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Handbill; Advertisement for Shillibeers Woolwich omnibus to the Feathe...

Postcard; Used colour comic postcard from District Railway, circa 1905

Guide book; Visitors London with inserted booklet How To Get There, by...

Leaflet; Underline: art and music for the Victoria line, issued by Art...

Booklet; A Guide to the Councils River and Steamboat Service, issued b...

Postcard; Unused commercial postcard of Otterhall in G246;teborg, from...

Leaflet; A special programme of RT bus tours to commemorate the Queens...

Booklet; Protecting workers on the track traffic hours and depots Issu...

Leaflet; Moving London Forward, issued by Crossrail, circa 2010

Leaflet; The Mayors Transport Strategy Draft for public consultation- ...

Leaflet; Day cruises to the sea, issued by Eagle Steamers, 1950

Leaflet; Summer Day Trips to Southend, Margate and 140 mile French Coa...

Booklet, Recruitment for careers for engineering graduates, issued by ...

Book; Round and about London by tram vol 2, published by LCCT, 1931

Leaflet; The LRT Corporate Identity, issued by London Regional Transpo...

Postcard; Colour photographic postcard of quadruple decker bus, 1998

Postcard; Unused black and white photographic postcard The Princes Car...

Brochure; Live At Canons Park D.C. Houses, by Kenneth Scarff, 1934

Booklet; Guide to River Thames Boat Services, issued by Transport for ...

Postcard; To the River by Tram, 1913

Postcard; Unused black and white postcard showing No 8 Bus after the Z...

Postcard; Funeral of driver Tarrant and conductor Rogers, 20 October 1...

Magazine; London Transport Magazine, May 1967

Postcard; Funeral of driver Tarrant and conductor Rogers, 20 October 1...

Leaflet; FX4W the only real taxi for the disabled traveller, circa 198...

Booklet; River Thames Boat service guide Autumn Winter 2000 Issue 5, ...

Guide book; Cooks Handbook to London, issued by Thomas Cook, 1911

Leaflet; London Transport novelty recruitment card in the shape of a r...

Leaflet; Londons Tramways to the West End, issued by London County Cou...

Magazine; Modern Wonder Volume 2 No 33, by Odhams Press, 25 December 1...

Booklet; A Note On Contemporary Architecture In Northern Europe, issue...

Postcard; linocut The Sunshine Roof, by Cyril Power, circa 1986

Postcard; Linocut Whence and Whither, by Cyril Power, issued circa 198...

Leaflet; The right and wrong way to alight from a bus, issued by LGOC,...

Leaflet; See more London with London Transport Caribbean version, issu...

Postcard; The Escalator, by Cyril Power, issued circa 1988

Booklet; The Passengers Guide to London Transport, issued by London Tr...

Manual; Style Guide, issued by London Transport Buses, 1994 - 1996

Calendar; The Pullman Year for 1930, issued by London County Council T...

Booklet; The Pullman Review, issued by London County Council Tramways,...

Booklet; Track competent person traffic hours and engineering hours pr...

Leaflet; Hovercraft on London River sightseeing tours on the Thames fr...

Guide book; The District Railway illustrated Guide to the Empire of In...

Leaflet; Air Raid Precautions - Instructional Folder for the use of th...

Leaflet; Spring Flowers at Charing Cross Station and some Spring-time ...

Handbill; Advertising for William Owen with Inner Circle map, circa 1...

Rule book; Rules Regulations for Operating Employees, issued by L.G.O...

Booklet; Metro-Land, published by the Metropolitan Railway, Second edi...

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Our statutory and public functions:

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Sometimes we may combine your personal information with information available from other publicly available sources.

We do this for a number of reasons; for example, so that we can send better communications more likely to interest you - or to provide an improved Museum experience for our supporters and visitors. It also helps us to build a better long-term relationship with all of the people who support us currently - or who may do so in the future. Importantly, it enables us to raise more funds, more quickly and so support the wide and varied work that takes place at London Transport Museum.

We may analyse geographic, demographic and other information relating to you and we may use additional information from third party sources when it is available. Such information is only compiled using publicly available information about you. Some examples of the resources we might use include:

Royal Mail National Change of Address database (NCOA);
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Newspaper articles, publications and company websites;
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Occasionally LTM may use aggregated, depersonalised information to carry out other research and analysis. Examples may include looking at which geographic areas our visitors travel from, or which age groups visit us. Individuals cannot be identified using this data.

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We also work with service providers to help us with our customer research, for example by conducting customer satisfaction surveys on our behalf. These may be in person within the Museum itself, or where you have agreed, you may be contacted by phone or email.

Where we appoint an external supplier any such arrangements will be subject to a formal agreement between London Transport Museum and that organisation or individual to protect the security of your personal information.

Where you explicitly agree, we may share your personal information with the London Transport Museum Friends, a separate charity that works closely with the Museum to support its objectives and fundraising activities.

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As a recipient of funding from the Arts Council England, we are required to share with them certain information (at an aggregated level) about our staff, trustees and volunteers as well as our visitors.

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We also provide aggregated information about our visitors to a national database administered by a third party organisation call The Audience Agency, who are appointed by the Arts Council England. The Audience Agency makes information publicly available about visitors to the UK’s cultural attractions. The purpose of this data sharing is never to identify individuals, but to better understand the type of audience that visits artistic and cultural attractions. The categories of aggregated information we may share includes:

Gender
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Where in the country our visitors live (by postcode area)

Visit The Audience Agency website for find out more about their work.

In some circumstances, disclosures of personal information to the police (and other law enforcement agencies) are permitted by data protection legislation, if they relate to the prevention or detection of crime and/or the apprehension or prosecution of offenders. Before any such disclosure takes place, the police are required to demonstrate that the personal information concerned is necessary for them to carry out a proper investigation. Each police request received by TfL is dealt with on a strictly case-by-case basis to ensure that any such disclosure is lawful and carried out in accordance with relevant guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Length of time we keep your information

The Museum will retain personal information in line with its data retention policy. This means that we will not hold information for longer than is necessary for the purpose we obtained it for.

To ensure that we do not retain inaccurate, out-of-date or irrelevant information, information will be regularly reviewed and we will delete anything that we no longer need.

Overseas processing

LTM and its service providers may process your personal information in countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) and worldwide. These locations include the Netherlands and the USA. Any such processing will be carried out in strict accordance with UK and EU privacy legislation and the appropriate contractual safeguards which LTM has put in place.

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We take the privacy of our customers and supporters very seriously and a range of robust policies, processes and technical measures are in place to control and safeguard access to, and use of, personal information associated with LTM. This includes payment card data which is handled in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (‘PCI DSS’).

TfL also publishes guidance on the steps you can also take to protect your personal information.

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Protecting the health and safety of employees and visitors
Protecting our collections; and
Preventing and detecting crime and antisocial behaviour

We retain CCTV for a period of 30 days before it is automatically deleted unless the images are required for an investigation under lawful authority.

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Under data protection legislation you are entitled to ask to see any personal information that we hold about you and be given details of how we use that information, and where we obtained it from. Find out how to access your data from the London Transport Museum.

You also have a number of other information rights which include:

The right to question any information we have about you that you think is wrong or incomplete.
The right to object to how we use your information or to ask us to delete or restrict how we use it.

In relation to these information rights, please email us at [email protected] or write to us at the address below:

Privacy Officer
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39 Wellington Street
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WC2E 7BB

Please note that we may require proof of your identity and address before we can process your request. We will respond to your request within the appropriate statutory timescales and in accordance with guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office.

If you have a specific concern or complaint about the way LTM handles your personal data, you can contact our Data Protection Officer.

You can also contact the regulator for information rights - the Information Commissioner's Office.

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