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Privacy Policy

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) is committed to protecting your privacy..

Our privacy policy sets out how the Trust is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should you provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website then it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. 

Our website runs on the EasySite platform and is hosted by EasySite. 

If we change this policy this page will be updated, so you should check from time to time that you remain happy to use this website.  

This policy Version 1.0 is effective from 1st May 2012  

What we collect the following information if you choose to interact with us

  • Title

  • Name
  • Contact information including email address

  • Demographic information such as post code

  • Date of Birth

  • Phone number

  • Other information regarding your web site communication with the Trust

  • Note we may from time to time collect additional information in the support of the Trust or around health issues

 

What do we do with the information you provide

We need this information in order to communicate with you regarding

  • Your compliment, comment, concern or complaint

  • Your feedback on our website

  • Your Freedom of Information Request

  • Becoming a Member of the Trust, or changing membership details 

     

Additional forms may be on the site from time to time in the support of the Trust or around health issues

When you ‘Save my form’ this feature does not use cookies

Once we have acted upon the information provided via the website we will delete it.

Security

Ensuring your information is secure is very important to us and to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place physical, electronic and managerial procedures to ensure the data we collect online is kept secure.

Controlling your personal information

We do not sell, trade or rent any personal information you give us to others.

Third party sites and sub-sites which you can link to, through www.hdft.nhs.uk  are not subject to our Privacy Policy.  

The Trust accepts no responsibility or liability for these sites and you should check their Privacy Policies regarding cookies and personal information.  

Cookies 

Our website would like to use cookies to enhance the visit, but we respect your wishes if you choose not to use cookies through Opt in, Opt out elements.

We currently only use theASP.NET_SessionId cookie however we may in the future make use of further cookies. The table below details all the cookies our website could make use of, for your information. 

Feature

Cookie Name

Purpose

What will happen if you disable Cookies on this site?

Does the Cookie Persist?

Is the Cookie Essential?

Session

ASP.NET_SessionId

As visitors browse and interact with the web site, activity such as completing a form is recorded on the web server and this token allows us to refer to the user session data on the server between pages.  More information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/899918

No loss of function but there will be a very minor delay before each page load as authentication would be triggered for every page visited whereas the cookie instantly confirms visitors as anonymous

No

Yes

Access Keys*

AccessKeys

Stores shortcut key preferences between visits

Personal Access Key shortcuts will not be remembered between visits

Yes

No

Buildportal*

PortalModuleUserId

Stores portal state for non-logged in users so that if they visit again, portal preferences including portlet positions are remembered.

BuildPortal will reset upon each visit for non-logged in users, for logged in users, their preferences are stored in the database

Yes

No

Cookie Consent*

AllowEasysiteCookies

Stores the consent status of the current user for cookies, only set if they consent

Site will prompt for Cookie Consent upon each visit

Yes

No

eShop Order ID*

OrderID

Stores order reference for users before they login

Non-logged in users cannot add items to their basket

No

Yes

Interstitials*

InterstitialCookie

Stores whether an interstitial has been viewed / closed so it doesn’t reappear for the current user

Interstitials will persist for the current user for those pages that convey them, such as language preference

Yes

No

Remember Me

RememberMe

Stores authentication token between visits so users don’t have to login on each visit

Users who wish to access restricted content or services will need to login upon each visit to the site

Yes

No

Mobile Redirect*

mobileredirect

Stores mobile device users’ preference for either the web or mobile site

Users will be asked upon each visit whether they would prefer to visit the web or mobile optimised site

Yes

No

Polling*

EasysiteUserHasVoted

Stores whether the current user has already voted in the poll, preventing multiple voting

Single users will be able to vote multiple times in online polls

Yes

No

Tabbed Container*

ActiveTab

Stores the ID of the Active Tab as selected by the user

Held tab states will be lost between visits to the page

No

No

Tracking Codes*

DONATION_TRACKING_CODE

Stores tracking code for donations, part of eShop

Donations may not be attributable to specific fundraising campaigns

No

Yes