any necessary changes made from time to time.
Signed on behalf of the Chasewater Railway Museum Management Committee MMC Convenor, 30th April 2019
Chasewater Railway Museum Cookies Policy.
CHASEWATER RAILWAY MUSEUM
Cookies Policy
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you
with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are
placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse
websites
Our cookies help us:
Make our website(s) work as you'd expect
In some cases Remember your settings during and between visits
Improve the speed/security of the site
Help us to improve our website and museum services by logging usage and enabling statistical analysis
Help us to develop and offer resources and activities related to the museum
We do not use cookies to:
Collect any personally identifiable information other than that we ask you to provide when registering for our services
Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website
(your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your
continued use of our website(s), to mean that you are
fine with this.
Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn
how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site
will not work as you would expect.
Our cookies are non-optional and you should not use our website(s) if you do not wish us to use cookies.
Types of cookies we may depending on the website you use:
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work.
We use cookies to collect usage data for our web site(s).
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Some website(s) might, like most websites, includes functionality
provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube
video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:
No such cookies are used at present
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily 'Like' or share our content on the likes of Facebook,
Twitter and Google+ we may include sharing buttons on our website(s).
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social
network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen
on these networks.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
No such cookies are used on our Catalogue, but they are used on our main web site.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We may use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people
have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g.
Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site
isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they
spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to
continuously improve our website. Our Analytics programs also
tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g.
from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us
to put more money into developing our services for you
instead of marketing spend.
We may use Google Analytics to compile visitors statistics. Click here
to find out more about the cookies that are set by Google Analytics.
You can use a tool to opt-out of all Google Analytics cookies, by visiting their web site for information.
No such cookies are used at present
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to
stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the
functionality of our's and a large proportion of the
world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called
'spyware'. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may
find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by
automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.
This Cookies Policy was adopted by the Museum Management Committee on
the 30th April 2019 and will be updated and reviewed as required.