The Essex Witch Museum CIC is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. As such, we are fully compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and are registered with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) – registration number ZB680382.
Information collected
We may ask you to provide us with the below items of personal information on our website. These are required if you wish to purchase products from our shop and/or subscribe to our newsletter.
- Name
- Username
- Email address
- Billing address
- Shipping address
- Payment methods
The personal information held by The Essex Witch Museum CIC can be edited at any time on the Account page of this website.
Storage of information
All personal information held by The Essex Witch Museum CIC is stored in a secure manner, using physical and technological security measures in compliance with the GDPR.
Sharing your personal information
The Essex Witch Museum CIC shares your personal information with third party organisations in order to provide our services. These include:
- WooCommerce to power our online store
- Printful to print and ship our merchandise, and manage any returns
- Mailchimp to create and send our newsletters
Marketing communications
The Essex Witch Museum CIC would like to send you marketing communications to keep you informed of museum updates, events, and new merchandise product launches etc.
In compliance with GDPR, you will not receive marketing communications unless you give us your explicit consent.
We use MailChimp to store subscriber information and to send emails. You can unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the footer of our emails.
You may recieve emails from The Essex Witch Museum CIC in order to process any purchases you make on this website. These communications are essential in nature, and you will be unable to opt out.
Access to your information
If, at any time, you wish to access the personal information The Essex Witch Museum CIC holds about you, please visit the Account page or email info@essexwitchmuseum.co.uk. You may wish to do this for the following reasons:
- To see what information The Essex Witch Museum CIC, or our Third Party Processors, hold about you
- To amend or update any of your personal information
- To ask The Essex Witch Museum CIC, or our Third Party Processors, to delete the information we hold about you
Third party websites
This website may contain links to websites and/or social media pages belonging to other organisations (these are known as “third party websites” or “external links”). As The Essex Witch Museum CIC does not own these websites, or take responsibility for them, we advise that you read the privacy policy of each organisation before you provide them with any personal information.
Contact details
If you have any questions or complaints about how your data is being stored or used, please email info@EssexWitchMuseum.co.uk.
This policy was last updated on: 22nd June 2024.

