PRIVACY INFORMATION

This site is dedicated to preserving and making accessible the heritage of UK Pleasure and Paddle Steamers. We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this web site.

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, including your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, geographical location, referral source, page views, website navigation, length of visit.

The purpose of this statement is to inform users of the Heritagesteamers website, about what information is collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used, if it is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users’ privacy.

CONFIDENTIALITY & SECURITY
Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your personal details will not normally be disclosed to third parties. In some circumstances however we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfil a request for information. Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM VISITORS
Email comments and questions
If you send an enquiry by email it may not always be possible for the Heritagesteamers website to provide the information requested directly. In such circumstances we may pass your enquiry to another party (eg. museum, archive, library or researcher) so that they can fulfil your information request.

COOKIES
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through solely through the sign-up to our regular emailed heritage newsletter.

LINKING TO ANOTHER SITE FROM THE HERITAGESTEAMERS WEBSITE
Our website contains many links to other sites, mainly those of other enthusiast groups, museums, archives and our Social Networking pages. The Heritagesteamers website is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. You should be aware of this when you leave the Heritagesteamers website and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY & COOKIES POLICY
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties. Please feel free to contact the Heritagesteamers website if you have any concerns about privacy and usage of information.

05/08/12