Privacy Policy

NHS Leeds is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of anyone who uses our services. You can find out more about our policies on confidentiality and data protection by visiting the links at the bottom of the page.

Data Protection Act

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 third party unless you have given us permission to do so. You have a right to access your personal data and rectify any inaccuracies.

Cookies

We do not make use of cookies to collect any private or personally identifiable information.

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 only use cookies to help us improve the functionality of our website. The cookies used by our system contain random strings of characters alongside minimal information about the state and session of the website – which in no way collects or discloses any personal information about you as a visitor.

You can choose to save login information in a cookie to enable faster login to a private area of this site. A notification is given before any such cookie is dropped, and the process is ultimately within your control. Even where this is used, the cookie still contains minimal authentication information, and does not contain any private or personal data.

Server statistics / log files

Like almost all websites, we have access to server statistics. It is important for us to collect and monitor this information because we pay for a server bandwidth allowance and are liable for the costs of increases beyond our allowance.

The server statistics are not designed to collect any individually identifiable information and the reports we receive are generally numerical and in graph format.

Alongside the server statistics, our Content Management System (Sitekit CMS), collects information on popular search terms used on the website. This allows us to arrange our pages better. We also store visitor path information to help us with future design considerations. In addition to this we analyse download popularity (numerical by month), which we use to organise the file libraries better.

External sites

Our website contains links to other sites. NHS Leeds is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit which collect personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only to this website. We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.

Changes to the privacy policy

Should we make any changes to our privacy policy we will display the information on this page.

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Collection of data

Registration for an account on this site requires only a valid e-mail address and a user name that has not been chosen already. You are not required to provide any other information if you do not want to. Please be aware that the user name you choose, the e-mail address you provide and any other information you enter may render you personally identifiable, and may possibly be displayed on this web site intentionally (by your choice - this information will not be made available unless you specifically authorise it) or unintentionally (subsequent to a successful act of intrusion by a third party). NHS Leeds may also automatically receive general information that is contained in server log files, such as your IP address, and cookie information.

Use of Data

Data may be used to customise and improve your user experience on this site. NHS Leeds WILL NOT pass your data to any other party unless:

• You specifically consent to do so
• such as when you choose to opt-in for the sharing of data (this will be clearly identified)
• required to by law or court order

The preferences that you set and your details such as email address and name will be used by NHS Leeds to:

• Customise your personal area to be more reflective you your needs
• To send you any website changes that you subscribe to
• To send you communications around the areas that you specifically ask for
• To send you general communicaitons about NHS Leeds that you may find useful

You may opt out of any communicaitons with NHS Leeds by de-selecting the appropriate communications channel in your personal area or by getting in contact with us.