Privacy Policy 2025

Mechanical Masterpieces (“Mechanical Masterpieces,” “we,” “us” or “our”) recognises the importance of personal privacy of our online visitors. We have created the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to inform you of our information collection, use and storage for when you interact with us, including when you visit our website available at https://www.mechanicalmasterpieces.com (the “Site”).

Please review this privacy policy carefully as well as our Terms of Service. When providing us with your information, including when you visit our Site, “You/your” means you as a user of the Site, “User” means all users of the Site, you are accepting the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

1. Information We Collect

Personal Information:

Mechanical Masterpieces collects personal information about you, which may include the following:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Username and password

  • Phone number

  • Any photographs on social media which tag or post a comment on our social media pages. We will collect the photograph or content of that message. Any photograph or comments connected to our social media page will be visible to other users /visitors of that social media page. We are not responsible for any of the personal information attached/included in these posts/comments or for any use of such information by any other visitors to the social media page.

This information is collected and stored electronically when you register an account with us, subscribe to the newsletter, email us, or if you contact us via the email contact form.

A) Information Collected Automatically:

As well as the list above, other information about your device’s hardware and software are collected automatically by Mechanical Masterpieces when you use the Site. The information may include the following:

  • IP address

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Type of operating system

  • Language preferences

  • Device ID

  • Access time and dates

  • Geographical locations

  • And other technical information such as substatus, protocol status, bytes sent and received and server information.

We may also collect information regarding traffic patterns, including the user’s session replay, and click stream information, as the user interacts with our Site. This information is used by us for our business purposes, as well as for the operation and improvement of the Site, such as for technical troubleshooting, and to maintain the quality of the Site. This will also be used to provide statistics regarding the user’s use of the Site.

We may also receive similar data from social media platforms such as Instagram, and YouTube, subject to your registration with the privacy settings within such third-party social media platforms.

We will not place non-essential cookies (such as analytics cookies) on your device unless your have provided us with consent through our cookie banner or through your browser settings.

You can change or withdraw your cookie consent preferences at any time by using the cookie banner on the Site or by adjusting your browser settings.

B) Cookies and other information collection tools:

This Site may use session cookies or persistent cookies. Once you close your browser or once your session ends these session cookies will expire. Alternatively, persistent cookies remain on your device for a longer period of time until you the user or the browser erases them, the expiration date of these cookies can vary depending on their duration.

There are a few different cookies which may be used by Mechanical Masterpieces on the Site, these include:

  • Necessary Cookies - these are cookies which are necessary for the Site to function as intended and allow the use of its features. Without these cookies certain parts of the Site may not function or be available to you.

  • Functional Cookies - these are cookies which collect information about how you have used the Site in the past and allow the Site to remember the choices you made when navigating the Site. This allows us to tailor the Site to you and your preferences.

  • Performance Cookies- these are used on our Site to collect information regarding how you use the Site, such as which pages are most visited by you, which links you click on, and any issues encountered. All information is aggregated and do not identify you, the user.

Cookies may be placed on your device to identify one page request from another. These cookies do not contain any personal information. Your browser may warn you when the website is trying to send your browser cookies. If the pop-up message asks you to accept or decline the cookies, you may choose to accept or decline the cookies. Note, some features on the site may not function without them.

Cookies are used to help us improve the Site and its functionality by providing us with information about which parts are the most interacted with and visited.

If you are located in the United Kingdom or European Union, there may be an option in a pop-up cookie banner requesting you consent before non-essential cookies are used. In non UK or EU countries, you can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings. The instructions for this are listed bellow in Section 3.

C) Legal Basis for Processing:

All lawful basis for each of the categories are stated bellow (both the purpose and the lawful basis):

  • Managing accounts and comments - performance of a contract

  • Sending from the Site contact form and sign up to the email newsletters - consent

  • Security and Site maintenance - legitimate interest

  • Legal and regulatory compliance - legal obligation

2. Cookies used:

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve you the user’s browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how you use different features. Mechanical places two kinds of cookies on the user’s browsers:

Necessary cookies - so users can navigate and access key features on the Site.

Non-essential, or analytics and performance cookies - collect information about how users interact with the Site.

International Transfers:

Where we transfer data outside of the United-Kingdom (such as for example Google), we insure an adequate level of protection of your data and information such as binding corporate rules (BCR’s) and Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC’s).

Bellow, you will find a list of the cookies which may be used on the Site, characterised by: cookies (cookie name), cookie use, cookie duration, and what category they are under. Non-essential cookies will not be used on the Site unless permission has been granted (accepted in the cookie banner or through the browser settings).

Strictly Necessary Cookies:

  • Cookies - ‘crumb’, Cookie Use - Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF), Cookie Duration - session.

  • Cookies - ‘_dd_cookie_test’, Cookie Use - Tests if cookies are supported, Cookie Duration - expires instantly.

  • Cookies - ‘_dd_s’, Cookie Use - Tracks browser errors, Cookie Duration - four hours.

  • Cookies - ‘_dd_site_test’, Cookie Use - Tests if cookies are supported, Cookie Duration - expires instantly.

  • Cookies - ‘_ssid’, Cookie Use - Remembers device for anti fraud purposes, Cookie Duration - four years.

  • Cookies - ‘locked’, Cookie Use - Prevents the password-protected screen from being displayed if the user has entered the correct site-wide password, Cookie Duration - session.

  • Cookies - ‘RecentRedirect’, Cookie Use - prevents redirect looks if the Site has custom URL redirects, Cookie Duration - 30 minutes.

  • Cookies - ‘siteUserCrumb’, Cookie Use - prevents Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Cookie Duration - three years.

  • Cookies - ‘SiteUserInfo’, Cookie Use - identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account, Cookie Duration - three years.

  • Cookies - ‘SiteUserSecureAuthToken’, Cookie Use - authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account, Cookie Duration - three years.

  • Cookies - ‘squarespace-video-player-options’, Cookie Use - remembers video player selected preferences (volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded to the Site, Cookie Duration - persistent, Local Storage.

  • Cookies - ‘Test’, Cookie Use - investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors, Cookie Duration - session.

Non-essential / Optional - Performance and Analytics Cookies:

  • Cookies - ‘ss_cvr’, Cookie Use - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on the Site, Cookie Duration - two years.

  • Cookies - ‘ss_cvt’, Cookie Use - Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on the Site, Cookie Duration - 30 minutes.

  • Cookies - ‘ss_performanceCookiesAllowed’, Cookie Use - Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Performance and Analytics cookies on their browser and if the Site has a cookie banner which is restricting the placement of cookies, Cookie Duration - 30 days.

Non-essential / Optional - Advertising Cookies:

  • Cookies - ‘ss_marketingCookiesAllowed’, Cookie Use - Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Marketing cookies on their browser and if the Site has a cookie banner that is restricting the placement of cookies, Cookie Duration - 30 days.

3. Disabling Cookies for various browsers:

For Google Chrome:

  • Click the Chrome menu on the browser toolbar

  • Select “Settings”

  • Click “Show advanced settings”

  • In the “Privacy” section, click the “Content settings” button

  • In the “Cookies” section select the relevant options

For Safari:

  • At the top of the window, click on the “Safari” tab

  • Click on the “privacy” tab

  • Select “Prevent cross-site tracking”

For Mozilla Firefox:

  • At the top of the Firefox window, click on the “Firefox” button (Tools menu in Windows XP) and then click “Options”

  • Select the “Privacy” panel

  • Set “Firefox will:” to “Use custom settings for history” and select the relevant option.

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

  • Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”

  • Click on the “privacy” tab

  • Select the appropriate setting

For Opera:

  • At the top of the window, click on the “Opera” button

  • Highlight “settings” and click “preferences”

  • Select the “advanced” tab, click “cookies” and select the relevant options

4. Pixels and Web-Beacons:

Pixels may be utilised for certain parts of the Site and in HTML formatted email messages to you. These may be used for measuring statistics on the Site, as well as for collecting statistics associated with Site usage and other user activities. Note, these will only be used if strictly necessary or if user permission is granted.

5. Purposes for which your information will be used for:

We will use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

  • To provide the Site to you

  • To improve the Site.

  • To operate, improve and personalise the services we offer, to give you a more consistent and personalised experience.

  • To create or manage your subscriptions with us.

  • If you sign up to the email list - to send your our newsletters and email about our latest stories we think might interest you.

  • To conduct surveys.

  • To deliver social media engagement.

  • For security - to detect fraud or illegal activities.

  • To respond to your enquiries and to have communication with you.

  • For other business purposes such as data analytics.

  • To manage any comments under stories on the Site.

  • To help develop new products/services.

  • To enforce this Privacy Policy

  • Legal obligation - we may use your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.

6. Disclosure of your personal information:

If we share your personal data where necessary with the parties set out below it will be for the purposes set out in Section 5 above.

We may share data with the third-party service providers who help us to administer the relationship with you, including third parties who provide services to you on our behalf, such as:

  • Individual third-party service providers, consultants and freelancers with whom we have contracted.

  • Third party web server providers/web hosting providers.

  • Third party software systems used by us in the day to day running of the Site, such as Google and Meta.

  • Professional advisors, such as third-party solicitors, accounting, and legal professionals.

  • HMRC and any other relevant government departments.

  • Marketing Agencies who help us promote ourselves or deliver our services.

  • For legal purposes.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes, and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instruction and permissions.

7. Links to External Websites and or Online Services:

Our Site contains links to third-party websites and other online services. Any access to and use of such third-party websites and online services are not managed by this Privacy Policy, instead managed by those third-party websites or online services. We are not responsible for any of the data collection of information practices of these third-party websites and online services. For example external links to our Social Media pages.

8. Data Security and Data Retention:

Mechanical Masterpieces uses reasonable data security measures in order to prevent unauthorised intrusion to the Site and the misuse, alteration and acquisition of personal information. It is your responsibility to protect and secure your login information.

Your data will be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the reason it was collected for. This includes the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, and reporting requirements. We may retain your personal data for a longer period in the event of a complaint. If we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you the data may also be kept for a longer period of time.

9. Legal Rights:

There are several rights you have as a user online. These include the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data ("subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

  • In some circumstances you may request the erasure of your personal data. This allows you to ask us to delete or remove any personal data where there is not good reason for us to continue processing it. Where we may have processed your data and information unlawfully, or we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local laws. We may not be able to comply with your request to delete your data for specific legal reasons, which you will be notified about if applicable at the time of your request

  • To request the correction of any personal data we store about you. We will need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide us with.

  • To object to the processing of your personal information where we are relying on the legitimate interest of those third-party as the legal basis for that particular use of your data. In some cases we may have the legitimate grounds to process your information which may override your right to object to the processing of your personal data and information.

  • You also have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

  • Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process your data, for example accepting all cookies when entering the Site. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

  • To request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third-party. We will provide you or the third-party with the data we have stored in a structured format (if we have any personal information and data stored). This right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use.

  • Request the restriction of processing of your personal data. This allows you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in one of the following scenarios: if you want to establish the data’s accuracy, where you need us to hold the data even if it is no longer required, if you need it to establish, exercise or defend against legal claims, you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights which are listed above, or have a complaint against this Privacy Policy please contact us at the email address cameron.mechanicalmasterpieces@gmail.com

10. Online Privacy for Children

This Site is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us at the email address cameron.mechanicalmasterpieces@gmail.com and we will delete it promptly.

11. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. It is important that the personal data and information we hold about you is accurate as well as current. Please keep us informed of any information changes, for example, a new email address. If you have any further questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us at the email address cameron.mechanicalmasterpieces@gmail.com

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 12th October 2025.