How we collect and share data

Tracking your behaviour

On this web site and server

Our web site records in a log file each page you request. This log file is created using Microsoft Internet Information Server as a byproduct of the server's operations.

We use a session cookie to manage your interactions on the site in one session.

We use a cookie to track whether or not your browser last viewed our "splash" page so that we don't highlight news to you more than once.

If you have provided your e-mail address and registered with us, we allow you to ask us to use a cookie to automatically log you into our site, rather than asking you for your e-mail address and password each time.

With Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. As a Google Analytics customer we can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve it. Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. See the Google Analytics website for further information.

With AddThis

We use the AddThis service by Clearspring Technologies, Inc. to enable you to share our website content with other people through email, social networking websites, blogs and more. When you use one of the AddThis buttons, menus and/or toolboxes that are enabled on this website (an “AddThis Button”), Clearspring Technologies, Inc. collect certain non-personally identifiable information automatically for use on the AddThis Platform. We may use this information via the Platform for analytics purposes. Clearspring Technologies, Inc. also use some of this information for online ad targeting. See the AddThis website for further information.

Data you provide us

On this web site

If you have registered to use our website or respond to one of our questionnaires or surveys we will store any personal information you give us on our web server. That data is stored in a bespoke encrypted format. The password you provide is double encrypted using two techniques and we are not able to decrypt it. Data in transmission will be over the HTTP protocol so can be intercepted.