Privacy
Summary
- IP addresses and other connection details are logged.
- Use of this website will cause cookies to be stored on your computer.
- Only non-personalised advertisments are shown to users in the EEA.
Logging
All connections to this site are logged using for the purpose of ensuring network and information security. The only personal data that these logs are normally expected to contain are the IP addresses of the machines from which the connections originated and the URLs visited.
Neither the logs themselves, nor information derived from them, will be intentionally disclosed to any third party, excepting:
- disclosure to the extent required by law, and
- disclosure of threat intelligence regarding antisocial or malicious activity.
The legal basis for collecting this data is to protect the legitimate interests of the publisher, and of other Internet users. It is not expected to have any significant adverse impact on the privacy of legitimate users of the website.
Cookies
Use of this website will cause cookies to be stored on your computer. An explanation of what cookies are can be found here or here, but if you don't already know this then you have probably come to the wrong place. Cookies are set:
- (ironically) to record when you have hidden the message warning you about cookies, and
- by third-party advertisers via Google.
Information about use of information by Google can be found on the page https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. For users within the EEA, the legal basis for collecting information via these cookies is to protect the legitimate interests of the publisher, of Google, and of relevant third-party advertisers. Note that only non-personalised advertisments are shown to such users.
In order to protect your privacy, the Google+ and Facebook buttons on this website do not become active until clicked. What happens after clicking is between you and the social network in question.
E-mail monitoring
Please do not send any e-mails to the address gdshaw99@codepolice.org as it is used for collecting samples of spam.
Any e-mails which are received may, at our discretion, be stored, analysed, and/or acted upon in any reasonable manner of our choosing.
Your rights
Your rights in relation to personal data include:
- the right to request a copy of any personal data held;
- the right to request deletion of that data; and
- the right to object to processing.
However, any such requests will need to be balanced against the legitimate interests of the publisher and of relevant third parties.
Contact details
The microHOWTO website is published by Graham Shaw, 4 Hodnet Close, Northampton, England.