Privacy Statement

This policy explains what information we gather when you visit our website and explains how that information is used.

It is important for you to appreciate that the website provides extensive links to other independent sites, both within DACE and elsewhere. This policy applies only to direct accesses to the DACE website.

Data collected

As with the vast majority of websites, DACE automatically logs certain information about every request made of it (see below for more details). This information is used for system administration, for bug tracking, and for producing usage statistics. The logged information may be kept indefinitely.

The logged information is not passed to any third party except where required by law. Summary statistics are extracted from this data and some of these may be made publicly available, but those that are do not include information from which individuals could be identified.

Where forms are provided on this site, the pages containing these forms include information on how data submited on them will be processed and used.

Cookies

This site does not use cookies (small files stored on your computer's hard drive) to track the activity of external users.

Logged data

The following data is automatically logged for each request:

• The name or network address of the computer making the request. Note that the data recorded may be that of a web proxy rather than that of the originating client.
• The date and time of connection.
• The HTTP request, which contains the identification of the document requested.
• The status code of the request (success or failure etc.).
• The number of data bytes sent in response.
• The contents of the HTTP Referrer header supplied by the browser.
• The content of the HTTP User-Agent header supplied by the browser.
• Logging of additional data may be enabled temporarily from time to time for specific purposes.