SHAW in Lanarkshire

Policies

Disclaimer & Terms and conditions of use and access of Scotland's Health at Work in Lanarkshire

The Common Services Agency (CSA) operates this web-site "Scotland's Health at Work (SHAW) in Lanarkshire" under the auspices of the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) on behalf of health organisations within Scotland to allow information on the National Health Service in Scotland to be freely available. Each individual participating health organisation has sole responsibility for the information created or published by them. Any information appearing on SHAW in Lanarkshire is issued as general information and does not constitute a warranty by the CSA or any other health organisation, nor should it be taken as advice. No responsibility can be accepted by the CSA or any other health organisation for action or inaction as a result of information contained on SHAW in Lanarkshire. Readers should take specific advice in respect of specific situations.

The use and access of pages of the NHSScotland's Scotland's Health at Work in Lanarkshire website is subject to the terms and conditions set out below and by the disclaimer above. By using or accessing this website, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions.

Copyright

Content on this website is copyright © of the Crown and its agents unless otherwise stated. Where Crown copyright applies, visitors can download material for private research, study or in-house use only. Visitors must not copy, distribute, or publish any material from this website. Any other use of Crown copyright material requires the formal permission of the Controller of The Stationery Office.

Links to other Websites

The provision on the SHAW in Lanarkshire website of a link to another Website does not constitute any authorisation to access material held at that location. Links to sites are provided for informational purposes only and no responsibility is accepted for the quality of resources to be found on such websites. The contents and material made available on linked sites are completely outwith our control and as such no liability is accepted for any damages resulting from accessing or failing to access these sites. No endorsement is expressed or implied by the presence of a link on the SHAW in Lanarkshire website. The contents of a linked-to website may change without our knowledge and as a result, links may break or may terminate on pages which were not the original targets of a link. No responsibility or liability for the privacy of personal information is accepted for linked to websites, as these are beyond our control.

Warranties

The resources contained on the SHAW in Lanarkshire 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 in Lanarkshire Website are free of computer viruses. No warranties are made as to fitness for purpose, quality or completeness of information. SHAW in Lanarkshire excludes any liability for any errors in or omissions in information provided on or linked to from this website.

Reliability of information

SHAW in Lanarkshire uses its best efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of information on SHAW in Lanarkshire websites in accordance with the policies defined for SHAW in Lanarkshire. However, no guarantees are made that the information contained on SHAW in Lanarkshire or associated, or linked to websites is accurate, complete and current at any given time. Information presented on SHAW in Lanarkshire or associated sites may be changed at any time. The resources made available on SHAW in Lanarkshire are intended to assist users in Scotland in their use of the National Health Service and are for information only. The SHAW in Lanarkshire website is not intended in any way to replace the advice of your doctor. Nothing on this website is intended to constitute advice to you. Specific advice should be sought in specific situations from a properly qualified health worker. Content on SHAW in Lanarkshire is governed by a number of policies and guidelines. Users of the SHAW in Lanarkshire website agree to inform the SHAW in Lanarkshire service providers (by email: SHAW in Lanarkshire@isd.csa.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 in Lanarkshire policies or of any relevant legislation in order for the appropriate remedial action to be taken.

Availability of the SHAW in Lanarkshire website

Although the SHAW in Lanarkshire website has been tested and should work correctly under normal circumstances. There are many factors both within and outside of the control of SHAW in Lanarkshire which may prevent the website from being available to users of the world-wide-web. No responsibility is accepted by SHAW in Lanarkshire 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 policies of the SHAW in Lanarkshire website, it is a condition of use of this site that the SHAW in Lanarkshire web team be notified in order that appropriate action may be taken.

Governing laws

The terms and conditions of use of NHSScotland's Scotland's Health at Work in Lanarkshire (SHAW in Lanarkshire) website as provided by the Common Service Agency of the National Health Service in Scotland shall be governed by the laws of Scotland.

Privacy and Data Protection Policy

User Anonymity & Personal Information on SHAW in Lanarkshire

Log files are maintained and analysed of all requests for files on the SHAW in Lanarkshire servers. Aggregated analyses of these log files are used to monitor website usage. These analyses are made available to SHAW in Lanarkshire participating organisations to allow them to measure, for example, overall popularity of the site and typical user paths through the site.

In combination with other information which is not collected by SHAW in Lanarkshire but which may be collected by suppliers of network services, it may in certain situations be possible to identify an individual user's use of the SHAW in Lanarkshire website. SHAW in Lanarkshire does not collect the additional information required and will make no attempt to track or identify individual users, except where explicit consent for this is given or where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In the case of all users, SHAW in Lanarkshire 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 the SHAW in Lanarkshire service. As a condition of use of this site, all users must give permission for SHAW in Lanarkshire 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 SHAW in Lanarkshire is kept secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third party.

In certain cases, a SHAW in Lanarkshire participating website may implement a registration scheme which will allow usage to be tracked. SHAW in Lanarkshire policies do not permit this to be done except in cases where users have given informed consent for this to be done, and offending sites will be removed should SHAW in Lanarkshire become aware of any breaches of this policy. SHAW in Lanarkshire will endeavour to ensure that participating organisations have proper data-protection procedures in place in respect the information they make available through their websites.

Use of Cookies

SHAW in Lanarkshire does 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 SHAW in Lanarkshire are used either solely on a per session basis or to maintain user preferences. Cookies are not shared with any third parties.

User tracking

Except as stated already, SHAW in Lanarkshire 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 outwith the responsibility or control of SHAW in Lanarkshire.

SHAW in Lanarkshire - Links Policy

Types of site linked to

Sites to which SHAW in Lanarkshire links are outwith the control of SHAW in Lanarkshire and as such no warranties are made for any site which is linked to on SHAW in Lanarkshire. However, we do endeavour to ensure that we only link to high quality Internet information sources. In order to do this we make an effort to ensure that the resources that we link to fulfill the criteria outlined in this policy. Our aim is to promote access to health information that will allow users to play a participative role in their healthcare.

There are four classes of link that are linked to on SHAW in Lanarkshire:

SHAW in Lanarkshire will normally provide links to the first three categories of site on request except where the site is in clear breach of good practice or presents information which in the opinion of the SHAW in Lanarkshire Steering Group is inappropriate or misleading. External websites will be linked to on request which are from organisations that are of sufficient standing for their inclusion to be uncontroversial (e.g. Royal Colleges and the websites of refereed academic journals) and sites on which it is reasonable to assume that there is a QA procedure in place which is at least on a level with the HON Code guidelines. Links may be added to sites which do not meet these criteria at the discretion of the SHAW in Lanarkshire editorial group or if appropriate the SHAW in Lanarkshire steering group. Such sites will normally be subject to scrutiny by the Discern instrument to assess their fitness for inclusion.

Accessibility

A weighting scheme will be applied to penalise sites which in the opinion of the SHAW in Lanarkshire team do not meet accessibility criteria. Although such sites may be linked to, their position in listings will be lower that other similar sites which do meet accessibility criteria.

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