The following statement explains our policy regarding the
personal information we collect about you.
Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal
information about yourself (e.g. name and email address
etc) in order to receive or use services on our website.
Such services include newsletters, competitions, "Alert
Email" and message boards.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable
University of Durham Lodge and its service providers to
provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide
such personal information, we will treat that information
in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed
to give you the information that you want to receive. University
of Durham Lodge will act in accordance with current legislation
and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
Information on visitors
During the course of any visit to the University of Durham
Lodge website, the pages you see, along with something called
a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not
all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website
publisher to do useful things like find out whether the
computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before.
This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding,
the cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us
to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse
the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous
visit you went to, say, the education pages, then we might
find this out from your cookie and highlight educational
information on a second visit.
What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will automatically
be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify
your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not
identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many
sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order
to track traffic flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site
that have been visited by the computer in question, and
for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers
to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued,
or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these,
of course, means that certain personalised services cannot
then be provided to that user.
Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to the University
of Durham Lodge website, we have legal obligations towards
you in the way we deal with that data. In general, any information
you provide to the University of Durham Lodge website will
only be used within University of Durham Lodge and by its
service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside
University of Durham Lodge without first obtaining your
consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose
it. Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate
content anywhere on or to University of Durham Lodge website
or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on University
of Durham Lodge website, and University of Durham Lodge
considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated,
University of Durham Lodge can use whatever information
that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour.
This may include informing relevant third parties such as
your employer, school or e-mail provider about the content
and your behaviour.
Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's
permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information
to the University of Durham Lodge website. Users without
this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal
information.
How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and
select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are
handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt
for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security
and choose one of the three options to regulate your use
of cookies.
In Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button
that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
