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ESL Defence Ltd. (“ESL”), we care about your personal privacy. In the United Kingdom, ESL is bound by the Data Protection Act and ahderes to the Data Protection Principles.
You should not access the ESL website (the "Site") or use our services until you have carefully read this Privacy Policy and agree to the terms and conditions described in it.
Our Collection and Use of Your Personal Information
We collect and use information about you which will help us administer our business or provide products, services or other opportunities to you. Among other things, we use the information we learn about you to help us personalize and improve the experience you have on our site, to respond to your requests and to communicate with you. The types of information we collect, retain and use include the following:
Site Use Information: In general, you can visit the Site without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. Our web servers collect the ip address and domain names, not the email addresses, of visitors. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the Site, pages viewed, etc. ESL utilizes this information ("behavior profiles") to measure the use of our Site and to improve the content we offer. We may share with third parties experiential information or other data which does not personally identify users of our site. For example, this might include product or service preferences of all visitors to our site.
Registration Information You Provide To Us: When you register on our Site to receive news from ESL, we collect personal information from you. For example, we require that you provide your first and last name, email address, and other information as requested in the applicable registration pages. At your option you may voluntarily provide additional information, including address, phone/fax numbers, and, in the case of seeking employment at ESL, your employment history. Although you may choose not to provide the optional information to us, it may result in some features not being available to you or your enquiry or request not being dealt with.
By providing this personal information to us, you explicitly agree to our collection and usage of such information as described in this Privacy Policy. We use your personal information to respond to your inquiries, process an order, contact you regarding account status or customer service, ask you for feedback on our service, let you know about products or services which may be of interest to you, or allow you to access specific account information, or in the case of seeking employment at ESL, match you with appropriate job opportunities. When you register, you consent to us contacting you for those purposes.
For administrative purposes, including processing and storing your personal information, we may transfer your personal information outside the European Economic Area. When you register, you consent to such international transfers.
Cookies: Like many websites we use "cookies" to enable us to remember your password, to help us identify the portions of our Site that may be the most relevant for your needs, and to help us identify other products or services that may be of interest to you or others. A cookie is a small piece of information that a web site can store on your web browser and then retrieve at a later time. We use cookies to track the portions of our Site you visit. However, we do NOT use cookies to examine your surfing behavior before or after you leave our Site. There are products commercially available that are designed to help you disable cookies. Although we want you to be aware that such products exist, please note that if you choose to use them we will not be able to provide you with a personalized service, and it may result in certain features and services not being available to you.
Email Communications: If you send us a message by email, ESL will record your email address. We use your email address to contact you to respond to your inquiries or to provide information on products or services to you. To help us determine whether you have received an email from us, and to help us make emails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation that you have opened an email from us.
Public Forums: Our Site may host chat rooms, forums, on-line teaching environments, message boards and/or news groups. Please remember that any information that you disclose in these areas becomes public information and will not be protected by this Privacy Policy. Thus, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information about yourself.
Child Privacy: We do not knowingly solicit or receive information from children under the age of 18.
Restrictions on Disclosing Information to Third Parties
We are not in the business of selling your personal information to others. We may share your personal information with our affiliated companies both within and outside the European Econimic Area for administrative purposes. We may also gather aggregated data about you and disclose such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to third parties for promotional or other purposes.
Security Procedures to Protect Information
We maintain numerous security standards and procedures to help prevent unauthorized access to your personal information . Our site uses a combination of encryption technology and authentication to protect your personal information. As long as the web browser you are using supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), your information will be submitted to us with a high level of security. We update and test our security technology on an ongoing basis. We have procedures limiting employee access to personal information to those employees who have a business reason to know such information about you.
It is also important for you to help protect against unauthorized access by signing off our Site each time you finish using the Site and keeping your login name and password confidential.
Unsolicited Information That You provide to Our Site
ESL does not want you to send any confidential or proprietary information to ESL through this Site unless specifically requested by ESL. You must not upload, post or otherwise make available on this Site any personal information belonging to another person or materials protected by copyright or other proprietary rights without the express permission of the owner of those rights. You will be solely liable for any damages resulting from disclosure of this information to ESL and others which infringes the rights of a third party.
Keeping your Personal Information Complete and Up-To-Date
ESL endeavours to maintain the accuracy of the personal information we hold about you. We encourage you to contact our Privacy Officer in order to update any personal information we hold about you. Contact details for our Privacy Officer are set out below.
Accessing Your Personal Information
Subject to the exceptions set out in the Privacy Act, you may gain access to the personal information which ESL holds about you by contacting our Privacy Officer at the address set out below. We will require you to verify your identify and to specify what information you require. A fee may be charged for providing access. We will advise you of the likely cost in advance.
Inapplicability of Privacy Policies of any Linked Sites or Other Parties
ESL's Site may contain links to other sites such as affiliates, subsidiaries or other third party distributors and sales representatives. This Privacy Policy only addresses ESL's use and disclosure of your personal information collected on this site. While we try to link only to sites that share our standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of any third parties or the content of linked sites, and we encourage you to read the applicable privacy policies and terms and conditions of such parties or web sites.
Terms of Use, Notices and Changes to Our Privacy Policy
In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, then the Terms of Use shall prevail.
This Privacy Policy may be reviewed from time to time to take account of new laws and technology, changes to our operations and practices and the changing business environment. Our handling of your personal information will always be governed by the most current version of our Privacy Policy, located on our website at or obtained by contacting our Privacy Officer.
The provisions contained in the current Privacy Policy herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices We encourage you to check our Site frequently to see the current Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect and any changes that may have been made to them.
Contacting ESL’s Privacy Officer
If you have any queries or requests about the personal information we hold about you, please contact ESL’s Privacy Officer:
16 Compass Point
Ensign Way
Hamble
Southampton
Hampshire
SO31 4RA
United Kingdom
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