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ProAct International Ltd respects your privacy. Your personal data is protected in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998. Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. Any information that you give us is held with the utmost care and security. It will not be used in ways to which you have not consented. We do not and will not pass on your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission to do so.
User Anonymity and Use of Personal Information
Log files are maintained and analysed of all requests for files on this website’s web servers. Log files do not capture personal information but do capture the user’s IP address, which is automatically recognised by our web servers.
Aggregated analysis of these log files is used to monitor website usage. These analyses may be made to available to our staff and partner agencies to allow them to measure, for example, overall popularity of the site and typical user paths through the site.
Except as stated already, we will make no attempt to identify individual users. You should be aware, however, that access to web pages will generally create log entries in the systems of your ISP or network service provider. These entities may be in a position to identify the client computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is beyond our responsibility or control.
We will make no attempt to track or identify individual users, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In the case of all users, we reserve the right to attempt to identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources operating as part of our web services.
As a condition of use of this site, all users must give permission for us to use its access logs to attempt to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorised access.
All log file information collected by us is kept secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third party.
This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.
Use of Cookies
What are ‘cookies’:
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by this website are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.
The table below explains the cookies we use and why.
COOKIE | TYPE | DURATION | DESCRIPTION |
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PHPSESSID | This cookie does not identify you personally and is not linked to any other information we store about you. | A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. | As you browse around the pages on this site, the session cookie tells the website that you are the same person requesting the webpages, and not a new visitor to each page. |
viewed_cookie_policy | This cookie lasts for 365 days to save you repeating the acceptance each time you visit. | Used by the CookieLaw plugin to remember whether you have already accepted our cookie policy. This keeps us in line with The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 otherwise known as the “cookie law”. | |
wordpress_logged_in_xxxxx | Your login details are stored in an encrypted form. | A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. | WordPress uses this cookie to indicate when you’re logged in, and who you are, for most interface use. |
wordpress_test_cookie | Stores the text ‘WP Cookie check’ | A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. | WordPress sets this cookie when you navigate to the login page. The cookie is used to check whether your web browser is set to allow, or reject cookies. |
wordpress_xxxxx | Your login authentication details in an encrypted form. | A session cookie, deleted when you close your web browser. | WordPress uses these cookies to store your authentication details, and their use is limited to the admin console area. |
wp-settings-xxxxx,wp-settings-time-xxxxx | Data is stored as text indicating your preferred settings. | Persistent cookie, expire a little under one year from the time they’re set. | WordPress uses this cookie to customise your view of admin interface, and possibly also the main site interface. |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Data Protection & Confidentiality
Some services on this website require us to collect personal information from you. To comply with the Data Protection Act, we have a duty to tell you how we store the information we collect and how it is used.
Any information you do submit will be stored securely and will never be passed on or sold to any third party.
Links to Other Sites
We may on occasion provide links to external websites. Whilst we make every effort to provide you with links to high quality, reputable sites, the contents of these sites are not under our control. When you click through to these sites you leave the area controlled by us. We cannot therefore accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with either their use of your data, the site content or the services offered to our users by these sites.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy policy without notice. Any changes that are made to this privacy policy will be reflected on this page.
How to Contact Us
If you require any further information, please contact us.