Taking care of your privacy
We take the same care of your information as we do your health. We are always looking at ways to improve our website, and use a range of tools that help us to make sure that it meets your needs. Any personal information you give us will remain confidential and will be held in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998).
Analytics tools
NHS South West London website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your navigation around the NHS South West London website. We use this tracking tool to help improve the website and to make sure that users get access to the information they need straight away. Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States and may be accessed by third parties if required to do so by law, or where third parties process the information on behalf of Google. Google does not associate your IP address with your data.
If you do not wish for NHS South West London to track your activity on its pages you can disable Javascript which will stop the tracking code from executing. For more information about disabling cookies in your web browser visit www.aboutcookies.org
Social networking tools
This website also uses cookies to store whether or not you have enabled sharing. When you press the enable sharing button this website stores a cookie on your computer that the website looks for, if you have this cookie then it will allow you to share the website’s pages on your favourite social network, if you click disable sharing it will remove this cookie.
Addthis sharing tool has been enabled on this website. These buttons may access the contents of the webpage you are visiting if you are logged in. If you do not want these services to track the pages you visit you can select the data collection opt-out You can also read the privacy & data practices policy of Addthis here.
Further information and help
For more information on Cookies and Google Analytics read the links below:
If you would like to know more about the technology used by NHS South West London on its website then please contact media@swlondon.nhs.uk