Privacy
NHS National Services Scotland 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.
Data Protection
Any personal information which you supply to Health Protection
Scotland, NHS National Services Scotland will be treated with the
highest standards of security and confidentiality, in strict
accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998.
Health Protection Scotland, 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 http://www.informationcommissioner.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
website.
Collection of personal information through website
NHS National Services Scotland, does not collect any personal
data about you on this website, apart from information that you
volunteer, either by emailing us or by submission using the online
registration and enquiry forms.
Use of personal information collected via this website
Any information, which you provide via this website is not made
available to any third parties. Any information provided would only
be used by NHS National Services Scotland for the purpose of
processing your information requests.
Collection and use of technical information
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are
logged, collected and used by our website host, Scottish Health on the
Web (SHOW), as described below.
User Tracking
NHS National Services Scotland 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 NHS
National Services Scotland.
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 is installed) and you use our 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 'washyourhandsofthem.com' 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.
Cookies used by this website
| Cookie Name |
Purpose |
Expiry |
| __utmb |
Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash
code) of site, pages viewed this session, current time. |
30 minutes |
| __utmc |
Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash
code) of site. |
At end of session |
| __utma |
Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash
code) of site, a unique visitor id (randomly generated number),
time of first visit, time of previous visit, current time, number
of sessions since first visit. |
2 years |
| __utmz |
Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash
code) of site, time when cookie last set, total number of visitor
sessions, number of different channels or sources through which
this site was reached, source of the last cookie update, search hit
tag identifier (or just 'organic' if reached via normal search
hit), search medium, keyword phrase used to find site. |
6 months |
|
PREF
|
Saves the user's Google identifier, time of first receiving
this cookie, last time when preferences were set, checksum for data
integrity. This third-party cookie is placed by Google to track a
user's preferences from one Google site to another. |
2 years |
| ASP.NET_SessionId |
This cookie is used to ensure proper communication between your
browser client and the web server, it generates a unique id that is
used to identify you during your current session. It is
non-persistent and will be removed by your browser at the end of
your session. Removal of this cookie may results in some of the
site functionality not working correctly.
|
At end of session |
| textSize |
This cookie is generated when you select the text resizing
feature of this website. Once it has been selected the size
preference will be held in a cookie for future visits to the site
or visits to other pages in the site
|
2 weeks
|
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.
Enquiries
Privacy and data protection enquiries relating to this website
may be made in writing to:
HPS Web Manager
Health Protection Scotland
NHS National Services Scotland
Meridian Court
5 Cadogan Street
Glasgow
G2 6QE
email: NSS.HPSwebmanager@nhs.net