Terms and Conditions
This website and all the material contained within it is provided without any endorsement or warranty, whether express or implied, as to its satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, security or accuracy.
Links
Links to external websites 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; similarly, not linking to a particular site does not imply lack of endorsement.
Disclaimer
The Scottish Health Council hopes that this website will be useful to you, but accepts no responsibility and offers no warranties for the content of the website or your use of it, as far as the law allows us to exclude such liability.
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 does not constitute any form of professional advice, and is subject to change. We do not accept responsibility for any loss, damage or expense resulting from the use of this information.
All use of this website is subject to Scots law and the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts and is subject to this disclaimer. Any views given on the site are not necessarily those of the Scottish Health Council or anyone connected with us.
Availability
We cannot guarantee uninterrupted access to this website, or the sites to which it links. We do not accept responsibility for any damages arising from the loss or use of this information.
Copyright
The Scottish Health Council consents to the photocopying, electronic production by uploading or downloading from the website, retransmission, or other copying of information published on this website for the purpose of implementation in NHSScotland and educational and not for profit purposes. No reproduction by or for commercial organisations is permitted without the express written permission of the Scottish Health Council.
Privacy statement
We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This statement explains how we use the information we collect about you in certain areas of our website, and tells you about the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.
The information we collect
This statement applies to all information collected or submitted on the Scottish Health Council website. In order to provide email alert services, consult on our work and to allow us to answer any feedback submitted to the site, the Scottish Health Council website occasionally collects personal data. This is done in two ways:
Electronic alerts
The Scottish Health Council website has an optional electronic alert service for people who subscribe to receive our newsletter. If you register for these alerts, your email address will be held on our database for the purpose of providing this service. When you initially register, you will be sent an email to confirm that you have subscribed to this service.
If you wish to unsubscribe from the electronic alert service, contact us by telephoning 0141 225 5556 or emailing enquiries@scottishhealthcouncil.org.
Online feedback form
The Scottish Health Council website has an electronic feedback form through which you can submit comments you may have about our site or the service we provide. The name and email address you provide on the online feedback form will be used solely for the purpose of responding to your comment or enquiry.
The information we collect about you will not be passed on to external organisations without your consent.
Our use of cookies
Our website uses software called "Google Analytics" to help us find out how visitors use the site, and which parts of the site they are most interested in. This information allows us to improve and further develop our website.
The Google Analytics package uses "cookies". A cookie is a file that stores information given by a website (for example, the Scottish Health Council website) to a web browser (for example, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Safari). This means that your browser will remember certain pieces of information about your visit to our site. The cookies used by the Google Analytics package can monitor which pages of our website you visited, whether you have followed a link from another site to get to our site, or the length of time you stay on the site.
The information we gather through the use of cookies is collected in an anonymous form and cannot be used to identify you. However, you can choose whether or not your browser accepts these cookies in the first place by changing your browser settings.
Links to other sites
This privacy statement only covers the Scottish Health Council website at www.scottishhealthcouncil.org. Any links to other sites from our website are not covered by this statement.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please call us on 0141 225 5556, or send an email to enquiries@scottishhealthcouncil.org.