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Apart from the details which were
requested when you registered with the site, the East Lancs
Wing website does not store or capture personal information,
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.
We do not use cookies
for collecting user information from the site and we will
not collect any information about you except that required
for system administration of the web
server.
Other websites linked from this site
do not necessarily follow the same policies. Further information
on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found
on the Information Commissioner's website at http://www.dataprotection.gov.uk
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 at all.
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 web site 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 wing
website is physically located, which delivers (serves up)
web pages to your computer.
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