Privacy policy
This page explains how the Department of Health uses any information you give to us, and the way we protect your privacy. Protecting the privacy and personal data of the visitors to our site is of the utmost importance to us.
The Data Protection Act
In accordance with the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We will only use your information for the purpose as described and, apart from for these purposes, we will not pass on your details to any other government department or third party unless you have given us permission to do so. You have a right to access your personal data and rectify any inaccuracies.
If you provide feedback on our website we will only use it to develop and improve the site. We will keep the actual feedback for six months, after which it will be deleted but analysis of feedback may be kept.
Site usage and cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes invloves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through “Internet cookies – what they are and how to manage them”.
We use the following cookies on this site:
- So service is available when you want it and fast, we measure numbers and volumes of visitors using __utma.
- To understand what visitors want to view and not to view, so we can improve the service you receive and archive what is not required, we use __utmb, __utmc, and __utmz.
Statement coverage
This privacy statement only covers the Healthy Start website at www.healthystart.nhs.uk. It does not cover links within this site to other websites.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.
Changes to the policy
If the privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the page ensures that 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.
Glossary of terms
- Cookies are files containing information about visitors to a website (e.g. user name and preferences). This information is provided by the user during the first visit to a web server. The server records this information in a text file and stores this file on the visitor’s hard drive. When the visitor accesses the same website again, the server looks for the cookie and configures itself based on the information provided.
- Log files are files created by a web or proxy server which contain all of the access information regarding the activity on that server.
