The Association for Science and Discovery Centres Website Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement
(Last updated: June 2006, organisation name change April 2009)

The Association for Science and Discovery Centres is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information on our Web site.

Browsing the website
You can access our Web site home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.
We do not use cookies on our Web site.
We do not automatically log personal data.
We do not link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

ADDED June 2006: Web statistics
We use a third-party tracking service called Google Analytics that uses cookies to track visitors to our site. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our users as a whole.

Data Collection
You can voluntarily send data about yourself to The Association for Science and Discovery Centres using forms on the web site.
The E-Newsletter signup form sends data for storage to a secure server at MailChimp in the USA.
The form for joining The Association for Science and Discovery Centres sends data to The Association for Science and Discovery Centres staff in the UK.
We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

Sharing your membership data
The Association for Science and Discovery Centres shares membership data with Ecsite.
As a member of The Association for Science and Discovery Centres we will send you information on events and other activities, by post and e-mail. You have the option to opt out of these mailings.
If you opt-in by checking the relevant form box, on some occasions we may pass your details on to a limited number of relevant organisations that we think may be of interest you.

Sharing your e-news subscription data
As an The Association for Science and Discovery Centres e-news subscriber we may want to send you other information about Ecsite activities by e-mail or post from time to time. This will only happen if you opt-in to these mailings.
On some occasions we may pass your details on to a limited number of relevant organisations that we think may be of interest you. This will only happen if you opt-in to this.

Information about our organisation
Our organisation name is The Association for Science and Discovery Centres.
The Association for Science and Discovery Centres is based in the UK.
Our principal activity is running a network of Science and Discovery Centres in the UK
Our privacy policy covers The Association for Science and Discovery Centres and its Web sites: http://www.sciencecentres.org.uk/ and http://www.ecsite-uk.net/

Contact details
Our address is The Association for Science and Discovery Centres, The Watershed, 1 Canon's Road, Harbourside, Bristol BS1 5TX
The person responsible for the data (Data Controller) is the Executive Director.

Privacy Compliance
We believe our data use to be compliant with the UK's Data Protection Act 1998.
(We believe that The Association for Science and Discovery Centres is exempt from formal notification under the Data Protection Act 1998.)

Privacy Enquiries
If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please contact the Executive Director, at the address above.