Privacy policy

The Managed Service Network for Neurosurgery is delivered by Public Health Scotland (PHS), the national agency for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of the people of Scotland

We fully respect your right to privacy when using our services. Here you will find details of our privacy practices and what we do to maintain your right to privacy.

What information do we collect about you?

We collect information about you and your organisation when you access any of our services online. We only collect the information we ask from you, that you give us and where required consent to it being processed for the purpose of providing Public health Scotland services.

How will we use the information we collect?

We process your information for the purpose of providing you with services from Public Health Scotland. This includes some or all of the following:

Managing enquires, requests and complaints, you submit to us.
Providing opportunities to give us feedback on our products and services, to help us know what you need and improve our products and services appropriately.

We may also disclose the information to a third party where we have a legal obligation to do so. Public Health Scotland will not sell your personal information to any other organisation.

How do we look after your information?

The information we collect about you and your organisation is stored securely in Public Health Scotland systems hosted in the UK/EU.

The website is hosted on a secure server by a third party in the UK/EU, and is maintained by Public Health Scotland staff.

The principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) require us to make sure your data is accurate, kept up-to-date and that we keep it for no longer than is necessary.

To meet these requirements

we will update your data or remove it from our systems at your request
we will keep your data in line with public Health Scotland data retention guidelines.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation there are a number of rights relating to Data Protection.

You can find more information about these rights in the Public Health Scotland Privacy Notice and on the Information Commissioner’s website.

Cookies

Use of Cookies

Due to changes in EU legislation, which came into force on 26 May 2012, we need to inform you about cookies we store on your device.

To allow us to meet the legislation we have implemented an ‘implied consent’ solution. You will see a bar across the top of the site informing you that cookies are used, and inviting you to acknowledge the message by clicking ‘ok’. You do not need to click ok and the site will continue to function as expected. If you click ok the information bar will be removed on all pages and on subsequent visits to this site.

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. These can be used for many purposes. This site uses different types of cookie.

All the cookies we set on this site are deemed to be minimally intrusive in terms of your privacy. By continuing to use this site you imply that you consent to these cookies being set.

Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us to analyse how users use the site.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

Third Party Cookies

We use a number of tools and external applications, in particular Google Analytics and Google Custom Search, to enhance visitor interaction on our site. These services will set a cookie called ‘PREF’ which Google uses to track user preferences from one site to another.

Functional Cookies

These cookies are used on some sites when completing online forms, logging in to the site or using other functions. They do not contain any personal information and for the most part are automatically deleted when you close your browser.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. You can access them through some types of browser. Search in your cookie list to find our cookies if you wish to delete them. More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.

Cookies used by this website

This list shows all cookies used by the Managed Service Network for Neurosurgery website, and what each is used for.

Cookie Name	Purpose	Expiry
ASPSESSIONIDSABARACA	This is a session cookie used by the website to hold user information required for some functions of the website as the user moves from page to page. The cookie will expire as you leave the website and no user identifiable information is collected or held.	At end of session.
MSN	This cookie records that the user has accepted the cookie warning so we don’t keep showing it to them.	One year.
_ga	Google Analytics cookie. Used to distinguish users.	Two years.
_gat_gtag_106866295_1	Google Analytics cookie. Used to count number of visits.	30 minutes.
_gid	Google Analytics cookie. Used to distinguish users.	24 hours.

This website is compliant with the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) Guidance on the rules on use of cookies and similar technologies and the related Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 .

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