This Defence Academy 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.

Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

• enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
• recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
• measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them"

Our use of Cookies

Cookies for improving service -

Name: _ac

Purpose: Session information for logged in user - Once you have logged on with username and password, so you don’t have to do it for every Web page you request from our service.

Typical Value: Randomly generated value

Expires: On browser close

Name: dtpref_cols

Purpose: Visible column display preferences for logged in user - To remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service.

Typical Value: Percentage value

Name: dtpref_rows

Purpose: Visible row display preferences for logged in user - To remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service.

Typical Value: Number

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 Defence Academy website is physically located, which delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer.