General

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

Cookies

This website uses cookies, which are small pieces of information that are issued to your computer or other internet-enabled device when you visit the website. Cookies are stored by your browser and hard drive and are used to distinguish you from other visitors to the site.

Cookies are small files which sit on your computer and record specific interactions between you and this website, and in some cases, other websites. This information is sometimes shared with the University of Cambridge, and in other cases, third parties. Below is more detail about the cookies we use, what they record and who the information is shared with. You are of course free to disable cookies.

Functionality lost by disabling cookies or not giving consent

If you disable cookies, or don’t opt in to receive them from these sections of our site, some functionality will not be available.

How to disable cookies

Your web browser will have an option you select which will block cookies. Below are links to popular web browsers, and how to block cookies using them.

Firefox

Internet Explorer

Google Chrome

Safari

Other web browsers

Cookies set by third party websites

Data collected

In common with most web sites, this site 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.

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms provided on this website for a specific purpose. By supplying this information you are consenting to the PSSRC holding and using it for the purposes for which it was provided.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

Logged data

The following data is automatically collected for each request:

• The name or network address of the computer making the request. Note that under some (but not all) circumstances it may be possible to infer from this the identity of the person making the request. Note also that the data recorded may be that of a web proxy rather than that of the originating client
• The username, when known during authenticated (logged in) access to the site
• 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.

In addition, the computers on which the web site is hosted keep records of attempts (authorised and unauthorised) to use them for purposes other than access to the web server. This data typically includes:

• the date and time of the attempt,
• the service to which access was attempted,
• the name or network address of the computer making the connection,
• and may include details of what was done or was attempted to be done.

Disclosure and uses of personal information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• to ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device by gathering aggregate information about our users using it to analyse the effectiveness and popularity of this website
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so

We may disclose your personal information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• if we have obtained your consent to do so
• when we are required or authorised by law, court order, regulatory or governmental authority to disclose your personal data

Relevant subsets of this data may be passed to computer security teams as part of investigations of computer misuse involving this site.

In addition, this site uses Google Analytics to help us analyse site usage and to improve it. To support this, selected information about your interaction with the site is sent to Google for them to analyse on our behalf. For more information about Google Analytics see http://www.google.com/analytics/.

Links to other websites

This website contains links to and from third-party sites. This policy only covers use of cookies on this site. You should consult privacy and cookie policies on third-party sites before you submit and personal data. The PSSRC is not responsible for any cookies that may be set by third party websites that are linked to from pages on www.pssrc.org.