Copyright, Disclaimer and Privacy Statement

Copyright

All information, design and compilation of information on the Women's Health website is Copyright © 2005 Women's Health.

Disclaimer

The contents of this website is intended to provide women with information to enable them to make informed choices to improve their gynaecological and sexual health. It is not a substitute for a doctor's or other health professional's advice and treatment. Women's Health can not be held responsible to any person or organisation with respect to any loss or damage arising from the information on or accessed from the Women's Health website.

Privacy Statement 

Women's Health regards the lawful and correct treatment of personal information as important to our successful operations and to the maintenance of confidence of those with whom we deal.

We will ensure that our staff and those acting on our behalf obtain, use and disclose personal information lawfully and correctly. To this end we fully endorse and adhere to the principles of data protection, as set out in the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act'). We shall apply the Act globally, except where part or all of any local law is stronger.

In particular we will:

• observe the conditions in the Act regarding the fair collection and use of personal information
• meet our legal obligations to specify the purposes for which we process personal information, this information being set out in our data protection notification particulars which can be found on the Information Commissioner's website at www.dpr.gov.uk
• collect and process appropriate personal information, only to the extent that it is needed to fulfill our operational needs or to comply with any legal requirement
• ensure the accuracy of any personal information kept by us
• apply checks to determine the length of time personal information is held by us
• ensure that the rights of people about whom personal information is held, are able to be exercised fully under the Act
• take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard personal information
• ascertain that personal information is not transferred outside the European Economic Area without suitable safeguards or agreement from the individual

We collect personal information from you via our website only if you contact us by online form, email, telephone or by writing to us. We will use this information:

• to reply to you concerning your query
• for monitoring purposes, in which case your name and any other identifying information is removed, making the information anonymous
• for training purposes, again fully anonymously
• to reply to you if you have requested a copy of any personal information we hold on you

Please note that, where our website contains links to other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites and this statement applies solely to any personal information collected by our website.

IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We only use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer our website, track general user movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.