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Discover South Kensington – Privacy Policy and T&Cs

This website is operated by the Exhibition Road Cultural Group. Our registered office is c/o Natural History Museum, EG281 (Earth Galleries Bridge Room), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD. The company is registered in England No. 05983125. Our Charity Number is 1123758.    

This document sets out the terms of use of the Website, our policy on sending emails, details of how we will handle your personal information, advice on third party sites and an explanation of how cookies are used on the Website. (Updated January 2024)

Website disclaimer

The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by Discover South Kensington and while we endeavour to keep the information up to date and correct, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

In no event will we be liable for any loss or damage including without limitation, indirect or consequential loss or damage, or any loss or damage whatsoever arising from loss of data or profits arising out of, or in connection with, the use of this website.

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of Discover South Kensington. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

Every effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Discover South Kensington takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.

Copyright notice

This website and its content is copyright of © Discover South Kensington 2024. All rights reserved.

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

  • you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
  • you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.

Personal information

We will use your personal information collected from the newsletter subscription form to keep you informed about events, news, competitions and offers we think will be of interest to you. Your personal information will only be shared with a third party if you have consented to receive third party marketing information as part of a competition application and you have opted in to receive such information. 

If you subscribe to our newsletter, your personal details will be collected and transferred to Mailchimp where they will they will be stored in our Mailchimp account in order to allow us to create distribution lists and send out email campaigns. We will give you the chance to be removed from our marketing database at any time by unsubscribing from the newsletter or by contacting us at info@exhibitionroad.com requesting your details to be removed. The type of information we will hold if you subscribe to our newsletter will be your name and email address.

If you contact us by any other means (e.g. email), we may keep a record of that contact and the information you provide at that time, on the basis that we have a legitimate interest to do so to respond to your inquiry and let you know about progress related to the issue you raised.

Discover South Kensington stores personal details on various systems; Mailchimp, Eventbrite, Excel spreadsheets and email providers such as Microsoft 365 for emails and contact details. We also use some of the services at the Natural History Museum including cloud storage (Box.com) and email systems. Click here for a link to the Natural History Museum’s Privacy Notice.

How long we will keep your information

We aim to keep personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the information was collected.

Specifically, with regards to Newsletter Subscriptions, we will retain your data until you unsubscribe from the Newsletter. Once you have unsubscribed we may retain your data for up to 6 months to ensure that your data has been deleted or anonymised in all locations. We will delete or anonymise your data once you have unsubscribed. Data received with regards to a Competition entry will be retained for 2 years.

Cookies

When someone visits our website we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things like the number of visitors to the various parts of the discoversouthken.com website. We collect this information via Google Analytics in a way which does not identify anyone.

The tool we use to analyse visitor patterns uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer to collect information. You can decide if you want to accept or reject cookies by changing the settings on your browser.

We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our web site, we will make it clear when we collect it and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Third party sites

Where our site contains links to other third party websites and resources, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. When accessing a third party website via our Website we advise you check the terms of use and privacy policies to ensure their compliance and determine how they may use your information.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this privacy statement you can contact us by email (info@exhibitionroad.com) or post at the above addresses.