Privacy Notice and use of Cookies

This notice sets out the information collected about you through the use of the Lakeland Arts (LA) websites (lakelandarts.org.uk, abbothall.org.uk, blackwell.org.uk, lakelandmuseum.org.uk and steamboats.org.uk) and any other electronic communications networks by the LA.

From time to time LA may change this privacy notice. You may therefore wish to check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. The latest privacy notice will always appear on this page.

If you have any questions or comments about this privacy notice, please contact us at [email protected].

1. Information collected

When you use the LA websites, we may collect personal information about you when you request a specific service using online forms and every time you email us your details. We use this information to:

• contact you to respond to your queries (if you email us with a question, for example)
• provide you with services (send you an email newsletter for example)

We collect information about you when you sign up to the following website services:

• Email newsletter subscriptions

We collect information about you when you use a the checkout to buy the following products:

• Hardman Photographic Prints

2. Use of cookies

Cookies are pieces of data that a website can transfer to an individual’s computer hard drive for record keeping. Cookies can make websites easier to use by storing information about your preferences on a particular website. The information may remain on your computer after the Internet session finishes and you leave the website but you can delete them using some browsers, manually or using system utilities. Most internet browsers are pre-set to accept cookies.

If you prefer not to receive cookies, you can adjust your internet browser to refuse cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. This site will work more efficiently if receipt of cookies is enabled but it will still operate correctly if you disable cookies.

For more information on cookies and their uses, visit All About Cookies.

2.1 Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how our visitors use and navigate this website. We use this information to report to funders and to analyse usage of the website so that we can continually work to add new features and improve your experience of it.

The cookies collect information such as the number of visitors to the site, which pages they visited and whereabouts they came to the site from. This information is anonymous and cannot be used to identify you personally.

2.2 Third-party cookies

During your visits to the LA websites you may be delivered cookies by third-party websites. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or Flickr, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. The LA does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

3. Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this privacy notice. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.