Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is designed to tell you about our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information that you may provide via the FDAT website. Whenever you use this site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information Gathering
Information is gathered without you actively providing it, through the use of various technologies and methods such
as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and cookies. These methods do not collect or store personal information, rather they
assist us in improving the website for you the viewer.
An IP address is a number assigned to your computer by your Internet Service Provider (ISP), enabling you to access the Internet.
It is considered to be non-personal identifiable information, because in most cases an IP address is dynamic, (changing
each time you connect to the Internet), rather than static (unique to a particular user's computer). We use your IP address
to diagnose problems with our server, report aggregate information, and determine the fastest route for your computer to
use in connecting to our site, and to administer and improve the site.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored locally on your computer which contains information about your activities on the Internet.
We use cookies to track a user's progress throughout the site, allowing us to make improvements based on the data
each user leaves. The information in a cookie does not contain any personally identifiable information you submit to us.
Once you close your browser, our access to the cookie terminates. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies,
however, most web browsers automatically accept cookies, although you can modify your browser setting to decline them if
you prefer.
Email
We may monitor email communications; however, any such monitoring will take place in accordance with the law. We will not
supply your email address to any third party, and equally affirm that we will not forward any material that you have not
requested, therefore all email communications from this site will only be as reply correspondence to individual or company
requests.
NB - We will NOT under any circumstances sell any email database that we may set up from data received to this site. Any such database that we compile will be done so outside of the internet for the use of communications only with those individuals or companies that correspond with us through (or as a result of) this website. Every effort will be made by the authors of this site to ensure total security of all email data transmitted to and from this site. Any employees found abusing their position whilst employed and the recipients of any data from this site will be the subject of criminal proceedings.
Statistical Information
We use log files generated by our web servers to analyse site usage and statistics. However, these files do not identify
any personal information. Log file analysis helps us to understand usage patterns on our website and to make improvements
to the service we offer you through this site.
Disclosure
Except as otherwise stated, we may use information you provide via this site to improve the content, to customise the site
to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it), for internal marketing and research
purposes, and for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. Please note, that we do not disclose any
information you provide via the site to any third parties or any government departments except where such disclosures are
necessary to fulfil our service obligations to you.
In cases where it is necessary for us to disclose any information to a third party, we will require such third parties to
agree to treat any such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The release of any information you provide will
only be undertaken when we are requested to by applicable laws, courts orders, or government regulations (for example to
prevent or detect crime), and invariably only when you give us permission to do so.
Security
FDAT has a legal duty to protect the confidentiality of your information. We therefore confirm that we will
take all reasonable steps to protect any information you submit via our website, both online and offline, in accordance
with legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998.
We will take all appropriate steps to protect your personally identifiable information as you transmit your information
from your computer to our site and to protect such information for loss, misuse, and unauthorised access, disclosure,
alteration, or destruction. We operate strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access of any information we
receive. However, you also have a responsibility to take reasonable steps to safeguard any information you transmit to us.
Links to Other Websites
This site contains links and references to other websites. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not apply to
those websites and we encourage you to read the Privacy Policy of every website you visit. We will post details of any
changes to our Privacy Policy on this website to help ensure you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use
it, and in what circumstances (if any) we share it with other parties.
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