Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Magna Science Adventure Centre uses and protects any information that you give Magna Science Adventure Centre when you use this website.
Magna Science Adventure Centre is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Magna Science Adventure Centre may change this privacy policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This page was last updated in April 2025.
What we collect
We may collect, store and use the following personal information:
- Information about your computer and about your visits to this website (IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation and details);
- Information that you provide to us for the purposes of registering on the website or subscribing to the newsletter (ie name, job title, contact information, email address);
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests;
- other information relevant to Magna Science Adventure Centre customer surveys and/or offers.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular, for the following reasons:
- For internal record keeping;
- To improve our products and services;
- To administer the website, improve your browsing experience and customise the website according to your interests;
- Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, events, special offers or other information which we think may be of interest to you, where you have specifically agreed to this, using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, or mail.
What we don’t do
We will not, without your express consent, provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing – under any circumstances.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, technical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
We use the following cookies:
– Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
– Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website, which generates statistical and other information about the Magna website use by means of cookies. Google will store this information. For more information, read Google’s Privacy Policy.
– Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
– Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
– Session cookies. These keep track of you as you navigate the website. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. You can choose whether to accept cookies on this website or not. Blocking all cookies is likely, however, to have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or sub-contractors only insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy. In addition, we may disclose your personal information:
- to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
- in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
- in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
- to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information. Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
Controlling your personal information
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as it applies in the UK. In some circumstances a small administration fee may be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to Magna Science Adventure Centre, Sheffield Road, Templeborough, Rotherham S60 1DX.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.