Privacy
Health Protection 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, 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 web site
Health Protection Scotland, does not collect any personal data
about you on this website, apart from information that you
volunteer, either by emailing us or by using the online
registration and enquiry forms.
Use of personal information collected through 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 Health Protection Scotland for the purpose for which you
provided it.
Collection and use of technical information
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are
logged, collected and used by Health Protection Scotland:
User Tracking
HPS 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 be
in a position to 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
HPS.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to
your hard drive when you visit them. Cookies can contain user
identification data. Any cookies that are used on this website are
temporary session cookies which enable a visitor's web browser to
remember which pages on this website have already been visited.
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 the HPS server. Aggregated analyses of these log files are used
to monitor website usage. These analyses allow HPS to measure, for
example, overall popularity of the site and typical user paths
through the site. All log file information collected by HPS is kept
secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third
party.
Contact:
HPS Web Manager