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Privacy Policy for the OGSA-DAI Project Website

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. Our privacy policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the personal information you provide to us via the OGSA-DAI Project Website, managed by EPCC, a part of the University of Edinburgh, on behalf of the OGSA-DAI projects (currently OGSA-DAI, DAIT, OMII-UK). It should help you make informed decisions when using our site.

This privacy policy applies only to the sites administered by the OGSA-DAI Project (currently ogsadai.org.uk, www.ogsadai.org, www.ogsa-dai.ac.uk and www.ogsa-dai.org.uk). We are not responsible for the content or policies of any external websites linked to by our sites.

If you have any questions after reading this statement, please contact us at .

Personal information

We will store the personal data (for example your name, organisation, project details, e-mail address and IP address) you supply to us through the website, in the form of:

  • feedback and correspondence;
  • user support requests and queries;
  • registrations and downloads (this requires a valid email address).

This information will be available to those members of the staff of EPCC and NeSC (both departments within the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh) who are working on the OGSA-DAI projects. Personal information may also be made available to other collaborators on the OGSA-DAI software, to enable queries you have submitted to be dealt with effectively and efficiently. Once we have responded to your message, we may keep your e-mails and our replies on record for reference and audit purposes. We may use this information to help us understand requirements and patterns of use which will be used to plan for the future.

Certain parts of the website, in particular the bug reporting and mailing list archives, may publicly display personal information that you submit, for instance your email address. Please contact us if you wish to have any personal information removed from the archives.

Generalised information and statistics about the use of OGSA-DAI software may be made available periodically to our funders (primarily the DTI Grid Core Programme). Individual users will not be identified. This information may also be placed on our public web pages.

Mailing Lists

We may use your email address (as provided when registering for downloads) from time to time to send you updates on the OGSA-DAI software project. These will be limited to important information such as major bug fixes, and new releases. Your email address will not be passed on to any third parties. You can remove your email from our mailing list at any time by sending a message to .

Cookies

Cookies are small files that websites create and store on your hard drive, which the website checks each time you visit. Our website may use cookies to store information on website preferences and setting. These cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and cannot be used to identify individual users. You can set your computer to accept cookies automatically, to reject cookies automatically, or to check with you each time one is created. If you set your browser to reject cookies, you will still be able to browse our website, though some functionality may be reduced.

Data Protection Policy

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We comply with the University of Edinburgh Data Protection Policy with regards to the handling and storage of personal data. We do not share or disclose any personal information about our visitors with any third party, and we do not sell or rent it. However, we may disclose information when legally compelled to do so - in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights. As a UK Higher Education Institution, we are committed to publishing certain information under the Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) 2002 (please see the University's publication scheme for more details). However, we consider the personal information collected on this site as exempt from this publication scheme under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Further Information

If you have any questions about the treatment of your personal data, or wish to view, amend or delete any personal information we may have collected please send email to or write to us:


EPCC,
The University of Edinburgh,
James Clerk Maxwell Building,
Mayfield Road,
Edinburgh,

UNITED KINGDOM.

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on our website.

This policy was last updated on 21st March 2006, to define the projects and project websites covered by the policy.