This privacy policy applies to users of this website.
Who we are
We are The Hovercraft Museum CIO. We are a UK registered charity no. 1198896 in the register of The Charity Commission England and Wales.
Our legal address is:
The Hovercraft Museum
Daedalus,
Broom Way,
Lee-on-the-Solent,
PO13 9YA
Our website address is:
https://hovercraft-museum.org.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
When first visiting we will ask you your advertising preferences. This will set a cookie to track your preferences going forward so you don’t need to select this option every time you load a page.
Depending what advertising preferences have been selected we may enable the use of 3rd party tracking cookies for the purposes of tracking and improving our website experience and tracking our website success for the purposes of grant making.
You can read more about cookies in our cookie policy.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
If your advertising preferences are to not track this content will be blocked and will not work without you explicitly giving permission.
Who we share your data with
If you create an account for use in our online store or create an order we will retain the necessary information to record the sale and send your items to you. This includes name, address, email and telephone number. We may need to share this inform with our third party partners such as delivery agents and payment processors.
Website usage data may be shared outside the organisation in an anonymised format only with trusted partners such as consultancy services, grant makers and fundraisers for the purposes of improving our services, or grant making.
Advertising and usage data (if shared) may be shared with external third parties such as Google Analytics for the purposes of improving the website experience and compiling anonymised statistics.
How long we retain your data
Order information is retained for as long as required for record keeping and applicable UK law. This is normally held for five years after the 31st January of the relevant tax year.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.