ScienceTopics:
- Introduction and General Terms
- What information will the SECURITY-SCIENCE collect about me?
- How will the SECURITY-SCIENCE use the information they collect about me?
- When will the SECURITY-SCIENCE contact me?
- Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
- Will the SECURITY-SCIENCE share my personal information with anyone else?
- Offensive or inappropriate content on the SECURITY-SCIENCE website
- What if I am aged 16 or under?
- How long will the SECURITY-SCIENCE keep my personal information?
- Can I find out what personal information the SECURITY-SCIENCE holds about me?
- Cookies Policy
- Changes to the SECURITY-SCIENCE's Privacy Policy
- Contacting the SECURITY-SCIENCE about this Privacy Policy
The SECURITY-SCIENCE is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using SECURITY-SCIENCE services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us online, via phone or text, by email, in letters or correspondence.
In order to provide you with the full range of SECURITY-SCIENCE services, we sometimes need to collect information about you.
This Privacy Policy explains the following:
- what information the SECURITY-SCIENCE may collect about you;
- how the SECURITY-SCIENCE will use information we collect about you;
- when the SECURITY-SCIENCE may use your details to contact you;
- whether the SECURITY-SCIENCE will disclose your details to anyone else;
- your choices regarding the personal information you provide to us;
- the use of cookies on the SECURITY-SCIENCE website and how you can reject these cookies.
The SECURITY-SCIENCE is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
The SECURITY-SCIENCE websites contain hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or is collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
When you participate in, access or sign up to any of the SECURITY-SCIENCE's services, activities or online content, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards, social network, telephone or text the SECURITY-SCIENCE, vote, donate money to a SECURITY-SCIENCE charity appeal, book tickets for a SECURITY-SCIENCE event or create an account using the SECURITY-SCIENCE's online registration system we may receive personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth, depending on the activity.
By submitting your details, you enable the SECURITY-SCIENCE (and where applicable its contractors) to provide you with the services, activities or online content you select.
Please note that sometimes we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you're sending in an application to be a contributor on a political party we may need to know your political leanings). When we do this we will provide further information as to why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
The SECURITY-SCIENCE also uses cookies (see paragraph 11 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet) from visitors to the SECURITY-SCIENCE websites.
The SECURITY-SCIENCE will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
- to provide our services, activities or online content and to deal with your requests and enquiries;
- for "service administration purposes", which means that the SECURITY-SCIENCE may contact you for reasons related to the service, activity or online content you have signed up for, as set out in paragraph 4 below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service, activity or online content has been suspended for maintenance);
- to contact you about a submission you have made, including any content you provide.
- to provide you with information about our services, activities or online content;
- to use IP addresses to identify the location of users, to block disruptive use, to establish the number of visits from different countries; and
- to analyse and improve the services offered on SECURITY-SCIENCE websites. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience. The SECURITY-SCIENCE may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individuals are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes.
Where the SECURITY-SCIENCE proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for the use of your personal information for purposes other than those listed above.
The SECURITY-SCIENCE may contact you:
- in relation to any service, activity or online content you have signed up for in order to ensure that the SECURITY-SCIENCE can deliver the services to you;
- where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
- in relation to any contribution you have submitted to the SECURITY-SCIENCE, e.g. on the SECURITY-SCIENCE message boards or social network or via text or voicemail message;
- to invite you to participate in surveys about the SECURITY-SCIENCE services (participation is always voluntary); and
- for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below)
Local pages will give you detailed information about how the SECURITY-SCIENCE will contact you in relation to specific services, activities or online content.
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within the SECURITY-SCIENCE. However, sometimes the SECURITY-SCIENCE uses third parties to process your information. The SECURITY-SCIENCE requires these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and the SECURITY-SCIENCE requires that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes, unless you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal information in this way.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to the SECURITY-SCIENCE websites or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on any SECURITY-SCIENCE service, the SECURITY-SCIENCE may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where the SECURITY-SCIENCE reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any international laws (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), the SECURITY-SCIENCE may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school email/internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with the SECURITY-SCIENCE or the SECURITY-SCIENCE's corporate retention schedule (a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). If you cancel your registration as a SECURITY-SCIENCE website member and your account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while the SECURITY-SCIENCE cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.
Where you contribute material to the SECURITY-SCIENCE we will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
The SECURITY-SCIENCE, as a publicly funded organisation, also has an obligation to record snapshots of history which may include some User Generated Content i.e. content provided by the public. Therefore, some content submitted to, or shared with, the SECURITY-SCIENCE may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in the SECURITY-SCIENCE's Archive, which is true of News contributions which are published. There may also be rare instances where we will share your contribution with third parties in the interests of maintaining historical archives. Where possible, we will endeavour to inform you upfront or let you know at a later date where we are likely to keep content indefinitely or pass it onto an approved historical archive.
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information the SECURITY-SCIENCE holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge $38 for information requests and require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved identification). We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please send requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
a. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other websites. Many websites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
On the SECURITY-SCIENCE's websites, cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised features cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly they may not be able to take full advantage of all of the website's features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to a SECURITY-SCIENCE website, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
b. How does the SECURITY-SCIENCE use cookies?
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example, if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.
The SECURITY-SCIENCE in relation to international users, also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to SECURITY-SCIENCE websites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. The SECURITY-SCIENCE use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. All third parties are strictly required not to use any information for their own business or other purposes (see paragraph 6 above). Certain other areas of a SECURITY-SCIENCE website use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.
c. Third Party Cookies on SECURITY-SCIENCE pages
Please note that during your visits to SECURITY-SCIENCE websites you may notice some cookies that are not related to the SECURITY-SCIENCE or the SECURITY-SCIENCE's contractors. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Flickr, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. The SECURITY-SCIENCE does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
d. SECURITY-SCIENCE cookies and how to reject cookies?
A list of the main cookies that the SECURITY-SCIENCE websites set (and what each is used for) together with ways to minimise the number of cookies you receive can be found at the SECURITY-SCIENCE's Cookie List and How To Reject Cookies.
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to the SECURITY-SCIENCE. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page. If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use SECURITY-SCIENCE websites to submit personal information to the SECURITY-SCIENCE. If material changes are made to the Privacy Policy we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the website.
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