This page explains our privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give us when you visit this website.
This privacy statement only covers the Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Extranet. It does not cover all sites that can be linked to from this site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement on that site.
What information do we collect?
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (for example name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include bulletins, email updates and feedback.
By entering your details in the fields requested you enable Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Any information you provide to Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will only be used by us, our agents and service providers and will not be disclosed unless we are obliged or permitted to by law to do so.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on this site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on this site, we may use whatever information is available to us, about you, to stop such behaviour. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met or when you no longer wish to continue your subscription.
The Data Protection Act
Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party or other government department.
Changes to our policy
If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.
Use of cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- Enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
- Recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast.
Cookies we use
WordPress
Cookies to facilitate login, and admin interface use. More information can be found at the WordPress Codex.
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Google Analytics
The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Please read Googles Privacy overview for more information.
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Civic UK Cookie Control
When you click “I’m happy with this…” on the Cookie Control user interface, a cookie is set in order to remember your preference. More information can be found out the Civic UK website.
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You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them at Directgov.
