Privacy and Cookies
NHS Devon does not collect any personal information about those using the site. We do collect and analyse anonymous information on visitors to our website, including the number of visits to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. None of this information is linked to individuals or distributed to third parties.
There are two types of cookie you may encounter:
First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.
Session Cookies: This is a Microsoft standard cookie used to allow the web server to remember which visitor is which. No personal information is stored, just an encoded identifier to information that is stored securely on the server.
Google Analytics: These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site and which pages are visited. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve and develop the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. For more information, please refer to Google’s privacy overview.
YouTube: We embed videos from our YouTube channel using YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page.
How to control and edit cookies
If you wish to restrict or block the cookies: you can do this through your browser settings. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your particular browser (or your mobile phone’s handset manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences. Please be aware that if you disable cookies, your experience of some parts of the website may be affected.
Disclaimer
The ICB endeavours to ensure that the information contained within the website is correct but does not accept any liability whatsoever (whether in contract, tort or otherwise, including breach of statutory duty), excluding any liability which cannot be excluded by law, for any error or omission in such information howsoever caused and whether by the negligence or omissions of the ICB or otherwise. [The information contained on this website does not constitute medical or medicine related advice and users should contact NHS 111 or speak with their GP, pharmacist or nurse, as appropriate, for any such medical or medicine related advice ].
References and/or hypertext links to third party websites and/or content are provided for the convenience of users only. Once you have used these references or links to leave our website, you should note that the ICB do not have any control over any such third party website (or the contents of the same) and the ICB does not endorse there content or the views expressed within them.
The ICB is unable to provide any warranty concerning the relevance, accuracy or completeness of any information held within any such third -party websites and the ICB cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any data or information which you provide whilst visiting such sites (including any sensitive or personal data). Furthermore, by linking to other third party websites, the ICB is unable to grant permission to use material found on such sites and such permission must always be sought from/granted by the third party website. The ICB also reserves the right to remove references and/or hyperlinks to third party websites (and/or material or content taken from such websites and displayed on this website) at any time as it deems appropriate.