Revised and posted as of: February 2003
Lee Ellis [D:media] is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how the information you supply will be treated as you make full use of the D:media Web Site and the secondary levels of the site, such as the KS3 ICT case study and essay sections. The D:media Web site is operated by Lee Ellis ~ D:media (Digital Media & Information Communications Technologies) UK.
If
you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel
free to contact me by e-mail at lee_it@tiscali.co.uk
Gathering
of Information for KS3 ICT Case Study (2003)
All information (data) collected as
a result of the key stage 3 ict case study will be used to formulate
a report on the findings of the case study. The report will form part
of a dissertation, which will be submitted by Lee Ellis to Canterbury
Christ Church University College in connection with a third year unit
of the Media Department (Digital Media) BA (Hons) RFTV [Digital Media]
Single Honors course. The data will be made available to other departments
within Canterbury Christ Church University College, such as HE Access
and Education. No individuals will be identified and no actual questionnaire
will be passed on to other parties. The findings from the case study
will be published on this Web site and details will be given to the
schools involved in the study.
Voluntary
Submission
D:media
does not collect personally identifying information about any individual
D:media Web site user except when knowingly provided by such individuals.
For example, we may ask you for information when you register for information.
You always have the option not to provide the information we request.
If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still
visit the D:media Web site, but you may be unable to access certain options
or services.
Cookies
A
cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to their user's hard
drive when they visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information,
such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the
pages you have visited. D:media does not use cookies to track user traffic
patterns throughout the D:media Web site. We use the Gostats hit counter
service (www.prostats.co.uk). This provides
us with information on traffic through the site on an anonymous basis
and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.
Browser
Level Information
The D:media
Web site gostats counter automatically collects information about a
site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information
from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser).
This information is collected in a database and used--in an aggregated,
anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within
our Web site. This information is automatically logged by most Web sites.
Use
of Information
Our
primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience
on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing
interactive communications such as electronic newsletters to an e-mail
address that you may provide to us, and developing future editorial
content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your
interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas
of our Web site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do
not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page
or content area performs overall.
D:media
will under no circumstances disclose information about our users to
any other party, unless when we believe, in good faith, that the disclosure
is required by law.
Notice to children
Children
under 13: Do not send any information about yourself to us--including
information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not
knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children
under 13. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal
information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of
parental consent, we will delete that information from our database
as quickly as possible.
How
to Contact Us
If
you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel
free to contact me by e-mail at lee_it@tiscali.co.uk
This
statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.
©
2003/2004 Lee Ellis [D:media]. All Rights Reserved.
DEFINITIONS:
IP
address: Every computer connected to the Internet has
a numeric address called an “IP address." This may or may not correspond
uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be
resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet
service provider, employer, college, etc. As part of its database analysis
D:media does not resolve IP addresses to domain names.
Browser
type: A user’s browser is a software program running on
a computer that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web.
Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that
reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees
as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are
examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware
platform, operating system, and browser software and version.
Referrer:
The referrer is the URL of the Internet resource or page that causes
a browser to request a page or image from D:media.