Defence Privacy and Cookie Statement

Information on the privacy standards for the Defence website
This privacy and cookie statement only covers the Ministry of Defence website at http://www.qhm.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
Within the Portsmouth sub-site, applicants for a personal watercraft licence will find a temporary cookie has been established. It is necessary to set a cookie in your web browser allowing our webserver to manage the data as you fill in the form. The cookie is only used for this purpose and will be removed from your web browser at the end of the application process. The need for this cookie will be reviewed periodically.

Other websites linked from this site do not necessarily follow the same policies.

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.The Corporate Internet Feedback Retention Policy establishes the length of time records submitted through the 'Contact Us' email forms on the website are retained.

Further information on your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 can be found on the Information Commissioner's website.