| 1. Data Protection
Act
Compliance with the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998
underlies all of our personal information privacy practices.
We also have a set of guiding principles which govern how we
use the information that we collect about you on this website.
These principles are:
- We aim to continuously improve our website for
you. We use information about you to help us to do this.
- We give you control over the information that we hold
about you, who is allowed to see it and how it is used.
- We take all reasonable care to safeguard your information through
security policies and secure business processes.
You can see the information that you have provided to us
through the website by accessing the members menu and clicking
on Amend
your Details page. You can also use this page to change or
delete this information.
2. Sharing and use of information
The over-riding principles we apply are these:
- We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing
agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party
for
commercial exploitation – thus, you can rest
assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members’ email
addresses to a third party; and the only circumstances
in which
we will
provide any of your personal data to a third party
for non-commercial purposes are those contained in
this Privacy
Policy.
- Registration Information. Once a Member selects their ship/regiment/squadron
or unit, some or all of the Registration Information
held for that Member, except for the email address, will be available
at the listing for that ship/regiment/squadron or unit.
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Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address
available to anyone on any screen of the oldoppos websites.
The only legitimate way of making contact with a friend found
on the oldoppos websites is for a Full Member to enter a message,
which we will send, on the Member’s behalf. The email
sent will include the sending Full Member’s email address
so that the recipient can respond to the sender directly. This
means by sending a contact message, the sending Member is disclosing
his/her email address. Members may change their email address
at any time through the members menu amend details page. Members’ personal
notes must not include their email address.
3. Log Files
Like most standard
website servers; we use and maintain the information that
we obtain from your browser on our server
logs. This information can include Internet protocol (IP)
addresses, browser type, Internet service provider ("ISP"),
and other data. We may use this information to analyze trends,
administer the Site, track user movement in the aggregate,
and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
We may associate this information with your Personal Information
to resolve technical issues and support security for our
users.
4. Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that
is stored in a browser-related file on your computer's hard
drive when you use the Site.
Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and are read
by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Our primary use of cookies is to improve your experience
on our website. For example, storing a cookie on your computer
allows you to login without typing the registered e-mail
address and password. You have the ability to reject cookies
by leaving the "Remember Me" box blank in the Quick
Login section
5. Keeping your information secure
We know that your privacy is very important to you and that
you take the security of your information seriously.
We've implemented technology and security policies, rules
and measures to protect the personal information we have
under our control, both on and off-line, from improper access,
use, alteration, destruction and loss.
6. How you can help keep your information secure
As you would expect of us, we will take all reasonable measures
to ensure that the information you provide through our
website is held and managed securely. However, there is
a lot that you can do to help keep your information safe – not
just on our website, but whenever you provide information
online.
Here are some simple ways you can improve the security
of your information:
Use a strong password
Read our advice on choosing a strong password. This will
help you choose a password that will be difficult for
other people to guess but easy for you to remember.
What is a strong password?
A strong password:
- Is kept private and not shared with anyone else
or recorded anywhere.
- Is not guessable by anyone or any program.
- Is easily remembered by you, so there is no need to write
it down
Keep your password private and secure
Your password is a key to your personal information
and online identity. Don't tell anyone your password
or write
it down.
If you are concerned that somebody else knows your
password, you can change it on our website by going
to the Members
menu page. We recommend that you change your password
from time to time.
7. Links to other sites
This website includes links to other sites. We make
every effort to provide links of high quality, reputable
sites
but we're not responsible for their privacy practices,
site content or the services they offer.
8. Credit Card information
There has been a lot of publicity about Credit Card
security on the Internet so we decided to use Worldpay
plc, who
operate a secure server, to process our credit card
payments. They
encrypt Members’ credit or debit card information
and authorise payment directly. This means that Members’ credit
card details are never revealed to us. Worldpay plc
may transfer to, process and hold your credit card
information,
in countries
either within or outside the European Economic Area,
in connection with performing their duties.
9. Place of processing.
The personal information held by us is held on and
processed by computers situated in the United States.
10. Data Protection Information
You can obtain further information about data protection
laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s
website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. You can search
for our Data
Protection Notification there, should you so wish.
11. Changes to this privacy policy
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time.
If we make any changes we'll post an announcement
on this
website.
This privacy policy was last updated on 16th July
2003.
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