Privacy statement
Healthcare Improvement Scotland fully respects your right to
privacy. In strict accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998),
we treat any personal information you supply to us with the highest
standards of security and confidentiality.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland is registered as a data controller
with the Information Commissioner (registration is
Z2608541). This registration describes the kind of information
we may hold about you, how it may be processed and with whom it may
be shared.
The Healthcare Improvement Scotland Data Protection Policy
explains how we process your personal data to ensure compliance
with Data Protection principles. It relates to information we
collect about:
- visitors to our websites
- complainants and other individuals in relation to a data
protection or freedom of information complaint or enquiry
- people who use our services, e.g. who subscribe to our
newsletters or request publication from us
- job applicants and our current and former employees
- people who volunteer their time to work with us
- patient data we process as part of our core work
programmes
Collection of personal information
To access some of the services available via our websites you
will need to register with us. During the registration process you
will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g.
name and email address). By entering your details in the fields
requested, you enable Healthcare Improvement Scotland and our
subsidiaries to provide you with certain services or to contact you
as agreed during the registration process.
When you provide such personal information, you accept that we
may retain your personal information and that it may be held by us
or any third party that processes it on our behalf for the purposes
of providing the information, goods or services which you have
requested.
Any third parties who process personal information on our behalf
are required to maintain the confidentiality and privacy of the
personal information that they process for us.
In addition, we may also collect personal information from you
when you correspond with us (for example, when you send us e-mail
communications or send letters to us). We also collect certain
information automatically about visitors to our websites, as
described in the section” below.
This site uses cookies and Google Analytics
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Cookie |
Type |
Website |
Purpose |
| Style |
Session cookie |
All Healthcare Improvement Scotland websites |
Remembers your low or high graphic preference and delivers the
website in that format next time you visit. |
utma
utmb
utmc
utmz |
Google Analytics |
All Healthcare Improvement Scotland websites |
Set by Google Inc. (a third party cookie) it tracks your
interaction with each website. Information is collected anonymously
and is used by Healthcare Improvement Scotland to make
improvements to our websites and their usability.
Google provides more
information on privacy and how this applies to Google
Analytics.
|
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uvc |
Add This |
Healthcare Improvement Scotland corporate website |
Set by Add This (a third party cookie) it allows you to share
our web content with your social network via Facebook, Twitter, You
Tube or Linked In.
Add This provide more information
on how they collect and use this data. |
GAPS
SNID
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NID
PREF
NID
PP_TIS_ACK |
Google Maps |
Healthcare Improvement Scotland corporate website |
Set by Google Inc. (a third party cookie) it allows Google to
track the number of our visitors using their maps (via our contact
us pages).
These cookies will remain on your website up to 2 years after your
visit. Google provides more information
on privacy and how this applies to Google maps. |
| ASP.NET_SessionID |
Microsoft.NET |
All Healthcare Improvement Scotland websites |
Set by Microsoft ASP.NET (a third party cookie) it allows our
websites to know when your visit (or session) has ended and when
another one begins.
These cookies expire immediately when you close your internet
browser. For more information visit
Microsoft Support. |
| ASPSESSIONID {randomstring} |
Classic ASP session cookie |
All Healthcare Improvement Scotland websites |
Allows our websites to know when a session has ended in classic
ASP function. |
Use of personal information collected through our websites
Any information, which you provide by way of this website, is
not made available to any third parties. Any information provided
is only used by Healthcare Improvement Scotland and its
subsidiaries for the purpose for which you provided it.
National Fraud Initiative
Together with other Scottish public sector organisations, we are
required to participate in the National Fraud Initiative. As part
of this, we provide staff payroll information for data matching.
Data matching involves comparing sets of data, such as the payroll
or benefits records of a body, against other records held by the
same or another body. Further information about the
National Fraud Initiative is available from Audit Scotland.
Contact our information governance team
The Healthcare Improvement Scotland team is responsible for
advising on and monitoring practice relating to the use of personal
information and Data Protection compliance, Freedom of Information
and IT security issues.
Caldicott Guardian
Our Caldicott Guardian is responsible for protecting the
confidentiality of patient information within Healthcare
Improvement Scotland by advising on, agreeing and reviewing
protocols governing the protection, use and disclosure of
information about, or that identifies, patients.
Any queries about how we manage personal and patient information
within the organisation can be sent to the Information
Governance Team.
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