Active Scotland

Terms and Conditions of use and access to the Active Scotland Website

The use of and access to this website is subject to the disclaimer and terms and conditions of use and access set out below. By using or accessing this website, you agree to be bound by this disclaimer and these terms and conditions.

Disclaimer and Liability

Every care has been taken in the compilation and publication of the information on this website. However, Health Scotland has no practical means to verify the currency, accuracy or completeness of the information systematically, and no guarantees are given that the information contained on this website or associated or linked websites is accurate, complete and current at any given time. No responsibility can be accepted by Health Scotland, or any other health organisation, for action or inaction as a result of information contained on this website.

Information on the Active Scotland web site is provided as general information only, is not warranted by Health Scotland or any other health organisations and does not constitute advice to you. So far as lawfully possible, Health Scotland excludes all liability to you in contract or delict (negligence) other than where negligence by Health Scotland gives rise to personal injury or death.

We make no representation that the website or any linked third party website is free from infection or viruses or anything else that has contaminating or destructive properties. It is always wise for you to run an anti–virus program on all material downloaded from the Internet. We cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Links to other Websites/Third Party Details

Health Scotland is not responsible for the content or availability of any external sites to which it may link, and linking does not constitute any authorisation to access material held at a particular website or location, or any endorsement by Health Scotland of any kind of any company, organisation, or product.

Users should review the privacy policies of those websites to learn more about what, why and how they collate and use personally identifiable information. No responsibility or liability for the privacy of personal information is accepted for linked websites as these are beyond the control of Health Scotland.

Links to websites are provided for information purposes only and no responsibility is accepted for the quality of resources to be found on such websites. The content and material made available on linked websites and otherwise made available by third parties are completely outwith the control of Health Scotland and as such no liability is accepted for any damage resulting from accessing or failing to access these websites, or contacting any third parties or using or receiving any third party services or products.

Privacy Policy

Data protection and confidentiality

Health Scotland is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of this website.

Some services on Health Scotland websites require us to collect personal information from you. To comply with the Data Protection Act and NHS confidentiality guidance, we have a duty to tell you how we store the information we collect and how it is used.

Log files are kept to analyse visits to the Active Scotland web site. These do not capture your personal information, beyond your IP address which is automatically recognised by Health Scotland web servers. The log files may be examined by Health Scotland staff and partner agencies to allow them to measure, for example, overall popularity of the site and typical user paths through the site. All log file information collected by Health Scotland is kept secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third party, except where we believe the law requires it.

Health Scotland 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 or where we believe the law requires it. In the case of all users, Health Scotland 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 Health Scotland web services. As a condition of use of this site, all users must give permission for Health Scotland and/or its agents to use its access logs to attempt to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorised access.

Feedback form and the "contact us" page

The information you provide on the feedback forms on the "contact us" page will be sent to the webmaster, and forwarded to the appropriate Health Scotland colleagues for action or response.

Any material, information or other communication you may transmit or post to the website other than your personal information will be considered non-confidential and non – proprietary. Health Scotland and its agents and representatives will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate or otherwise use the communications in all data, images, sounds, text and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial and non-commercial purposes. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this website any unlawful, defamatory, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, or other material that would violate any law.

You are only required to provide us with your name and email address on the feedback and contact forms so that we can send you a reply. We will use your email address if we need to send you a reply, and we may need to forward your name, email address and comments to enable Health Scotland colleagues to reply to you directly. If you do not wish to use the form you can email us directly at [email protected]

The information will also be used for monitoring use of the feedback service. We will not use your name or email address for monitoring purposes, nor will we pass your personal information on to any third party. Once your feedback issue is addressed within Health Scotland's capabilities, any personal details provided to Active Scotland will be destroyed

Use of cookies & Web Analytics

We want to make the services we provide easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device (computer or mobile phone) using small text files known as "cookies". Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.

Cookies can improve services for you. For example, they can enable a website to recognise your device which means you don't have to re-enter information several times. This can be useful when filling in a website form; or when you want your device to remember user preferences, or recognise your username and password in secure areas.

Further information on cookies, including how you can change your computer settings to better manage or delete your cookies can be found at www.direct.gov.uk/managingcookies

We have listed below the cookies we use on activescotland.org.uk

Cookie Name: ASP.NET_SessionID
Content: randomly generated number
Expires: when you close your browser
Purpose: activescotland.org.uk . This technology will set this cookie for necessary functional reasons to keep track of what is known as "session state" for retaining session variables when you navigate between web-pages on this site. The cookie is cleared when you close your browser session.

Cookie Name: defaultlocation cookie
Content: search term inputted text that user has saved
Expires: 30 days after activation
Purpose: The Active Scotland website uses this location cookie to retain the search term, such as postcode or place-name, which has been entered in the Active Places search form.

NHS Health Scotland also uses Google map functionality on Active Scotland and these may set cookies which are used by Google to monitor how often their Google Maps functionality is used and to store user preferences and information when viewing web pages containing Google maps.

Cookie Name: PREF
Content: randomly generated number
Expiry: 24 months

Cookie Name: NID or SNID
Typical content: randomly generated number
Expiry: 6 months

Information on Google's privacy can be found at the Google Privacy Policy at:http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Web Analytics

NHS Health Scotland uses a web analytics service (eVisit Analyst) to measure the performance and effectiveness of our websites and to identify areas that can be improved. eVisit Analyst uses the IP (internet protocol) address and browser data (user agent) for web statistics purposes. Data is processed anonymously and is not used in any way, or in combination with any other data, to personally identify individuals. The data is stored in the UK for a period of 18 months on our behalf by our analytics service provider, and not shared with any other third party. This web analytics service does not store cookies on your computer or mobile device.

Copyright

Content on this website including all text and images is copyright © of Health Scotland and its agents or third party contributors unless otherwise stated. Health Scotland consents to the photocopying, electronic reproduction by "uploading" or "downloading" from the website, retransmission, or other copying of such texts and images for educational and "not -for profit" purposes only. Any other use of copyright material on this website requires the formal written permission of Health Scotland. You must not copy or publish any material from this website or distribute it for commercial gain.

Availability of the Website

Although this website has been tested and should work correctly under normal circumstances there are many factors both within and beyond the control of Health Scotland which may prevent the website from being available to users of the world-wide web. No responsibility is accepted by Health Scotland for any losses that may arise from an inability to access resources on this site.

Changes

Information presented on this website or associated websites may be changed or updated at any time. Health Scotland may also make improvements and/or changes in the products and/or services and programmes described in and presented via this website at any time without notice.

Any changes to the Disclaimer and/or the Terms and Conditions of Use of and Access will be effected by way of an update to this page.

Governing Law

The terms and conditions of use of this website shall be governed by the Laws of Scotland.