This page explains how the Department of Health uses any information you give to us, and the way we protect your privacy. Protecting the privacy and personal data of the visitors to our site is of the utmost importance to us.
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 other government department or third party unless you have given us permission to do so. You have a right to access your personal data and rectify any inaccuracies.
If you provide feedback on our website we will only use it to develop and improve the site. We will keep the actual feedback for six months after which it will be deleted but analysis of feedback may be kept.
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:
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through "Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them".
We use the following cookies on our website
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Purpose: So service is available when you want it and fast, we measure numbers and volumes of visitors.
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Purpose: To understand what visitors want to use and not to use, so we can improve the service you receive and archive what is not used
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Purpose: So service is available when you want it and fast, we measure numbers and volumes of visitors.
Cookie: ReCaptcha
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Purpose: To remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when looking at information or using a service. We use this in our email this page functionality.
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Purpose: In completing a task, to enable you to complete the task without re-entering information already given. We use this in our email this page functionality.
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Purpose: To remember your selections or preferences that you’ve already made when looking at information or using our service.
This privacy statement only covers the Department of Health website at http://www.dh.gov.uk. It does not cover links within this site to other websites.
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.
If the 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.
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