Privacy statement
This privacy statement discloses the
privacy practices
for www.eastmidlands.nhs.uk
. It applies solely to this website.
This page
explains how East Midlands Strategic Health Authority uses any
information you give to us, and the way we protect your privacy.
Protecting the privacy and personal data of the visitors to our
site is of the utmost importance to us.
Information collection and use
In accordance with the Data Protection
Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect
from you. We will only use your information for the purpose as
described and we do not pass on your details to any other
government department or third party unless you have given us
permission to do so. You have a right to access your personal data
and rectify any inaccuracies. This system will record your email
address and other information if volunteered to us by you. This
shall be treated as proprietary and confidential. It may be used
for internal review and to notify you about updates to this website
Information which you send to us through this website will be
treated as follows:
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We will keep
it no longer than we reasonably believe is
necessary.
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We will use it
only for the purpose for which you sent it
If you
would like to know more about what your data will be used for,
please contact Communications, at the address below.
Google analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics
service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics
uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to
help the website analyze 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.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate
settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this
you may not be able to use the full functionality of this
website. By using this website, you consent to the processing
of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set
out above.
Site usage
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the
user's hard drive while they are visiting a particular website. It
contains simple information about the user's identity but no
personal information. When the user closes their browser, the
cookie is destroyed. We do not use cookies for collecting user
information. Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site
to enable us to enhance the future layout of the site. The data we
gather in this way does not contain any personal information or
information about which other sites you have visited.
If you provide
feedback on our web site we will only use it to develop and improve
the site. We will keep the actual feedback for six months after
which it will be deleted but analysis of feedback may be
kept.
Notification of changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy,
we will post those changes on our homepage so our users are always
aware of what information we collect and how we use it
Copyright
© East
Midlands Strategic Health Authority 2006
The material on this site is subject to
copyright protection of East Midlands Strategic Health Authority
unless otherwise indicated. The East Midlands Strategic Health
Authority copyright protected material (may be reproduced free of
charge in any format or medium for research, private study or for
internal circulation within an organisation. This is subject to the
material being reproduced accurately and not used in a misleading
context. Where any of the East Midlands Strategic Health
Authority copyright items on this site are being republished or
copied to others, the source of the material must be identified and
the copyright status acknowledged.
The permission
to reproduce East Midlands Strategic Health Authority protected
material does not extend to any material on this site that is
identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation
to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright
holders.
East Midlands
Strategic Health Authority encourages users to establish hypertext
links to the site.
If you have any questions about this
privacy statement or the practices of this site, please
contact:
Communications
East Midlands Strategic Health
Authority
Octavia
House
Interchange Business
Park
Bostock's
Lane
Sandiacre
Nottingham
NG10 5QG
Accessibility
Our organisation is
committed to complying with the Disability Discrimination Act and
as such, have made many improvements to our website in order to
reduce the barriers experienced by people with disabilities. With
reference to Central Government guidelines, our policy is to create
pages to W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Priority 2
level.
If you do find any
of our pages inaccessible, please contact us to let us know
(including details of your computer / web browser) and we will make
every reasonable effort to restructure the information in a format
that you find acceptable.
Resizing text
If you find the
text is too small on our web site, then you can resize it
accordingly. Instructions for doing this are given for most major
browsers below:
Internet Explorer
4:
choose
View>Internet Options…>Accessibility… and check the ignore
font sizes specified on web pages option. Click OK, OK, and then
you can alter the text size using the View>Text Size
option
Internet Explorer
(version 5 and later):
choose Tools>Internet
Options…>Accessibility… and check the ignore font sizes
specified on web pages option. Click OK, OK, and then you can alter
the text size using the View>Text Size option.
All other browsers
should be able to resize the text directly from the menu bar.
Please see your specific browser help pages if you are having
difficulty.
Low graphics pages
Although not
strictly text-only, these pages are quicker loading and useful if
you do not need the images or if you are on a slow
connection.
Downloadable documents
Where possible we
try to provide downloadable documents in formats such as PDF or
Microsoft Word.
If you have
difficulties obtaining information from a pdf file you can use
Adobe’s
Web-based conversion service
to produce a HTML version (however,
please be aware that the standard of HTML produced is not
perfect).
If you find any of
our downloadable documents present a barrier to accessing
information because of a disability please contact us giving
details of the document in question, the problems encountered and
what we could do to help.
