Terms of use

While we have taken every care to compile accurate information and to keep it up-to-date, we cannot guarantee its correctness and completeness.

The information provided on this site is subject to change.

We do not accept responsibility for any loss, damage or expense resulting from the use of this information.

It is essential that advice contained herein should be treated as a guide only and not as a substitute for seeking appropriate medical care.

All links from this website have been selected using a standard links protocol. Links are provided for information and convenience only. We cannot accept responsibility for the sites linked to, or the information found there. A link does not imply an endorsement of a site; likewise, not linking to a particular site does not imply lack of endorsement.

Information and resources provided on this website are for guidance only and individual prescribing decisions should be based on the prescriber’s clinical and professional judgement.  Expired documents may still be listed on this page as they may still be of some relevance, however in all cases, the most up to date local and national guidance e.g. NICE guidance, should always be referred to. NECS and the authors of any information on this website cannot be held responsible for any errors or omissions related to this information.

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Privacy Policy

This privacy policy explains how we use any information we collect about you, how you can tell us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

This site does not collect any confidential personal data (see list below). However, we ensure that any information collected is held securely. We only use the information you provide about yourself when using this website to answer your enquiry or to help us to improve our service to you or for reporting purposes. We do not share this information with any third party except to the extent necessary to answer your enquiry if that enquiry requires the involvement of a third party. Information is not used for any other purpose and is not shared with outside parties.

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site at https://learning.necsu.nhs.uk/ (our “Website”). This includes information provided when completing our enquiry form or submitting a registration or evaluation form. This may include your name, your organisation’s name, your position, email address, business address and contact telephone number. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that contact.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, web server statistics, traffic data, location data and details of the web pages and resources that you access.

Site Usage

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type via the web server log files, for system administration and to analyse aggregate information. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

Cookies

To comply with EU legislation we are required to tell you about the cookies used on this website.

We use cookies only because we want you to find the information you need as quickly and easily as possible.

A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies help websites function usefully and can provide information to website owners.

Cookies do not place viruses on your computer and cannot run programs.

Our cookies do not provide us with any private or personally identifiable information about you. All data that is gathered is anonymous.

Some of the cookies we use collect information about how visitors use our site.

For example, one of our cookies counts the number of visitors to the site and notes which pages they visited. This anonymous information helps us to compile statistical reports, which can help us to improve the site.

Your web browser gives you the ability to accept or decline cookies. Generally, web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you choose to decline cookies, some useful features of this website will not work.

For example, there is the option to view this website as text only, with no graphics. The ‘useTextOnly’ and ‘setString’ cookies remember that you have chosen to view this site with no graphics. If you choose to decline cookies you will have to select the text only option every time you view a new page.

Places to go to find out more about cookies

You can find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, at these sites:

http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

How we protect your information

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of data that you transmit to our site; any transmission is therefore at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we use strict internal procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.

There are facilities within this web site which allow you to type in information and send it to NHS North of England Care System Support. You should be aware that such transmissions are not subject to any encryption and could, in theory, be intercepted and read by someone. Therefore you may wish to avoid including information which you consider to be private. Any information you supply to NHS North of England Care System Support via this web site will be handled in accordance with our policies and procedures for data protection.

We also keep your information confidential. The procedures of NHS North of England Care System Support cover the storage, access and disclosure of your information.

How we use your information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To provide you with information, services that you request from us
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

We do not use any information you supply to us for marketing purposes.

By submitting your information you agree to the use of that information as set out in this notice. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times.

None of the personal data collected as described in this policy is transferred outside of the UK.

Google Recaptcha

We use Google reCAPTCHA on our forms to help prevent spam. To find out more about the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service please use the links below.

Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Google Terms of Service: https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en

The full NECS privacy notice is available on our public facing website: https://www.necsu.nhs.uk/privacy-notice/

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