Personal information

On some parts of this site, you may be asked to provide some limited personal information in order to enable the provision of certain services.

By supplying this information you are consenting to the University of Oxford and the Oxford Health NHS Trust holding and using it for the purposes for which it was provided.

Information provided by you will be kept for as long as is necessary to fulfil that purpose. Personal information collected and/or processed by the University is held in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.

Personal information will not be sold or given to third parties, or provided to direct marketing companies or other such organisations without your permission. However, if we are under a duty to disclose or share such information in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property or safety of the University as well as the Oxford Health NHS Trust, its members or others we may disclose your personal information to third parties.

Website Cookies

When you visit some pages on this site, your web browser may be issued with a small piece of text (a 'cookie') by this site ('1st party') or other sites ('3rd party'). Your web browser may communicate that cookie back to the originating site in ubsequent visits.

Some cookies will be temporary and will be destroyed when the web browser is closed ('session cookies'), other cookies will remain until they expire or are removed ('persistent cookies').

It is very likely that there are some options in your web browser preferences that can show you all the cookies being stored, and lets you delete or block them if you wish.

Cookies may be:

• fundamentally necessary for the delivery of the web service you are using ('strictly necessary'), e.g. enable tracking of items in an online shopping basket or to enable session tracking for a service that you log in to,
• necessary to benefit from the full functionality of the service, but not essential for some level of service ('functional'), e.g. user preferences and options, often default user preference cookies are issued if they are not present,
• for the benefit of the service provider or, to allow the service provider to better understand its users and therefore provide a better service for them, albeit indirectly, based on aggregate data ('performance'), e.g. analytical tools so a site can produce statistics on the types of users it has or the sections of its site that are most or least popular or interesting,

but could equally be for a wide range of other purposes.

This site only uses strictly necessary cookies that are: securely transmitted and do not contain any personal data.

Most web browsers will allow you to remove specific cookies or block them for a particular site.

If you decide to block some or all cookies that come from this website, all services provided by the website interface will no longer function.

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, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Further information can found on the Information Commissioner's Office website.