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Privacy statement

The National Maritime Museum respects the privacy of every individual who visits our websites, including the Freedom Website. We operate in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your information

You will need to register in order to save the online exhibitions generated in the 'Create your own exhibition' section of the Freedom Website. To register, the following personal information is required: your full name and email address, along with a password of your choice and a hint to remind you of your password.

We only use this information to supply the services that have been requested and to monitor and improve the quality of the Freedom Website.

It is the Museum's policy not to distribute or sell your information on to any third party.

The Freedom Website requires cookies to be enabled to allow you to login and create your own exhibitions.

A cookie is a small file placed on your computer's hard drive that allows the Museum to improve the quality of your visit to our Website. If your browser permits it you can set your computer to reject cookies, although this may affect the quality of your visit.

If you are concerned about the use of cookies, we suggest you set your browser's privacy settings to 'high'. This setting will block cookies that collect personal information without your explicit consent while allowing you to fully enjoy the features of the Website.

The Museum monitors how people use the Website and aggregates general statistics about customers, traffic patterns and related site information in an anonymous form. In order to collect this data the Museum uses software on the Website that collects statistics from IP data. This software can determine what times of day people access our site, which country they access the Website from, how long they visit the site for, what browser they are using etc.

This information is collected primarily to measure the popularity of the site as a whole and particular content, allowing us to judge visitor needs and tailor future content.

The Data Controller is the Board of Trustees of the National Maritime Museum, but to request any information with respect to the Website please write to:

Online Projects
National Maritime Museum
Greenwich
London SE10 9NF