Privacy

User Anonymity and Personal Information on this Scottish Ambulance Service website

To use this web-site you do not have to provide us with any personal details nor do we specifically request such information. However, this page explains how the Scottish Ambulance Service uses any information you do give to us (e.g. if Emailing with a comment/suggestion), and the way we protect your privacy. Protecting the privacy and personal data of the visitors to our site is very important to us.

The Data Protection Act

In accordance with the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you and we will only use any personal information you provide for the purpose(s) which you submit it. We will not pass on any of your details to any other agency or third party unless we are obliged to do so under statute, you have given us your permission or we suspect actual or attempted criminal activity in the use or access of our website. You have a right to access any personal personal data we hold about you 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 and enables us to enhance the future layout and content. The data gathered in this way does not contain any personal information from this site or any other sites you have visited. If in future the use of cookies become necessary, we will highlight the change on this web page as well as identifying the uses to which they will be put.

If you provide feedback on our website we will only use it to develop and improve the site. We will keep the actual feedback for six months after which it will be deleted.

Statement coverage

This privacy statement only covers the Scottish Ambulance Service Website (www.scottishambulance.com). It does not cover links within this site to other websites.

Changes to the policy

If our 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.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under our control.

The Scottish Ambulance Service will make no attempt to track or identify individual users, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In the case of all users, The Scottish Ambulance Service reserves the right to attempt to identify and track any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems. As a condition of use of this site, all users give permission for The Scottish Ambulance Service to use its access logs to attempt to track users who are reasonably suspected of gaining, or attempting to gain, unauthorised access.

All log file information collected by The Scottish Ambulance Service is kept secure and no access to raw log files is given to any third party except where there is an obligation in the investigation/detection/prevention of crime or where we are obliged under other statute.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, you can contact us through this link. bjohnston@scotamb.co.uk