privacy policy
PRIVACY POLICY
Crafting the Past is coordinated by Dig It! and Immersive Minds, (“we,” “us” or “our”) who jointly operate the website at craftingthepast.com (the “Site”) where users can gather information concerning news and services provided by Crafting the Past. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains how we process personal data that we collect and store when you access the Site and use our services.
Crafting the Past knows that you care how information about you is used and shared and we appreciate your trust in us to do that lawfully, carefully and sensibly. Crafting the Past complies with the seven basic Data Protection Principles as laid out by the Information Commissioners Office. By visiting craftingthepast.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Controllers of Personal Information
Any personal information provided to, or to be gathered by, this website is controlled primarily by the Dig It! office at National Museums Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1JF.
What Personal Information about Customers Does Crafting the Past Gather?
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information but then you might not be able to take advantage of several of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests and communicating with you. You can find examples of the information we collect from you in the “Examples of Information Collected” section of this Privacy Policy.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, we use “cookies” to track a visitor’s sessions and measure site performance. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalised experience at craftingthepast.co.uk if we cannot recognise you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
What about Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide various features.
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer. The Crafting the Past website has been designed to use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, therefore we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Does Crafting the Past Share the Information it Receives?
Information about our users is an important part of our project and we are not in the business of selling it to others. Craftingthepast.co.uk shares user information only as described below:
Third Party Service Providers: We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, such as Google Analytics and Google AdWords. Examples include sending e-mail, data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must only process the personal information in accordance with our contract with them and only in accordance with this Privacy Notice.
Protection of Crafting the Past and Others: We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law; or protect the rights, property or safety of craftingthepast.co.uk, our users or others. This does not include selling, renting, sharing or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in a way that is contrary to the commitments made in this Privacy Notice.
With Your Consent: Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.
Whenever we transfer personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area in the course of sharing information as set out above, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Notice and as permitted by the applicable laws on data protection.
How Secure Is Information About Me?
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer
What about Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?
Our site may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites.
These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or “serve”) the advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices. In addition, the Network Advertising Initiative offers useful information about Internet advertising companies (also called “ad networks” or “network advertisers”), including information about how to opt-out of their information collection.
Craftingthepast.co.uk may also display targeted advertising based on personal information about users. Although craftingthepast.co.uk does not provide any personal information to advertisers, advertisers (including ad-serving companies) may assume that users who interact with or click on a targeted advertisement meet the targeting criteria used to display the ad.
What Information Can I Access?
Craftingthepast.co.uk gives you access to a broad range of information about your interactions with craftingthepast.co.uk for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. This list will change as our website evolves. You have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, to request deletion of certain personal data and object to the use of, and request amendment of certain personal data we hold. You can exercise these rights by contacting us at: jeff@socantscot.org
What Choices Do I Have?
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of certain craftingthepast.co.uk features.
You may be able to add or update certain information on certain pages. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the previous version for our records.
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer. The Crafting the Past website has been designed to use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, therefore we recommend that you leave them turned on
Are Children Allowed to Use Craftingthepast.co.uk?
Craftingthepast.co.uk does not display information that might be considered unsuitable for children. If you find content that you think may be unsuitable for children, please let us know.
Notices and Revisions
If you have any concern about privacy at craftingthepast.co.uk, please e-mail us a thorough description and we will try to resolve the issue for you.
Our project changes constantly and our Privacy Notice will change also. You should check our website frequently to see recent changes. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.
Examples of Information Collected
Information You Give Us: You provide most such information when you search, participate in a contest or questionnaire or communicate with customer service. For example, you provide information when you: search, communicate with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise; and complete a questionnaire or a contest entry form. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as: your name; phone number; and e-mail address.
Automatic Information: Examples of the information we collect and analyse include: the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information such as browser type and version; operating system and platform; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); and cookie number. We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of our website. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.
Information from Other Sources: Examples of information we receive from other sources include: page-view information from some merchants with which we operate co-branded businesses or for which we provide technical, fulfillment, advertising or other services; search results and links; and credit history information from credit bureaus, which we use to help prevent and detect fraud.
COOKIE POLICY
EU Legislation
Under the EU Privacy Directive, visitors to the Crafting the Past web pages should be fully informed about cookies used by the site and be given the option to remove them from use. If you do not wish to give consent, and acknowledge that elements of our site may not operate as designed, please see the Managing Cookies section below for help with changing your browser settings.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files written by a web server to your hard drive. They can only be read or edited by the web site that originally wrote them and are typically used to recognise you as the same person across each request you make to view a web page.
Managing Cookies
The Crafting the Past website has been designed to use cookies to enhance your browsing experience. If you would prefer, you can change your browser settings to remove and/or prevent the use of cookies; however, parts of the Crafting the Past website will no longer work as intended.
For further details, please contact jeff@socantscot.org.