Privacy Policy

This page explains how Darlington Primary Care Trust (PCT) uses any information you give to us, and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

The Data Protection Act

Under the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We will only use your information for the purpose we have described and we do not pass on your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission to do so. We use leading technologies to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.

Feedback

You can send us your feedback in two ways: by comments and questions to members of staff, sent by e-mail (contact us), phone (01325 364271) or post; or by taking part in the Discussion Forum.

1. Comments and questions
   If you send an e-mail or call us asking for information, we may need to contact other departments to find that information. If your question is technical, we may need to pass it to our IT Department. We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so.
   
2. Discussions
   When you send comments to the Discussion Forum, these can be read by anyone visiting the page. Your user name appears next to your comments. All comments are read by PCT members of staff.
   

Site usage information

• Session cookies
  Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a website. The cookies our site uses are "session cookies", which means that your "preferences" are stored temporarily while you move around the site. You can set your computer not to accept cookies. However, if you do this, you may not be able to use some site features because we need to record your preferences in order to give you the information you need during your visit.
  
  Session cookies are deleted when you leave the site. They do not contain any personal information about you, and do not hold any information about which sites you visited before www.darlingtonpct.nhs.uk.
  
• Log files
  Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. They enable us to make changes to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it.
  
  Log files do not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited.
  

What happens when I link to another site?

The PCT site contains links to other websites, both those of government departments and of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.

We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

March 2005