Privacy Policy
The ATLAS Consortium ("We") are committed to protecting and
respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms and
conditions of use Terms and Conditions and any other
documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any
personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will
be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to
understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and
how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the
joint data controllers are HP Enterprise Services Defence
& Security UK Ltd, Registered Office: Cain Road,
Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1HN, Fujitsu services, 22 Baker
Street, London W1U 3BW, Logica, Stephenson House, 75 Hampstead
Road, London, NW1 2PL, UK and EADS Defence
& Security Systems Ltd, Queensway Meadows Industrial Estate,
Meadows Road, Newport, South Wales, NP19 4SS.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site
www.atlasconsortium.info (our site). This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to
our service, posting material or requesting further services. We
may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our
site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
- Details of your visits to our site [including, but not limited
to, traffic data, location data, web logs and other communication
data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or
otherwise] and the resources that you access.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer, including where
available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for
system administration. This is statistical data about our users'
browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any
individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general
internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard
drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is
transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve
our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service.
They enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to
customise our site according to your individual interests
- To speed up your searches
- To recognise you when you return to our site
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on
your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access
certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser
setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue
cookies when you log on to our site.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and
stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area
("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the
EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe
engaged in, among other things the provision of support services.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer,
storing or processing. The relevant data controller will take all
steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated
securely and in accordance with this privacy policy
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure
servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the
internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to
protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of
your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own
risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict
procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised
access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you
request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have
consented to be contacted for such purposes.
To notify you about changes to our service.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We will not disclose your personal information outside the
members of the ATLAS Consortium.
We may disclose your personal information to:
any member of our respective group companies who may disclose
your personal data within their respective group, which means its
subsidiaries, ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as
defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985;
or
if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data
in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to
enforce or apply our terms of use Terms and Conditions or to protect
the rights, property, or safety of a member of the ATLAS Consortium
, their customers, or others.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data
for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before
collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such
purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third
party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent
such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to
collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by
contacting us at info@atlasconsortium.info
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the
websites of the members of the ATLAS Consortium and their
affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please
note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that
we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these
policies. Please check these policies before you submit any
personal data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about
you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the
Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our
costs in providing you with details of the information we hold
about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will
be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by
e-mail.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy
are welcomed and should be addressed to info@atlasconsortium.info