Privacy and cookies

Our approach to users' privacy

Privacy

Collection and use of personal information

We collect certain information or data about you when you use our website (https://formulary.nhs.scot/east). This includes:

Your name and e-mail address if you contact us using our Contact Us form.
Information on how you use our website, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website (these cookies aren't used to identify you personally).

This helps us to improve the website by monitoring how you use it and respond to any feedback you send us, if you've asked us to. We won't share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don't pass on your details to other websites.

Disclosing or sharing your information

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so.

Content disclaimer

We seek to ensure that information on our website is up-to-date and accurate. However, the information does not constitute legal or professional advice and we cannot accept liability for actions arising from its use. Neither can we be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.

Links to and from our website

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to our site and doesn't cover other websites.

We welcome websites to link to our site. You don't have to ask for permission to do so. However, we don't give you permission to suggest that your website is associated with, or endorsed by, our website.

Where our website contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.

Cookies

Our website places small files, known as 'cookies', onto your computer to collect information about how you browse. These cookies aren't used to identify you personally. You’ll normally see a message on the site before we store a cookie on your computer.

Measuring site usage

We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our website. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting your needs and to help us make improvements.

We store information about:

The pages you visit and how long you spend on each page.
How you got to our website.
What you click on while you're using our website.

Any information on website usage is received in a way that means we can't identify individuals. We don't make any attempt to find out the identities of people using our website and we don't allow Google to do this either.

All information we get through cookies and analytics will be treated in confidence. We’ll never sell, trade or give your details to third parties, unless we're required to do it by law.

Details of cookies used

This table shows the types of cookies we use and what they are used for:

Cookie consent (cookieconsent_dismissed)	Saves the user's acknowledgement of the cookie message displayed on the website. This means that the message will be hidden on subsequent visits to the site.
User preference (medCookie)	Saves the user’s preference for whether medicine formulation sections should be expanded by default within each pathway on the condition pages of the website.
Site hosting (ARRAffinity)	Set by our hosting provider to help load pages as efficiently as possible. They contain unique but random values and are destroyed as soon as you close your browser.
Google Analytics	Used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site.

Further information on cookies

Enquiries

Privacy and data protection enquiries can be made using our Contact Us form.