Chemring Group PLC is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This privacy notice describes how your personal data is collected and processed by us through our website/app (“website”).
Collecting your personal data
Through our website and/or subscription to our alert service, you may provide us with the following data:
- Identity Data including your name, title, country of location, occupation type
- Contact Data including your email address
How is your personal data collected?
When you visit our website, we will typically collect the following data:
- Technical Data such as data on the type of your pc/mobile device, internet connection, operating system, web browser and IP address
- Usage Data such as when you log in and out, and which areas of the site you access
- Location Data such as data on your location when using our site
- Preference Data such as the categories of news items you wish to receive alerts for
How we will use your personal data
We may use your personal data for:
- Providing you with access to the website and enhancing the user experience
- Managing the distribution of news items and information about us to you
- Otherwise as is necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations and/or codes of practice
The provision of personal data by you may be necessary in order for us and other third parties (to which personal data is disclosed) to provide you with the requested services and for the other purposes set out in this notice where in our legitimate interests.
How we share your personal data
We may share your personal data with our service providers to the extent it is necessary to provide the website services to you. Your data may be disclosed to authorities if required by law.
The website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies (text files placed on your computer) to help the website operators analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
How we protect your personal data
Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the website. Any transmission is at your own risk.
Data retention - how long will you use my personal data for?
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Your rights
Under applicable EU data privacy laws, you may have a right to:
- Request access to and rectification or erasure of your personal data
- Obtain restriction of processing or to object to processing of your personal data
- Request the transfer of your personal data to another data controller in certain circumstances
Cookies
When you visit our website, we use cookies, which are small pieces of information that allow us to maintain your connection to our website. These cookies do not collect or store any personally identifiable information. You can refuse the use of cookies.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. However, if you do this you may lose some useful functionality such as personalisation and “keep me signed in” and “remember me” features.
The cookies we use are:
| Name |
Description |
Category |
Expiry |
| #sitename#lang |
Remembers the user's selected language version of a web site |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
General purpose platform session cookie, used by sites written with Miscrosoft .NET based technologies. Usually used to maintain an anonymised user session by the server. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| .ASPXAUTH |
.ASPXAUTH is a cookie to identify if the user is authenticated( As user's identity has been verified) |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| .ASPXFORMSAUTH |
AWS Classic Load Balancer creates load balancing cookie: used to map the session to the instance. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| .ASPXROLES |
Cookies used to keep track of if the visitor has any permissions on the website. Only used for logged in users |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| __cf_bm |
The __cf_bm cookie is a cookie necessary to support Cloudflare Bot Management, currently in private beta. As part of our bot management service, this cookie helps manage incoming traffic that matches criteria associated with bots. This is a CloudFoundry cookie |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| _cfuvid |
The _cfuvid cookie is set on a user’s browser to assign them a unique ID in addition to identifying them through their IP address. Without this cookie, visitors to a site will be recognized as the same user if they share the same IP, and any data collected will be shared for all users with that IP. |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| AWSELB |
AWS Classic Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to map the session to the instance. |
Strictly necessary |
1 day |
| AWSALB |
Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. |
Strictly necessary |
1 day |
| AWSALBCORS |
This cookie is managed by AWS and is used for load balancing. AWS Classic Load Balancer creates load balancing cookie: used to map the session to the instance. |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
| AWSALBTG |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group. |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS |
AWS Application Load Balancer Cookie: Load Balancing Cookie: Used to encode information about the selected target group. |
Strictly necessary |
7 days |
| __CookieConsent* |
A JavaScript plugin that alerts users of the use of cookies on this website. |
Strictly necessary |
90 days |
| BC_ACCOUNT |
This is the ID of the currently logged in Brightcove account |
Strictly necessary |
1 day |
| BC_EMAIL |
Used if "Remember me" is selected at login |
Strictly necessary |
21 days |
| BC_POD |
Defines the regional pod in which the Studio resides |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| BC_TOKEN |
Brightcove session cookie; anonymous unique identifier for Studio users |
Strictly necessary |
End of browser session |
| NID |
This domain is owned by Google Inc. Although Google is primarily known as a search engine, the company provides a diverse range of products and services. Its main source of revenue however is advertising. Google tracks users extensively both through its own products and sites, and the numerous technologies embedded into many millions of websites around the world. It uses the data gathered from most of these services to profile the interests of web users and sell advertising space to organisations based on such interest profiles as well as aligning adverts to the content on the pages where its customer's adverts appear. |
Strictly necessary |
183 days |
| sb_csrftoken |
Sketch fab token cookie. Third party |
Strictly necessary |
1 year |
| _ga |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
Performance |
2 years |
| _gid |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited. |
Performance |
24 hours |
| _gat, _gat_newTracker |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics, according to documentation it is used to throttle the request rate - limiting the collection of data on high traffic sites. It expires after 10 minutes. |
Performance |
1 minute |
| _gat_UA-8273354-1 |
This is a pattern type cookie set by Google Analytics, where the pattern element on the name contains the unique identity number of the account or website it relates to. It appears to be a variation of the _gat cookie which is used to limit the amount of data recorded by Google on high traffic volume websites. |
Performance |
1 minute |
| _gac_
<property-id> |
Contains campaign related information for the user. If you have linked your Google Analytics and Google Ads accounts, Google Ads website conversion tags will read this cookie unless you opt-out. |
Performance |
90 days |
| _ga_BNL6730LBQ, _ga_V1VQCPSY6V |
Used to persist session state, these Google Analytics 360 cookies are used to collect information and compile reports about how visitors use the site and to help improve the site. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. These cookies use a unique identifier for tracking purposes. |
Performance |
720 days |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
Marketing |
150 days |
| YSC |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
Marketing |
End of browser session |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
|
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
Marketing |
180 days |
Changes to this privacy notice
We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will notify you by appropriate means if we make any changes of significance to you.
Mar 2025