Who we are

We are the Blood Borne Virus & Sexual Health Team in NHS Lanarkshire. We run this website and some non-clinical services like C Card. This website’s address is: www.lanarkshiresexualhealth.org.

This website has information about Sexual Health Services, like times and venues. It does not cover other data, such as patient records, that is kept separately by clinics.

For more information about wider privacy issues see: NHS Lanarkshire’s Data Protection Statement.

Contact the BBV & Sexual Health Team on 01698 377623 (office hours).

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

If visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form. We also collect data from the visitor’s device and software (IP address and browser user agent string). These help with detecting ‘spam’ (bogus) messages.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

We no longer use contact forms on this site.

Cookies

What are ‘cookies’?

On the internet, cookies are small text files sent between your computer or device and a website. They help ‘recognise’ if you’ve visited the site before. They store your preferences for a single visit, for example, if you wish to view our site with larger text. (The name may come from the idea of children dropping biscuit crumbs to leave a trail.)

How does this site use cookies?

We use cookies to allow us to track visitor numbers, how people use our site and which pages they visit. This helps us see how the website is performing and make improvements.

Cookies do not identify people directly or tell us who you are. Instead, they collect data from your computer/device and browser (like Internet Explorer or Apple Safari). This includes the information requested and sent by your browser (for example, your browser type and the number of times you visit a page).

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

You will receive cookies when you visit the site if your browser is set to allow them. You can choose to prevent your browser from accepting cookies from our site by changing your browser settings.

Find out how to manage cookies in popular browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Internet Explorer
• Apple Safari
• Opera
• To find information about other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Cookies used on this site:

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This site keeps track of how often pages are viewed and which kind of computers/mobile phones and software are used. We collect these analytics so we can tell things like how popular pages are and how many people use our site on a mobile phone. This lets us know how the site is working and helps us make improvements.

We don’t use this data to identify any individuals. We have taken steps to anonymise the unique number that identifies a computer/phone on the internet (their ‘IP number’). We leave out the last part of the IP number before it is passed on to be used for analytics.

If you want to prevent Google Analytics from using your data, see the Google Analytics opt out for your browser.

Who we share your data with

We don’t share data from this website except the anonymous Google Analytics data described above.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.