Privacy Policy

East Sussex Sexual Health Website privacy and cookies information

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and East Sussex County Council uses cookies to help us understand how people use this website so that we can enhance the user experience.

For example, we use cookies to capture which pages are most popular, how long people spend on each page and what links they use to access the information they are seeking. We may also use cookies to enable the website to ‘remember’ details that you voluntarily give, such as when you complete online forms, so that you do not have to repeat the information next time you use the website.

On occasion we may embed content from another website, for example a YouTube video. Using a page with such content you may be presented with cookies from the third-party website. East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and East Sussex County Council does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

You can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, or you can set it to automatically reject them. Rejecting cookies may inconvenience you in browsing our website.

See your browser ‘help’ button for how to change your cookie settings.

External Links

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and East Sussex County Council provide links from this website to other sites to provide you with additional information but cannot guarantee that such links will always work and make no representations as to the quality or accuracy of the sites. The trust does not endorse any external sites and is not responsible for their content.

Website Privacy Statement

Information you supply using the electronic form(s) available on our website will only be used for the purpose(s) stated on the form. Information you provide in emails to us will only be used for the purpose (which we reasonably believe) that you give it to us for. Information you provide us with may be used for statistical research but will not be used in any way (beyond its original purpose) which enables you to be identified.

For more general information about how East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust uses information please see, Privacy notice page for more details.

For more general information about how East Sussex County Council uses information please see, Privacy notices | East Sussex County Council for more details.

Cookies

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust and East Sussex County Council uses cookies to help us understand how people use our website so that we can enhance the user experience. The Trust, Council and its contractors have legal obligations towards you in the way that we deal with data collected from you on this website. We keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission to do so, or we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.

We collect information from website visitors relating to:

• feedback submitted to us
• email alert services
• site usage tracking

Feedback
If you provide feedback about the website through a contact form or email address we will only use this information to develop and improve the site. From time to time, we may seek feedback from visitors, which we will use to answer questions, resolve problems or improve their published information.

Site usage
Like virtually all web sites, we store anonymised data on visits in server log files, which contain IP addresses of machines used to access this site, and the pages requested.

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how people use this site. We do this to make sure it’s meeting its users’ needs and to understand how we could do it better.

Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. We do not collect or store your personal information (e.g. your name or address) so this information cannot be used to identify who you are. We do not allow Google to use or share our analytics data.

The following cookies (small data files created on your computer) are set by Google Analytics:

We also set a cookie to record users who have opted to accept cookies from the site, to prevent showing the cookie warning bar on each visit.

Cookies are also used elsewhere on the site, including by the content management system we use, WordPress. These improve things by remembering settings, so you do not have to keep re-entering them whenever you visit a new page, log in or leave a comment.

Our cookies aren’t used to identify you personally. They are just here to make the site work better for you. Indeed, you can manage and/or delete these small files as you wish. To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit AboutCookies.org.