Privacy Policy

Information on the privacy standards for the Defence Dynamics website.

Defence Dynamics collects different types of information about our users for two main reasons:

• To help us to improve the services we offer.
• To provide personalised services unique to individual users.

Statistical analysis
In order to respond to customers' needs, the Defence Dynamics website uses a statistical analysis service that helps us to understand what you find interesting and useful on our website. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to collect cookie information when you visit the site.

The Defence Dynamics website does not store or capture personal information other than from registered users, but merely logs the user's IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server. Our log files do not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited. This general information does not personally identify you and we will not collect or store any information about you except that required for system administration of the web server.

In addition, you can decline our cookie by adjusting the "accept cookies" setting on your browser, however this may affect the functionality of the Defence Dynamics website.

Other websites linked from this site do not necessarily follow the same policies.

Registered user data
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will not share your information with others without your prior consent.

Appropriate use of the latest security technology protects user privacy

You will not receive unsolicited mail from Defence Dynamics or third parties selected by Defence Dynamics unless you have agreed to this. We will, however, mail you occasionally with information about your registration and / or new content on the site.

We will not pass on any individual user details (including your email address) unless we have your prior consent.

Amends to the Defence Dynamics privacy policy will be notified on this site. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new details.

A 'My space' page, where you can update your personal information at any time allows teachers to amend their details at any time. This page can be reached from most areas of the site - simply click on the 'My space' link at the top of the screen when you are signed in.

What information do we collect?
The minimum information we need to register a user is an email address, a password, your school name and school postcode.

We also ask some further, voluntary questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. Your responses help us to produce relevant material for users and to send you relevant communications.

Please note that we reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.

The Ministry of Defence will process personal information provided by you in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, for the purposes of processing enquiries, collection of statistical and associated data, and related matters.

Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner's website.

Glossary
Cookie
Message given to a browser program by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, e-mail address and interests. In our case, however, we do not use cookies for this purpose.

IP address
Every machine connecting to the Internet has a four-number address (e.g. 146.9.80.88), which may or may not stay constant between sessions online. Many web users connect indirectly to the Internet via an intermediary (proxy) server.

Log files
Every time our website is accessed an entry is made in the web server's log file. This tells us broadly where an access is coming from, when it was made, which file was requested and whether the request was successful or not. It usually does not allow us to identify individual users. The data is used to assess usage levels and spot technical problems (such as broken pages or web server errors).

Web server
The machine which on which the MOD website is physically located, which delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.