Privacy policy
The Data Protection Act
In accordance with 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 as described and we do not pass on your details to any third party unless you have given us permission to do so. You have a right to access your personal data and rectify any inaccuracies.
Site usage
We do not use cookies for collecting user information. Log files allow us to record visitor’s use of the site to enable us to enhance the future layout of the site. The data we gather in this way does not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you have visited.
External sites
Our website contains links to other sites. Sheffield Stop Smoking Service is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. We encourage you to be aware of this when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit which collect personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies only to this website (www.sheffieldstopsmoking.org.uk). We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.
Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to this website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
We do not make use of cookies to collect any private or personally identifiable information.
The technical platform of this website, does use cookies solely to aid the proper technical functioning of the website. The cookies used in this website does not collect or disclose any personal information about you as a visitor.
If you chose to, for any secure pages of this website, you can elect to save login information in a cookie to facilitate faster login to a private area of this site. A notification is given before any such cookie is dropped, and the process is ultimately within your control. Even where this is used, the cookie still contains minimal authentication information, and does not contain any private or personal data.
Cookie policy
In compliance with EU legislation, the following table lists the use of cookies on this web site:
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useTextOnly |
This is used to store whether you are in textOnly mode or not. Persistent for three months. |
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setString |
This is used to store user preferences for viewing sites in textOnly mode e.g. font-size and colour. Persistent for one month. |
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SitekitLogin |
This is used to store the username and password for ‘remember my login’ feature on extranets. Persistent for one month. |
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SKSession |
This cookie has two functions. Firstly it serves as a session cookie for extranet users. Without this cookie, an extranet user will have to login to each individual page in the extranet. It also enables us to track the pages that a user visits while they navigate around the site. |
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AcceptCookies |
This is used to store whether you have agreed to receive cookies. Persistent for one year. |
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Google Analytics _utma |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. |
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. 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.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Changes to the policy
If the privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing the 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.