Information about our organisation and e-newsletter
National Museums Scotland
Chambers Street Edinburgh EH1
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Types of personal data collected
The data we collect may be personal data and may include your
name, e-mail address, postal address, date of birth and
interests.
How personal data is collected
We collect the personal data that you may volunteer via: visitor
surveys, sign-up forms and booking tickets.
Cookies
Like many other online services, National Museums Scotland may
use 'cookies' to store and sometimes track information about you. A
cookie is a small amount of data sent from the server, which is
stored on your PC's hard drive. Cookies may be used to customise
your service and may allow you to sign-in.
We use cookies to see where visitors are coming from and
tracking user interests and behaviour. If you voluntarily provide
personal details, we may use cookies to identify what pages and
topics are of specific interest to you. Most major websites use
cookies and their use is standard on the Internet. Most Internet
browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can change your
settings so that you are notified whenever you are sent a cookie,
or block them completely should you wish to do this.
How to delete and control cookies: www.aboutcookies.org
Please note, some services are only activated by the presence of
a cookie and if you choose not to utilise this, a particular online
feature may not work as intended.
Purposes for which data is processed
The personal data collected will be used by us for the following
purposes:
- To send you promotional or marketing information
- For market research purposes.
Third parties data disclosure
We do not disclose personal data to other organisations.
Security
We do not give you the option of using a secure transmission
method to send us your personal data. We have implemented security
policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data
that we have under our control from:
- Unauthorised access
- Improper use or disclosure
- Unauthorised modification.
All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and
are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to
respect the confidentiality of our visitor's personal data.
Rights for access to personal data
You can ask us if we are keeping any personal data about you and
you can also request to receive a copy of that personal data. For
such requests, please contact info@nms.ac.uk. At any time you
may request that we delete or correct your personal information. To
unsubscribe from the e-news service please use the unsubscribe link
contained within the e-newsletter or email info@nms.ac.uk, for all other requests
please contact info@nms.ac.uk.
Data Protection Act 1998
The National Museums Scotland is registered under the Data
Protection Act 1998.
Privacy support
If you have any comments on our privacy policy, please contact
us using the following email address: info@nms.ac.uk