Privacy and Cookies Policy
Privacy Policy
This page explains our privacy policy and how we will use and protect any information about you that you give us when you visit The North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Paediatric Critical Care & Surgery in Children Operational Delivery Networks PCC & SIC ODN) website
This policy statement only covers the NENC PCC & SIC ODN website. It does not cover any other sites that can be linked to from this website, 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?
We do not hold any personal identifiable information about you. However, from time to time, you may wish to contact us to ask a question or raise a query. You will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g.name and email address) in the “Contact Us” box. By entering your details in the fields requested you enable us to get in touch with you directly and reply to you.
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. Any information you provide to the Network will only be used by us, and will not pass your details to anyone else, unless we are obliged or permitted to by law to do so.
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.
Our website contains links to and from websites of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to the North East and North Cumbria Paediatric Critical Care & Surgery in Children Operational Delivery Networks.
Cookies
What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text that can be stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet or other device when you browse the Internet. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The use of cookies is now standard for most websites.
To delete cookies or reject cookies
We recommend you allow the cookies set by this website; they help us to provide a better service. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them, allowing or blocking them through your browser, including removing cookies and revoke consent by deleting them from your ‘browser history’ (cache) when you leave the site or at any moment.
We will not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information about you.
You may also wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org which contains comprehensive information on how to delete cookies from your computer using a wide variety of browsers, as well more general information about cookies.
Please be aware that if you do not accept cookies this site or part of it may not work properly.
The cookies we use are – set by Google Analytics
The Google Analytics cookie contains a randomly-generated ID which is used to recognise your browser when you view a page. The cookie contains some personal information about your browser configuration and your location, however we cannot identify you as an individual user from this cookie within Google Analytics. The data generated from this cookie is used to create a picture of an ‘average user’ to gain an understanding of which pages are most and least popular within the site to improve the user experience.
Changes to our privacy and cookies notice
We may change this notice from time to time by updating this page and will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The modified or amended notice shall be effective as to you and your information as of that revision date. You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes.