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Privacy

NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) fully respects your right to privacy when using our website. On this page you will find details of our privacy practices in connection with this website and what we do to maintain your right to privacy.

Collection of personal information on this website

NHS National Services Scotland does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information that you volunteer, either by emailing us or by submitting the online forms.

Use of personal information collected via this website

Any information, which you provide via this website is not made available to any third parties. Any information provided is used by NSS solely for the purpose of processing your information request.

Collection and use of technical information

Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged, collected and used by our website host, Scottish Health on the Web (SHOW), as described below.

User tracking

The NSS will make no attempt to identify individual users. You should be aware, however, that access to web pages will generally create log file entries in the systems of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or network services provider. These entities may identify the client computer equipment used to access a page. Such monitoring would be done by the provider of network services and is outwith the responsibility or control of NSS.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. This site uses different types of cookie

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.

If you have Adobe Flash installed on your computer you can check if Flash installed here and you use our video players, Google Analytics will try to store some additional data on your computer. This data is known as a Local Shared Object or Flash cookie. This helps us to analyse the popularity of our media files. We can count the total number of times each file is played, how many people watch videos right to the end and how many people give up half way through. Adobe's website offers tools to control Flash cookies on your computer.

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 folders for www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org 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 Drugs Misuse Information Scotland website and what each is used for.

Cookie Name Purpose Expiry

__utmb

 

Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, pages viewed this session, current time.

30 mins

 

__utmc Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site. At end of session
__utma Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, a unique visitor id (randomly generated number), time of first visit, time of previous visit, current time, number of sessions since first visit.

2 years

 

 

__utmz Google Analytics cookie. This stores the domain name (hash code) of site, time when cookie last set, total number of visitor sessions, number of different channels or sources through which this site was reached, source of the last cookie update, search hit tag identifier (or just 'organic' if reached via normal search hit), search medium, keyword phrase used to find site.

6 months

 

 

 

     
     

Disclaimer

The ISD Scotland (ISD Scotland) of the NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) maintains this website "Drug Misuse in Scotland" on behalf of the Scottish Government to allow information of interest to those working in the Drug Misuse field to be freely available.

ISD Scotland and/or Scottish Government do not warrant, represent or offer undertakings in respect of the content of this website and do not accept responsibility for loss occasioned as a result of action or inaction in reliance on the said information. For the avoidance of doubt this disclaimer extends to the content of any third party website accessed through hypertext link and ISD Scotland and/or Scottish Government do not endorse or approve information contained in any third party site nor are they liable for any infringement of another individual or body's intellectual property rights.

Copyright

All material on this site is © NHS National Services Scotland except where otherwise stated.

See Also

Links Policy

Central Legal Office

Health On the Net Code of Conduct

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