This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website.
We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any
external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical
terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
General statement
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (SCOTS DG) respects your right to privacy and will
not collect any personal information about you on this website without your clear
permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to SCOTS DG will be treated
with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance
with the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Collection and use of personal information
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards does not collect any personal data about you on this
website, apart from information which you volunteer (for example, by e-mailing us
or by using our online feedback form). Any information, which you provide in this
way, is not made available to any third parties, and is used by SCOTS DG only in
line with the purpose for which you provided it.
Collection and use of technical information
This website does not use cookies, apart from temporary ‘session’ cookies
which enable a visitor’s web browser to remember which pages on this website have
already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality
if cookies are disabled from the web browser. Technical details in connection with
visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider for our statistical
purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website
visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items;
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The IP address of the visitor’s web server
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The top-level domain name used (for example .ie, .com, .org, .net)
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The previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any
search terms used. Click stream data which shows the traffic of visitors around
this website (for example; pages accessed and documents downloaded)
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The type of web browser used by the website visitor.
SCOTS DG will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the
technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of Royal Scots
Dragoon Guards never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual
website visitors to any third party (apart from our internet service provider, which
records such data on our behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions
in this regard), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The
technical information will be used only by PACO Store and only for statistical and
other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we
cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute ‘personal data’
for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 & 2003.
Glossary of technical terms used;
Web browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples
are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox, Navigator & Opera.
IP address
The identifying details for your computer (or your internet company’s computer),
expressed in ‘internet protocol’ code (for example 192.168.72.34). Every computer
connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the
same every time a connection is made.
Cookies
Small pieces of information, stored
in simple text files, placed on your computer by a website. Cookies can be read
by the website on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may
relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number
so that the website can ‘remember’ you on your return visit. Generally speaking,
cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless
you have furnished such information to the website.