• We aim to continuously improve our website for you. We use information about you to help us to do this.
• We give you control over the information that we hold about you, who is allowed to see it and how it is used.
• We take all reasonable care to safeguard your information through security policies and secure business processes.

You can see the information that you have provided to us through the website by accessing the members menu and clicking on Amend your Details page. You can also use this page to change or delete this information.

2. Sharing and use of information
The over-riding principles we apply are these:

• We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation – thus, you can rest assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members’ email addresses to a third party; and the only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non-commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.
• Registration Information. Once a Member selects their ship/regiment/squadron or unit, some or all of the Registration Information held for that Member, except for the email address, will be available at the listing for that ship/regiment/squadron or unit.
• Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the oldoppos websites. The only legitimate way of making contact with a friend found on the oldoppos websites is for a Full Member to enter a message, which we will send, on the Member’s behalf. The email sent will include the sending Full Member’s email address so that the recipient can respond to the sender directly. This means by sending a contact message, the sending Member is disclosing his/her email address. Members may change their email address at any time through the members menu amend details page. Members’ personal notes must not include their email address.

3. Log Files
Like most standard website servers; we use and maintain the information that we obtain from your browser on our server logs. This information can include Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider ("ISP"), and other data. We may use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track user movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We may associate this information with your Personal Information to resolve technical issues and support security for our users.

4. Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored in a browser-related file on your computer's hard drive when you use the Site. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and are read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Our primary use of cookies is to improve your experience on our website. For example, storing a cookie on your computer allows you to login without typing the registered e-mail address and password. You have the ability to reject cookies by leaving the "Remember Me" box blank in the Quick Login section

5. Keeping your information secure
We know that your privacy is very important to you and that you take the security of your information seriously.
We've implemented technology and security policies, rules and measures to protect the personal information we have under our control, both on and off-line, from improper access, use, alteration, destruction and loss.

6. How you can help keep your information secure
As you would expect of us, we will take all reasonable measures to ensure that the information you provide through our website is held and managed securely. However, there is a lot that you can do to help keep your information safe – not just on our website, but whenever you provide information online.

Here are some simple ways you can improve the security of your information:

Use a strong password
Read our advice on choosing a strong password. This will help you choose a password that will be difficult for other people to guess but easy for you to remember.

What is a strong password?
A strong password:

• Is kept private and not shared with anyone else or recorded anywhere.
• Is not guessable by anyone or any program.
• Is easily remembered by you, so there is no need to write it down

Keep your password private and secure
Your password is a key to your personal information and online identity. Don't tell anyone your password or write it down. If you are concerned that somebody else knows your password, you can change it on our website by going to the Members menu page. We recommend that you change your password from time to time.

7. Links to other sites
This website includes links to other sites. We make every effort to provide links of high quality, reputable sites but we're not responsible for their privacy practices, site content or the services they offer.

8. Credit Card information
There has been a lot of publicity about Credit Card security on the Internet so we decided to use Worldpay plc, who operate a secure server, to process our credit card payments. They encrypt Members’ credit or debit card information and authorize payment directly. This means that Members’ credit card details are never revealed to us. Worldpay plc may transfer to, process and hold your credit card information, in countries either within or outside the European Economic Area, in connection with performing their duties.

9. Place of processing.
The personal information held by us is held on and processed by computers situated in the United States.

10. Data Protection Information
You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. You can search for our Data Protection Notification there, should you so wish.

11. Changes to this privacy policy
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time. If we make any changes we'll post an announcement on this website.

This privacy policy was last updated on 16th July 2003.