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Defence Privacy and Cookie Statement

Information on the privacy standards for the Defence website

This privacy and cookie statement only covers the Ministry of Defence websites at http://www.sceschools.com. which includes:

• http://www.sceschools.com/recruitment

• http://www.sceschools.com/art

and other Service Children's Education's (Ministry of Defence) websites at:

• http://www.youchoose2learn.com

• http://www.Rhine14-19Partnership.com

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 enabling the provision of services

Our website sets a cookie that stores a unique identifier for your session:

Name: $_session[]

Typical content: randomly generated alpha-numeric value Expires: when user exits browser

A session variable is used to store information about, or change settings for a user session. Session variables hold information about one single user, and are available to all pages in one application.

When you are working with an application, you open it, do some changes and then you close it. This is much like a Session. The computer knows who you are. It knows when you start the application and when you end. But on the internet there is one problem: the web server does not know who you are and what you do because the HTTP address doesn't maintain state.

A PHP session solves this problem by allowing you to store user information on the server for later use (i.e. username, shopping items, etc). However, session information is temporary and will be deleted after the user has left the website. If you need a permanent storage you may want to store the data in a database.

Sessions work by creating a unique id (UID) for each visitor and store variables based on this UID. The UID is either stored in a cookie or is propagated in the URL.

If you have answered a survey, our website sets a cookie to prevent another invitation to respond to it:

More information can be found at Google Preferences help

Other websites linked from this site do not necessarily follow the same policies.

The Ministry of Defence will process personal information provided by you in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, for the purposes of processing enquiries, collection of statistical and associated data, and related matters.The Corporate Internet Feedback Retention Policy establishes the length of time records submitted through the 'Contact Us' email forms on the website are retained .

Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner's website.

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