Privacy

Forces365.com supports a general policy of openness about personal data collection and use. We have adopted and implemented this Privacy Policy as part of our commitment to protecting your personal information from misuse.

This Privacy Policy applies to our information-gathering and dissemination practices for the following sites:

http://www.forces365.com

Our postal address is:

Forces365 Ltd
Packwood House
Guild Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6RP
UNITED KINGDOM

We can be reached via email by using our contact page.

What information does Forces365.com collect on its Web sites?

Forces365.com collects both personal information and aggregated information on its Web sites. We discuss our collection of different kinds of information below.

Forces365.com complies with the 2001 Data Protection Act.

Personal Information

You do not have to provide personal information to use any of our Web sites. We collect personal information only when you provide it to us for example, in registering as a member; answering surveys; entering contests and sweepstakes; registering to receive electronic newsletters and other materials; participating in message boards, book clubs and quizzes; purchasing items from our stores; and taking part in other promotional opportunities. You may be asked to provide your contact information (such as your name, postal address, telephone numbers and/or email address), financial information (such as credit card numbers) and demographic information (such as your post code, age, or income level).

Contact information is used to respond to your inquiries; to notify you if you have won a contest or a quiz and to send products and services ordered from our sites. You also may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services, updates to our Web sites or upcoming events. Occasionally, we also share our customer mailing list with reputable and carefully screened firms for marketing or promotional purposes. You may opt out of having your contact information as part of our mailing list at any time (see the Choice/Opt-Out/Correct/Update Section below).

Financial information that is collected is used only to process orders for products and services purchased through our Web sites and is never shared with third parties for any other reason.

Demographic information is shared with advertisers and third parties only on an aggregated basis. (See the Aggregated Information Section below.)

You may be asked to provide military background information (branch of service, unit, rank, hometown during years of service, medals/honors and wars in which you fought); and other information (occupation, hobbies, short biography, your homepage) in creating a user profile in our public forums. If you choose to provide this information, it will be accessible to other users of the Web site (See Public Forums Section below).

Whenever we request your personal information on our Web sites, we will try to explain to you how we intend to use it and provide you with a choice to decline certain uses. In addition, if we plan to post any of your personal information on our Web sites (for example, your name and hometown to identify you as the winner of a quiz), we will also notify you of this possibility either when you provide information to us or prior to posting the information.

We may be required to disclose personal information pursuant to valid legal process.

Aggregated Information

We collect information through our Web sites relating to traffic levels on our Web sites for example, the total number of users visiting particular pages. We also aggregate demographic information and the results of surveys.

We use IP addresses to calculate Web site usage levels. Whenever you are on the Internet, a number (an IP address) is automatically assigned to your computer. This number is identified and logged automatically whenever you visit our Web sites. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice on the Internet, and is done automatically by many Web sites. An IP address does not provide us with any of your personally identifiable information, so although your session will be logged, you will remain anonymous to us.

This aggregated information, which does not personally identify you, is helpful to us for improving the services we offer and for marketing purposes. We may share aggregated information with our advertisers, business partners, or other companies.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are data that a Web site transfers to an individual's computer for record-keeping purposes. Cookies, which are an industry standard used by most Web sites, including ours, can facilitate a user's ongoing access to and use of a site. Cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files.

We use a cookie to recognise your computer when you return to the site, to initiate customised welcome messages and help you with filling in forms.

If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to decline or accept the cookie feature. You should note, however, that declining the cookies may make it difficult for you to make use our Web sites and will make entering our discussion areas more cumbersome.

Networks/Groups/Units

We make discussion areas, eyewitness accounts, message boards, and/or book clubs available to our users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Only registered users of Forces365.com can view any network/group/or unit.

Whenever you contribute, your name will automatically appear with your post and link to your profile. When you log into the discussions, you will be able to set up your profile, which you may edit at any time. You have the ability to change your password within the profile. Your password will never be visible to other users as part of your profile. Providing information as part of the profile is entirely optional.

If you have indicated as part of your profile that you would like to accept private messages, other users will be able to communicate with you by sending you private messages, without actual knowledge of your email address.

On http://www.forces365.com/ information that you provide as part of your user profile, except your password, will be accessible to other users of the site by clicking on your screen name associated with any of your postings. In addition, any information you have provided as part of your profile on http://www.foces365.com, including military information and background, will be accessible to users in the Forces365 database.

Third-Party Ad Serving

We currently contract with various advertisement agencies to sell and manage the advertisements that you see on the site. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry, and our advertisers may assign their own cookies to your browser. Through cookie technology, our advertisers may collect certain non-personally identifiable information about you. This information may be used to deliver tailored ads to you. We do not control this process, and these cookies are subject to our advertisers' policies.

Security

We have security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems. We may use third parties to host and maintain our Web sites.

Links to Third Party Sites

Our Web sites may contain links to third-party Web sites. The linked sites are not under the control of Forces365.com, and we are not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. We are providing these links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site by Forces365.com.

Choice / Opt-Out / Correct / Update

You can remove or change your personal information from our database in order to stop receiving future communications from our Web site by emailing or writing to Forces365.com.

Please note: We are not responsible for removing information from third-party lists or entities with which we have shared your information pursuant to this policy.

Revisions to Privacy Policy

Any of the policies or procedures above may be changed at any time without prior notice. Although this Privacy Policy is not a contract and does not create any legal rights, it does serve as an expression of our commitment to protecting private personal information.