Defence Privacy and Cookie Statement
Information on the privacy standards for the Defence website
This privacy and cookie statement only covers the MOD Defence Contracts Online website at http://www.contracts.mod.uk or the MOD DCO e-Notice service at http://project.contracts.mod.uk.
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them
Our use of cookies
Cookies for enabling the provision of services
Our website sets a cookie that stores a unique identifier for your session:
Name: dco_signon
Typical content: randomly generated alpha-numeric value
Expires: After 4 hours of user inactivity or upon closing the browser
Cookies for improving services
Google Analytics sets cookies to help us accurately trend user activity and page requests. This ensures that the service offers the most user friendly journey through the application.
Name: __utma
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
Name: __utmb
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
Name: __utmc
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
Name: __utmd
Typical content: alpha-numeric value
Expires: when user exits the browser
BiP Solutions and The Ministry of Defence will process personal information provided by you in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, for the purposes of processing enquiries, collection of statistical and associated data, and related matters.
Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner's website Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner's website.
BiP Solutions, November 2011
