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Privacy Policy

NHS Exposed respects the privacy of visitors to its web site.

Personally Identifiable Information
By default NHS Exposed does not collect any personally identifiable information about visitors to our web site. Our web server, as with all web servers, automatically logs the dates and times at which web pages are served to our visitors, together with the requesting IP address and HTTP_REFERER information, if available. This information does not personally identify our visitors, but is used in aggregated form to analyse the way in which our visitors use the web site. In turn, this helps us to improve the site and provide a better service for our visitors. NHS Exposed may, from time to time, share this aggregated information with our partners and advertisers. However, this aggregated information can in no way be used to identify any individual visitor.

Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data that a web site stores on a visitor's computer, allowing the web site owners to better understand the way in which their visitors interact with the site. At present the NHS Exposed web site itself does not use cookies in any form. However, some of our advertising partners and other associated web sites may use cookies to monitor the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns etc. This use is entirely beyond the control of NHS Exposed. If our users have concerns with regard to the way these cookies may be used, we suggest they consult our partners' privacy policies at the links below.

Commission Junction: http://www.cj.com/privacy.jsp
Link Share: http://www.linkshare.com/home/privacy.shtml
Trade Doubler: http://www.tradedoubler.com/pan/public/privacy_policy
GoStats: http://gostats.com/privacy.html

Voluntary Provision of Personally Identifiable Information
NHS Exposed operates a message board for the convenience of our visitors. Posters to the message board may, if they wish, disclose their names and email addresses within their postings. However, this information is not required in order to use the message board service. Disclosure of an email address when posting a message is optional, and although the message board requires that a name be given at that time, the user is at liberty to use a pseudonym for this purpose if they wish.

As an exception to this situation, NHS Exposed requires that medical professionals wishing to provide medical advice in message board postings must provide us with their name and proof of their professional qualifications (for example their General Medical Council registration number). This measure ensures the safety of our users; the information will not be disclosed or passed on to a third party except as outlined below.

Email Addresses
NHS Exposed receives a high volume of email messages from our users, advertising partners and other sources. These messages, together with the sender's details, are archived for our records. NHS Exposed does not use the information given in these email messages for any purpose other than the sender's original purpose in communicating with us. In particular, we do not use these email addresses for marketing or promotional purposes. Furthermore, they will not be disclosed or passed on to a third party except as outlined below.

NHS Exposed operates an "email to friend" feature, allowing our visitors to email links to our site's content directly from our web site. Use of this feature requires our visitor to provide both their, and their friend's, name and email address. As with all data processed by our web server, this information is logged. However, NHS Exposed makes no direct use of this information other than to assess the usefulness of this aspect of our web site. Again, this information will not be disclosed or passed on to a third party as outlined below.

From time to time, and at our discretion, NHS Exposed may operate an email-based newsletter service to inform interested guest of updates to our web site. In order to partake of this service, visitors must provide NHS Exposed with a valid email address and consent to receiving our newsletter. Subscribers to such a newsletter may unsubscribe at any time by visiting our web site and removing their email address from our mailing list. NHS Exposed does not use the subscriber's email address for any purpose other than the provision of our newsletter. Nor does NHS Exposed disclose or pass this information on to any third party except as outlined below.

Access / Correction / Updates to Personal Information
NHS Exposed is always happy to confirm what, if any, personally identifiable information is held about any of our visitors. In the event that any personally identifiable information that we hold about our visitors is incorrect or obsolete, NHS Exposed will, upon receipt of notification of the inaccuracy, endeavour to correct this information as soon as possible.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Disclosure of Information
NHS Exposed may share information about our visitors with advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and other third parties. However, we only divulge aggregate information about our users and will not share personally identifiable information with any third party without that user's express consent. For example, we may disclose how many pages of our web site are viewed, per visit, by the average visitor. We will, however, release specific personal information about our visitors if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order.

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