Privacy

This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website which has been created by NHS National Services Scotland (SHSCEvents) on behalf of the Faculty of Public Health.

SHSCEvents fully respects your right to privacy. Any personal information which you supply to SHSCEvents will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in strict accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.

SHSCEvents, through its parent body NHS National Services Scotland (NHS NSS), is registered under the legal name Common Services Agency for NHS in Scotland. NHS NSS has an entry in the Information Commissioner's Register of Data Controllers, accessible from the Information Commissioner's website at www.ico.gov.uk which lists the types of personal information we process, our purposes for processing the information and the people and organisations with whom we share personal information.

Further information on data protection in the NHS NSS can be found on the NHS NSS data protection webpages.

NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) fully respects your right to privacy when using our website. On this page you will find details of our privacy practices in connection with this website and what we do to maintain your right to privacy.

Use of Personal Information Collected Through Website

Any information, which you provide by way of this website, is not made available to any third parties. Any information provided would only be used by SHSCEvents for the purpose for which you have provided it.

Collection and use of Technical Information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged, collected and used by our website host as described below:

User tracking

The NSS will make no attempt to identify individual users. You should be aware, however, that access to web pages will generally create log file entries in the systems of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network services provider. These entities may identify the client computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is outwith the responsibility or control of NSS.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. This site uses different types of cookie.

We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our 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 our website, compiling reports on website activity 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 undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer (you can check if Flash installed here) and you use NHSNSS.ORG's video players, Google Analytics will try to store some additional data on your computer. This data is known as a Local Shared Object or Flash cookie. This helps us to analyse the popularity of our media files. We can count the total number of times each file is played, how many people watch videos right to the end and how many people give up half way through. Adobe's website offers tools to control Flash cookies on your computer.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. You can access them through some types of browser. Search in your cookie folders for 'nhsnss' to find our cookie and the Google Analytics cookie if you wish to delete them.

More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.

Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

Log files

Log files are maintained and analysed of all requests for files on NSS servers. Aggregated analyses of these log files are used to monitor website usage. These analyses are used to allow us to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our websites All log file information collected by NSS is kept secure and is not provided to any third parties.

For more detailed guidance, read Scottish Health On the Web's privacy policy.

Links to Third Parties

Links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy. The provision on this website of a link to another website or of details regarding a third party or third party services or products does not constitute any authorisation to access materials held at a particular website or location, or any endorsement by SHSCEvents of those third parties or services or products they may offer. Links to websites are provided for information purposes only and SHSCEvents or NHS NSS accept no responsibility for the content and quality of the resources to be found on such websites. No responsibility or liability for the privacy of personal information is accepted for linked websites as there are beyond the control of SHSCEvents and NHS NSS.

Enquiries

Privacy and data protection enquiries relating to this website may be made in writing to:

SHSCEvents
Scottish Health Service Centre
Crewe Road South
Edinburgh
EH4 2LF