Privacy

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This page explains which personal data The Merrin Collection Trust (“the museum”, “we”) handles when you visit this website, write to us, become a Friend, use the archive or borrow from the library of things.

Who is responsible

The Merrin Collection Trust, Merrin Works, 14 Tenter Lane, Sheffield S3 8EN. Questions about your data, or a request to see, correct or delete it, go to privacy@merrin.example, or ask at the front desk.

This website

• No tracking. The site uses no analytics, advertising or tracking cookies. If you choose light or dark, your browser remembers it on your device; it is never sent to us.
• Our host processes your IP address and the pages you request, to deliver and protect the site.

Messages, Friends and the newsletter

When you write to us we receive your name, email and message, and delete them after a year unless you ask us to keep in touch. Friends’ names and addresses are kept for as long as the membership lasts and a year after, and for six years where we claim Gift Aid, as the law asks. The newsletter holds only your email, and every issue has a link to leave.

The archive and the library of things

Readers in the archive sign the register with their name and the boxes they saw; borrowers give a name, an address and a phone number. We keep both for two years, so we can trace a missing item, and then delete them.

Your rights

You can see and get a copy of what we hold about you, have it corrected, and ask us to delete it. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.