Privacy Policy
We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy
lets you know how any personal information is processed and used by the PHO.
Our procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your information are
designed to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998.
Consent
Your use of this web site signifies your consent to us collecting and using
personal information about you as specified below in accordance with this Policy.
If you are a registered user, this policy will be applied subject to any particular
limitations or choices you express in your User Profile.
All users: You may provide personal information when communicating with us.
In addition we will collect information about your preferences both when you
tell us what these are and by analysis of customer traffic, including by using
cookies (see below). We may use personal information collected about you to
let you know about functionality changes to our web site, or changes to our
terms and conditions of use; we may also send you information about PHO meetings,
events and publications.
Registered users: As part of the registration process we ask for your name,
email address and organisation address as required fields; this data is stored
in our database of contacts. Once you have been approved for registration and
supplied with a username and password, the default disclosure level for the
data you have supplied is that it is available to all
other registered users (who will be people with a role or relevant interest in public health). If
you wish to restrict or increase the disclosure level you can do so by accessing
and amending your User Profile, available as a link from the Preferences page
when you log on with your username and password. The PHO accepts no liability
arising from this disclosure.
About Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of information that is stored by your web browser and
cannot do your computer any harm. When you
revisit the associated website the server will recognise the cookie, which
gives it information about your last visit(s). In other words, a cookie allows
it to remember choices and submitted information so that you needn' t reset
certain user-defined features or re-enter details. Cookies are either permanent
(usually with a longterm expiry date) or are only used in the current session
and cease to exist when the browser is shut down (so called 'session cookies').
Most browsers accept cookies automatically, but you can alter the settings
of your web browser to prevent automatic acceptance, you can delete cookies
easily, and you can change your browser settings even to refuse cookies alltogether.
The way this is done differs between different browsers and browser versions.
How Cookies are used on this website
Cookies are used to store choices and preferences and to give us information
about your last visit. We monitor individual use of the website in order to
provide personally tailored features and information. We use permanent cookies
as well as session cookies. To secure the flawless functioning of the website
we would recommend to allow at least the setting of session cookies.
Site usage data
We collect site usage statistics from our server logs. This data helps us
to manage and plan website functions, and will be used as part of the evaluation
of the website. Aggregate site usage statistics may be provided to third parties
but will not include information that can be used to identify you.
Disclosure
The PHO reserves the right to access and disclose individually identifiable
information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests,
to operate its systems properly or to protect itself or its users.