Privacy and Data Protection

Privacy
The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS) 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.

Data Protection
Any personal information which you supply to SNBTS will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, in strict accordance with the Data Protection Act, 1998 and any subsequent recommendations by the UK Information Commissioner.

SNBTS is a division of NHS National Services Scotland (NSS) which is registered under the legal name Common Services Agency for NHS in Scotland. NSS has an entry in the Information Commissioner's Register of Data Controllers (accessible from the website of the Information Commissioner) which lists the types of personal information we process, our purposes for processing the information and the people and organisations with whom we share personal information.

Collection of personal information on this website
SNBTS 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 SNBTS 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
  SNBTS 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 SNBTS
• Log files
  Log files are maintained and analysed of all requests for files on SNBTS servers. Aggregated analyses of these log files are used to monitor website usage. These analyses are used to allow us to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our websites. All log file information collected by SNBTS is kept secure and is not provided to any third parties.
• Use of Cookies
  A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. Cookies can contain user identification data.

The following Cookies are used on this website:

• Temporary session cookies
  These enable a visitor's web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. Visitors can use this website with no loss of functionality if cookies are disabled from the web browser.
• __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmz, __utmv, __utmx
  SNBTS uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets the cookies mentioned above in order to evaluate your use of the SNBTS website and compile reports for us on user activity. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. 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 will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.  By using the SNBTS website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.  See http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html for more details.
• SNBTSpref   
  The above cookie is used to store your preferred location for donating. This information is used by SNBTS to alert you to the next date/time of blood donation sessions at you preferred location  This information is not passed to third parties.

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.

More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org.

For more detailed guidance, read Scottish Health On the Web's privacy policy.

Enquiries
Privacy and data protection enquiries relating to this website may be made in writing to:

National Information Governance Manager
SNBTS Head Office Registry
21 Ellen's Glen Road
Liberton
Edinburgh
EH17 7QT