Privacy Policy for the Statistical Laboratory Web Site

This policy describes what information is gathered when external users visit the Statistical Laboratory and DPMMS web sites, and how that information is used.

Related documents include:

• The University privacy policy.
• The University web site is covered by the University policy and not by the policy below. Note that some links on the DPMMS site, in particular the search facility, point to the University site.
• Guidelines for DPMMS users.
• Follow this link for a description of the conditions of use governing DPMMS computer users.

Data collected

In common with most web sites, this site automatically logs certain information about every request made of it (see below for more details). This information is used for system administration, for bug tracking, and for producing usage statistics. The logged information may be kept indefinitely.

Relevant subsets of this data may be passed to computer security teams as part of investigations of computer misuse involving this site or other computing equipment in the University. Data may be passed to the administrators of other computer systems to enable investigation of problems accessing this site or of system misconfigurations. Some individuals' personal pages are made available via this site; data on access to an individual's personal page may be passed on to the same individual.

Otherwise the logged information is not passed to any third party except if required by law. Summary statistics are extracted from this data and some of these may be made publicly available, but those that are do not include information from which individuals could be identified.

This site does not currently use cookies for any purpose.

Logged data

The following standard data is automatically logged for each request:

• The name or network address of the computer making the request.
• The date and time of connection
• The HTTP request, which contains the identification of the document requested
• The status code of the request (success or failure etc.)
• The number of data bytes sent in response
• The contents of the HTTP Referrer header supplied by the browser
• The content of the HTTP User-Agent header supplied by the browser

Access to personal data

All enquiries about personal data in respect of this site should be addressed to the University Data Protection Officer (10 Peas Hill, Cambridge CB2 3PN; tel. 01223 339888; fax 01223 331200; E-mail data.protection@admin.cam.ac.uk).