About Us - Proud2ServeAdmin

We do not pay lip service to privacy. As members of the military community we understand it is important and give it full respect. You can expect that your details will never made public or sold to advertisers. If you ever receive emails from a commercial organisation claiming to have an association with Proud2Serve.net, they are making a false statement.

With Proud2Serve.net you can be confident that your data is private. If you are not out to friends or to colleagues in the Royal Navy, Army, Royal Air Force or Royal Marines, and are using shared computers, don't forget to take basic precautions. Keep your email password and Proud2Serve.net logon details private and only accessible by you, and don't forget to log out of Proud2serve.net rather than just closing the browser window when you have finished using the public forum. You might want to think about deleting temporary internet files and the web browser's history and cookies to remove any possible trace.

Cookie Statement

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 to store your preferences of how the News Section of the site is presented to you.

Name : RokMicroNews
Typical Content: preference for elements to presented to user
Expires : 30 Days

The P2SForum sets cookies to identify your session details and enable you to move through the Forum. These are necessary to ensure the site works properly.

Name : phpbb3_k
Typical Content : Determines whether you want to autologin to the forum
Expires : 12 months

Name : phpbb3_u
Typical Content : Logged in user ID 
Expires : 12 months

Name : phpbb3_sid
Typical Content : unique Session ID 
Expires : 12 months

Name : style_cookie
Typical Content : Determines the style to be used
Expires : 12 months

Cookies for improving services

GoogleAnalytics sets cookies to help us accurately estimate the number of visitors to the website and volumes of usage. This to ensure that the service is available when you want it.
Further information can be found at the Google Analytics Site

Name : __utma
Typical Content : This cookie is typically written to the browser upon the first visit to Proud2Serve.net from your web browser. If the cookie has been deleted by you, and the browser subsequently visits the site, a new __utma cookie is written with a different unique ID. Additionally, this cookie is provided with a unique ID that Google Analytics uses to ensure both the validity and accessibility of the cookie as an extra security measure.
Expires : 2 years from set / update date

Name : __utmb
Typical Content : This cookie is used to establish and continue a user session with Proud2Serve.net. 
Expires : 30 minutes from set / update

Name : __utmc
Typical Content : Works in conjunction with __utmb to see whether a new session needs to be set.
Expires : When browser expires

Name : __utmz
Typical Content : This cookie stores the type of referral used by you to visit Proud2Serve.net, whether via a direct method, a referring link, a website search, or a campaign such as an ad or an email link.
Expires : 6 months from set / update.

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

Proud2Serve.net 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.

Data Protection Act 1998 Statement of Policy

The Data Protection Act imposes rules and safeguards on those who hold and process personal data, i.e. data relating to living identifiable individuals. Details of usage must be notified to the Information Commissioner, with some exceptions which include not for profit organisations whose usage is restricted to specified purposes. Proud2Serve.net is exempt from notification but the principles which set out rules and safeguards apply. In the interests of being open and fair, Proud2Serve.net wishes to inform users of the data held and how it is used.

Some or all of the following data may be held about some or all members of Proud2Serve.net: name and email address as supplied, reason for registering. The data are held in electronic form. The data are obtained directly from an individual person to whom they relate and are not shared with other individuals or organisatons.

The data are used strictly for social purposes in order to allow other approved registered members of the proud2serve.net community to contact members via forum email and the webmaster to maintain permissions lists for the password-protected area.

Your password is stored within the database in an encrypted format and cannot be retrieved by anyone and will never be requested. If you need to reset it, use the forgot password prompt on the login screen.

Extracts from the personal data may be published - exclusively and only with your permission in writing - on proud2serve.net. Any additional information held which is not published on the website will not be made available to any third party without the express written consent of the individual concerned.

The data will not be made available for commercial purposes. Ever.