Copyright & Legal: Privacy Policy

User Anonymity and personal information on Scotland’s Health at Work web services Log files are maintained and analysed of all requests for files on the Scotland’s Health at Work web servers. Log files do not capture personal information but do capture the user’s IP address which is automatically recognised by Scotland’s Health at Work web servers.

Aggregated analyses of these log files are used to monitor website usage. These analyses may be made available to Scotland’s Health at Work staff and partner agencies to allow them to measure, for example, overall popularity of the site and typical user paths through the site. Except as stated already, Scotland’s Health at Work will make no attempt to identify individual users. You should be aware, however, that access to web pages will generally create log entries in the systems of your ISP or network services provider. These entities may be in a position to identify the client computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is beyond the responsibility or control of Scotland’s Health at Work.

Scotland’s Health at Work will make no attempt to track or identify individual users, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In the case of all users, Scotland’s Health at Work reserves the right to attempt to identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources operating as part of Scotland’s Health at Work web services. As a condition of use of this site, all users must give permission for Scotland’s Health at Work to use its access logs to attempt to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining or attempting to gain unauthorised access.

All log file information collected by Scotland’s Health at Work is kept secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third party.

Use of Cookies
Scotland’s Health at Work web services do not store any information that would on its own allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission. Any cookies that may be used by Scotland’s Health at Work web services are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.

Data protection
We may need to forward your name, email address and comments to Scotland’s Health at Work colleagues to reply to you directly. We will use your email address if we need to send you a reply. You are only required to provide us with your name and email address so that we can send you a reply but you can also email us directly at june.telford@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk We will not use your name or email address for monitoring purposes. We will not pass your personal information on to any third-party.

Copyright & Legal: Terms & conditions of use

Copyright
Scotland’s Health at Work owns the copyright in the information and images available on the SHAW website. Individual personal users can download and use the information and images without seeking permission but the use of any image or text for commercial gain is strictly prohibited. Any enquiries should be addressed to the Public Relations Officer at SHAW.

Warranties
The resources contained on the SHAW website, including all files that are authorised for public and password-protected download or access, are provided on an "as is" basis and without any warranties. Although files are virus checked these cannot guarantee that files are free from computer viruses and no warranty is given that files downloaded or accessed from the SHAW website are free of computer viruses. No warranties are made as to fitness for purpose, quality or completeness of information. The SHAW website excludes any liability for any errors in or omissions in information provided on or linked to from this website.

Reliability of information
SHAW uses it best efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information on the SHAW website in accordance with the policies defined for the SHAW website. However, no guarantees are made that the information contained on the SHAW website or associated, or linked to websites is accurate, complete and current at any given time. Information presented on the SHAW website or associated sites may be changed at any time. The resources made available on the SHAW website are for information only and nothing on this website is intended to constitute advice to you. Content on the SHAW website is governed by a number of policies and guidelines. Users of this website agree to inform the SHAW website service providers by email to june.telford@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk if they should come across any material contained which they consider to be potentially in breach of any of the published SHAW policies or of any relavant legislation in order for the appropriate remedial action to be taken.

Availability of SHAW website
Although the SHAW website has been tested and should work correctly under normal circumstances there are many factors both within and beyond the control of SHAW which may prevent the website from being available to users of the world-wide-web. No responsibility is accepted by SHAW for any losses that may arise from an inability to access resources on this site. Where a user finds a specific error in the coding of a web page, or where he/she considers a page to be in breach of accessibility or other published SHAW policies, it is a condition of use of this site that the SHAW website service providers be notified in order that apporpriate action may be taken.

Governing laws
The terms and conditions of use of SHAW website as provided by Scotland’s Health at Work shall be governed by the laws of Scotland. No responsibility can be accepted by SHAW for action or inaction as a result of information contained on web sites maintained by other organisations.