The Sherlock Holmes Museum Privacy Policy

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES MUSEUM

WEBSITE PRIVACY AND COOKIES POLICY

Our Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us and we will always endeavour to comply with the latest applicable data protection measures to ensure fairness, transparency, accuracy, security, minimisation and respect for your rights with regard to your personal data which we gather. Our privacy policy complies with the latest European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any equivalent United Kingdom legislation applicable following our departure from the European Union. We always endeavour to work with reputable third party providers who have the same data protection principles. Please advise us if you find this not to be the case at any time.

We also strive to give our website visitors and customers the best visitor/customer experience possible with the best choice of content, material, products and/or services with speed, accuracy and relevance whilst at the same time protecting their privacy. We hope that we have found the right balance through this policy document. This is what this means in terms of what we may collect when you visit our website, what we do with it and what you can tell us to do with it. By using our website, you consent to our collecting and using your personal information in this way. You may also withdraw that consent at any time by notifying us via email at info@sherlock-holmes.co.uk

Our website will typically collect the type of personal information mentioned below from and about you when you visit, browse or use our website and when you purchase, license or subscribe to any of our website content, material, products and/or services. If we exchange emails or other communications or enter into any other relationship with you, we also obtain additional personal information but again we will use our best endeavours only to use or disclose such information in the manner stated below.

1.  The type of Personal Information which we/our providers may gather from or about you.

Each time you use our website, we collect some or all of the following information either directly from your own disclosure or through our website software:

·         Your IP address, browser type and location, unique device identifiers, language preference, the date, time and frequency of your visits, which pages you viewed and for how long and if you clicked, copied or downloaded any material, and similar information from your general online use and preferences, gathered by the use of cookies and similar technologies (see clause 9 below for more information on cookies);

·         Any  content, material, products and/or services which you either purchased, licensed, subscribed to or otherwise viewed, used, copied, downloaded or clicked a link to access;

·         Your acceptance (or otherwise) to receive any publications, newsletters, updates or other material or media from us or any of our providers;

·         Your consent (or otherwise) to this Privacy Policy and your agreement to our Terms and Conditions.

If you are an existing user/customer, then we may already have the above information and your consent to this Privacy Policy will also cover this past information.

If you are buying/paying online, we and/or our third party secure payment provider will need your first and last name, your credit/debit card or other payment details, card billing address, including street name, city or town, a telephone number and an email address, which may be personal or business.  Please note that only our third party secure payment provider will have your card number to process your payment, we do not see or have access to that number but we do have access to the other data you provide.

If any goods require to be physically delivered (for example any of our hard copy publications) then a physical delivery address (personal or business) (if different from the billing address) will also be required.

If we need to verify your age and/or identity for any reason (for example, payment verification, fraud prevention or dispute resolution) we may also ask you for your age (only to confirm that you are of legal age to contract), passport/ID/Visa/driver’s licence (these documents will also have your place of birth, gender, nationality and a facial image of you), your social security/national insurance number, or any other identifier if required for identifying you as a specific individual.

If we want to identify you further to gain a better profile or business relationship with you, we may use the material which you have included on publicly available websites such as that of your company/employer/professional website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites, which may include additional information or photographs.

You can access your personal details at any time, ask us to update the information we hold, or to delete it altogether (see clause 7 for your rights over your personal information).

2.  Communicating with you

Each time you purchase, license or subscribe to any content, material, products and/or services from our website, we will send you an email verifying the order and confirming that the material will be delivered/sent/provided. We also reserve the right to send you email, sms or other communications from time to time regarding updates and changes to our content, material, products or services; or about new links, partners, providers or suppliers to our website. You can choose not to receive by unsubscribing.

If we require to email you any technical support, administrative or legal notices important to our website, our content, material, products or services that we consider essential that you know, including any breach of security relating to your personal information; you will not be able to unsubscribe from these notices as they may contain, for example, new privacy terms, conditions or situations, important instructions on use of or updates to our content, material, products and /or services which you have purchased, licensed or subscribed to from us, or recall notices for faulty products.

3.  How your Personal Information is used by us

We want to give you the best visitor/customer experience possible with the best choice of content, material, products and/or services that we can with speed, accuracy and relevance. To do this, we need to collect sufficient information about you and users in general to enable us to operate the website and keep it current, up-to-date, relevant to users’ needs and preferences now and in the future as well as to keep it secure and in compliance with the applicable law.

We also need to use your personal information for the purposes specified in clause 1 above (your consent, payment, delivery and identity) as well as:

·         to respond to your orders, payments, delivery and answer your queries, comments or complaints;

·         to operate our website professionally, efficiently and legally and ensure its security (as well as your security), maintenance, upgrade and enhancement (see clause 5 below and our Terms and Conditions);

·         for business and statistical analysis by our own staff and professional advisors;

·         to provide payment, download and/or delivery methods and other 3rd party services (which may include opening an account or subscription, credit–worthiness checks, etc);

·         to provide you with information on updates, marketing, promotions, events, webinars and other material which you have consented/subscribed to or otherwise may expect from us as part of our general offering (you can unsubscribe from any of this material); and

·         for our legitimate interests and such other internal business reasons, including but not limited to disclosing your personal information to any employee, business adviser, consultant, partner, contractor, provider; risk management, credit reference, debt collection, fraud prevention agencies and/or compliance, fiscal, regulatory, legal or government bodies.

4.  How long we will keep your Personal Information

We will only keep your personal information for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was gathered, given voluntarily by you, publicly available or otherwise processed as specified in this policy document. In certain circumstances, we may store it for a longer period if so required for example, by applicable laws, regulators, payment protection, law enforcement or for secure archiving. In any case of longer storage by us, the terms of this policy document will continue to apply.

5. Personal Information shared with Third Parties

We will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third party without your consent except in the following circumstances:

• Where we use or partner with trusted third party providers to provide services for us, including, for example, processing of debit/credit card payments, delivery and processing of orders, site security, hosting, management and other IT/professional/insurance and operational services. These companies will have access to only the personal information needed to perform their specific functions and not for any other purposes. They are bound by confidentiality agreements as well as their own privacy policies to which you may also be given the opportunity to accept or decline. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other third parties and advise you to read the privacy statements of each. Your use of such third parties is at your own risk.
• If we require to disclose your personal information to an appropriate investigative third party, for example, if we have reason to believe that you may be involved in any illegal or harmful conduct or if we are required to do so under the applicable law, by a law enforcement or government authority or if we believe that such action is necessary to:

(1)  comply with the law or with legal process;

(2)  protect and defend our rights, security or property or that of our customers or providers;

(3)  prevent fraud and other illegal acts;

(4)  protect against abuse, misuse or unauthorised use of our website in any way; or

(5)  protect our personal safety or property and that of our users, customers, providers or the public (e.g. if you provide false or deceptive information about yourself or attempt to pose as someone else or defame/libel any party we will disclose such information about you in order to assist any type of investigation into your actions).

• We may share non-personal, non-individual information in aggregate form with third parties for business purposes, for example with advertisers or prospective advertisers on our website or we may tell our business partners or prospective business partners the number of customers in certain demographic groups who viewed, purchased, licensed or subscribed to certain content, material, products or services or share other statistical analyses. This does not involve disclosing any personal information which can identify any individual customer in any way.
• We may transfer our customer database, including personal information contained therein, to a third party who acquires all or substantially all of the assets or stock in our company or our website service whether by merger, acquisition, reorganisation or otherwise. They will be bound to protect your personal information to no lesser standard than we do so in this policy.
• Where a specific third party provider asks you to accept their own privacy policy, for example, any social media or payment provider.

6.  Your rights over your Personal Information

You have the right to:

• Access your personal information that we have about you and to have us correct, update, restrict, anonymise, block or have us delete it (unless we are legally obliged to keep it);
• Withdraw your consent at any time to all or any particular service for example, remove your name from marketing material.
• Request us to send you a copy, free of charge, of your personal information that we have about you;
• Request us to transfer your personal information to another person, organisation or business of your choosing.

You can make a complaint by contacting:

·         us at info@sherlock-holmes.co.uk or

• the UK information commissioner at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/complaints/ ;or
• the regulator or data protection officer in your country of residence if you do not believe that we have handled your personal information correctly or if you have another complaint.

In order to comply with any of the above requests, we will require you to identify yourself or if you have appointed an authorised third party to act on your behalf, then we will ask them to prove that they have your authority to act in this capacity.

All these requests should be directed to: info@sherlock-holmes.co.uk

7.  Links

Our website contains hyperlinks to other websites owned and operated by independent third parties. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other third party websites and we advise you to read the privacy statements of each website you visit which collects your personal information. Your use of such third party websites is entirely at your own risk.

8.  Cookies and similar technologies

A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier which we transfer to your hard drive through your web browser when you visit our website from whatever device you are using. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and e-mails.

We use cookies, pixel tags and other similar technologies to help us identify and track visitors, usage and access preferences for our website content, material, products and/or services including third party products and/or services and hyperlinks) as well as track and understand, for example, an email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted material. These technologies enable our own system to recognise you when you visit our website again and improve our service to you and to help us give you the best customer/user experience possible with the best choice of content, material, products and/or services with speed, accuracy and relevance.  Cookies may also be used to compile aggregate information about areas of our website that are visited most frequently. This traffic information can be used to enhance the content of our website and make your use of it easier. If you wish to reject our cookies and other similar technologies, you can activate the setting on your browser which will enable you to do so, for example:

 Internet Explorer – https://www.microsoft.com/info/uk-en/cookies.mspx

 Safari – https://support.apple.com/kb/ph19214?locale=en_US

Please note: If you do switch off these technologies, then it will affect how you view and use our website and some functionality will not be available to you. To find out more about using your browser settings to control cookies please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

9.  Updating our Privacy policy

We will update our Privacy Policy and procedures from time to time to make sure they properly, effectively and legally cover your personal information and are up-to-date. We will publish the updated policy on our website so please check it regularly. If there are changes which are important to bring to your notice we will advise you accordingly on our website and/or seek your further consent if so required by applicable law.  

10. Who we are and How to contact us

We are 221B Baker Street Limited trading as The Sherlock Holmes Museum whose registered office is at 235-237 Baker Street, London, NW1 6XE England. Our company registration number is 13327330 and the place of registration is England.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@sherlock-holmes.co.uk

DigiTickets Privacy Policy

Who we are

In this privacy policy references to "we", "us" and "our" are to The Sherlock Holmes Museum. References to "our Website" or "the Website" are to sherlockholmesmuseum.digitickets.co.uk.

Information collected and its use

The information we collect via the Website may include:

1. Any personal details you knowingly provide us with through forms and our email, such as name, address, telephone number etc.
2. In order to effectively process credit or debit card transactions it may be necessary for the bank or card processing agency to verify your personal details for authorisation outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Such information will not be transferred out of the EEA for any other purpose.
3. Your preferences and use of email updates, recorded by emails we send you (if you select to receive email updates on products and offers).
4. Your IP Address, this is a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component on the Website. This information is used to monitor your usage of the Website.
5. Information about your device such as your web browser, screen resolution and operating system. This information is used to ensure we continue to support the different devices used by our customers.
6. Data recorded by the Website which allows us to recognise you and your preferred settings, this saves you from re-entering information on return visits to the site. Such data is recorded locally on your computer through the use of cookies. Most browsers can be programmed to reject, or warn you before downloading cookies, information regarding this may be found in your browsers 'help' facility.

We do not store any credit card details.

What we do with your information

Any personal information we collect from this website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable laws. The details we collect will be used:

1. To process your order, to provide after sales service (we may pass your details to another organisation to supply/deliver products or services you have purchased and/or to provide after-sales service);
2. In certain cases we may use your email address to send you information on our other products and services. In such a case you will be offered the option to opt in/out before completing your purchase.

We may need to pass the information we collect to other companies for administrative purposes. We may use third parties to carry out certain activities, such as processing and sorting data, monitoring how customers use the Website and issuing our e-mails for us. Third parties will not be allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes.

Cookie Policy

Like many websites we use cookies to store and then retrieve small bits of information on your computer when you visit. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to. It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience.

Some of the information stored is put there by other companies whose software we have added to the site, and this can also impact your experience of other websites you may visit after leaving ours.

If you continue to use this site without taking action to prevent the storage of this information, you are effectively agreeing to this use.

If you want to learn more about the general uses of cookies, including how to stop them being stored by your computer, please visit Cookiepedia - all about cookies.

Below is a list of the different types of cookies used on this site, and an explanation of what they are used for. If you would like any more information, please get in touch.

Cookie	Name	Expiration Time	Purpose
Shopping Basket	PHPSESSID	24 minutes	This cookie is used to keep track of what items are in a user's shopping basket.
Cookie Consent	dtAnalyticsConsent	1 year	This cookie is used to monitor the users consent for analytical cookies on our site. No user data is collected without this being enabled.
Google Analytics	_ga _ga_container-id	2 years	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
	_gid	24 hours
	_gat_tracker-name	1 minute
Microsoft Clarity	_clck	1 year	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site and how they interact with the website. Read Microsoft Clarity's Cookie Overview and Data Retention Policy.
	_clsk	1 year
	CLID	1 year
	ANONCHK	1 year
	MR	1 year
	MUID	1 year
	SM	1 year
New Relic	__cfduid	1 year	This cookie is used to collect information about visitor's experience of the site in terms of performance. This helps us to monitor that our systems are working quickly and effectively, and to identify any problematic areas. Visit the New Relic website

Your Rights

You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information please send your contact details including address to the following address:
The Sherlock Holmes Museum
221b Baker St, Marylebone, London
NW1 6XE

Other websites

This privacy policy only covers this website. Any other websites which may be linked to by our website are subject to their own policy, which may differ from ours.