Our Terms & Conditions
Copyright
The Etches Collection’s Photo Archive on our website is owned by The Etches Collection. Materials digitized for inclusion in the database are from the museum’s collections. U.K. and International copyright laws protect all digital images in the Photo Archive and on this website. Permission to access the Photo Archive does not constitute permission to publish or reproduce. Commercial use or distribution of any image of the Museum internal or external or any photo images of our fossil specimens is not permitted without prior permission of us, the copyright holder. Please contact The Etches Collection for permission to use any of our digital imagery or to purchase images.
Privacy & Security
Please download the document here to read our Privacy and Security policy. This policy sets out how The Etches Collection aims to treat the personal data you have shared with us, in line with the General Data Protection Regulation. Within the policy, 'We', 'Us' or 'Our' refers to The Etches Collection/Kimmeridge Trust as a data controller.
In Brief:- Personal data is information that can be used to help identify an individual, such as name, address, phone number or email address. It’s important that you read the full policy to understand what information We hold, how We may use it, and what your rights are. A quick summary is below:
We collect information that is either personal data (as outlined above) or non-personal data (such as IP addresses, pages accessed etc)
We collect information about members, supporters, users of services, volunteers and employees.
We collect information to provide services or goods, to provide information, to fundraise for Our work, for administration, research, profiling, analysis, and for the prevention/detection of crime.
We only collect the information that We need or that would be useful to Us in Our quest to provide the best possible service.
We do Our very best to keep personal information secure, including SSL technology (secure server software) wherever We collect personal data online.
We never sell your data and We will never share it with another company or charity for marketing purposes.
We only share data where We are required by law or with carefully selected partners who do work for us. All Our partners are required by their contract to treat your data as carefully as We would, to only use it as instructed, and to allow Us to check that they do this.
The Board of Trustees and Director are also responsible for ensuring that sufficient resources are provided to support the requirements of the policy.
Use Of Cookies
Cookies are small text only files stored on the hard drive of your computer by the server of a website that you visit. The cookies do not contain any personal data, they are there to provide you with better information tailored to your individual needs.
Most internet browsers automatically accept cookies but if you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your browser security to refuse cookies or to warn you when they are being used.
The legislation relating to the use of cookies changed from 26 May 2012.
Please be aware that when you visit our website, if your browser is using the standard settings and it is accepting cookies, you are effectively giving consent for cookies from our website to be stored on your computer.
If you do not wish for this to happen, you can disable them in the settings of your browser. For detailed instructions please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Cookies used on our website
We use Google Analytics to collect information about site usage and performance.
Google Analytics cookies are to record users’ activity and experience on our site. This helps us improve the website. The data recorded by these cookies is only associated with the Etches Collection site, and cannot be accessed by other Google clients.
__utma: a “persistent” cookie which means that it effectively does not expire. To record the number of unique visitors to our site. This number is updated each time a page is viewed.
__utmb: a “session” cookie, meaning that it will expire at the end of the browsing session.
__utmz: this cookie keeps track of your country/locality of origin when you visit our website, whether directly, via a link, via a search engine, or via a campaign such as an email link. We use this cookie to calculate search engine traffic, advertising campaigns and page navigation within our site. This cookie is updated each time you visit a new page on our website. This cookie expires after 6 months.
Our content management system creates a session cookie to assist with your navigation of our website, the cookie stores no personal information.