Privacy Statement

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum does not read any of your private online communications.

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum and Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum collects and uses your personal information to operate the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum and its affiliates. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum, in order to determine what Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum pages, or register with Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum site or services, a cookie helps Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Elstree and Boreham Wood Museum at office@elstree-museum.co.uk. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.

November 21, 2008