Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: http://www.museumofwalking.org.uk.

The Museum of Walking is presently a wholly owned subsidiary of Rethinking Cities Ltd Rethinking Cities, a limited company registered in Salford, and trading in Greenwich, England, and conceived by Andrew StuckRethinking Cities provides advice to the built environment, health and transport sectors.

Company No. 5801458  We have been trading since 2006.

Registered office: Alex House, 260/8 Chapel Street, Salford, Manchester M3 5JZ
Managing Director: Andrew Stuck, Trading Address: 38 Brand Street, London SE10 8SR

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

Our site, and blog All About Walking,  are set up so that visitors may not leave comments.  Should this change, we will inform you here, and follow the guidelines below:

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Our Get in Touch page collects information and sends it as an e mail to Rethinking Cities Ltd. We  try to respond within 3-5 working days.  We ask you to provide your name, organisation (if pertinent), and your e mail address. We will ask you if you are happy for us to continue holding  your contact data and message. We will not use this information for marketing purposes.

If you subscribe to our e-bulletins or newsletter by completing the form on this website, this information will be held on the Mailchimp marketing platform. Their Privacy Policy can be read here. We ask you to provide your name, e mail address and to select whether you want to receive e mails about the Museum of Walking, and or Talking Walking podcasts and or Rethinking Cities.  If you wish you can add further information regarding your age, location and from whom you were recommended to subscribe to our e-bulletin or newsletter.

Booking on our events: we currently use third party booking platforms, including Eventbrite, AirBnBFunzing or ask visitors to make direct payments via a PayPal button.  For these events we ask visitors to provide their name and email address, occasionally extending this to include additional details that will help the shape the event that we are organising (e.g. First Monday Sound Salons).  This  additional information is discarded after the event has taken place.  We will ask you if you are happy for us to continue holding  your contact data.

Occasionally we run competitions or invite visitors to submit poems (e.g. Haiku Encounter), media links (e.g. Sound Walk Sunday) or images, providing a simple contact form (sometimes using Google forms).  We  try to respond within 3-5 working days.  In addition to the media you are submitting, we ask you to provide your name, organisation (if pertinent), and your e mail address. We will ask you if you are happy for us to continue holding  your contact data and media.

Cookies

Our site, and blog All About Walking,  are set up so that visitors may not leave comments.  Should this change, we will inform you here, and follow the guidelines below:

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Our site, and blog All About Walking,  are set up so that do not collect data using an Analytics package.  Should this change, we will inform you here

Who we share your data with

If you subscribe to our e-bulletins or newsletter by completing the form on this website, this information will be held on the Mailchimp marketing platform. Their Privacy Policy can be read here. We ask you to provide your name, e mail address and to select whether you want to receive e mails about the Museum of Walking, and or Talking Walking podcasts and or Rethinking Cities.  If you wish you can add further information regarding your age, location and from whom you were recommended to subscribe to our e-bulletin or newsletter.

Booking on our events: we currently use third party booking platforms, including Eventbrite, AirBnBFunzing or ask visitors to make direct payments via a PayPal button.  For these events we ask visitors to provide their name and email address, occasionally extending this to include additional details that will help the shape the event that we are organising (e.g. First Monday Sound Salons).  This  additional information is discarded after the event has taken place.  We will ask you if you are happy for us to continue holding  your contact data.

How long we retain your data

Our site, and blog All About Walking,  are set up so that visitors may not leave comments.  Should this change, we will inform you here, and follow the guidelines below:

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

If you have concerns about your personal data that you may have submitted through this website or other that we control please e mail us andrew[at]rethiningcities.net marking the subject line ‘Privacy enquiry‘.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform and ask you via email to confirm your subscription to our e bulletins or newsletter.